Joe Stump is a seasoned technical leader and serial entrepreneur who has cofounded two venture-backed startups (SimpleGeo & attachments.me).

SimpleGeo offers ready-to-use location infrastructure. Attachments.me facilitates searching attachments in e-mail.

Joe was Lead Architect of Digg, and invested, and advised, dozens of startups and companies.

He is passionate about development processes, iterative product development, and building scalable web infrastructure. He’s worked on small systems with fledgling startups and massive process and technical changes at multinational corporations.

Joe has authored pieces for O’Reilly’s ONLAMP.com and has spoken at Web 2.0 Expo, FOWA, FOWD, Q-Con, SXSW, Kings of Code, MySQL Conference, DjangoCon, PHP-Con and The Next Web Conference (to name a few).

He has a BA in Computer Information Systems from Eastern Michigan University and he speaks about Technology Trends, Technology Management and GeoLocation Services.

“Joe has incredible gut instinct to match his technical skills. He’s a creative animal trapped in a technical body, and this is the stuff from which entrepreneurs are made.”
–Jay Adelson, 2008 Time Magzine’s Top 100 Most Influential People in the World

The Next Web: Joe Stump – CTO of SimpleGeo from The Next Web on Vimeo.