Jeff Bates

Who is Jeff Bates?

Jeff Bates, also known as hemos, is the co-founder of Slashdot along with Rob Malda. Bates graduated from Holland Christian High School in 1994 and received a Bachelor's degree in History from Hope College in 1998.

Malda and Bates created Slashdot in 1997, while undergraduates at Hope College. In 1999 they sold the site to Andover.net, which was acquired by VA Linux Systems in 2000.

Bates served as Director of Media Operations for Geeknet from May 2001 through July 2004, when he became Vice President of Editorial Operations and Executive Editor of Slashdot. In February 2008 he became Geeknet's Vice President of Platform and headed the core engineering and product teams for Slashdot, freshmeat, and SourceForge.

In August 2011, Bates joined Google.