Ramy Adeeb
Ramy Adeeb is a venture capitalist investor and founder/CEO of Snip.it, a social curation platform.
Early life and career
changeHe started writing software at the age of 12 and built a database for a large Egyptian corporation's employee records when he was 13.[1][2] He attended Pearson College UWC in Canada on scholarship and later earned a bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science from Harvard University, as well as an MBA from Stanford University. Adeeb worked at Tellme Networks before becoming a principal at Khosla Ventures,[3] where he worked with noted investors Vinod Khosla and Pierre Lamond on investments such as Square and Groupme.[4] Adeeb founded Snip.it in 2011 as a way to share information about the Arab Spring uprisings.[5] In 2013, Yahoo! acquired Snip.it for $10 million.[6][7]
References
change- ↑ Guyunn, Jessica (23 September 2012). "Ramy Adeeb is helping people share what interests them online". Business. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
- ↑ Dishman, Lydia. "Meet Snip.It Founder Ramy Adeeb, Who's Debunking Web-Induced A.D.D." Innovation Agents. Fast Company. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
- ↑ Kirkpatrick, Marshall (26 September 2011). "After Building $800m Voice Platform, TellMe Engineer Gets Funding for Social Bookmarking Startup". ReadWriteWeb. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
- ↑ Dishman, Lydia. "Meet Snip.It Founder Ramy Adeeb, Who's Debunking Web-Induced A.D.D." Innovation Agents. Fast Company. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
- ↑ Dishman, Lydia. "Meet Snip.It Founder Ramy Adeeb, Who's Debunking Web-Induced A.D.D." Innovation Agents. Fast Company. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
- ↑ "Yahoo Buys Snip.it, The Pinterest-Meets-News Startup, For $10 Million Plus Earnouts". TechCrunch. 22 January 2013. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
- ↑ Thomas, Owen. "Yahoo Has Acquired Snip.it, And The Startup Dealmaker Who Launched It". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-05-11.