Ramy Adeeb | |
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| Education | Undergraduate & masters degrees, Computer Science, Harvard University MBA, Stanford University |
| Occupation(s) | Founder and CEO, Snip.it [1] [2] |
Ramy Adeeb is the founder and CEO of social curation platform Snip.it and is a venture capitalist investor in start-ups such as Square and Groupme. [3]
Originally from Egypt, [3] Adeeb founded Snip.it in spring 2011 while looking for a way to share relevant information regarding the Arab Spring uprisings. [4] As of Sept. 2012, Snip.it had about 20,000 registered users who create content and 100,000 who browse it. [4] Average time spent on the site as of Sept. 2012 was 12 minutes compared to 5.23 minutes spent on the average website. [4]
On January 22, 2013, Yahoo! acquired Snip.it for US$10 million. [5] [6]
The son of engineers, Adeeb started writing software at 12. [3] A year later, he built a database to manage a large Egyptian corporation's employee records. [4] The database crashed when it surpassed tens of thousands of records, which Adeeb later said taught him an early lesson in the importance of building to scale. [3]
In 1994 Adeeb was selected to represent Egypt on scholarship at Pearson College UWC, in British Columbia, Canada, where he completed the International Baccalaureate in 1996.[ citation needed ]
Adeeb holds bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science from Harvard University and an MBA from Stanford University, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He is the co-founder of the Harvard Arab Alumni Association and the Stanford GSB Middle East and North Africa Club.[ citation needed ]
At Tellme Networks, Adeeb led the enterprise engineering group and oversaw development of more than 30 products.[ citation needed ] Tellme Networks was sold to Microsoft in 2007 for $800 million. [3] He remained at Microsoft for less than a year before going to Stanford for his MBA. [7]
Adeeb was a principal at venture capital firm Khosla Ventures, where he worked with noted investors Vinod Khosla and Pierre Lamond on such investments as Square, Groupme (acquired by Skype), and Ness Technologies. [4] He has served on the boards of such companies as Ness Technologies and Storify.