Russel Simmons

For the entrepreneur and music executive, see Russell Simmons.

Russel Simmons is an American businessman. He co-founded Yelp, Inc.^[1][2] with Jeremy Stoppelman and served as CTO from July 2004 until he left in June 2010.^[2] Prior to co-founding Yelp, Simmons was a co-founder of PayPal, where he was a Lead Software Architect, and has been described as a member of the "PayPal Mafia."^[3][4] In 2014 he founded Learnirvana.^[5]

Russel Simmons
Born	United States
Alma mater	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Occupation	Businessman

Simmons graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1998 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.^[6]