Jeff Taylor is an American businessman who founded the online jobs site Monster.com.

Education

He is a graduate of the

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program at the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, ...

. He had dropped out when he was 17, but went back to get his degree in 1999. He also holds a Certificate-Owner/President Management Program, Executive Education, Harvard Business School; and an honorary doctorate from

Bentley College Bentley University is a private university focused on business, accountancy, and finance and located in Waltham, Massachusetts. Founded in 1917 as a school of accounting and finance in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, Bentley moved to Waltham i ...

Career

In 1994, Jeff Taylor founded The Monster Board, an online jobs site later known as Monster.com. In August 2005, Taylor left Monster to start a new venture. In 2006, Taylor launched a website called Eons.com, a social networking website for people over age of 50. As founder and CEO of Eons, Inc., he started four sites for

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: Eons.com, Eons Boom Media, Meetcha.com, and Tributes.com. Eons, Inc. was sold to Crew Media in 2011. In 2020, Taylor became the GM/Chief Customer Officer at Principles, a developer of people management software in

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Personal life

In 2001, Jeff Taylor announced he was selling his home in

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for $1 on the condition that the buyer move the house off the property. Taylor serves on the board of advisors of the

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. Taylor has been a disc jockey for almost 30 years under the name Jefr Tale and has a weekly show on Sirius/XM Electric Area. In 2011, he started Buffalo.Dj, a talent agency for disc jockeys.

References

Living people American businesspeople University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Monster.com Harvard Business School alumni {{US-business-bio-stub