Nationality American Home town Baltimore, MD Alma mater Stanford University | Known for Startups Website jeffseibert.com Organization founded Crashlytics | |
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Born July 27, 1985 (age 31) ( 1985-07-27 ) Baltimore, MD Occupation Entrepreneur
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Angel Investor Residence Hillsborough, California, United States | ||
Jeff Seibert (born July 27, 1985) is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He currently serves as Senior Director of Product for Twitter. He is best known for co-founding Crashlytics, which in a little over a year was acquired by Twitter for over $100 million in 2013 (later valued at $259.5 million at Twitter's IPO), and co-founding Increo, which was acquired by Box in 2009.
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The meteoric rise of twitter s senior director of product jeff seibert
Early Life
Seibert grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. He discovered technology at a young age. He taught himself C in 6th grade and went on to write a range of Macintosh shareware applications. At the age of 13, Jeff released his first application, Histogram, a specialized graphing program for Mac OS. During high school, in 2002, Seibert went on to release EVONE, a graphical editor for the computer game Escape Velocity by Ambrosia Software.
Education
Seibert attended Gilman School in Baltimore, graduating in 2004.
Seibert enrolled as an undergraduate degree student at Stanford University. He majored in Computer Science. At Stanford, Jeff was a Vice President of BASES where he led the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series from 2005 to 2008. In 2007, Seibert was selected as a Mayfield Fellow where he studied under Tom Byers and Tina Seelig. Seibert received a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2008.
Career
Seibert has been deeply involved in technology since he was young. While at Stanford University, he worked for Apple as a campus representative.
In 2007, Seibert co-founded Increo with Kimber Lockhart. Two years later, in 2009, Box acquired Increo and Jeff led Box's east coast presence.
In 2011, Seibert co-founded Crashlytics with Wayne Chang. In about a year, Twitter acquired Crashlytics for over $100 million (later valued at $259.5 million at Twitter's IPO).
In 2014, Seibert led the team that created Fabric, Twitter's mobile developer platform. It launched in October 2014 and as of 2016 is used by over 225,000 developers and installed on over 2 Billion mobile devices.
In September 2015, Twitter announced that it promoted Seibert to oversee Twitter's core product.