Jeremy Stoppelman

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... more

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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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