Jeff Giesea
American venture capitalist
Jeff Giesea is an American entrepreneur, communications specialist, and writer who was a business affiliate of several of Peter Thiel's companies and venture capital groups. He was widely known for coining the term "memetic warfare".
Education and businesses
Giesea attended Stanford University, where he edited Thiel's libertarian student paper The Stanford Review. Giesea worked for Thiel's first hedge fund, Thiel Capital Management, and Thiel later provided the seed money for one of Giesea's companies. Between Thiel Capital management and his startup, Giesea worked for Koch Industries' public affairs office.
Giesea founded FierceMarkets, an online B2B media company. He sold the company to Questex Media in 2008 and left the company in 2009. AdAge named him a top innovator the small business category for its 2008 Top Innovators list.
He co-founded BestVendor, a free recommendation site for business apps, in January 2011. It entered open beta in November 2011 and by December had over 4800 users.
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