Jeff Stibel

Jeffrey Stibel is the President and CEO of Web.com, Inc. and an entrepreneur, having started numerous technology and marketing companies. At age 32, he became one of the youngest public company CEOs in America and opened the NASDAQ stock market on June 15, 2007.^[1][2][3] He is also a brain scientist and published author.

Business

As an entrepreneur and business executive, Stibel has helped start and grow a number of companies and was listed as one of Business Week's "40 under 40."^[4] He is currently the President and CEO of Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW) and was previously the CEO of Interland (NASDAQ: INLD).^[5] He also serves on the Board of Directors for Autobytel (NASDAQ: ABTL).^[6] He was General Manager and Senior Vice President of United Online (NASDAQ: UNTD), which runs ISPs NetZero and Juno, and social networking site Classmates.com.^[7] He was the founder and CEO of Applied Cognition Labs, WorldWide MediaWorks (offeroutlet.com),^[8] SeaVista Development and Simpli^[9], which is currently owned by ValueClick, (NASDAQ: VCLK).^[10] He currently sits on the Board of Directors of Web.com, EdgeCast^[11][12], Autobytel, ThinMail,^[13] The Search Agency^[14] and Axon Labs.^[15] He also serves on the academic Boards of Brown University’s Entrepreneurship Program^[16] and Tufts University’s Leadership Center.^[5]

Stibel left graduate school to start Simpli, a search and marketing company that was sold to NetZero in 2001 and again to ValueClick in 2004.^[17] He started Simpli with professors from Brown University (James A. Anderson, Steve Reiss), MIT (Dan Ariely) and Princeton University (George A. Miller), as well as entrepreneurs David Landan, Peter Delgrosso and Carl Dunham. He later helped form United Online, a public company that acquired NetZero and Juno in 2001 and later bought Classmates.com. In 2005, he left United Online to become the CEO of Interland^[18], a public company that later changed its name to Web.com.^[19]

Brain Science

As an academic and scientist, Stibel focused most of his career on brain science, the interdisciplinary study of psychology, philosophy, artificial intelligence and neuroscience.^[20] He received degrees in philosophy and psychology as an undergraduate at Tufts University and counts Daniel Dennett as a mentor.^[21] He received a degree in brain science at Brown University, where he studied under James A. Anderson.^[22] He also studied business, marketing and economics under Dan Ariely at MIT Sloan School of Management. Stibel has published numerous academic articles in brain science, psychology, economics and business, and he is a regular contributor to Harvard Business School.^[23]

References and Published Work

1. Stibel (2009). Wired for Thought Harvard Business Press, Cambridge, MA
2. Stibel, with Kaplan, Norton, Friedman, Krishnamurthy, Erickson, and Delgrosso (2008). Unconventional Wisdom in a Downturn, Harvard Business Review, Vol. 86, No. 12.
3. Stibel (2007). Discounting Do’s and Don’ts, MIT Sloan Management Review, Vol. 49, No. 1.
4. Stibel (2006). The Role of Explanation in Categorization Decisions, International Journal of Psychology, 41.2.
5. Stibel (2006). Categorization and Technology Innovation, in Harnad & Dror, Distributed Cognition, John Benjamins. (Book Chapter)
6. Stibel (2005). Mental Models and Online Consumer Behavior, Behavior & Information Technology, 24.
7. Stibel (2005). Increasing Productivity through Framing Effects for Interactive Consumer Choice, Cognition, Technology & Work, 7.1.
8. Stibel, with Slovak, Over & Sloman (2003). Frequency Illusions and Other Fallacies, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 91.
9. Stibel, with Ben-Zeev, Sloman & Dennis (2000). Choice and Judgment in Decision Making: Working Memory Demands Mediate the Monty Hall Dilemma, Psychonomics.
10. Stibel (2000). Should I quit my job and start a company—Yes!, Associated Press.
11. Stibel (1999). The Role of Explanation in Categorization, Copyrighted Graduate Dissertation, Brown University, Dissertation Abstracts International
12. Stibel, with Hadjichristidis, Over, Stevenson & Sloman (1999). Opening Pandora's Box: Selective Unpacking and Superadditivity, ECCS, 265-270.
13. Stibel (1995). The Effects of Associativity, Interconnectivity and Generation on Memory, Copyrighted Thesis, Dissertation Abstracts International, Call number: 39090010918650b.
14. Stibel, with Ben-Zeev, & Dror. Dissociating Choice and Judgment in Decision Making: The Collapsing Choice Theory, under review, Memory & Cognition.

Notes

1. ^ "Stibel opens NASDAQ Stock Market". NASDAQ. http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/200706/market_open_061507.stm. 
2. ^ "Stibel on PBS TV". PBS. http://www.gpb.org/public/tv/gbr/shows.jsp?episid=4116&catid=1107. 
3. ^ "Jeff Stibel: Web Head". Business Week. http://www.businessweek.com/careers/content/dec2006/ca20061218_984114.htm?campaign_id=rss_null. 
4. ^ "Public CEOs under 40". Business Week. http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/12/1216_under40/48.htm. 
5. ^ ^{a b} "Web.com Management Page". Web.com, Inc. http://www.web.com/web-hosting-provider/management.aspx. 
6. ^ "Stibel Joins ABTL Board". Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/businesswire/feeds/businesswire/2006/12/12/businesswire20061212006162r1.html. 
7. ^ "Interland Spins a new Web". Motley Fool. http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2006/mft06011120.htm?ref=foolwatch. 
8. ^ "Company Bio". Axon Labs. http://www.axonlabs.com/invadv/jstibel.html. 
9. ^ "How Google is that". Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/1999/10/04/feat.html. 
10. ^ "ValueClick introduces Simpli". Press Release. http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=84375&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=679947. 
11. ^ "Disney invests in CDN". Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119725250387418934.html?mod=technology_main_whats_news. 
12. ^ "EdgeCast Teams Up With Disney for $6 Million". New York Times. http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/edgecast-teams-up-with-disney-for-6-million/. 
13. ^ "Thinmail lands new CEO and Board member". Press Release. http://www.thinmail.com/ceoannounce.html. 
14. ^ "Disclosure Statement". SEC Filing. http://biz.yahoo.com/e/060809/wwww10-q.html. 
15. ^ "A gentler way to start your day". Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/03/28/a_gentler_way_to_start_the_day/. 
16. ^ "Web.com partners with Brown University". Web Info. http://www.webhosting.info/news/1/web.com-partners-with-brown-university_0817067178.htm. 
17. ^ "The best places to live". Money Magazine. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2000/12/01/292674/index.htm. 
18. ^ "Interland Taps United Online Vet". MediaPost. http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=32751. 
19. ^ "Young CEO has knack for turning around cos.". Atlanta Business Chronicle. http://atlanta.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2007/08/06/smallb2.html. 
20. ^ "Brain Science Program at Brown University". Brown University. http://brainsciences.brown.edu/. 
21. ^ "[http:// http://enews.tufts.edu/focus/44/2008/03/19/TheSecretstoSuccess TheSecretstoSuccess]". Tufts E-News. http:// http://enews.tufts.edu/focus/44/2008/03/19/TheSecretstoSuccess. 
22. ^ "Brown Alum Has A Dozen Startups Behind Him". Brown University Daily Herald. http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2007/02/02/Features/At.33.Alum.Has.A.Dozen.Startups.Behind.Him-2694041.shtml. 
23. ^ "Stibel Bio on Harvard". Harvard Business Press. http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/stibel/2008/06/the-internet-is-a-brain.html. 

External links

• Web.com — Interland, Trellix, Web.com
• United Online — NetZero, Juno, Classmates.com
• Harvard Business School's Jeff Stibel - Stibel's Articles at Harvard