Alan Michael Braverman is an American businessman. He is co-founder and initial CTO of

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with Kevin Hartz and Geni.com/

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with

David O. Sacks David Oliver Sacks (born May 25, 1972) is a South African-American entrepreneur, author, and investor in internet technology firms. He is a general partner of Craft Ventures, a venture capital fund he co-founded in late 2017. Additionally, he is ...

. In 2014 Braverman worked on

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, "an audio version of

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" Braverman's ''Giant Pixel'' was described in 2014 as "his San Francisco startup incubator." 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. ''

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'' quoted developer Alan Braverman as saying Sobo is "an audio version of Twitter." Braverman, who co-founded

, was described in 2014 as a "

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veteran" when Sobo debuted. It went from prototype to first public release in about three months. The app was designed for use on

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and

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Education

Braverman graduated from

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the f ...

in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science in

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, where he worked on the

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with

Marc Andreessen Marc Lowell Andreessen ( ; born July 9, 1971) is an American businessman and former software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser with a graphical user interface; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and ...

References

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