Mark Goldenson
Founder/CEO, PlayCafe

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Mark Goldenson, CEO, has eight years of experience in launching internet services. Mark was a product manager at PayPal where he managed high-volume user flows such as registration and PayPal’s in-house CRM for 1,300 service agents. Mark previously co-founded and was COO of Woosh, a startup that created back-end integrated storefronts for small businesses. Woosh was a finalist in the 1998 Stanford E-Challenge and raised $21 million in funding. Mark also co-founded the Stanford Bazaar, a local online marketplace acquired by Stanford, and founded the Stanford Squash Team, home to national champion Lily Lorentzen and world champion coach Mark Talbott. Mark also founded a Stanford philosophy club and researched brain imaging of lucid dreams for four years in the Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory. Mark has completed coursework for a B.A. in Human Biology and a minor in Symbolic Systems from Stanford.