Jeff Bates | |
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 Bates at linux.conf.au 2003 | |
| Born | March 27, 1976 |
| Other names | hemos |
| Known for | co-founder of Slashdot |
Jeff Bates, also known as hemos, is the co-founder of Slashdot [1] along with Rob Malda ("CmdrTaco").
Jeff Bates | |
|---|---|
| Bates at linux.conf.au 2003 | |
| Born | March 27, 1976 |
| Other names | hemos |
| Known for | co-founder of Slashdot |
Jeff Bates, also known as hemos, is the co-founder of Slashdot [1] along with Rob Malda ("CmdrTaco").
Bates graduated from Holland Christian High School in 1994 [2] and received a Bachelor's degree in History and Biology from Hope College [3] in 1998.
Malda and Bates created Slashdot in 1997, while undergraduates at Hope College. In 1999 they sold the site to Andover.net, [4] which was acquired by VA Linux Systems in 2000 [5] (which became SourceForge, Inc. in 2007, then Geeknet, Inc. in 2009 [6] ).
Bates served as Director of Media Operations for Geeknet from May 2001 through July 2004, when he became Vice President of Editorial Operations and Executive Editor of Slashdot. In February 2008 he became Geeknet's Vice President of Platform and managed the core engineering and product teams for Slashdot, freshmeat, and SourceForge. [7]
In August 2011, Bates joined Google. [8] He worked at Google as Chief of Staff for the CIO, and as of 2019, is the Chief of Product Operations.
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