John Shiple, one of L.A.'s most sought after CTO's, has been blowing up
the Internet going back to the birth of the web itself. He was a founding
member of HotWired's engineering team - the web's first commercial website.
Thereafter, he went on to re-architect the GeoCities front-end (then, the
fourth largest site on the Internet) where he brought pop-up ads to the
Internet (yes, it's his fault) which increased ad inventory by more than
10,000 times, and enabled a purchase by Yahoo! for $3.57 billion in stock.
John then went on to co-found Bigstep.com, an award-winning small business
service provider.
At Bigstep, John designed, built and launched its initial service in six months to support over 300,000 customers and over 50 co-branded partners including AOL Time Warner, Compaq, NBCi, and Office Depot. He staffed and managed a highly-effective team of engineers, information architects, designers, web developers, usability analysts, editors and writers. Bigstep.com was sold to Affinity Internet in 2002 for approximately $8 million.
After leaving Bigstep.com, John rebuilt the intranet and extranet systems for the Hilton Hotels Corporation (supporting 80,000+ people) from the ground up and developed the foundation for the company's large-scale data integration strategy.
Recently, John was the CTO of Mota Motors, Inc., a VC-funded startup and one of Business Week's Top 50 Most Promising Startups of 2009. John's patented technology there provides a new and better way to sell or buy a used car online. Linked into every major automotive marketplace, it makes transactions faster, safer and more profitable for private parties.
John actively supports the technology community and is pursuing a 10-year strategy to “raise all boats” when it comes to technical hiring and recruiting in Southern California. John engages new talent through Students4Startups (S4S), a nonprofit he founded that has aggregated 17 startups and collected more than 400 student resumes. John organizes SoCal Code Camp to help builders, developers, and engineers of all skills to grow in their career. John engages the senior technology community by organizing the L.A. CTO Forum, the largest network of his peers.
John is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with a degree in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, and he worked at the MIT Media Lab.
At Bigstep, John designed, built and launched its initial service in six months to support over 300,000 customers and over 50 co-branded partners including AOL Time Warner, Compaq, NBCi, and Office Depot. He staffed and managed a highly-effective team of engineers, information architects, designers, web developers, usability analysts, editors and writers. Bigstep.com was sold to Affinity Internet in 2002 for approximately $8 million.
After leaving Bigstep.com, John rebuilt the intranet and extranet systems for the Hilton Hotels Corporation (supporting 80,000+ people) from the ground up and developed the foundation for the company's large-scale data integration strategy.
Recently, John was the CTO of Mota Motors, Inc., a VC-funded startup and one of Business Week's Top 50 Most Promising Startups of 2009. John's patented technology there provides a new and better way to sell or buy a used car online. Linked into every major automotive marketplace, it makes transactions faster, safer and more profitable for private parties.
John actively supports the technology community and is pursuing a 10-year strategy to “raise all boats” when it comes to technical hiring and recruiting in Southern California. John engages new talent through Students4Startups (S4S), a nonprofit he founded that has aggregated 17 startups and collected more than 400 student resumes. John organizes SoCal Code Camp to help builders, developers, and engineers of all skills to grow in their career. John engages the senior technology community by organizing the L.A. CTO Forum, the largest network of his peers.
John is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with a degree in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, and he worked at the MIT Media Lab.
