Zaryn Dentzel

Zaryn Dentzel (Santa Barbara, California, born 1983) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He founded Tuenti in 2006. There was attempt to steal millions in Bitcoins in 2021. Dentzel was born in Santa Barbara, California in 1983. He moved to Spain in the 1990s. started to build Tuenti, initially a social network for teenagers.

Dentzel also created a phone company that was launched in 2012 under the Tuenti Móvil brand. In 2013 he published the book "El futuro lo decides tú" which tells the story of Tuenti. Since January 2015, he has also been Strategic Advisor for Telefónica Digital Transformation.

In 2016, Telefónica, the company that owns Tuenti, definitively closed down all the functionalities related to the former social network, which currently remains a virtual telephone operator after having spent 70 million euros to buy it.