John Elder is a pioneer in Web Development who created one of the first Internet advertising networks back in 1997. He sold it to a publicly traded company at the height of the dot com boom and then went on to create the best-selling Submission-Spider search engine submission software that\'s been used by over 3 million individuals and small businesses in over 45 countries. 

Today he teaches Web Development courses at Codemy the online code school he founded. 

John graduated with honors with a degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis where he was an artsci scholar.