Jeremy Stoppelman
Jeremy Stoppelman
Jeremy Stoppelmanis an American business executive. He is the CEO of Yelp, Inc., which he co-founded in 2004. Stoppelman obtained a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois in 1999. After a short time 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
When you read reviews on Yelp, you get a good sense of what's going to happen when you walk in the door of that business. The challenge is that there are fifteen million businesses in the U.S., and its very hard to communicate with all of them about how Yelp works, and why it works the way it does.
Yelp has been in this business since it really became something worth thinking about in 2004, when the transition started happening from the world of the Yellow Pages to the world of searching online for local information.
As a kid, I harbored this fantasy of starting a company. I looked at the entrepreneur column in Forbes. I looked at it every month and thought, 'I want to be that guy.'