Whois & Analysis for spokeo.com

Spokeo is a people search website that aggregates data from online and offline sources.

History.

Spokeo was founded in 2006 by a group of people who graduated from Stanford University—Mike Daly, Harrison Tang, Ray Chen, and Eric Liang.

The original idea came from Tang, who found it difficult to keep up with all the different posts his friends made across various social networks.

The four founders developed the idea in early 2006, using Tang's parent's basement.

In November 2006 the site officially launched, after attracting an initial round of angel investment in the "low hundreds of thousands" according to co-founder Ray Chen.

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