CTO at Pararius
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
What company does Yvo Schaap work for?
Yvo Schaap works for Pararius
What is Yvo Schaap's role at Pararius?
Yvo Schaap is CTO
What industry does Yvo Schaap work in?
Yvo Schaap works in the Entertainment industry.
📖 Summary
I recently joined Pararius as CTO to inject tech into its existing leading rental properties platform. Before that, I founded and built several companies. Directlyrics.com is my most succesful owned & operated property. I’ve build it out to a reach over 30 million music fans a month (jan '15), at a total of 1 billion sessions in the past 5 years. Next to that, I’ve co-founded Fanity with Raoul KIksen, a music and entertainment start-up, where I’ve build out the technical platform that crawled, analyzed and filtered over 10 million news items a week. From that I’ve learned to move fast with a hackers mentality to develop ideas into actual products. I get excited about innovative product ideas that are both profitable as well has potential to reach a large user base. I’ve been featured in several publications regarding my product ideas, project hacks, security findings, and data analysis. Available via my blog at yvoschaap.com. Specialties: innovation, internet, start-ups, growth, product development, SEO, technologyCTO @ Pararius is the leading housing rental website in The Netherlands, where I became responsible for everything tech. From June 2015 to Present (7 months) Amsterdam Area, NetherlandsFounder @ Current project: Directlyrics - Peaked at 25M pageviews per month. Secured licensing for the display of lyrics through Gracenote. Initiated a partnership with Spin Media for US premium advertsing sales. Has two full-time bloggers, and is featured in Google News. Previous projects (profit and non-profit): - Citytrip.com - find a local place to eat or drink based on recommendations pulled fro AirBnB hosts. - Kiesjestudie.nl - Dutch university courses website. Helping students pick the right course through official goverment initiated reviews. - CompleteAlbumLyrics.com - Grown to 10M visitors a month, sold to LiveUniverse Inc. which was the founder of MySpace.com. - Millionsoulsaware.org - Non-profit project I inititated to reach awareness for a certain social issue. Fun hacks: - ProductHunt Leaderboard; the leading ProductHunt projects and hunters. - ProductHunt Vote Button: similair to the Facebook Like, and Twitter Share button, but made for Producthunt. (listed in the 'top 100 producthunt'​ hunts) - YouTube Fast Search - Featured as one of the first developer projects on youtube.com/dev. - Wordpress Theme Generator - Thousands of custom themes installed. - Chain Reaction - Played thousands of times every month, featured in the Google Chrome Webstore reaching 100,000 installs. - Live Site Search - Combination of Google analytics data and beautiful visualisation. Historic projects: - Gaminglife.nl - Dutch gaming site. - gloco.com - hardware location service. - xmt.com - virtual trading platform. - fluge - online movie content information. From January 2008 to Present (8 years) Master, Finance & Investment @ Erasmus University Rotterdam From 2008 to 2009 Bachelor, Business Administration @ Erasmus University Rotterdam From 2003 to 2008 VWO, Science, Math, Biology (N&G) @ Laar & Berg Yvo Schaap is skilled in: Creative Direction, Online Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Social Media, SEO, Idea Generation, Hacking, Start-ups, Software Development, Strategy, Lean Startup, Product Development, Data Analysis, Mobile Internet, Snowboarding, HTML 5, JavaScript, Generating Revenue
Extraversion (E), Intuition (N), Feeling (F), Judging (J)
4 year(s), 3 month(s)
Unlikely
Likely
There's 72% chance that Yvo Schaap is seeking for new opportunities
Enjoy unlimited access and discover candidates outside of LinkedIn
Trusted by 400K users from
76% of Fortune 500 companies
The most accurate data ever
Hire Anyone, Anywhere
with ContactOut today
Making remote or global hires? We can help.
No credit card required