Name Geoffrey Arone Education Brown University | Organizations founded Dancejam | |
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Mc hammer and geoffrey arone on dancejam com part 2
Geoffrey Arone is an American Internet entrepreneur who has focused primarily on social media and the social web.
Contents
- Mc hammer and geoffrey arone on dancejam com part 2
- Lessons learned dancejam s geoffrey arone on a clear shared vision
- References
Arone is currently Chief Product Officer at Whitepages. Prior to that, he was Chief Scientist of Experian, which acquired SafetyWeb in May 2011. Arone co-founded SafetyWeb in June 2009 and raised ~ $8 million from Battery Ventures and First Round Capital. SafetyWeb is a cloud-based personal security company whose products include SafetyWeb Family and myID.
Prior to SafetyWeb, Arone was the CEO and co-founder of DanceJam with MC Hammer and Flock co-founder Anthony Young. While running DanceJam, Arone raised two rounds of venture capital and sold the company to Grind Networks in 2009.
In late 2004, Arone co-founded Flock, the first web browser with social network integration, with Bart Decrem and Anthony Young. In all, Flock raised ~ $28 million from Bessemer Venture Partners, Shasta Ventures, and Fidelity Ventures. Nearly 6 years and 14 million downloads later, Flock was acquired by Zynga.
Arone has also held product positions at RealNetworks, Informatica and Oracle. He holds a Sc.B. in Neural Science from Brown University and his PhD work was also in Neural Science. He earned an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.