{ "data": null, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-ouren/", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-ouren/index.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-ouren/index.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-ouren/index.min.md" }, "markdown": "Chief Executive Officer.\n\nJohn Ouren became chief executive of SurveyMonkey in October 2026, succeeding Eric Johnson, after sitting on its board since STG bought the company in 2023. He was an operating partner at STG and earlier led teams at Simmons Research, AlphaImpactRX and MarketTools, whose units SurveyMonkey bought in 2011.\n\n## What John builds\n\n- [SurveyMonkey](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/surveymonkey.md), graded C, 55.4/100, in Forms, surveys \u0026 structured intake. SurveyMonkey is an online survey and form platform. Agents reach it through the REST API v3 for surveys, collectors, responses, contacts and webhooks, or through the vendor's hosted MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT. Chief Executive Officer, researched 2026-10-28.\n- [Wufoo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wufoo.md), graded D, 48.6/100, in Forms, surveys \u0026 structured intake. Wufoo is an online form builder owned by SurveyMonkey. Its REST API v3 reads forms, fields, entries, reports and users, submits entries and adds or removes webhooks, with an API key sent over Basic authentication. Chief Executive Officer, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Chris Campbell](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/chris-campbell/), Historical co-founder\n- [Chris Finley](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/chris-finley/), Co-founder\n- [Kevin Hale](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/kevin-hale/), Historical co-founder\n- [Meera Vaidyanathan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/meera-vaidyanathan/), Chief Product Officer\n- [Ryan Campbell](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ryan-campbell/), Historical co-founder\n- [Ryan Finley](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ryan-finley/), Co-founder\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Spectrum Equity](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/spectrum-equity/)\n- [Bain Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bain-capital/)\n- [Tiger Global](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tiger-global/)\n- [CapitalG](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/capitalg/)\n- [T. Rowe Price](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/t-rowe-price/)\n- [Morgan Stanley](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/morgan-stanley/)\n- [Baillie Gifford](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/baillie-gifford/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is John Ouren?\n\nJohn Ouren became chief executive of SurveyMonkey in October 2026, succeeding Eric Johnson, after sitting on its board since STG bought the company in 2023. He was an operating partner at STG and earlier led teams at Simmons Research, AlphaImpactRX and MarketTools, whose units SurveyMonkey bought in 2011.\n\n### What does SurveyMonkey Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists SurveyMonkey and Wufoo from SurveyMonkey Inc.. SurveyMonkey is an online survey and form platform. Agents reach it through the REST API v3 for surveys, collectors, responses, contacts and webhooks, or through the vendor's hosted MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT.\n\n### Who has invested in SurveyMonkey Inc.?\n\nThe sources our research read name Spectrum Equity, Bain Capital, Tiger Global, CapitalG, T. Rowe Price, Morgan Stanley and Baillie Gifford.\n\n### How are John's tools graded?\n\nSurveyMonkey is graded C, 55.4 out of 100; Wufoo is graded D, 48.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.surveymonkey.com/\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SurveyMonkey\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/wufoo\n- https://ryancampbell.blog/projects/wufoo/\n- https://ryancampbell.blog/contact/\n- https://x.com/veeneck\n- https://www.wufoo.com/\n- https://www.wufoo.com\n- https://help.surveymonkey.com/en/contact/#wufoo\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. 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