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Last updated: Apr 26, 2023 |
Abraham Piper is a serial entrepreneur and artist living in Minneapolis.[1] He is the son of Reformed preacher and writer John Piper.
At age 19, he was excommunicated from his father's church after he rejected the faith.[2] He was restored to membership four years later,[3] but later rejected the faith again.[4]
He started the popular news aggregator 22 Words in 2008.[5] He founded the media company Brainjolt in 2014, which owns 22 Words and several other internet companies. In 2017, he told CNBC Brainjolt was expected to have $30 million in annual revenue.[6] In 2019, he started a premium jigsaw puzzle company called Blue Kazoo.[7]
In November 2020, he began posting TikTok videos, which included posts critical of his Evangelical upbringing.[4][8][9] His TikTok following on his @abrahampiper account was 1.7 million followers and 37 million cumulative likes. His secondary account, @moreabrahampiper, had approximately 446 thousand followers in February 2024, with a total of 4.3 million cumulative likes on his videos.
Piper has three brothers: Barnabas, a pastor in Nashville, Tennessee; Benjamin, who works in construction; and Karsten, an English instructor at Minnesota West Community & Technical College. He is also brother to his adoptive younger sister Talitha Piper.[10]