Founder Profile
Jeremy Stoppelman
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Jeremy Stoppelman?
Jeremy Stoppelman is a founder of Yelp Inc., which was founded in 2004 with Russel Simmons.
- Company founded
- Yelp Inc.
- Founded
- 2004
- Co-founders
- Russel Simmons
Background
Engineer at X.com and PayPal, where he became vice president of engineering. He co-founded Yelp in 2004 at MRL Ventures.
Founding Story
Jeremy Stoppelman co-founded Yelp in 2004 and has been its chief executive officer since then. He led the company through its 2012 NYSE listing, its move to focus on Services advertising and its AI product push, including the 2026 acquisition of Hatch.
Jeremy Stoppelman was born in 1977 in Arlington County. Education: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Harvard Business School; Langley High School.
Stoppelman was born on November 10, 1977. He earned a computer engineering degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999, worked at X.com, where he became vice president of engineering after it was renamed PayPal, and then attended Harvard Business School.