Russel Simmons
American businessman
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| Intro | American businessman | |||
| Places | United States of America | |||
| is | Businessperson | |||
| Work field | Business | |||
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| Birth | United States of America, USA | |||
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Russel Simmons is an American businessman. He co-founded Yelp, Inc. with Jeremy Stoppelman and served as CTO from July 2004 until he left in June 2010. Prior to co-founding Yelp, Simmons was an early employee at PayPal, where he was a Lead Software Architect, and has been described as a member of the "PayPal Mafia."
Simmons graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1998 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
Simmons currently resides in San Francisco.