Jeremy co-founded Yelp Inc. in July 2004 with former colleague and friend Russel Simmons. Prior
to Yelp, Jeremy was the VP of engineering at PayPal. He left PayPal in
the summer of 2003 to attend the Harvard Business School. Upon
completing his first year at HBS, Jeremy joined an incubator started by
Max Levchin (co-founder of PayPal) for a summer internship. It was
there that he was reunited with his old colleague Russel Simmons and
the two team...
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Jeremy Stoppelman
Company Founder
Companies Founded
Yelp
Yelp is a web 2.0 company that operates a social networking and user review website by the same name. Yelp hosts an online database of user-generated reviews of local businesses. It is the ultimate city guide that taps into the community's voice and reveals honest and current insights on local...
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