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Full Name Joseph Charles Primiani Born October 27, 1988 (age 36) ( 1988-10-27 ) Roslyn, New York, U.S. Occupation entrepreneur, technology innovator, interface guru Education University of California, Berkeley Similar People Sergey Brin, David Drummond, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt | ||
Joey Primiani (born Joseph Charles Primiani on October 27, 1988) is an American Internet entrepreneur and designer best known as the founder of Backplane and Cortex. In 2011, Primiani and Lady Gaga co-founded the technology startup, Backplane, which raised $17.9 million led by prominent Silicon Valley veterans and venture capital firms including Eric Schmidt, Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, and Peter Thiel. He designed and launched Lady Gaga's official fan community website, littlemonsters.com, where fans share their artwork and stories as inspired by Gaga.
In 2011, Primiani was named to Business Insider's 25 Under 25 Tech Founders list.
Life and career
Primiani started his first freelance web development and design company at the age of 8. He designed products at Google, Yahoo! and Revision3 as an intern by the age of 19. He studied Computer Science and Human Computer Interaction at University of Central Florida. During college he traveled to Silicon Valley every summer to "work with the smartest people he could find."
Primiani worked at Google where he helped design the touch interfaces for search on mobile and tablet devices used by half a billion people around the world working under influential tech leaders.
Primiani says the number one feature of any product should be its speed. He focuses on building beautiful products that people use on a daily basis. His work is said to be heavily influenced by the work of the 1960s German designer legend Dieter Rams.