OZ

Ori Zaltzman

A320 Airline Pilot. Former CTO & Founder at Trip.com

Menlo Park, California

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Education

Work Experience

  • Airline Pilot

    2023

  • CTO & Founder

    2010 - 2019

    Trip is the world's most popular source of trusted travel advice from people like you. Launched in November 2010 and named one of TIME magazine's 50 Best Websites, Trip was the first travel company to refocus online travel planning on friends, not strangers. The company was founded by former chief architect for Yahoo! BOSS Ori Zaltzman, and ex MySpace exec Travis Katz. Gogobot raised $39 millions to date, backed by Battery Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Homeaway, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, Michael Arrington, MySpace founder Chris DeWolfe, Square CEO Keith Rabois and angel investor Oren Ze’ev. Called by Michael Arrington "one of my favorite new startups," It connects you with friends and travelers like you to make planning and sharing your travels fun. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Gogobot was acquired by CTrip/Skyscanner

2009 - 2010

  • Co-Founder

    2009 - 2010

    Contextual Ad Network for Premium Video

2006 - 2009

  • Chief Architect, Y! BOSS

    2009 - 2009

    Designed V2 API for Yahoo! BOSS http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/

  • Engineering Manager

    2006 - 2009

    Yahoo! Answers (150M users) - Designed and deployed a reputation based community moderation platform that moderates 1.2M new posts per day. Yahoo! Mobile - designed and patented a new social proximity platform - 'Social Reality'. Y!OS - Advanced Products Team - abuse mitigation roadmap and social ad targeting.

TMT - Tailor Made Television LTD

2001 - 2006

  • CTO and Co-Founder

    2001 - 2006

    Headed the development of over 15 innovative products from conception, design and development to testing, deployment and support; including: Instant Messaging, Micro-Payment Provisioning system, T-Commerce, multi-player gaming platform, content management, communication, monitoring & encryption.

  • Digital Television Consultant

    1999 - 2001

    Internet projects and development of interactive formats consultant for the Israeli Cable Programming company (ICP). Reported directly to the CEO. Spearheaded the design, implementation and roll-out of the first interactive digital television service in Israel. Developed & produced 4 original television formats for national broadcast (developed on Silicon Graphics & PC platforms).

P.M.D. LTD

1994 - 1996

  • Software Developer

    1994 - 1996

    Developed commercial games for the advertising and educational markets. Designed and developed a generic 3D game engine.