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About Jeff Bates (technologist)
- Jeff Bates, also known as hemos, is the co-founder of Slashdot along with Rob Malda ("CmdrTaco").
- Bates graduated from Holland Christian High School in 1994 and received a Bachelor's degree in History from Hope College in 1998. Malda and Bates created Slashdot in 1997, while undergraduates at Hope College.
- In 1999 they sold the site to Andover.net, which was acquired by VA Linux Systems in 2000 (which became SourceForge, Inc.
- in 2007, then Geeknet, Inc.
- in 2009). Bates served as Director of Media Operations for Geeknet from May 2001 through July 2004, when he became Vice President of Editorial Operations and Executive Editor of Slashdot.
- In February 2008 he became Geeknet's Vice President of Platform and headed the core engineering and product teams for Slashdot, freshmeat, and SourceForge.In August 2011, Bates joined Google.
- He worked at Google as Chief of Staff for the CIO, and as of 2019, is the Chief of Product Operations.
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