Garrett Camp

StumbleUpon CEO Garrett Camp Steps Down, 10 Years Later

Liz Gannes in News on May 8 at 3:30 pm PT

Garrett Camp, the co-founder and long-time CEO of Web discovery service StumbleUpon, is moving on.

StumbleUpon Gets a Face-Lift and Some Boldfaced Names

Lauren Goode in Social on December 5, 2011 at 9:06 pm PT

StumbleUpon, the social discovery engine that was famously acquired by eBay, only to take itself private again two years later, is reinventing itself again.

Google Grabs Former Yahoo Ari Balogh En Route to StumbleUpon

Liz Gannes in Social on July 7, 2011 at 7:55 am PT

The Web discovery start-up StumbleUpon has hired Japjit Tulsi, who was previously a director of engineering at Google, as its VP of engineering, filling the role it had previously tried to give to former Yahoo CTO Ari Balogh.

Former Yahoo CTO Ari Balogh Joins StumbleUpon

Liz Gannes in Social on May 16, 2011 at 9:27 am PT

Former Yahoo CTO and EVP Products Ari Balogh is to become StumbleUpon’s VP of engineering, the company said this morning.

Inside the Recommendation Engines of StumbleUpon, YouTube, Pandora and Hotpot

Liz Gannes in Social on March 15, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

Product leaders for four of the Web’s leading recommendation engines lay out the signals and measurements they take into account when trying to figure out what content their users will like.

StumbleUpon's Garrett Camp Speaks (About Being a Born-Again Start-up)!

Kara Swisher in News on April 20, 2009 at 12:00 pm PT

Last week, StumbleUpon announced it was buying itself out of its much-vaunted previous corporate buyout, by being born again as an “investor-baked start-up.” The Canadian-born social-bookmarking company, which was launched earlier, came to the Bay area in 2006 and got some fancy venture investors and soon became a traffic-generating hit. Then StumbleUpon was bought by eBay two years ago for $75 million in one of Web 2.0′s high points. End of a fairy tale? Um, nope. Here’s CEO and co-founder Garrett Camp, talking to BoomTown in a video interview about it all.

StumbleUpon Stumbles Out of eBay's Arms to Be Reborn as a Start-Up (Plus the Entire Press Release)

Kara Swisher in News on April 13, 2009 at 1:20 pm PT

The content-discovery service, StumbleUpon, has gotten itself back to start-up status, after being bought by eBay two years ago. It announced today that it was returning to being an “investor-backed startup” by a roster of well-known Silicon Valley investors, including Ram Shriram of Sherpalo Ventures, Accel Partners and August Capital. Its founders, Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith, are also back, with Camp now in place as CEO. “We are grateful to eBay for its guidance. However, we realized there were few long-term synergies between the two businesses. It is best for us to part ways and focus on our respective strengths,” said Camp, stating the very obvious. That’s quite a boomerang since it was acquired by the auction giant in 2007 for $75 million.

Will StumbleUpon's New Web Look and Feel Give It Web Wings?

Kara Swisher in News on September 30, 2008 at 9:01 pm PT

While rumors of its impending re-sale have apparently been greatly exaggerated, what’s true about StumbleUpon is that its new Web-centric look and feel and a new partnering program represent a major shift for the online discovery service. The San Francisco-based company, which was founded in 2001 and sold to eBay last year for $75 million, is announcing tonight that users will no longer have to register or download its toolbar to “stumble” the Web. The move is being made because most Internet users are increasingly loath to install Web plug-ins, a requirement that naturally has slowed the growth of StumbleUpon’s service.