About Ryan Hoover
Born 1987. Ryan Hoover is a businessperson.
Ryan Hoover (born 1987) is an American businessman and investor best known as the founder and former CEO of new product comparison website Product Hunt. He is the founder of Weekend Fund, a venture capital fund for startups.
Early life and education Hoover was born in Eugene, Oregon and his parents owned a video game store that Hoover worked at as a child. Bachelor's degree in Business from the University of Oregon.
Career Hoover founded Product Hunt as a side project while he worked for mobile game platform, PlayHaven.
He became Product Hunts CEO and the company joined Y Combinator in 2014. In late 2014, Product Hunt raised a $6 million Series A financing from Andreessen Horowitz and was acquired in 2016 by AngelList for $20 million (at roughly the same valuation). Hoover stepped down as Product Hunt CEO in 2020.
In 2017 he started a new investment fund called the Weekend Fund to invest in early stage startups.
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