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Akash Garg

Platform Team @ Twitter; CTO at Bebo; Co-Founder of Hi5

Followers
Marissa Mayer
VP, Google. Investor in Minted, One Kings Lane, Square. MSCS, Stanford.
Tim Chang
Managing Director - Mayfield. Forbes Midas List 2010 (Top 100 VCs). Stanford MBA, Univ of Michigan MSEE/BSEE. Bassist in BlackMahal and CoverFlow
Mike Jones
CEO of Science, Former CEO MySpace, CEO/Founder Userplane, CEO/Founder PBJ Digital, CEO Tsavo Media, Angel Investor, Entrepreneur
Jonathan Abrams
Co-founder of Founders Den, co-owner of Slide nightclub, former founder & CEO of Socializr, Friendster, and HotLinks.
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
Josh Elman
Principal at Greylock. Previous: product at Twitter (Growth), Facebook (launched Connect), Zazzle (ran product), LinkedIn (Growth, launched Jobs), RealPlayer
John Lilly
Partner @ Greylock, former CEO @ Mozilla, dad, husband, son, nerd http://john.jubjubs.net
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
Joe Kraus
Long-time entrepreneur. Current partner at Google Ventures
Sachin Agarwal
I'm a product designer inspired by Apple, Audi, and Amazon. I've never owned a PC. I worked on Final Cut Pro at Apple. I’m the founder and CEO of Posterous.
Josh Hannah
General Partner at Matrix Partners; Founder & Director at Betfair.com; Entrepreneur and Investor. Gambler, guy who knows how to do a lot of things.
Oakland · VC
Sam Pullara
Early WebLogic engineer, EIR at Accel & Benchmark, Founder of Gauntlet Systems (Borland acq), Chief Technologist at Yahoo!, Founder of Bagcheck (Twitter acq)
Joe Greenstein
Founder and CEO, Flixster
Jason A. Hoffman
Founder/CTO at Joyent. Constant talent scout. I specialize in revenue generation, and all activities required to make it happen.
Adam Nash
Executive in Residence at Greylock Partners. Most recently VP Product for Search, Platform & Mobile at LinkedIn. Previously at eBay, Preview Systems, Apple.
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
Lukas Biewald
I'm the founder of CrowdFlower/Dolores Labs. http://lukasbiewald.com
Jeff Bonforte
CEO at Xobni; Vice President, Social Search at Yahoo!; Vice President, Real Time Communications at Yahoo, Inc.; Founder at Starbox Systems
Amitt Mahajan
Founder of MyMiniLife/FarmVille; Was CTO of Zynga Japan; Created Zynga's core game framework as mentioned in S-1; Investor in BetterWorks, Pixelapse, Hipmunk
Dave Hodson
Co-founder and CTO iPrint.com (NASD:IPRT). Co-founder and CTO MessageCast (Sold to Microsoft). StartX mentor, technical advisor.
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,
Ramu Yalamanchi
Founded and ran Hi5
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
Kevin Laws
Board Member, AngelList. Founder & Chairman, Vast. Investor/VC: LiveCapital (sold to D&B), Krillion (sold to Local.com), Showme, Powergetics, etc.
Milos Tatarevic
Chief Scientist / CTO at Vast.com, Chainn, Now.co
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.
Robert Scoble
Searching for world-changing technologies for Rackspace.
Thomas Korte
Founder of @AngelPad, Ex-Google Product Manager, Startup Advisor, Angel Investor http://thomaskorte.com/about-me/
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.
Saar Gur
Venture Capitalist at Charles River Ventures
Garry Tan
Partner at Y-Combinator. Co-founder of Posterous. Early designer / engineering lead at Palantir.
Hiten Shah
CEO / Co-Founder of @KISSmetrics. Previously started @crazyegg and @ACS. My hobby is helping entrepreneurs create something out of nothing.
Charles Hudson
Venture Partner at SoftTech VC (with @Jeff Clavier), CEO and Co-Founder of Bionic Panda Games. BD roles at Serious Business (now part of Zynga), Google, and Gaia Online
Peter Bordes
Founder & Exec Chairman of MediaTrust PerformanceExchange .Founder Internet Media Labs. Technology innovation & social media. Thiel Fellowship Foundation Mentor
Michael Parekh
A Wall Streeter for over 20 years, former partner at Goldman Sachs, and founder of its Internet Research effort in 1994
Danielle Morrill
Director of Marketing at Twilio. 500 Startups Mentor. Forbes 30 Under 30 in Social/Mobile Tech 2011. Code enough to be dangerous, execute like a freight train.
Brendan Baker
Currently @ Greylock. Was 2nd in at AngelList (managed dealflow through 8K startups), Oxford MBA, Cambridge Eng.
Daniel Brusilovsky
Founder & CEO of Teens in Tech Labs. Associate Producer of Olive the Movie. Evangelist, Silicon Valley at JESS3. Advisor at Everyme.
Daniel R. Odio
CEO of Socialize. Raised $1.5MM. Founded & sold PointAbout. Profiled in Wall Street Journal. General Electric TLP. Active founder+lifehacker blog. UVa McIntire
Jeff Fagnan
GP at Atlas Venture; founder of TUGG; advocate of uncertainty...
Steve Anderson
Founded Baseline in 2006. 60+ investments since inception and have helped more than 30 founders sell their companies with great success.
Ryan Sarver
Director Platform at Twitter; Director and early employee at Skyhook Wireless (mobile location, local)
Hackers And Founders
We make life suck 34% less for early startups. 5.8k members Silicon Valley. 15 global chapters. 15+ members
Ty Danco
Founder, FX Aligned, eSecLending. TechStars Boston, North Country Angels, Anges Quebec, Founder Fuel, MassChallenge. http://tydanco.com That's about it.
Jeff Pulver
co-founder, 3-Rings GP, Hafooch Investments, Inc. GP, Pulver Equities III founder, #140conf events founder, pulver.com co-founder, Vivox
Mike Jung
Internet focused VC and angel investor. Founder of Alpha (http://on.wsj.com/iHk2nk)
Nick ONeill
I founded Social Times Inc. in 2007 and sold it to WebMediaBrands (parent company behind mediabistro.com) in 2010. Now I'm building my next company...
Yan-David Erlich
Founder: ChoiceVendor (LNKD), Social.IM (QCOM) Operator: Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn Investor: Mixer Labs (Twitter), iSkoot (QCOM), BetterWorks, Thumbtack
Enrique Allen
Founding member of the Designer Fund & 500 Startups. Previously Facebook Fund & Venrock. Teach at Stanford design school & former Stanford Persuasive Tech Lab.
Dana Stalder
Early stage ventures capitalist at Matrix Partners. Executive at PayPal, eBay & Netscape. Founder at Respond.com
Pedro Torres Picón
Entrepreneur and angel investor from Latin America, living in New York. Founder and Managing Director at Quotidian Ventures.
Eric Chin
Partner at Crosslink Capital. Founder of Alpha (http://on.wsj.com/iHk2nk)
Christoph Janz
Internet entrepreneur (DealPilot, Pageflakes) and angel investor, mainly SaaS (Zendesk, FreeAgent Central, Clio, samedi, inFakt.pl, momox.de, Geckoboard,...).
Peter Pham
Co-Founder/Partner at Science. Entrepreneur, Advisor. Built a few startups - Color, BillShrink, Photobucket. Always the first on the dance floor.
Munjal Shah
Founder and CEO of Like.com sold to Google last year. Previous company Andale sold to Alibaba. Started first company at 26. MS Stanford in CS
Jai Choi
Founder, Managing Director, Tekton Ventures (seed fund). Former entrepreneur, sold last co. to FormSpring. Public servant to company builders.
Arjun Dev Arora
Founder and CEO Retargeter. Bus Dev & Strategy at Yahoo. Investment Banker at Jefferies
Michael Tanne
Innovator, investor. Founder, AdForce, Wink. Worked @ Verity, Apple. Investor/Advisor: LinkedIn, Cloudmark, Wikia, ICONAircraft, BrightRoll, Fundly, GAINFitness
Richard Price
Founder of Academia.edu. PhD at Oxford. Won Oxford's most competitive scholarship.
Jared Kopf
entrepreneur: HomeRun, AdRoll, Slide, Justarrive; soldier: PayPal, IDEO; investor: Clarium, angel
Dan Rosen
Principal at Highland Capital Partners
Anurag (Anu) Nigam
Founder of Hi5, Cerent, Siara, 411Sync, BuzzBox. Advisor to Trooval.
Ramesh Haridas
Serial entrepreneur with a couple of exits. Early investor in AVG, Mashery, 8tracks, Refinery29, Rapportive, 500Startups. UIUC Computer Science.
Bedy Yang
Venture Partner 500Startups (focused Latam + international); Founder Brazil Innovators - epicenter of startups in Brazil. Connector, community builder
Alex Bangash
Rumson Group. Helped invest in over 50 funds spanning private equity, Growth, VC and Real Estate. Invested globally in US, India, Europe, and China.
Sundeep Ahuja
founder at blissmo; co-founder at richrelevance & sparked; original mktg dir at kiva.org. past life: actor with spots on entourage & 24.
Ben Narasin
President at TriplePoint Ventures
Steven Vachani
Serial Entrepreneur/Earliest Stage Investor-Founded Freelotto/Qool/Power.com (sites founded acquired 100+ million users & reached $1+ billion peak market value)
Siqi Chen
Serious Business, Zynga
Zachary Allia
CEO Friendsheet, 64px, Free Gifts, LikeButton, early SGN, early @ Tapulous. FB Fund advisor, 500 Startups mentor. Notable FB Platform developer.
Gil Beyda
Founder/CTO Real Media (acq by 24/7 & WPP). CTO TACODA (acq by AOL). Founder/Managing Partner Genacast Ventures, technology seed fund w/exits to Google & Adobe
Mike Greenfield
Founded Circle of Moms and Team Rankings. Led LinkedIn's analytics team; built much of PayPal's early fraud detection technology. Currently a free agent.
Salil Deshpande
General Partner at Bay Partners; Investor with exits (SpringSource, Dynatrace, Jambool, others) and several seeds and pseudo-seeds that have matured.
Jüri Kaljundi
Serial entrepreneur. Co-founder: @Talentag & @Garage48. Product guy with tech background. Love interaction & product design. Advisor & small-time angel.
Michael Kim
Managing Partner at Cendana Capital; Investor and LP Advisory Committee member of IA Ventures, PivotNorth Capital, Freestyle Capital and SoftTechVC.
Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer
EIR Shasta Ventures. HBS Grad.
Sergio Monsalve
Venture Capital Investor at NVP
Tyler Willis
BD at Unified. Advisor to BranchOut. Was employee #6 at Involver, grew customer base to more than 100K as the Head of Marketing (now at over 1m).
Stefano Bernardi
Hacker. Angel: Dropis.com, Iubenda.com. Advisor: Coderloop.com. Dave McClure's Shadow @ 500startups.
Ephraim Luft
CEO, Founder of Circle of Moms (acquired by Sugar Inc). Led prod dev at Massive Inc (acquired by MSFT). Stanford CS. Harvard MBA.
Mark Kingdon
Angel Investor. Former CEO of Linden Lab (Second Life) and Organic; Entrepreneur in Residence at Idealab! Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Roham Gharegozlou
VC at Rising Tide Fund. Also: angel investor, startup advisor, mentor at TechWadi.org, cofounder of Launch Labs. Relentless optimist.
Sunil Paul
Founder, Spring Ventures; Brightmail ($370M to Symantec) and FreeLoader ($38M); First Internet PM at AOL; Zynga board member
John Ricci
Founder/President U.S. Angel Investors. VP S&M Trader Media (acquired for $350M). Cofounder JMC Telecom. VP Sales and Marketing Bull
Andy Yang
I run Extreme Startups | Former VC | Formerly at Chegg. Netflix. Thomas Weisel Partners. Goldman Sachs. Accenture. | Chicago MBA. Cal undergrad.
Joe Heitzeberg
Founder of MediaPiston. Two prior startup exits. Expert in crowdsourcing. Background in mobile and ecommerce. MIT Sloan MBA 2004.
Reuben Katz
Ceo, co-founder & investor @ geeklist. 6x entrepreneur & brand guy. Successful exits in internet & education
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