Peter Rojas
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Peter Rojas |
| image | Peter Rojas.jpg |
| caption | Peter Rojas at CES 2007 |
| birth_date | |
| education | Harvard University (BA) |
| University of Sussex (MA) | |
| known_for | Co-founder of Gizmodo, Engadget, RCRD LBL, gdgt |
| spouse | Jill Fehrenbacher |
| website | http://roj.as/ |
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| name = Peter Rojas | image = Peter Rojas.jpg | caption = Peter Rojas at CES 2007 | birth_date = | birth_place = | nationality = | education = Harvard University (BA) University of Sussex (MA) | other_names = | occupation = | known_for = Co-founder of Gizmodo, Engadget, RCRD LBL, gdgt | spouse = Jill Fehrenbacher | website = http://roj.as/
Peter Rojas (born March 18, 1975) is the co-founder of technology blogs Gizmodo and Engadget, as well as the video gaming blog Joystiq (2004).
Education
Rojas attended Harvard University from 1993 to 1997 where he managed the school's radio station WHRB and was a disk jockey on the Record Hospital program. After graduating magna cum laude with a B.A. in Social Studies, Rojas received an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Sussex in 1998.
Career
Rojas worked at Red Herring magazine from June 1999 to May 2001. He was co-founder and Editorial Director of Gizmodo from July 2002 until March 2004, leaving to co-found Engadget. Two months later he also founded the video game blog Joystiq. Both were part of Weblogs Inc., a blog network that was purchased by AOL in 2005.
Along with Josh Deutsch of Downtown Records, Rojas launched the online record label RCRD LBL in 2007.
In July 2008 Rojas left Engadget to start the consumer electronics social networking site GDGT. The site premiered in 2009 and was co-founded with Ryan Block, Rojas' successor as Engadget editor-in-chief.
In February 2013 GDGT was purchased by AOL.
, he is a partner at Betaworks Ventures. He left Betaworks Ventures in August 2021.
In February 2025, Rojas joined Mozilla as the Senior Vice President of New Products.
Personal life
In July 2007, Rojas married Jill Fehrenbacher, the founder of the blog Inhabitat. The couple had a son in 2008, shortly after Fehrenbacher founded a new site named Inhabitots.
References
References
- "Peter Rojas: CV". roj.as.
- [http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterrojas Peter Rojas] at linkedin.com
- Gillin, Paul. (2007). "The New Influencers: A Marketer's Guide to the New Social Media". Linden Publishing.
- (August 1, 2022). "This Is How Gizmodo Started".
- (2014-03-03). "10 Years In: The birth of Engadget".
- Van Buskirk, Eliot. (November 15, 2007). "Interview: Peter Rojas of RCRD LBL".
- Boutin, Paul. (July 1, 2009). "GDGT: A Social Site for Gadget Maniacs". New York Times.
- (February 13, 2013). "Aol acquires gdgt: get those engdgt puns out of your system today".
- "Peter Rojas".
- (2021-08-02). "Moving on from Betaworks Ventures".
- "Welcoming Peter Rojas as Mozilla’s SVP of New Products {{!}} The Mozilla Blog".
- Belmont, Veronica. (July 30, 2007). "Congrats to Pete and Jill!". VeronicaBelmont.com.
- "About".
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