Jeremy Stoppelman
Jeremy Stoppelman
Jeremy Stoppelmanis an American business executive. He is the CEO of Yelp, Inc., which he co-founded in 2004. Stoppelman obtained a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois in 1999. After a short time working for @Home Network, he worked at X.com and later became the VP of Engineering after the company was renamed PayPal. Stoppelman left PayPal to attend Harvard Business School. During a summer internship at MRL Ventures, he and others came up with the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
In the very beginning, Yelp started as a service where we really didn't think people would write reviews for fun. The whole concept of user-generated content was pretty nascent in 2004.
Yelp is in a very nice spot: local data, and especially review data, is one of the killer apps on mobile phones.
Maintaining the trust of the consumer is critical to our business
Everyone is panicked about the transition to mobile. I don't lose any sleep whatsoever.
The entrepreneurs that really make it are the ones that start with an idea but are ready to change it at a moment's notice.
Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You're going to make decisions, you're going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong.