David Byttow: Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
m categorization/tagging using AWB |
Merged content to Secret (app)#David Byttow, redirecting; AfD-merge; see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Byttow (easy-merge) Tag: New redirect |
||
| (47 intermediate revisions by 36 users not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| ⚫ | |||
{{Multiple issues| |
|||
{{BLP sources|date=July 2015}} |
|||
{{self-published|date=July 2015}} |
|||
}} |
|||
{{R from merge}} |
|||
{{Infobox person |
|||
{{R to section}} |
|||
| name = David Byttow |
|||
| alt = |
|||
|birth_name=David Mark Byttow |
|||
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1982|02|12}} |
|||
| birth_place = [[Munster, Indiana]], United States |
|||
| known_for = CEO of [[Secret (app)]] |
|||
| occupation = [[Software Engineer]] ([[Silicon Valley|tech industry]]) |
|||
}} |
|||
'''David Mark Byttow''' (born February 12, 1982) is an American [[Internet entrepreneur]] who was the co-founder and [[Chief Executive Officer|CEO]] of the [[mobile application]] [[Secret (app)]]. |
|||
==Early life and education== |
|||
David was born and raised in [[Munster, Indiana]] and taught himself how to program video games at the age of 10. He dropped out of [[Purdue University]] to pursue a career in video game programming. |
|||
==Career== |
|||
In 2001, David joined a (now defunct) video game company named CodeFire. After that, he joined [[The Collective, Inc.]] as a gameplay programmer for popular video game consoles. In 2007, David did contract work for [[Bandai Namco Entertainment]] on the Xbox 360 and PS3 game [[Afro Samurai]]. He then joined [[Google]] as a Staff Engineer for five years where he worked on [[App Engine]], [[Google Wave]] and [[Google+]]. He then Prior to that, David was the Technical Director at [[Square, Inc.]] and a Staff Engineer at [[Google]] for five years. Before joining [[Square, Inc.]] as Technical Director and head of Square Wallet, David worked for a brief time at [[Medium (service)]]. He was at Square for nearly a year before founding [[Secret (app)]] with Google-colleague Chrys Bader-Wechseler.<ref name=david-byttow-interview>{{cite web|url=http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/14/foundation-secrets-david-byttow-talks-privacy-security-and-company-origins|publisher=''[[TechCrunch]]''|title=Foundation: Secret’s David Byttow Talks Privacy, Security, and Company Origins|first=Kevin|last=Rose}}</ref> |
|||
David announced the shut down of [[Secret (app)]] on April 29, 2015.<ref name=medium-shutdown>{{cite web|url=https://medium.com/secret-den/sunset-bc18450478d5|title = Sunset |last = Byttow|first= David|date = April 29, 2015|accessdate = April 30, 2015|publisher = ''[[Medium (service)]]''}}</ref> |
|||
==See also== |
|||
| ⚫ | |||
* [[Anonymous social media]] |
|||
==References== |
|||
{{reflist}} |
|||
{{DEFAULTSORT:Byttow, David}} |
|||
[[Category:1982 births]] |
[[Category:1982 births]] |
||
[[Category:Living people]] |
[[Category:Living people]] |
||
[[Category:American technology chief executives]] |
|||
[[Category:American software engineers]] |
|||
{{morecat|date=August 2015}} |
|||
[[Category:Google employees]] |
|||
[[Category:American video game programmers]] |
|||
[[Category:People from Munster, Indiana]] |
|||
Latest revision as of 17:34, 2 July 2024
Redirect to:
- From a merge: This is a redirect from a page that was merged into another page. This redirect was kept in order to preserve the edit history of this page after its content was merged into the content of the target page. Please do not remove the tag that generates this text (unless the need to recreate content on this page has been demonstrated) or delete this page.
- For redirects with substantive page histories that did not result from page merges use {{R with history}} instead.
- To a section: This is a redirect from a topic that does not have its own page to a section of a page on the subject. For redirects to embedded anchors on a page, use {{R to anchor}} instead.