Russel Simmons | |
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Born | United States |
Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (B.S. Computer Science, 1998) |
Occupation | Businessman |
Russel Simmons is an American businessman. He is co-founder and initial CTO of Yelp, Inc. with Jeremy Stoppelman from July 2004 until he left in June 2010. He is 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.