NPR -- NPR’s “How I Built This” podcast features Yelp co-founders Jeremy Stoppelman (BS Computer Engineering ’99) with a shoutout to fellow co-founder AND Illinois CS alum Russ Simmons (BS CS ’98). "In 2004, two former Paypal engineers, Jeremy Stoppelman and Russ Simmons, were spit-balling new internet ideas. Out of their brainstorm came a site where you would email your friends asking for local business recommendations."