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.

• Jakob: A valedictorian from Full Sail, Jakob is designing Mobile video games for smartphone platforms.

• Bill: A graduate of Caltech in Computation and Neural Systems, Bill is developing augmented reality applications for mobile devices at YouWeb New York.
  

• Samantha: A BS in Applied Math and English from Columbia University, Samantha is working on an augmented reality project inYouWeb New York.
  

• Rahul: A BS in Computer Engineering from Boston University, Rahul is working on a stealth project at YouWeb New York
  
  
• Priyanka:  A BA in Society and Journalism from NYU, Priyanka is working on a stealth project
  

 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