| Alan Michael Braverman | |
| Birth Date: | 1973 |
| Birth Place: | Illinois, United States |
| Occupation: | Businessman |
| Alma Mater: | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (B.S. Computer Science) |
Alan Michael Braverman is an American businessman. He is co-founder and initial CTO of Xoom Corporation/Eventbrite with Kevin Hartz and Geni.com/Yammer with David O. Sacks. In 2014 Braverman worked on Sobo, "an audio version of Twitter"[1]
Braverman's Giant Pixel was described in 2014 as "his San Francisco startup incubator."[2] He is currently the co-founder and CEO of Textline, a business texting platform.
Sobo was an app for recording and distributing six-second sound snippets.
The New York Times quoted developer Alan Braverman as saying Sobo is "an audio version of Twitter."[3] Braverman, who co-founded Yammer,[4] [5] was described in 2014 as a "Silicon Valley veteran"[6] when Sobo debuted. It went from prototype to first public release in about three months.[7] [8]
The app[9] was designed for use on iPhone and iPad.[10]
Braverman graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, where he worked on the Mosaic browser with Marc Andreessen.[11]