Ryan Hoover

Hoover was born in Eugene, Oregon and his parents owned a video game store that Hoover worked at as a child.^[3] He graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in business.^[4]

Hoover founded Product Hunt as a side project while he worked for mobile game platform, PlayHaven.^[5]

He became Product Hunts CEO and the company joined Y Combinator in 2014.^[6] In late 2014, Product Hunt raised a $6 million Series A financing from Andreessen Horowitz and was acquired in 2016 by AngelList for $20 million (at roughly the same valuation).^[7] Hoover stepped down as Product Hunt CEO in 2020.^[8]

In 2017 he started a new investment fund called the Weekend Fund to invest in early stage startups.^[9]