Russel Simmons
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Who is Russel Simmons?
Russ co-founded Yelp Inc. in July 2004 with former colleague and friend Jeremy Stoppelman.
Prior
to Yelp, Russ was one of the early employees and the lead software
architect at PayPal. He led a team of top engineers on critical
projects related to security, scalability, stability, and
internationalization as the company scaled rapidly. Following his time
at PayPal, Russ joined Max Levchin's (co-founder of PayPal) incubator,
where he teamed up with Jeremy.
Russ holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of Illinois.
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- Education
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Employment
- Co-founder & CTO
(2004/07 - ) - Chief Technology Officer, Yelp, Inc.
- Co-founder & CTO
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on July 23, 2013
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