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Jeremy Stoppelman
Co-founder and CEO, Yelp

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Jeremy co-founded Yelp Inc. in July 2004 with former colleague Russel Simmons. Prior to Yelp, Jeremy was the VP of engineering at PayPal. He left PayPal in the summer of 2003 to attend Harvard Business School. He joined a start-up incubator in the Summer of 2004 and left Harvard to launch Yelp. Jeremy holds a B.S. in computer engineering from the University of Illinois.

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11:00am Thursday, 04/01/2010

Community First: Yelp's Unconventional Approach to Local Information

Plenary
Location: Ballroom III - VI

Jeremy Stoppelman (Yelp)

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Content is at the core of any location-based service. But the challenge is capturing the data, much of which is either unstructured or doesn't exist online-yet. For the past 5 years Yelp has been growing its base of reviews to a massive repository of more than 8M reviews about local businesses. Its recent mobile app launches suggest that the company is in the sweet spot for LBS on mobile devices. Read more.