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Spokeo was founded in 2006 by four graduates from Stanford University — Mike Daly, Harrison Tang, Ray Chen, and Eric Liang. [3] The original idea of aggregating social media results came from Tang. The four founders developed the idea in early 2006, using Tang's parents’ basement. [4] On November 5, 2006, the site officially launched, after ...
Facebook is a social networking service originally launched as TheFacebook on February 4, 2004, before changing its name to simply Facebook in August 2005. [ 1] It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. [ 2]
Chamath Palihapitiya(born 3 September 1976)[1]is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian and American venture capitalist, engineer, SPACsponsor, founder and CEOof Social Capital. Palihapitiya was an early senior executive at Facebook, working at the company from 2007 to 2011.
Spokeo identified the most popular and fastest-growing social media platforms among American adults, ... are more wholly embraced by younger generations, while older generations prefer Facebook ...
Whitepages (company) Whitepages is a provider of online directory services, fraud screening, background checks and identity verification for consumers and businesses. It has the largest database available of contact information on residents of the United States. [3] Whitepages was founded in 1997 as a hobby for then- Stanford student Alex Algard.
Sean Parker (born December 3, 1979) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, most notable for co-founding the file-sharing computer service Napster, and was the first president of the social networking website Facebook. He also co-founded Plaxo, Causes, Airtime.com, and Brigade, an online platform for civic engagement.
However, Reid Hoffman was too busy launching LinkedIn so he set Facebook up with PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, who gave Facebook its first investment later that month. [33] [34] In 2005, the company dropped "the" from its name after purchasing the domain name Facebook.com for US$200,000 ($312,012 in 2023 dollars [20]). [35]
Spouse. Sean Eldridge. . ( m. 2012) . Christopher Hughes (born November 26, 1983 [1]) is an American entrepreneur and author who co-founded and served as spokesman for the online social directory and networking site Facebook until 2007. He was the publisher and editor-in-chief of The New Republic from 2012 to 2016.