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Robert Hohman (born 1970/71) is the co-founder and chairman of Glassdoor, the jobs and recruiting site, which was acquired by Recruit Holdings in 2018.[1] Hohman was CEO of Glassdoor from 2007 to 2020.[2]
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Hohman grew up in a blue collar family near Canton, Ohio. He began writing software at age 12.[3] He spent summers earning money on his grandparents' farm baling hay in order to buy memory for his VIC-20 computer.[4]
By high school, he was writing COBOL code for an accounting firm.[3]
He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from Stanford University. While at Stanford, Hohman and Victor Jih co-founded Victory Briefs, the largest debate camp organizer in North America.[5]
Hohman joined Microsoft in 1993 and as a software developer and participated in the team that built Expedia.[6]
In 2006, he quit his job as president of Hotwire to do nothing but play World of Warcraft for a year — after hitting the maximum level, he quit and started Glassdoor.[7] Hohman is a passionate competitor in League of Legends.[8]
Hohman is a passionate competitor in League of Legends.[9] He is a minority owner of the North American eSports organization Cloud9.[10]
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