Jeff Seibert (born July 27, 1985) is an American

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and

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. He is best known for co-founding

Crashlytics Crashlytics was a Boston, Massachusetts-based software company founded in May 2011 by entrepreneurs Wayne Chang and Jeff Seibert. Crashlytics helps collecting, analyzing and organizing app crash reports. Its main product is a software develo ...

, which in a little over a year was acquired by

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for over $100 million in 2013 (later valued at $259.5 million at Twitter's IPO), and co-founding Increo, which was acquired by

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in 2009. In 2020, Seibert starred in the American

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film

The Social Dilemma ''The Social Dilemma'' is a 2020 American docudrama film directed by Jeff Orlowski and written by Orlowski, Davis Coombe, and Vickie Curtis. The documentary covers the negative social effects of social media and is interspersed by a dramatize ...

Early life

Seibert grew up in

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. He discovered technology at a young age. He taught himself C in 6th grade and went on to write a range of Macintosh

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applications. At the age of 13, Jeff released his first application, Histogram, a specialized graphing program for

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. During high school, in 2002, Seibert went on to release EVONE, a graphical editor for the computer game

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Education

Seibert attended

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in Baltimore, graduating in 2004. Seibert enrolled as an undergraduate degree student at

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. He majored in

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. At Stanford, Jeff was a Vice President of BASES where he led the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series from 2005 to 2008. In 2007, Seibert was selected as a Mayfield Fellow where he studied under Tom Byers and Tina Seelig. Seibert received a B.S. in Computer Science from

in 2008.

Career

Seibert has been deeply involved in technology since he was young. While at

, he worked for

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as a campus representative. In 2007, Seibert co-founded Increo with Kimber Lockhart. Two years later, in 2009,

acquired Increo and Jeff led Box's east coast presence. In 2011, Seibert co-founded

with

Wayne Chang Wayne Chang (born August 3, 1983) is an American entrepreneur, angel investor, film producer, and philanthropist. He is best known for founding Crashlytics, a startup acquired by Twitter in 2013. He is also known for creating a filesharing networ ...

. In about a year, Twitter acquired

for over $100 million (later valued at $259.5 million at Twitter's IPO). In 2014, Seibert led the team that created Fabric, Twitter's mobile developer platform. It launched in October 2014 and as of 2016 is used by over 225,000 developers and installed on over 2 Billion mobile devices. In September 2015,

announced that it promoted Seibert to oversee Twitter's core product, a role he held for nine months. On January 18, 2017, Seibert announced Fabric's sale to Google and his plans to step back from his role on the Fabric team. In 2018, Seibert co-founded Digits with

co-founder

. In November, 2019 Digits announced it had raised a $10.5 million Series A from

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and 72 angel investors including

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, Ali Rowghani,

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, April Underwood,

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David Cancel David Cancel is an American entrepreneur, investor, and founder of several software companies. He is the CEO and founder of Drift, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company which creates messaging software for businesses. Education Cancel attende ...

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, Jeff Orlowski, Jordan Fliegel,

Justin Kan Justin Kan (born July 16, 1983) is an American internet entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder of live video platforms Justin.tv and Twitch, as well as the mobile social video application Socialcam. He was also the co-founder and fo ...

, Katie Jacobs Stanton, Katrina Lake, Kimber Lockhart, Michelle Dipp,

Nat Friedman Nathaniel Dourif Friedman (born 6 August 1977) is an American technology executive and investor. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of GitHub and former chairman of the GNOME Foundation. Friedman is currently a board member at the Arc Instit ...

, and Sean Christie. 5 months later, in April, 2020, Seibert and Chang announced Digits had raised a $22 million Series B from GV and

References

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