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Jeremy Stoppelman

Disciplines:
entrepreneurship
software/consumer internet
retail/local commerce

Summary

American entrepreneur and co-founder/CEO of Yelp, the local business review platform, and a PayPal Mafia member who built one of the early Web 2.0 consumer internet companies.

Core Contribution

Built Yelp's local reviews network into the dominant source of consumer trust signals for local businesses — creating a data moat through user-generated content that search engines and competitors have spent two decades failing to replicate.

Historical Influences

Max Levchin Peter Thiel

Intellectual Lineage

PayPal Mafia Network Web 2.0 User-Generated Content TraditionLocal Commerce Platforms

Contemporaries & Peers

Drew Houston Kevin Systrom Brian Chesky

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

Yelp local review modelConsumer review as local commerce infrastructure

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