[11] He was general manager and Senior Vice President of United Online (NASDAQ: UNTD), which runs ISPs NetZero and Juno, and social networking site Classmates.com.
[12] He was the founder and CEO of Applied Cognition Labs, WorldWide MediaWorks (offeroutlet.com),[13] SeaVista Development and Simpli,[14] which is currently owned by ValueClick, (NASDAQ: VCLK).
[10] Stibel left graduate school to start Simpli, a search and marketing company that was sold to NetZero in 2001 and again to ValueClick in 2004.
[24] On August 22, 2016, Kobe Bryant and Stibel launched Bryant-Stibel, a venture capital firm focused on different businesses including media, data, gaming and technology, with $100 million in funding.
[28] He also studied business, marketing and economics under Dan Ariely at MIT Sloan School of Management [reference needed].