Alex Hodara - Founder & CEO of Rocket Club

About Alex and the Creation of Rocket Club

As a child, Alex loved sports, especially baseball. His dad saw this passion as a chance to teach him advanced math early on by involving him in his long-running fantasy baseball league, which he’d been in since 1981. Through it, Alex learned to use statistics and analytics to project the future success of major leaguers. By his early teens, he was using those skills to compete with, and beat, adults in the data-driven world of fantasy baseball.

At 14, Alex started his first business, using money earned from fantasy sports to import custom merchandise from abroad and resell it in America. In college, he founded what CNBC coined “the first student-run real estate brokerage in America.” Alex specialized in analyzing and optimizing the financial performance of student housing properties, selling over 20 cash-flowing multifamily properties to investors before graduation.

With the commissions earned from these sales and funds raised from investors, Alex developed over 200 rental units in Boston, some of which were purchased by the city of Boston to be used as high-quality subsidized housing.

With the proceeds from this sale, Alex founded Rocket Club, the club he wished he had as a kid.

To make math education as exciting as possible, Alex created an immersive Rocket Club world featuring 25 original characters that appear in lesson plans and have been turned into trading cards. Inspired by math concepts, Rocket Club team members, and Alex’s favorite math professor at Harvard University, the cards have quickly become the most popular prizes in the Rocket Fuel Store.

Alex lives in New York City with his wife, Megan, and their son, Jonas. He hopes to spark Jonas’s love for math from a young age, just as his own father did for him.