YouWeb People
YouWeb New York:
- Rohan: After graduating from UC Berkeley with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Rohan moved to New York to work as a quant at Goldman Sachs. He was quickly recruited away by Peter and became YouWeb’s first Entrepreneur in Residence in January 2007.
- Rohan spent the next two-and-a-half years helping Peter start YouWeb, recruiting new entrepreneurs, working on ideas, and consulting for YouWeb companies, including Sibblingz and Aurora Feint.
- Now, Rohan plans to do it all again at YouWeb New York. Among his interests are: Cloud computing, low cost computing devices and bioinformatics.
Our previous technologists who are now founders of YouWeb financed companies:
- Ben: An Applied Mathematics graduate of Stanford who joined YouWeb in Summer of 2006 as an intern, led the development of the first virtual world game on Facebook, and is now building a modern virtual world platform at Sibblingz.
- Jason: A valedictorian in video game design and development from Full Sail in Florida, Jason co-founded and is leading the development of the highly critically acclaimed game “Aurora Feint” and social gaming platform “OpenFeint” on the iPhone.
- Danielle: A double major in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science graduate of UC Berkeley, Danielle is the co-founder of “Aurora Feint” and one of the few female entrepreneurs in the mobile games industry.
- Suren: A graduate in Physics from the University of Vienna, Suren is a recognized expert in Social Networking applications and is now leading a major user generated content platform for social gaming.
Our current entrepreneurs:
- Rajat: A B.Tech in Computer Science from HBTI, India, an MS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech and an MBA from Wharton, Rajat is the Founder of iSWiFTER: a cloud-based Flash game streaming service for mobile devices.
- Luis: An Electromechanical Engineering graduate of ICAI University in Madrid, Spain, Luis is building a Mobile Edutainment company.
- Suneet: A BS in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, Suneet spent 4 years as a Product Manager at Microsoft working on Microsoft Office. Now at YouWeb, Suneet is working on non-gaming entertainment apps.
Our CFO and Financial Manager:
- Les: Les is an experienced CFO previously of Ask Software, Infoseek, Fractal Software and Business Signatures
- Ruth: Ruth provides administrative and financial management at YouWeb
Who We Hire
The people who come to YouWeb have the following profile:
- Media/Technology/Computer Science/Software Skills
- Want to Explore Ideas in Consumer and Mobile technology
- Are willing to learn new technologies and skills rapidly
- Prefer to work for a small entrepreneurial venture rather than a large company like Google, Yahoo or Microsoft
- Are willing to found or co-found a start-up once they have a product idea that gets traction
