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Jeff Taylor (entrepreneur)
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Jeff Taylor is an American businessman who founded the online jobs site Monster.com.
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Education
He is a graduate of the University Without Walls program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[1][2] He had dropped out when he was 17, but went back to get his degree in 1999.[3] He also holds a Certificate-Owner/President Management Program, Executive Education, Harvard Business School; and an honorary doctorate from Bentley College.[4]
Career
In 1994, Jeff Taylor founded The Monster Board, an online jobs site later known as Monster.com.[1] In August 2005, Taylor left Monster to start a new venture.[5][6]
In 2006, Taylor launched a website called Eons.com, a social networking website for people over age of 50.[7][4] As founder and CEO of Eons, Inc., he started four sites for baby boomers: Eons.com, Eons Boom Media, Meetcha.com, and Tributes.com.[8] Eons, Inc. was sold to Crew Media in 2011.[7]
In 2020, Taylor became the GM/Chief Customer Officer at Principles, a developer of people management software in Westport, Connecticut.[9]
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Personal life
In 2001, Jeff Taylor announced he was selling his home in Holliston, Massachusetts for $1 on the condition that the buyer move the house off the property.[10]
Taylor serves on the board of advisors of the Berklee College of Music. Taylor has been a disc jockey for almost 30 years under the name Jefr Tale and has a weekly show on Sirius/XM Electric Area.[3] In 2011, he started Buffalo.Dj, a talent agency for disc jockeys.[11]
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