Scott Heiferman

Co-Founder & CEO of Meetup, the world’s largest network of local community groups

Over 50,000 Meetups (self-organized community events) happen each week. Millions of people, in over 100 countries, “use the internet to get off the internet” and form local community using the Meetup platform. Meetup is built on the idea that every town everywhere needs support groups, playgroups, bookclubs, business circles, running groups, community action groups, etc… whatever’s important to people, a local community group can help them.

Meetup is now self-sustaining (profitable), growing fast, and pursuing a long-range goal of a “Meetup Everywhere about Most Everything” so that everyone has access to local community when needed.
Previously, Heiferman co-founded Fotolog, a photo sharing network where over 30 million people, mostly in South America, have uploaded nearly a billion photos. He also founded i-traffic, a top online ad agency in the 90s. He then fled the ad industry and was influenced by 9/11 to start Meetup.

Scott graduated from The University of Iowa, then worked at Sony as their “Interactive Marketing Frontiersman”. He is an angel investor in Betaworks, Founders Collective, Virgance, 20×200, and others. Scott received the Jane Addams Award from the National Conference on Citizenship and was named an MIT Technology Review “Innovator of the Year”.