Jeff Stibel is an entrepreneur, having started numerous technology and marketing companies, and a venture capital investor, as co-founder of Bryant Stibel.
15 Facts About Jeff Stibel
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Jeff Stibel is an amateur cognitive scientist, a New York Times bestselling author, and a weekly columnist for the USA Today.
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Jeff Stibel became Vice Chairman of the merged company after the acquisition.
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Jeff Stibel serves on the board of directors for Autobytel.
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Jeff Stibel was general manager and Senior Vice President of United Online, which runs ISPs NetZero and Juno, and social networking site Classmates.
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Jeff Stibel currently sits on the Board of Directors of Web.
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Jeff Stibel serves on the academic Boards of Brown University's Entrepreneurship Program and Tufts University's Leadership Center.
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Jeff Stibel left graduate school to start Simpli, a search and marketing company that was sold to NetZero in 2001 and again to ValueClick in 2004.
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Jeff Stibel started Simpli with professors from Brown University, MIT and Princeton University, as well as entrepreneurs David Landan, Andrew Duchon, Paul Allopenna, Peter Delgrosso and Carl Dunham.
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Jeff Stibel later helped form United Online, a public company that acquired NetZero and Juno in 2001 and later bought Classmates.
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Jeff Stibel received degrees in philosophy and psychology as an undergraduate at Tufts University and counts Daniel Dennett as a mentor.
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Jeff Stibel received a degree in cognitive science at Brown University, where he studied under James A Anderson.
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Jeff Stibel studied business, marketing and economics under Dan Ariely at MIT Sloan School of Management [reference needed].
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Jeff Stibel received an honorary PhD in business from Pepperdine University and gave the commencement address in 2015.
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Jeff Stibel has published numerous academic articles in cognitive science, psychology, economics and business,[references needed] and he is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review.