Todd Masonis is a co-founder and Vice President of Products for Plaxo, an online address book and social networking site that securely hosts more than 40 million people worldwide. Todd serves as the lead user interface designer and Windows programmer.

Masonis was raised on the east coast in West Hartford, Connecticut, but transitioned to California to go to Stanford. In his time at Stanford, Masonis co-founded two other companies: netElement and Natient Technologies.

He graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor of Science in Symbolic Systems, concentrating in Computational Linguistics – studying how computers and language fit together. Along with some friends, Todd started Plaxo in 2001 and since then the company has raised $28 million in funding and has millions of users worldwide.

“ In terms of what motivates me, I really enjoy building products that people can use every day.”

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