Many of us owe a large part of our success to the simple accident of being born in the right time and place. I strongly believe it is therefore incumbent upon us privileged few to work as hard as possible to make the world a better place and create more opportunity for others, and the Founder's Pledge is a fantastic chance to do just that.
Jacob Rosenberg is the Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of LendUp, a technology startup that aims to provide anyone with a path to better financial health. As a technologist with over twenty years' experience architecting large scale web applications, he is focused on using technology to solve challenging problems and improve people’s lives. Prior to launching LendUp in October of 2012, Jacob was the 80th employee at Yahoo! and helped create some of the most enduring Yahoo! products, such as Yahoo! Search, News, Auctions, and Travel. He was most recently a platform architect for Zynga. Jacob has a B.A. in Computer Science from Rice University.
His cause areas of focus include animal welfare, existential risks, global poverty, and economic and financial inclusion and empowerment.