Benjamin Ling
COO at Badoo • Former Director of Search Products Google • Director of Partnerships, Content & Platforms YouTube • Director of Platform Facebook
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Lotus founder, built from 0 to $200MM in 3 yrs. Co-founder EFF. Founding Chair Mozilla. Investor: Twilio, Uber, Inkling, bit.ly.
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Founding Partner, First Round Capital; Founder Half.com (sold to EBay)
I'm the head of the webspam team at Google.
Managing Director - Mayfield. Forbes Midas List 2010 (Top 100 VCs). Stanford MBA, Univ of Michigan MSEE/BSEE. Bassist in BlackMahal and CoverFlow
CEO of Science, Former CEO MySpace, CEO/Founder Userplane, CEO/Founder PBJ Digital, CEO Tsavo Media, Angel Investor, Entrepreneur
Co-founder of Founders Den, co-owner of Slide nightclub, former founder & CEO of Socializr, Friendster, and HotLinks.
Started 3 Internet companies (IPRO, Topica & TextMarks); Director at Kana, LinkExchange, Freedom Financial, Odeo and StumbleUpon. BS from MIT. MBA from Stanford
Keen (Ingenio), DimensionX, Wallop, Coveroo and Cloudmark. $500+ million in exits to msft, at&t etc. Early advisor to facebook.
Serial Entrepreneur, 40+ Angel investments with $10 billion in exits including Linkedin, Paypal, Ziprealty, Plusmo, Vamoose, Evite
Ex-CEO of Wikia, Exec at eBay
Partner at Embarcadero Ventures;
VP, User Growth, Mobile at Facebook;
VP, Platform & Monetization at Facebook;
VC at Mayfield Fund, VP & GM, AIM + ICQ at AOL
Founder/CEO of Yammer. Founder of Geni. Original COO and product leader of PayPal.
VP Product at Google
Managing Director at Morado Venture Partners. Former EVP, CPO and early engineer at Yahoo!.
Co-founder of BetterWorks. Founder of MyMiniLife (sold to Zynga). Co-Creator of Farmville.
Maker of websites & mobile apps. Blippy, AdBrite, F-ckedcompany, TinyLetter, Mobog, BritePic, Tweetname, HitMeLater, Fast140, QuickRot, more. Author & drummer.
Principal at Greylock. Previous: product at Twitter (Growth), Facebook (launched Connect), Zazzle (ran product), LinkedIn (Growth, launched Jobs), RealPlayer
Co-Founder & CEO of Circa. Co-Founded 1% of Nothing, SimpleGeo & Socialthing.
Former VC (Battery), Co-Founder Tickle (Monster), WonderHill (Kabam), Jiff, Medpedia.
SVP Commerce & Local, Google. SVP Eng (all Ad systems & Google Apps), Google. VP Architecture & Systems, eBay. SVP Eng, Excite@Home. Board member, EA.
Founder/CEO of XPD (sold, now Zynga China). Angel in Twitter, Square, and Foursquare. Advisor to Flipboard.
Single-handedly pioneered Social Gaming industry (Vampires/Zombies). Created 1st version of Causes. Founder BuildForge (Sold to IBM), Founder Ohai.
Marin Software Bd Member; Recurrent Energy Co-founder & COB; Work.com CEO; Excite@Home GM & SVP; bd member @ multiple public and private companies.
Co-Founder Tellme (Microsoft), Founder Swipely
Founder HotOrNot; I/O Ventures
Serial entrepreneur (3 startups), Mafia Wars founder, Angel investor (10+ companies)
Entrepreneur, Founder Chegg.com
Partner, Accel. Founder, Breyer Capital. Early Facebook investor. Board of Directors: Facebook, News Corporation, Dell, Etsy, Brightcove, Prosper, Wal-Mart
Distinguished Engineer at Google (One of first 10 employees); PM & Strategy on Gmail, GTalk, Video, Picasa, Orkut, Groups & Mobile. Co-dev of AdSense targeting.
Director of Search Product Management at Google
CEO at Ruba, Inc.
Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital
CEO, Xfire at MTV Networks
Founder Factual. Founder Applied Semantics (developed ASI AdSense, bought by Google).
Founder and CEO, Flixster
VP of Corporate Development at Google
Founder/CTO at Joyent. Constant talent scout. I specialize in revenue generation, and all activities required to make it happen.
Quora CTO. Investor in Elation EMR, Wikinvest, Art.sy. Worked at Facebook, Amazon. Harvard CS.
Partner at Accel
CTO & Co-founder, LivingSocial. Husband, Father, Geek, Entrepreneur, Advisor.
Chairman, CEO, and Founder Saba Software (public company); Investor in HotPrints, DropBox, Klout, Qwiki, CleverSense, and many more.
Former President & COO at Groupon. Former CEO, SideStep (acquired by Kayak). Board Director at HomeAway, Tiny Prints, and High Gear Media.
Early-stage Angel. Founded 2 companies (one now public) and completed 18 angel deals. 6 yrs at Google as a GM including Mobile Ads and Commerce & Analytics.
Partner at Avalon Ventures; Co-founder Phoenix Technologies (PTEC); Vice President at America Online
Serial entrepreneur - Keyhole founder (sold to Google) Google Geo VP, new project at Google
co-founder @ zynga
Founder of AirBnB
Founder and ex CEO WebSpy (took public), Founder Netlink Inspection Systems Exited via Trade Sale, Founder Netlink CRM,
Founder of MyMiniLife. Co-Creator of FarmVille. Investor in BetterWorks, Pixelapse. Team member of Zynga, MyMiniLife.
Founder & CEO, mySimon (acquired by CNET for $700 million); Founder & CEO, Become.com (raised $37 million in funding & grew the company to $56 million in rev)
Angel Investor. Expertise in web site performance monitoring and load testing. COO of Webmetrics which sold to NeuStar.
Vice President of Ventures at SRI • Co-Founder and Board Member of Siri (Acquired by Apple)
Co-Founder of Tango
Sweat - AngelList, Venture Hacks, Vast, Epinions; Money - Twitter, Heyzap, SnapLogic
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
Venture Hacker at AngelList. Previously intern at IA Ventures. Founder of Quirk. PS3 R&D at Naughty Dog. CMU CS BS and MS.
Founder and Geek. Former CTO of @Socialwok, now Venture Hacker.
Funding team at AngelList + VC at Atlas Venture; founded and killed Social Swipe. Retail + SMB in my DNA.
Founding Partner @ 500 Startups. Ex-PayPal, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund, Mint.com. Geek, developer, entrepreneur, marketer. Investor in 250+ co's.
Angel investor in 25 startups. Creator/founder: LAUNCH, TechCrunch50, Mahalo, Engadget, WeblogsInc, autoblog, silicon alley reporter, this week in startups.
Searching for world-changing technologies for Rackspace.
Managing Director of TechStars NYC
Managing Member of BoxGroup (Angel Investor)
Founder of @AngelPad, Ex-Google Product Manager, Startup Advisor, Angel Investor http://thomaskorte.com/about-me/
Managing Member at SV Angel
Founder and Managing Director of Felicis Ventures. Formerly Sr. Manager, Strategic Partner Development; Product Manager; International Sales Manager at Google
Startup guy and advisor on metrics/marketing. Occassional blogger. Previously EIR at Mohr Davidow Ventures, ran product at AudienceScience.
A man. A plan. A panda.
San Francisco based incubator founded by @Thomas Korte and other ex-Googlers
Canadian. CEO/Founder of Clarity.fm. Co-Founder of Flowtown (Acquired '11), Founder of Spheric Tech (Acquired '08), Mentor @ 500Startup. Investor in many.
Rapleaf's CEO and janitor.
http://blog.summation.net
CEO/Co-Founder of Stocktwits..GP of Social Leverage (Angel Investing)..Wallstrip creator (purchased by $CBS)..Momentum, Acceleration & LOL hunter..Love Popcorn
Co-founder at Kima Ventures - Investing in 1 to 2 startups a Week - Already invested in 18 countries
Partner at Y-Combinator. Co-founder of Posterous. Early designer / engineering lead at Palantir.
Venture Capitalist at Charles River Ventures
Investor for 20 years in teams (Zynga, XenSource/CTRX Facebook, Datamirror/IBM, Fortinet/FTNT, Tango, Metaweb, D-Wave) solving hard problems for large markets.
husband. dad. serial entrepreneur (firefly, lovefilm, seedcamp). operator (wpp, msft, skype). investor (index, TAG)
http://localglo.be
General Partner at CrunchFund. Longtime writer at TechCrunch, VentureBeat, etc.
Google, Microsoft, Groove Networks, Bowstreet, Napster, AltaVista, Forte, DEC. Angel Investor.
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
Founder & Exec Chairman of MediaTrust PerformanceExchange .Founder Internet Media Labs. Technology innovation & social media. Thiel Fellowship Foundation Mentor
CEO of Referly. Formerly 1st employee at Twilio. 500 Startups Mentor. Forbes 30 Under 30 in Social/Mobile Tech 2011. College dropout.
YouTube, Google, Second Life, Conan O'Brien. Builds things in San Francisco. Likes citrus fruit. Wishes he knew magic tricks.
Co-founding Partner @ Venture51. Founding team @ Flypaper (acquired in '11). Started at Interact (makers of ACT! & SalesLogix).
Strategic Advisor, Angel Investor, Deal Strategist - passionate about the Internet and the convergence of technology and consumer behavior
Currently @ Greylock. Was 2nd in at AngelList (managed dealflow through 8K startups), Oxford MBA, Cambridge Eng.
A Wall Streeter for over 20 years, former partner at Goldman Sachs, and founder of its Internet Research effort in 1994
International Daddy of Mystery. Investor. Hatena (Board), Google (PM), OptoMail (Founder), Barclays Global Investors (Mktg)
Founded Baseline in 2006. 60+ investments since inception and have helped more than 30 founders sell their companies with great success.
not godin, green, mcfarlane, rogen or any other seth. just me, the dad, entrepreneur, thinker.
http://www.sethgoldstein.com
MI Ventures LLC
Founder Moon Express, Powerset (sold to Microsoft). Bing local, mobile, semantics . Assoc. Founder and Trustee, Singularity U. Active angel/advisor.
Partner at i/o ventures. Previously CEO of lefora, meetro & paragon5
Entrepreneur, CNET/CBSi commentator & columnist, startup advisor, former PM. Most recent: Co-Editor & Editor-at-Large of Mashable.
Not gonna stop until we win.
Founder & CEO at Microtask. Founder & CTO of Hybrid Graphics (NVIDIA Finland). HackFwd referrer. Coach at Startup Sauna.
Angel investor and founding partner of Amidzad, investor in Dropbox, Zoosk, Path, Causes, Soundhound, Backplane, Addepar, Ark and 40 other startups
Director at Twitter; CEO and Co-Founder at Mixer Labs; Product Management at Google
Co-founder of Chart.io (YC 2010). Founding Partner at Spinnakr (500S). Sometimes investor.
We make life suck 34% less for early startups.
5.8k members Silicon Valley.
15 global chapters. 15+ members
Internet focused VC and angel investor. Founder of Alpha (http://on.wsj.com/iHk2nk)
CEO/Cofounder @ MightyText. Product Management: Google (Consumer,Ads), Zynga. Google Founders Award:AdSense. b4:Enterprise software. CS degree UCLA. 500S Mentor
Early stage ventures capitalist at Matrix Partners. Executive at PayPal, eBay & Netscape. Founder at Respond.com
