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Jonathan Abrams

Co-founder of Founders Den, co-owner of Slide nightclub, former founder & CEO of Socializr, Friendster, and HotLinks.

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Dave Morin
Entrepreneur
Josh Kopelman
Founding Partner, First Round Capital; Founder Half.com (sold to EBay)
George Zachary
A venture capitalist that invests in who we are and who we are becoming.
Michael Arrington
Founder Techcrunch, CrunchFund Partner, blogger at Uncrunched.
Steve Case
Co-founder of AOL; now Chairman of Case Foundation and Revolution (Zipcar, LivingSocial, Exclusive Resorts, Everyday Health, Revolution Money, Miraval, etc)
Tim Chang
Managing Director - Mayfield. Forbes Midas List 2010 (Top 100 VCs). Stanford MBA, Univ of Michigan MSEE/BSEE. Bassist in BlackMahal and CoverFlow
Matt Mullenweg
WordPress, Automattic, Akismet, Polldaddy, VaultPress, Gravatar... http://ma.tt/
Mike Jones
CEO of Science, Former CEO MySpace, CEO/Founder Userplane, CEO/Founder PBJ Digital, CEO Tsavo Media, Angel Investor, Entrepreneur
Ariel Poler
Started 3 Internet companies (IPRO, Topica & TextMarks); Director at Kana, LinkExchange, Freedom Financial, Odeo and StumbleUpon. BS from MIT. MBA from Stanford
Benjamin Ling
COO at Badoo • Former Director of Search Products Google • Director of Partnerships, Content & Platforms YouTube • Director of Platform Facebook
Karl Jacob
Keen (Ingenio), DimensionX, Wallop, Coveroo and Cloudmark. $500+ million in exits to msft, at&t etc. Early advisor to facebook.
Gil Penchina
Serial Entrepreneur, 40+ Angel investments with $10 billion in exits including Linkedin, Paypal, Ziprealty, Plusmo, Vamoose, Evite Ex-CEO of Wikia, Exec at eBay
David Sacks
Founder/CEO of Yammer. Founder of Geni. Original COO and product leader of PayPal.
Bradley Horowitz
VP Product at Google
Sizhao Yang
Co-founder of BetterWorks. Founder of MyMiniLife (sold to Zynga). Co-Creator of Farmville.
Jason Putorti
Co-founder of Votizen • Founder Advisor at SV Angel • First Designer-in-Residence at Bessemer • Former Lead Designer at Mint.com
Philip Kaplan
Maker of websites & mobile apps. Blippy, AdBrite, F-ckedcompany, TinyLetter, Mobog, BritePic, Tweetname, HitMeLater, Fast140, QuickRot, more. Author & drummer.
Josh Elman
Principal at Greylock. Previous: product at Twitter (Growth), Facebook (launched Connect), Zazzle (ran product), LinkedIn (Growth, launched Jobs), RealPlayer
Matt Galligan
Co-Founder & CEO of Circa. Co-Founded 1% of Nothing, SimpleGeo & Socialthing.
Leah Culver
Founder and CEO of Grove (grove.io). Former technical co-founder of Pownce (sold to Six Apart). Co-author of OAuth and OEmbed.
Janice Fraser
Founder, LUXr. Leader in the UX+Startup world. Entrepreneur. Co-founder and former CEO of Adaptive Path.
Don Hutchison
Marin Software Bd Member; Recurrent Energy Co-founder & COB; Work.com CEO; Excite@Home GM & SVP; bd member @ multiple public and private companies.
Blake Commagere
Single-handedly pioneered Social Gaming industry (Vampires/Zombies). Created 1st version of Causes. Founder BuildForge (Sold to IBM), Founder Ohai.
Gokul Rajaram
Product Director, Ads at Facebook
Bill Trenchard
Founding Partner, Founder Collective; Formerly CEO LiveOps
Akash Garg
Platform Team @ Twitter; CTO at Bebo; Co-Founder of Hi5
Nat Turner
Co-Founder/CEO of Invite Media. Golfer. Angel investor. Classic rock junkie. Entrepreneur. Fisherman.
Jim Young
Founder HotOrNot; I/O Ventures
Aayush Phumbhra
Entrepreneur, Founder Chegg.com
Mark Jacobstein
CEO iSkoot, sold to QCOM (VP now). EVP loopt. Founder, Pres DChoc. Founder, CEO SW Sports & Soft, sold to Paul Allen & iXL. CS Harvard. Inventor fantasy sports
Jim Breyer
Partner, Accel. Founder, Breyer Capital. Early Facebook investor. Board of Directors: Facebook, News Corporation, Dell, Etsy, Brightcove, Prosper, Wal-Mart
Georges Harik
Distinguished Engineer at Google (One of first 10 employees); PM & Strategy on Gmail, GTalk, Video, Picasa, Orkut, Groups & Mobile. Co-dev of AdSense targeting.
Mike Cassidy
Director of Search Product Management at Google CEO at Ruba, Inc. Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital CEO, Xfire at MTV Networks
David Lawee
VP of Corporate Development at Google
Barry Silbert
Founder & CEO at SecondMarket
James Joaquin
Partner at Catamount Ventures. Chairman of Pixelpipe. Former CEO of Ofoto, Xoom, and Xmarks. Co-founder of When.com. Seed investor in Postini.
Niren Hiro
CEO at Crowdstar; VP - Business Development at AdMob
Tom Anderson
Founder of MySpace/Former President. Started two small Internet companies before MS, both profitable exits.
Jason A. Hoffman
Founder/CTO at Joyent. Constant talent scout. I specialize in revenue generation, and all activities required to make it happen.
Ken Keller
Co-founder IGN.com & Cadence (SDA); emp #1 excite; emp #2 Frame.
Vish Makhijani
SVP Zynga; CEO and President of Yandex Labs; SVP Yahoo Search Group
Farhad Mohit
Founder Shopzilla ($562MM exit), Founder BizRate.com (top 100 website), Founder Cheers
Elliot Loh
Former COO/VP Product at Geni, designer of Yammer 1.0, founding designer at Tribe. Advising startups via 500 Startups, StartX, and Bullpen Capital.
Michael Birch
Founder of Bebo
Jim Barnett
Serial CEO. Entrepreneur. Investor. Partner Shasta Ventures; Chairman Turn, Extole, & Sojern Prior: CEO/founder Turn; President Overture Search; CEO AltaVista.
Kai Huang
Co-founder of RedOctane, creators of Guitar Hero
Gina Bianchini
Founder and CEO of Mightybell. Co-founded Ning.
Rob Solomon
Former President & COO at Groupon. Former CEO, SideStep (acquired by Kayak). Board Director at HomeAway, Tiny Prints, and High Gear Media.
Mareza Larizadeh
Founder at Larizadeh Capital Partners Cofounder at Doostang Inc Vice President at DFJ ePlanet Ventures Analyst, International Credit Trading at merrill lynch
Ben Horowitz
Founding Partner at Andreessen-Horowitz
Dalton Caldwell
Founder/CEO App.net (aka Mixed Media Labs) Previously founder/CEO of imeem. Creator of picplz. Stanford SymSys '03. Father. Guy who likes the Internet.
Dave Hodson
Co-founder and CTO iPrint.com (NASD:IPRT). Co-founder and CTO MessageCast (Sold to Microsoft). StartX mentor, technical advisor.
Bram Cohen
BitTorrent inventor. Founder of BitTorrent Inc. Veteran of many startups.
Brad Garlinghouse
Former President, Apps and Commerce at AOL • Sr. Adviser at Silver Lake • SVP Communications Community at Yahoo! • CEO at Dialpad • General Partner at @Ventures
Tim Drees
Founder/CEO of Webmetrics (sold to NeuStar). Now focused on investing and animal welfare causes. Engineering background.
Taher Haveliwala
Founder Kaltix (acquired by Google in 2003). Stanford CS PhD. Startup Advisor.
Justin Waldron
co-founder @ zynga
Brian Chesky
Founder of AirBnB
Greg Tseng
Founder & CEO, Tagged
Jack Andrys
Founder and ex CEO WebSpy (took public), Founder Netlink Inspection Systems Exited via Trade Sale, Founder Netlink CRM,
Haroon Mokhtarzada
Co-Founder/CEO Webs.com (acquired by Vistaprint). Co-Founder SGN (acquired by Mindjolt). Strong product focus.
Adil Wali
Technology entrepreneur. Founder at Crowd Interactive and ModCloth. Investor at ClearGears.
Jordan Mendelson
Founder & CTO at SeatMe, Chief Architect of Napster, Founder of SNOCAP, Founder of Web Services, Founder of Heavy Electrons, Senior Product at LinkedIn.
Tao Huang
Chief Operating Officer at Morningstar
Anshu Sharma
Product Guy who can connect dots that are obvious after the fact. Motto: Kindle-ize Everything.
Shayan Zadeh
Entrepreneur (cofounder of Zoosk), Angel Investor, Geek, and a Global Citizen.
Naval Ravikant
Sweat - AngelList, Venture Hacks, Vast, Epinions; Money - Twitter, Heyzap, SnapLogic
Babak Nivi
Co-founder of AngelList and Venture Hacks • EIR at Atlas and Bessemer • Worked on Songbird, Grockit, Kovio • Schooling at MIT • Published in Science • 2 Patents
Graham Jenkin
Venture Hacker and Product Designer @AngelList. Ex-Google head of UX for Ads and Commerce. Ex-BofA head of UX.
Garrett Blythe
Now - Hacker at AngelList. Then - Helped create Lynx, Netscape, Epinions, Xfire, MemoryMatirx, et. al.
Joshua Slayton
Venture Hacker at AngelList. Previously at Super Rewards (Adknowledge).
Ben Mathes
Hacker at AngelList, at RockYou when it was #1, early at Readyforce. CS Masters 2 years early.
Kevin Montag
Venture Hacker @AngelList. Ex CTO @Hearsay News. Stanford Physics/CS.
Dustin Dolginow
Funding team at AngelList + VC at Atlas Venture; founded and killed Social Swipe. Retail + SMB in my DNA.
Boston · VC
Dave McClure
Founding Partner @ 500 Startups. Ex-PayPal, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund, Mint.com. Geek, developer, entrepreneur, marketer. Investor in 250+ co's.
Christine Tsai
Partner at 500 Startups. Ex-Googler & ex-YouTuber. Left-handed.
Jason Calacanis
Angel investor in 25 startups. Creator/founder: LAUNCH, TechCrunch50, Mahalo, Engadget, WeblogsInc, autoblog, silicon alley reporter, this week in startups.
Paul Singh
Partner at 500 Startups
Mark Suster
General partner, GRP Ventures & 2x entrepreneur. Sold Koral to Salesforce.com
Robert Scoble
Searching for world-changing technologies for Rackspace.
500 Startups
Silicon Valley internet seed fund & accelerator. 500 team has worked @ PayPal, Google, AOL, Rackspace, Yahoo, YouTube, Mint.com, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund.
Jeff Clavier
Managing Partner at SoftTech VC (one of the original micro-vcs, before it was fashionable ;). Invested in 125+ companies in 8 years. And really loving it.
Dharmesh Shah
Founder and CTO of HubSpot and blogger at OnStartups.com
David Tisch
Managing Director of TechStars NYC Managing Member of BoxGroup (Angel Investor)
Thomas Korte
Founder of @AngelPad, Ex-Google Product Manager, Startup Advisor, Angel Investor http://thomaskorte.com/about-me/
David Lee
Managing Member at SV Angel
Andrew Chen
Startup guy and advisor on metrics/marketing. Occassional blogger. Previously EIR at Mohr Davidow Ventures, ran product at AudienceScience.
AngelPad
San Francisco based incubator founded by @Thomas Korte and other ex-Googlers
Dan Martell
Canadian. CEO/Founder of Clarity.fm. Co-Founder of Flowtown (Acquired '11), Founder of Spheric Tech (Acquired '08), Mentor @ 500Startup. Investor in many.
Adam Rifkin
A man. A plan. A panda.
David E. Weekly
Working on The Next Big Thing (Gaston Labs). Founded PBworks, Hacker Dojo, SuperHappyDevHouse, and Mexican.VC. Hacker. Award-winning startup advisor.
Howard Lindzon
CEO/Co-Founder of Stocktwits..GP of Social Leverage (Angel Investing)..Wallstrip creator (purchased by $CBS)..Momentum, Acceleration & LOL hunter..Love Popcorn
Jeremie Berrebi
Co-founder at Kima Ventures - Investing in 1 to 2 startups a Week - Already invested in 18 countries
Saar Gur
Venture Capitalist at Charles River Ventures
Garry Tan
Partner at Y-Combinator. Co-founder of Posterous. Early designer / engineering lead at Palantir.
Fred Destin
Partner at Atlas Venture
Boston · VC
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