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He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and obtained a bachelor's degree in computer engineering in 1999.
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took a job with Home Network. Home Network was a high-speed cable Internet service provider
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After four months of working for Home Network, Stoppelman accepted a position as an engineer at X.com.which later became PayPal.
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Stoppelman left PayPal, after it was acquired by eBay in 2003
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Harvard Business School for one year
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He and former PayPal colleague, Russel Simmons, who was also working at MRL Ventures, began brainstorming on how to create an online community where users could share recommendations for local services Stoppelman and Simmons pitched the idea to Levchin who provided $1 million in initial funding. Under Stoppelman's leadership, Yelp grew to a market capitalization of $4 billion and hosted 138 million user reviews.