Gary Little vs Jeremy Stoppelman

Gary Little

CEO of Foursquare

BIO: As CEO of Foursquare, Gary is responsible for driving the company mission and vision as the world's most trusted and independent location technology platform. Prior to joining as CEO in 2021 Gary served as a Foursquare board member, helping to guide the mergers and acquisitions of Placed and Factual. Prior to joining Foursquare, Gary was a Managing Director at Raine focused on advisory assignments and principal investments in the consumer internet, digital media and technology sectors. Gary also helped the founding team establish Buckthorn Partners LLP, a London based private equity firm specializing in growth capital investments and acquisitions in the oil field service sector. Before joining Buckthorn, Gary spent several years in London and New York at UBS, Lazard and Credit Suisse advising Financial Sponsors and their portfolio companies on a range of M&A, capital market and strategic advisory assignments. Gary received a B.A. from Seattle University in Finance and Economics and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

Jeremy Stoppelman

CEO of Yelp

BIO: Mr. Jeremy Stoppelman co-founded Yelp Inc. in July 2004 and has been its Chief Executive Officer since 2004. Mr. Stoppelman served as Vice President of Engineering at PayPal until 2003. Upon completing his first year at HBS, he joined an incubator for a summer internship. He has been a Director of Yelp, Inc. since September 2005. He attended the Harvard Business School. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois.