Jeremy Stoppelman was born on November 10,1977 and is an American business executive.
16 Facts About Jeremy Stoppelman
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Jeremy Stoppelman is the CEO of Yelp, which he co-founded in 2004.
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Jeremy Stoppelman's mother, Lynn, was an English teacher, and his father, John, was a securities lawyer.
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Jeremy Stoppelman attended Langley High School and a Reform temple as a child and had a Bar Mitzvah.
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Jeremy Stoppelman aspired to be a video game developer and took computer programming classes, where he learned the Turbo Pascal software programming system.
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Jeremy Stoppelman attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and obtained a bachelor's degree in computer engineering in 1999.
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Jeremy Stoppelman left PayPal after its 2003 acquisition by eBay and attended Harvard Business School for one year.
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In February 2013, Jeremy Stoppelman accepted a salary of $1, though he continues to earn income from the investment of his 11 percent interest in the company.
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Jeremy Stoppelman has a hands-on management style and sits at a desk among his employees.
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Jeremy Stoppelman was immediately fired, though Stoppelman said this was not due to the letter.
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Jeremy Stoppelman is a "voracious" non-fiction reader, and his brother Michael previously worked at Yelp as Senior Vice President of Engineering.
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Jeremy Stoppelman was a prominent supporter of a bill that would allow denser housing near public transit routes.
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Jeremy Stoppelman lobbied other tech executives to join him in encouraging local governments to build more housing near universities.
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Jeremy Stoppelman speaks about affordable housing at public events and donates to related causes.
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Jeremy Stoppelman accuses Google of having a monopoly in digital maps, online search engines, and reviews.
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Jeremy Stoppelman is one of the few male CEOs of a public company to be a public advocate for reproductive rights.