Jeffrey Peterson
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| Born |
Jeffrey Scott Peterson October 11, 1972 Santa Barbara, California United States |
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| Residence | Cambridge, Massachusetts | ||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||
| Citizenship | USA | ||||||
| Occupation | Technology entrepreneur | ||||||
| Years active | 1997-present | ||||||
| Known for | Hispanic Internet pioneer | ||||||
| Home town | Santa Barbara, California | ||||||
| Political party |
Democratic Party (Before 2016) Independent (2016–present) |
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| Call-sign | KF7QGF | ||||||
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| Country | United States |
| FIDE rating | 14784 (November 2016) |
Jeffrey Peterson (born October 11, 1972 in Santa Barbara, California) is an American technology entrepreneur and California born millionaire who is considered the pioneer of Hispanic internet in the United States. He is best known as the founder of Quepasa, one of the most popular Latin American online communities. In 2012, Quepasa changed its corporate name to MeetMe and continued trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market under ticker symbol MEET. As of late 2016, MeetMe had a market value of about U.S. $250 million.
Peterson grew up in Santa Barbara, California. As a son of British mother and an American father, his paternal ancestors emigrated to Santa Barbara from Spain. Peterson was educated at public schools in the Santa Barbara area. He was raised next door to the director of the University of California, Santa Barbara computer laboratory, who introduced him to computer programming at an early age in 1978.
According to a published biography about his life, Peterson spent much of his early childhood remotely connecting to the UCSB mainframe computers via terminal and modem. through this early access to technology, he quickly learned to make his own Unix and VMS based software applications on the campus PDP-11 and DEC VAX computer systems. In the early years of computing, the largely technical science of programming was a pastime overrun by the likes of college professors and engineers. To fit in, Peterson reportedly maintained an identity for login on the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory PDP-10, where he was known by his peers as "Dr. Jeffrey Peterson", at the age of eleven.
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