Alan Braverman

For the Walt Disney executive, see Alan N. Braverman.

Alan Michael Braverman
Born1973
Illinois, United States
Alma materUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (B.S. Computer Science)
OccupationBusinessman

Alan Michael Braverman is an American businessman. He is co-founder and initial CTO of Xoom Corporation/Eventbrite with Kevin Hartz and Geni.com/Yammer with David O. Sacks. In 2014 Braverman worked on Sobo, "an audio version of Twitter"[1]

Braverman's Giant Pixel was described in 2014 as "his San Francisco startup incubator."[2] He is currently the co-founder and CEO of Textline, a business texting platform.

Sobo

Sobo was an app for recording and distributing six-second sound snippets.

The New York Times quoted developer Alan Braverman as saying Sobo is "an audio version of Twitter."[3] Braverman, who co-founded Yammer,[4][5] was described in 2014 as a "Silicon Valley veteran"[6] when Sobo debuted. It went from prototype to first public release in about three months.[7][8]

The app[9] was designed for use on iPhone and iPad.[10]

Education

Braverman graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, where he worked on the Mosaic browser with Marc Andreessen.[11]

References

  1. ^ Jenna Wortham (September 20, 2014). "Pass the Word: The Phone Call Is Back". The New York Times. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
  2. ^ "Messaging App Seeks to Bring Voices Back to Phones".
  3. ^ Jenna Wortham (September 20, 2014). "Pass the Word: The Phone Call Is Back". The New York Times. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
  4. ^ Ishbel Macleod (September 20, 2014). "Yammer Co-Founder Creates Social Soundboard: Sobo". Retrieved July 17, 2022.
  5. ^ Rae Votta (September 22, 2014). "Can Sobo do for 6-second audio what Vine did for video?". The Daily Dot. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
  6. ^ Christopher Heine (September 19, 2014). "Yammer Co-Founder Debuts 'Vine for Audio'". AdWeek.
  7. ^ Alan Braverman (August 24, 2014). "Building and Launching a Business, Part 1: Deciding What to Build". Inc.
  8. ^ "The Build: Fast, Good and Cheap". Inc. November 19, 2014.
  9. ^ "Why Chicago tech investors need to take more fliers". Crain's Chicago Business. October 28, 2014. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
  10. ^ "Messaging App Seeks to Bring Voices Back to Phones".
  11. ^ "Why Chicago tech investors need to take more fliers". Crain's Chicago Business. October 28, 2014. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
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