Press Room

Members of the press should email press@myYearbook.com to contact the founders.

myYearbook was founded by me and Dave, 2 high school students, to be the greatest social playground ever created. We started it during Spring Break 2005 -- a few weeks later, myYearbook had spread to just about everyone in our school. Now we want to bring it to every school in the world ...

Meet the Founders -- See who's behind myYearbook and why we started it.

Featured Press

Fortune iMeme Conference July 12, 2007	CBS Early Show
Venture Capital Whiz Kid Squawk Box, CNBC	The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch CNBC

Recent Press

05-2009	MyYearbook Making Millions With Virtual Currency Sales -- Virtual Goods News
05-2009	Teen entrepreneur Catherine Cook says myYearbook.s Lunch Money adds up -- VentureBeat
02-2009	Lunch Money Adds Up to Cash Cow for myYearbook -- Mashable
01-2009	The Top 10 Social Networks for Generation-Y -- Mashable
10-2008	myYearbook Launches Causes -- Ypulse
10-2008	myYearbook Finds Success in Casual Gaming -- Mashable
03-2008	"The largest, fast-growing social network is high school social network myYearbook" -- VentureBeat
01-2008	"The fastest growing social network in 2007" -- Hitwise
07-2007	Teen's social-networking site a hit with high schoolers -- San Francisco Chronicle
07-2007	Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 -- Inc. Magazine
05-2007	Straight to the Top -- Entrepreneur's Startups Magazine
05-2007	Most Likely to Succeed -- Entrepreneur Magazine
02-2007	Venture Capital Whiz Kid -- Squawk Box, CNBC
01-2007	Whiz Kids in Business -- The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, CNBC
10-2006	myYearbook Ranks Ahead of Friendster -- The New York Times
10-2006	Top Sites Among Teens 12-17 -- Nielsen NetRatings
06-2006	Myspace Generation Going Online for Yearbooks -- CNN / Associated Press
06-2006	She's So Cosmogirl! -- Cosmogirl (Cover) (Article)
04-2006	MTV Live Interview with Catherine & David -- MTV
04-2006	My Dot-Com Boom -- BusinessWeek
03-05-2006	David vs. Murdoch ... er Goliath -- Om Malik's Blog
02-2006	MediaMetrix reports myYearbook Growing Faster Than Myspace and Overtakes Friendster in Just 4 Months.
02-27-2006	Can Myspace Be Beaten? -- Om Malik's Blog
02-2006	Hipness -- BusinessWeek
02-2006	Teens -- BusinessWeek

Recent Press Releases

May - 09	Teens Use Lunch Money to Save the World!
Mar - 09	myYearbook Challenges Stephen Colbert for Interstellar Domination!
Oct - 08	myYearbook.com Overtakes Wikipedia and Amazon
Oct - 08	Teen Site Gives Kids a Chance to Save the Planet!
Jul - 08	myYearbook Named 3rd Largest Social Network in the US
May - 08	200,000 Teens Pledge To Stop Cyberbullying In Honor Of Megan Meier
Mar - 08	myYearbook.com Is Fourth Most Popular Social Network in United States
Feb - 08	Upstart Social Network myYearbook.com Shows Phenomenal 400 Percent Growth in Market Share in 2007
Jan - 08	Teens Tackle Online Safety with Help of SocialSafety.org
Dec - 07	Over 3 Million Virtual Trees Decorated at myYearbook.com
Sep - 07	myYearbook.com Calls on All Social Networks to Add Prominent Abuse Reporting Links
Jul - 07	myYearbook.com Launches Video Battles, myMag and a Brand New Design
Jun - 07	myYearbook.com's Internet Traffic Increases 70%
Nov - 06	Battles.myYearbook.com Launches!
Oct - 06	PIMP.myYearbook.com Launches!
Sep - 06	myYearbook.com Inks Content Deal with CliffsNotes
Jun - 06	Executive Bios: Catherine \| Dave \| Geoff

Management & Board

	Catherine Cook Founder, Product Guru. Public Relations. Started myYearbook in Montgomery High School in NJ as a high school sophomore.
	David Cook Founder, Product Guru. Member Support. Started myYearbook with Catherine. Responsible for expanding into college.
	Geoff Cook CEO. First Investor. Older Brother. Past: Founded and sold EssayEdge.com and ResumeEdge.com to The Thomson Corporation. Harvard '00.
	Don Eyer VP Operations - Safety. Past: Built Trust and Safety for eBay and Half.com. 23 years in law enforcement. BA from Colorado State in Criminal Justice and Education.
	Mike Amarosa Safety Advisor. Past: Deputy Commissioner for Technological Development for NYPD where he was directly responsible for 9-1-1 for the city of New York. JD, New York Law School.
	Greg Stuart Advertising Advisor. Past: CEO of IAB leading industry from $6B in 2001 to $17B today and grew IAB 500%.
	Richard Jalichandra Strategic Advisor. Present: CEO of Technorati. Past: SVP of Business Development for Fox Interactive Media. Instrumental in $650M IGN deal.
	Rick Lewis Director. Venture Capitalist, USVP Past: Walt Disney Imagineering. Sun. McKinsey. Autodesk. MBA, Harvard Business School.
	Sergio Monsalve Director. Venture Capitalist, NVP Past: VP Product Marketing at Photobucket. Led eBay's digital goods marketplace and user-generated content efforts worldwide. MBA, Harvard Business School.
	Chris Fralic Board Observer. Venture Capitalist, First Round Capital Past: VP Bus Dev at del.icio.us. eBay. Early Half.com employee developing fund raising, content licensing, affiliate program, partnerships, advertising sales.
	Ron Conway Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP Past: Named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top "dealmakers" in 2006.
	Spencer Rhodes Angel Investor. Strategic Advisor. Present: Managing Director, Tradewinds Investment Management. Past: Vice President at BlackRock, Venture Capital at Merrill Lynch, Harvard Business School.
	Gavin Roy Chief Technical Officer. Past: Database & PHP Expert. Framewerk.org . PostgreSQL community member.
	Jim Bugden Chief Financial Officer. Past: Govberg Group, CFO; TurnTide, Dir of Finance; Half.com, Controller. Deloitte CPA.
	William Alena VP Advertising. Past: Built Scholastic's advertising business. Doubleclick.