Alan Michael Braverman is an American businessman. He is co-founder and initial CTO of

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with

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and Geni.com/

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with David O. Sacks. In 2014 Braverman worked on

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, "an audio version of Twitter" Braverman's ''Giant Pixel'' was described in 2014 as "his San Francisco startup incubator." He is currently the co-founder and CEO of Textline, a business texting platform.

Sobo (app)

Sobo was an app for recording and distributing six-second sound snippets. ''

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'' quoted developer Alan Braverman as saying Sobo is "“an audio version of Twitter." Braverman, who co-founded

, was described in 2014 as a "

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veteran" when Sobo debuted. It went from prototype to first public release in about three months. The app was designed for use on iPhone and

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Education

Braverman graduated from

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univer ...

in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science in

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, where he worked on the

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with Marc Andreessen.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Braverman, Alan American chief technology officers Living people Grainger College of Engineering alumni 1973 births 21st-century American businesspeople