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Harper Reed is an American entrepreneur and technology executive. He is best known for his work as the Chief Technology Officer of Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. He is also the co-founder of Modest, a mobile commerce platform. Reed was born in Greeley, Colorado, and grew up in the small town of Eaton, Colorado. He attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he studied computer science and philosophy. After college, he worked as a software engineer for a number of companies, including Threadless, a Chicago-based t-shirt company. In 2012, Reed was hired as the Chief Technology Officer of Barack Obama's re-election campaign. He was responsible for developing the campaign's technology infrastructure and digital strategy. He also helped create the campaign's mobile app, which allowed supporters to donate money and volunteer for the campaign. In 2013, Reed co-founded Modest, a mobile commerce platform. The company was acquired by PayPal in 2015. Reed is currently the CEO of Braintree, a payments processing company. He is also an advisor to a number of technology companies, including the Chicago-based startup accelerator, 1871. As of 2021, Harper Reed's net worth is estimated to be approximately $20 million.

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Age 46 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 21 March, 1978
Birthday 21 March
Birthplace Greeley, Colorado, United States
Nationality United States

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2019

Reed joined PayPal as a Senior Director of Software Development and as Entrepreneur in Residence in PayPal’s Next Generation Commerce group.

2012

According to The Guardian, Reed's "background in crowd-sourcing and cloud-computing ... gives a significant clue to what the Obama team hoped to achieve in 2012".

In 2012 Reed founded and was the CEO of Modest, a startup that built retail solutions for mobile devices. Modest was funded primarily by Eric Schmidt. In August 2015, Braintree purchased Modest and relaunched the Modest platform as PayPal Commerce.

2011

Reed served as Chief Technology Officer for Obama for America from April 2011 through the November 2012 election. A central component of that work was Project Narwhal, a centralized database of electoral information. Reed helped build a team of developers from tech companies like Twitter, Google, Facebook, Craigslist, Quora, Orbitz and Threadless. This approach— hiring technology workers from the tech startups rather than the political realm— was novel.

2005

From 2005 to 2009, Reed was the CTO of clothing company Threadless, where he helped lead it through a period of intense growth, riding the crowdsourcing trend.

2001

Reed was born in Greeley, Colorado, where he was raised in a home without a television but with an Apple IIC. Reed served as student-council president at Greeley Central High School. Reed graduated from Cornell College in 2001 with degrees in philosophy and computer science. After graduating, Reed was a professional juggler and was part of a juggling protest group called The Jugglers Against Homophobia. Reed is improperly credited in Metallica’s Death Magnetic album with a photo credit. Reed’s work was featured in German documentary by Werner Boote called Alles unter Kontrolle. Reed is an avid reader and currently lives in Chicago with his wife, Hiromi Nakazawa.

1978

Harper Reed (born March 21, 1978) is an American entrepreneur and former Head of Commerce at Braintree, a subsidiary of PayPal. In 2011, he served as Chief Technology Officer for Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign.