as fuel industry marketing and advertising founded 2008 2008 founders george john richard frankel abhinav gupta headquarters redwood city ca 1 us number of locations 20 area served north america europe and japan key people randy wootton ceo richard frankel president abhinav gupta senior vice president of engineering number of employees 900 website rocketfuel.com rocket fuel is an ad technology company based in redwood city california . 2 it was founded in 2008 by alumni of yahoo . 2 rocket fuel completed an initial public offering in september 2013 . 3 the initial stock offering was 29 per share and reached a high of 59.95 per share when the stock opened . the stock closed at 56.10 per share on opening day giving the company a value of 942.5 million . 4 by february 24 2015 the stock had dropped to 9.63 or 86 percent below its record high and 67 percent below its ipo price . 5 rocket fuel acquired the new york based ad tech company x 1 in august 2014 for 230 million . 6 7 8 references edit courtney subramanian march 17 2014 . in marketing embracing a world where data rules . cnn money . retrieved may 1 2014 . a b sramana mitra 21 october 2013 . rocket fuel s ipo soars . seeking alpha . retrieved 3 december 2013 . rocket fuel exec offers reasons for optimism about the future of mobile advertising . adotas . retrieved 9 march 2014 . brodie lee 13 november 2013 . cramer this stock is literally rocket fuel . cnbc . retrieved 13 march 2015 . kilgore tomi march 6 2015 11 stock bubbles that have already popped . marketwatch . retrieved 6 11 2015 . zach rogers 5 august 2014 . rocket fuel to buy x 1 for estimated 230m . ad exchanger . retrieved 24 august 2014 . jordan novet 5 august 2014 . ad tech player rocket fuel buys programmatic marketing company x 1 . venture beat . retrieved 24 august 2014 . garett sloane 5 august 2014 . rocket fuel s deal to buy x 1 propels it into marketing cloud territory . adweek . retrieved 24 august 2014 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title rocket fuel inc. & oldid 708941556 categories big data companiestechnology companies established in 20082008 establishments in californiacompanies based in redwood city californiacompanies listed on nasdaqinternet advertisinghidden categories official website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 8 march 2016 at 08 49 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view