Harper Reed was born on March 21,1978 and is an American entrepreneur and former Head of Commerce at Braintree, a subsidiary of PayPal.
20 Facts About Harper Reed
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Besides his claims of technical accomplishments, Reed is known for his punk-rock hair-style.
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Harper Reed was born in Greeley, Colorado, where he was raised in a home without a television but with an Apple IIC.
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Harper Reed served as student-council president at Greeley Central High School.
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Harper Reed graduated from Cornell College in 2001 with degrees in philosophy and computer science.
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Harper Reed is improperly credited in Metallica's Death Magnetic album with a photo credit.
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Harper Reed's work was featured in an Austrian documentary by Werner Boote titled Alles unter Kontrolle.
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Harper Reed is an avid reader and currently lives in Chicago with his wife, Hiromi Nakazawa.
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Beyond his tech endeavors, Harper Reed is well known for his fashion contributions.
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From 2005 to 2009, Harper Reed was the CTO of clothing company Threadless, where he helped lead it through a period of intense growth, riding the crowdsourcing trend.
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Harper Reed served as Chief Technology Officer for Obama for America from April 2011 through the November 2012 election.
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Harper Reed helped build a team of developers from tech companies like Twitter, Google, Facebook, Craigslist, Quora, Orbitz and Threadless.
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In 2012 Harper Reed founded and was the CEO of Modest, a startup that built retail solutions for mobile devices.
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Harper Reed joined PayPal as a Senior Director of Software Development and as Entrepreneur in Residence in PayPal's Next Generation Commerce group.
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Harper Reed is on a number of boards, including Keeper, a leading password manager application.
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Harper Reed is a Trustee and board member at Cornell College.
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Harper Reed is a board member of the Pardee RAND Graduate School.
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Harper Reed is on the advisory boards of the Royal United Services Institute and the Illinois Tech Computer Science Department.
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Harper Reed was a consultant and advisory to House of Cards for a number of episodes.
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Harper Reed has written on a number of topics, including user experience design, diversity in technology, privacy, and "big data".