doug hirsch

About

Since the dawn of time (well, Internet time), Doug has built and managed social media, healthcare and entertainment web and mobile products. One of the first employees at Yahoo!, he created or managed products for all of Yahoo's community + communication products, including Yahoo! Mail, Groups, Yahooligans, GeoCities (RIP!), Personals, Photos, Chat and more. For 5+ years, Doug led product development for services which generated the majority of Yahoo's traffic and membership. Along the way, Doug promised his wife they would travel around the world. So they did. Then, he returned to Yahoo! as the General Manager of Entertainment, with P&L responsibility for Yahoo! Movies, TV and other properties. Over the next 4 years, Doug showed studios that the Internet could convince people to watch stuff. Yahoo! Movies became the most-popular entertainment destination on the web. (Hard to imagine these days, eh?) In 2005, Doug was somehow hired by Facebook as the Vice President Of Product, reporting to the Founder/CEO (yes, THAT Founder/CEO). At Facebook, Doug co-conceived photo tagging, helped grow traffic by 400%, opened Facebook beyond college students and more. It was fun. After Facebook, D

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