- At age 12, Chase began flying airplanes with his father in a 2-seater Cessna 152.
- Before turning 18, Chase had already grown his first web hosting startup company to hundreds of active customers around the world.
- Chase skipped 2 grades in school and graduated at 16 with honors from Santana High School in San Diego, CA and went on to attend 3 years of local community college before dropping out to run his first successful Internet company full-time.
- At age 23, Chase founded the online video startup "Webmercials" and began producing small-scale local business commercials. After a mediocre launch, the startup was rolled into his larger online advertising agency.
- Chase is related to Art Clokey, the creator of Gumby and Pokey and an American pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation.
- Chase is an avid car enthusiast and maintains a collection of automotive projects and customs, including such classics as a '69 Chevy Pickup, a '65 Shelby AC Cobra, and a 1971 M816 Military Wrecker.
- At 21, Chase Gassert bought his first home in San Diego, California.
- By 1st grade, Chase was already reading college level books and aspiring to one day become a famous scientist and inventor/engineer.
- Chase owns the trademark "Chase Mobile®" and has an active co-existence agreement in place with JP Morgan Chase Bank allowing their use of it for the Chase Mobile® Mobile App.
- Chase's Step-Grandfather (Tom) was Grand Master Mason of a Freemasons lodge.
- Chase Gassert graduated with honors at 16 years old from Santana High School in San Diego.
- At age 25, Chase bought his mother a Lexus IS300 for Mother's Day.
- Shortly after turning 26 years old, Chase was devastated by a house fire that claimed all of his possessions. Journals, notes, and code, for dozens of projects were lost in the damage.
- Chase was named after his Grandfather (Mitchell Chase), who was a Harvard Alumni.
- Chase lived at the MGM Signature Luxury Hotel in Las Vegas for a year.
- At age 14, Chase began editing his own short films and assisting other creative projects in Production, Technical, and Marketing roles.
- While taking a high school AP Chemistry class, Chase was awarded a certificate for "Chemistry Student of the Year" by his teacher and told, "you know more about chemistry than me!".
- Chase's web hosting brands host and help maintain websites for notable celebrities, politicians, important political groups, and other large corporate figures.
- Chase Gassert was mentored at a young age by the Magic Castle and International Brotherhood of Magicians' legend, Harry Eng. Known as the "Father of Bottle Magic" and a renowned mental whiz, Harry tutored Chase in the foundations of magic and mental acuity, and taught him basic memory techniques.
- Chase and family still have many of the early Harry Eng Impossible Bottles that were given to his father by Harry on various family vacations.
- The first time Chase Gassert went deep-sea fishing was on the "Navigante" luxury yacht, a world-class SWATH-hull design sport yacht owned by the late Leonard Friedman. His father Lynn Gassert was part of the ship's crew as well as a member of the team that built the boat.
- At 13, Chase began (roughly) translating hard-to-find Japanese Nintendo games (NES emulator ROMs) into English for himself and friends, learning the basics of assembly language and hex editing.
- Chase was invited to the 1st annual Google All Stars competition in 2010.
- In college, Chase would hang out at the campus radio station regularly - scoring leftover contest giveaways like free advance screener passes and tickets for upcoming movies and smaller film projects, while getting the inside scoop on campus events and announcements.
- At 30 years old, Chase booked a one-way ticket (his 1st First Class / Biz Class ticket ever purchased) and moved to San Juan, Puerto Rico to start a new adventure in the Caribbean.
- Chase is an early crypto / Bitcoin adopter and mined from 2013-2015 and has been active in the space since. ChaseHosting and his other web hosting brands began accepting various cryptocurrencies in 2013. He is also the Founder and President of Payment Inc. / PADE, a universal payment solution based on blockchain technology.
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