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Daniel Gordon is GoFundMe’s Vice President of Trust, Policy and Communications. The Chief Technology Officer is Chi-Chao Chang. Rachel Roza is the Chief Marketing Officer. Hoang Vuong is the Chief Operating and Financial Officer. The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer is Rob Solomon. Each member is responsible for a certain aspect of the company but they also work in collaboration. Today the company is run by an entire board. Under new leadership, GoFundMe would build its headquarters in Silicon Valley and begin to expand the company globally. The new President of GoFundMe was David Hahn, the former Vie President of LinkedIn. The new leaders of GoFundMe were Rob Solomon, the former Chief Operating Officer of Groupon. Damphousse and Ballester stepped down from the day to day operations of GoFundMe but remained a part of the company. In 2017 GoFundMe was acquired by Crowd Rise which continues to develop and run GoFundMe today. In 2015 Brad Damphousse and Andrew Ballester sold GoFundMe to Accel Partners and Technology Crossover. Damphousse and Ballester tweaked and upgraded features and developed GoFundMe in 2010. CreateAFund allowed social media users to raise money for certain causes or celebrations. The pair previously created Paygr which allowed members to sell services to the public. Andrew Ballester graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Damphousse is from Boston, Massachusetts and studied at Emerson College before moving to California and becoming an entrepreneur in the world of technology and start ups. CreateAFund was developed by Brad Damphousse and Andrew Ballester. GoFundMe started out as “CreateAFund” in 2008 in San Diego, California. Here are 20 things you didn’t know about GoFundMe. GoFundMe’s goal is to inspire people to “turn compassion into action”.

Since GoFundMe was started in 2010, it’s run more than 2 million campaigns and raised more than $5 billion. It helps raise money for events including celebrations or help with funding bills from accidents or illnesses. GoFundMe is the biggest crowdsharing platforms.