Ryan Hoover

Ryan Hoover is an American businessman and investor best known as the founder and former CEO of new product comparison website Product Hunt.

Early life and education

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

Career

Hoover founded Product Hunt as a side project while he worked for mobile game platform, PlayHaven.
He became Product Hunts CEO and the company joined Y Combinator in 2014. 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. Hoover stepped down as Product Hunt CEO in 2020.
In 2017 he started a new investment fund called the Weekend Fund to invest in early stage startups.