1. Auren Raphael Hoffman was born on 1974 and is an American entrepreneur, angel investor, author and CEO of SafeGraph, a firm that gathers location data from mobile devices and sells information about places and the movements of people.
19 Facts About Auren Hoffman
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Amalia Hoffman is an author and illustrator of children's books.
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Auren Hoffman graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Industrial Engineering in 1996.
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In 2011, Auren Hoffman married an assistant US Attorney, Hallie Alexandra Mitchell, who graduated from Princeton University, and received a Juris Doctor degree from Northwestern University School of Law.
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Auren Hoffman founded Kyber Systems in his junior year at UC Berkeley, as a way to pay for school.
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Auren Hoffman founded Bridgepath Inc in 1998, which was acquired by Bullhorn, Inc in October 2002.
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Auren Hoffman then became chair of the Stonebrick Group through 2006, which sponsored networking events in the San Francisco area such as the Silicon Forum.
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Auren Hoffman is a speaker at events in the technology industry.
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In 2006 Auren Hoffman cofounded Rapleaf and served as its CEO until 2012, when he left the company to run a Rapleaf spinoff called LiveRamp after Rapleaf was acquired by email marketing company TowerData.
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Auren Hoffman left LiveRamp a little more than a year after it was acquired.
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Auren Hoffman was a contributor to the Huffington Post, often on political subjects, as well as Business Week and his own blog called Summation.
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Auren Hoffman contributed to Council on Foreign Relations papers in 2004.
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In 2006, Wikipedia editors detected that Auren Hoffman may have been editing his own Wikipedia entry, violating its guidelines.
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Silicon Valley media publicized the evidence, which Auren Hoffman eventually confirmed to VentureBeat in 2007.
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Auren Hoffman has been criticized for his personal and professional networking practices and presentation of his own reputation.
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From 2007 to 2013, Auren Hoffman received significant backlash over the data collection practices and sale of individuals' personal information to advertisers by his company, RapLeaf.
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Shortly after Motherboard's report was published, Auren Hoffman announced that Safegraph would stop selling data about movements to and from family planning centers, saying the data did not have commercial value.
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Auren Hoffman is an angel investor and briefly worked as a venture capitalist with the Founders Fund in the 2011 to 2012 timeframe.
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Some of Auren Hoffman's investments include: Aardvark, BackTweets by Backtype, Blip.