Jeremy Stoppelman
American business executive / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jeremy Stoppelman (born November 10, 1977) is an American business executive. He is the CEO of Yelp, which he co-founded in 2004. Stoppelman obtained a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1999. After briefly working for @Home Network, he worked at X.com and later became the VP of Engineering after the company was renamed PayPal. Stoppelman left PayPal to attend Harvard Business School. During a summer internship at MRL Ventures, he and others came up with the idea for Yelp Inc. He turned down an acquisition offer by Google and took the company public in 2012.
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Jeremy Stoppelman | |
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Born | (1977-11-10) November 10, 1977 (age 46)[1] |
Alma mater | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (BS) Harvard University |
Occupation | CEO of Yelp |
Website | yelp |
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