Jeremy Stoppelman born 1977 is the Co-Founder and CEO of Yelp since 2004. Jeremy is originally from Arlington Virginia and graduated with a bachelors degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne in 1999. and briefly worked @ Home Network and X.com as VP of engineering later renamed PayPal. In 2001 left PayPal to attend Harvard business school during the summer internship at MRL Ventures, Russel Simmons and others have helped develop Yelp Inc.