Scott Heiferman

Scott Heiferman is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Meetup, the world’s largest network of local interest communities. Over 50,000 Meetups (self-organized, real-world community gatherings) happen each week in cafes, living rooms, and other places in hundreds of cities. Meetup is now self-sustaining (profitable without ads), growing fast, and pursuing a revolutionary long-range goal of a “Meetup Everywhere about Most Everything”—giving everyone access to a powerful local community when they need it. Previously, Scott co-founded Fotolog, an early photo sharing network where over 30 million people, mostly in South America, uploaded nearly a billion photos. He also founded i-traffic, a leading online ad agency in the 1990s. He then fled the ad industry and was influenced by 9/11 to start Meetup. He is an angel investor in various startups focused on collective action or DIO (Do It Ourselves). Scott received the “Jane Addams Award” from the National Conference on Citizenship and was named the 2004 MIT Technology Review “Innovator of the Year”. Scott is a graduate of The University of Iowa. He is a member of the 2011 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute.