Jeff Bates (Slashdot)
| Jeff Bates |
Bates at linux.conf.au 2003 |
| Born |
c. 1976 (age 35–36) |
| Other names |
hemos |
| Known for |
co-founder of Slashdot |
Jeff Bates, also known as hemos, is the co-founder of Slashdot[1] along with Rob Malda ("CmdrTaco"). Bates graduated from Holland Christian High School in 1994[2] and received a Bachelor's degree in History from Hope College[3] in 1998.
Malda and Bates created Slashdot in 1997, while undergraduates at Hope College. In 1999 they sold the site to Andover.net,[4] which was acquired by VA Linux Systems in 2000[5] (which became SourceForge, Inc. in 2007, then Geeknet, Inc. in 2009[6]).
Bates served as Director of Media Operations for Geeknet from May 2001 through July 2004, when he became Vice President of Editorial Operations and Executive Editor of Slashdot. In February 2008 he became Geeknet's Vice President of Platform and headed the core engineering and product teams for Slashdot, freshmeat, and SourceForge.[7]
In August 2011, Jeff joined Google.[8]
References
- ^ Claburn, Thomas (8 November 2005). "Co-Founder Sees Slashdot As The Original Blog". Information Week. http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=173600265. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
- ^ "Connections". Holland Christian Schools. September 2009. http://www.hollandchristian.org/overview/files/connections_sept09.pdf.
- ^ "Jeff "Hemos" Bates". Open Source Technology Group (OSTG). http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/ccp/web-mirrors/ghostscript/about/executive_bios.htm#jeff.
- ^ "Cmdrtaco on Slashdot Sale". Wired.com. June 29, 1999. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/1999/06/20483.
- ^ "VA Linux buys Andover.Net". news.com. February 3, 2000. http://www.news.com/2100-1001-236456.html.
- ^ "SourceForge, Inc. Changes its Name to Geeknet, Inc.". Geeknet. November 4, 2009. http://investors.geek.net/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=521395. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
- ^ "Vice President of Product, Geeknet, Inc.". Geeknet, Inc.. http://geek.net/about/management/jeff-bates. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
- ^ "Own comment". Slashdot.org. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2397584&cid=37204270. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
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Bates, Jeff |
| Alternative names |
hemos |
| Short description |
co-founder of Slashdot |
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