chief tech geek @ whitepages.com
Greater Seattle Area
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- Chief Tech Geek at WhitePages.com
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- MIT Sloan School of Management
- University of Washington
- University of Washington
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Joe Heitzeberg’s Summary
(note: I'm not looking for a job currently, but I'm happy to talk to startups in advisory type roles)
I am currently a VP at Whitepages responsible for accelerating progress towards our mission of being the simplest way to find people and connect. Specifically, I'm taking the technology, talent and market-leading offerings that we built at Snapvine, and leveraging those at Whitepages through team work and creativity.
Prior to this, I was co-founder and CEO of Snapvine.com which was acquired by Whitepages in June of 2008.
Joe's Experience:
- I've co-founded and sold two internet startups in the last 10 years and been involved with several other startups along the way
- As CEO, I raised over $12m in venture capital over 2 rounds of financing and negotiated a total of 7 term sheets.
- Throughout my career, I've built teams of excellent people to do great things in high tech software design, development and product management
- Personally negotiated and closed major enterprise sales ($5m+)
- Expert in mobile, social media and social networking
- Learned a lot about online advertising and ad sales
- Consulted to CEO of NTT DoCoMo (MBA internship)
Joe's Educational Background:
- B.S in Computer Science & Technical Japanese (U of Washington)
- MBA (MIT Sloan School of Management)
Joe's recipe for happiness:
- assemble the very best people possible
- act as one team, working towards the same set of goals and mission
- make the best decisions possible at any given time
- focus on self-worth, not net-worth
- treat entrepreneurship as a career
- always look for what I can learn from people, challenges, situations
