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Birth
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began investing in stocks at the age of 14.
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College
He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and obtained a bachelor's degree in computer engineering in 1999. -
First job
took a job with Home Network. Home Network was a high-speed cable Internet service provider -
New job
After four months of working for Home Network, Stoppelman accepted a position as an engineer at X.com.which later became PayPal. -
End of job
Stoppelman left PayPal, after it was acquired by eBay in 2003 -
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More school
Harvard Business School for one year -
Creation of yelp
He and former PayPal colleague, Russel Simmons, who was also working at MRL Ventures, began brainstorming on how to create an online community where users could share recommendations for local services Stoppelman and Simmons pitched the idea to Levchin who provided $1 million in initial funding. Under Stoppelman's leadership, Yelp grew to a market capitalization of $4 billion and hosted 138 million user reviews.