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Paul Buchheit

Partner at YCombinator, Founder of FriendFeed, Creator of GMail

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Brad Feld
Managing Director at Foundry Group
Boulder · VC
Dave Morin
Entrepreneur
Josh Kopelman
Founding Partner, First Round Capital; Founder Half.com (sold to EBay)
Matt Cutts
I'm the head of the webspam team at Google.
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.
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
Shervin Pishevar
Managing Director at Menlo Ventures; Co-Founder of SGN
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
Chamath Palihapitiya
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
Bradley Horowitz
VP Product at Google
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.
Mark Cuban
Owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theaters, Magnolia Pictures, and the chairman of HDNet. He is also a "shark" investor on Shark Tank.
Jeff Huber
SVP Commerce & Local, Google. SVP Eng (all Ad systems & Google Apps), Google. VP Architecture & Systems, eBay. SVP Eng, Excite@Home. Board member, EA.
Angus Davis
Co-Founder Tellme (Microsoft), Founder Swipely
Thomas Ryan
CEO at Threadless. Director at Smule & Trunk Club. Former digital music entrepreneur/exec.
Greg Bettinelli
SVP of Marketing at HauteLook (now part of Nordstrom). Former eBay, StubHub, Live Nation
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
Niren Hiro
CEO at Crowdstar; VP - Business Development at AdMob
Jason A. Hoffman
Founder/CTO at Joyent. Constant talent scout. I specialize in revenue generation, and all activities required to make it happen.
Leonard Speiser
Co-founder Clover (Sutter Hill, Andreessen Horowitz), Co-founder Bix (sold to Yahoo), eBay, Intuit, MIT.
Bobby Yazdani
Chairman, CEO, and Founder Saba Software (public company); Investor in HotPrints, DropBox, Klout, Qwiki, CleverSense, and many more.
Mareza Larizadeh
Founder at Larizadeh Capital Partners Cofounder at Doostang Inc Vice President at DFJ ePlanet Ventures Analyst, International Credit Trading at merrill lynch
Rich Levandov
Partner at Avalon Ventures; Co-founder Phoenix Technologies (PTEC); Vice President at America Online
Michael Herf
Cofounded Picasa -> Google
Taher Haveliwala
Founder Kaltix (acquired by Google in 2003). Stanford CS PhD. Startup Advisor.
Jack Andrys
Founder and ex CEO WebSpy (took public), Founder Netlink Inspection Systems Exited via Trade Sale, Founder Netlink CRM,
Scott Case
CEO at Startup America Partnership
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.
Navin Kumar
Founder and Geek. Former CTO of @Socialwok, now Venture Hacker.
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.
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.
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
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.
Adam Rifkin
A man. A plan. A panda.
AngelPad
San Francisco based incubator founded by @Thomas Korte and other ex-Googlers
Erick Schonfeld
Erick Schonfeld is the former Editor of TechCrunch. He has been covering startups and technology news since 1993.
Garry Tan
Partner at Y-Combinator. Co-founder of Posterous. Early designer / engineering lead at Palantir.
Saar Gur
Venture Capitalist at Charles River Ventures
Don Dodge
Google, Microsoft, Groove Networks, Bowstreet, Napster, AltaVista, Forte, DEC. Angel Investor.
Felix Shpilman
Partner at Start Fund
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
Y Combinator
Y Combinator runs two three-month funding cycles a year. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day, at which the startups present to the world's top startup investors.
Micah Baldwin
Founder Graphicly. Multiple Entrepreneur. Mentor at Techstars & 500startups. Startup Doer and Advisor.
Jon Staenberg
Investor in Infospace, StubHub, Serious Materials, Evite, Seagate, Spinner, LiveBid.
Seattle · VC
Danielle Morrill
CEO of Referly. Formerly 1st employee at Twilio. 500 Startups Mentor. Forbes 30 Under 30 in Social/Mobile Tech 2011. College dropout.
Tom McInerney
Angel Investor. Advisor. More at tgm.com
Brendan Baker
Currently @ Greylock. Was 2nd in at AngelList (managed dealflow through 8K startups), Oxford MBA, Cambridge Eng.
Michael Parekh
A Wall Streeter for over 20 years, former partner at Goldman Sachs, and founder of its Internet Research effort in 1994
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
Daniel Brusilovsky
Founder & CEO of Teens in Tech Labs. Associate Producer of Olive the Movie. Evangelist, Silicon Valley at JESS3. Advisor at Everyme.
Harj Taggar
one day i will learn to fly like superman. in the meantime im investing in startups with @ycombinator.
Steve Anderson
Founded Baseline in 2006. 60+ investments since inception and have helped more than 30 founders sell their companies with great success.
Barney Pell
Founder Moon Express, Powerset (sold to Microsoft). Bing local, mobile, semantics . Assoc. Founder and Trustee, Singularity U. Active angel/advisor.
Dror Berman
Founding Partner, Innovation Endeavors. Building an exceptional community of entrepreneurs around the world. Stanford MBA.
Ben Parr
Entrepreneur, CNET/CBSi commentator & columnist, startup advisor, former PM. Most recent: Co-Editor & Editor-at-Large of Mashable. Not gonna stop until we win.
Ville Miettinen
Founder & CEO at Microtask. Founder & CTO of Hybrid Graphics (NVIDIA Finland). HackFwd referrer. Coach at Startup Sauna.
Pejman Nozad
Angel investor and founding partner of Amidzad, investor in Dropbox, Zoosk, Path, Causes, Soundhound, Backplane, Addepar, Ark and 40 other startups
David Beyer
Co-founder of Chart.io (YC 2010). Founding Partner at Spinnakr (500S). Sometimes investor.
Hackers And Founders
We make life suck 34% less for early startups. 5.8k members Silicon Valley. 15 global chapters. 15+ members
Jason Freedman
Co-Founder at 42Floors, fixing commercial real estate. Co-Founder at FlightCaster. Funded by Y Combinator/Sherpalo/Tandem. Acquired in '09. Blog: humbledMBA
Loic Le Meur
Founder of social software app Seesmic and LeWeb conference the #1 european tech conference
Yan-David Erlich
Founder: ChoiceVendor (LNKD), Social.IM (QCOM) Operator: Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn Investor: Mixer Labs (Twitter), iSkoot (QCOM), BetterWorks, Thumbtack
Sahil Lavingia
Making Gumroad. Previously @ Pinterest.
Chris McCann
Welcome to the media revolution
Enrique Allen
Founding member of the Designer Fund & 500 Startups. Previously Facebook Fund & Venrock. Teach at Stanford design school & former Stanford Persuasive Tech Lab.
Pedro Torres Picón
Entrepreneur and angel investor from Latin America, living in New York. Founder and Managing Director at Quotidian Ventures.
Ryan Merket
CEO and Founder of Appstores.com, previously Partner Engineer at Facebook, Co-founder of Ping.fm (acquired by Seesmic).
Sam Odio
Founder at Freshplum, Inc. Recently sold Divvyshot to Facebook. Started first company in high school and grew it to several million dollars in revenue.
Mike Walsh
Frontman at Rockstar Group, Advisor, Investor, trying to be an author (writing in process).
Peter Pham
Co-Founder/Partner at Science. Entrepreneur, Advisor. Built a few startups - Color, BillShrink, Photobucket. Always the first on the dance floor.
Aleem Mawani
Engineer, ex-Google, Harvard MBA, Founder @ Streak.com, pilot
Eghosa Omoigui
Angel investor (Consumer, Mobile, Media, SemTech); Intel Capital; Investor in dots before they become lines; Plot/execute daily assaults on conventional wisdom
Boris Wertz
Founder JustBooks / AbeBooks (sold to Amazon). Angel investor (> 30 consumer internet / SaaS investments). Venture Partner Acton Capital. Co-founder GrowLab.
Tony Wright
Current: tomoguides.com (mobile apps for on-the-ground travelers). Previous: Cubeduel (went viral, sold 2011) & RescueTime (YC, True Ventures, profitable).
Jochen Bekmann
Founder at Fluent. Tech Lead Google Wave, Maps. PhD Machine Learning. Eng Microsoft (TCP/IP Win2000). Snr Eng Twine Interactive. Cofounder SABAS.
Tomer London
Co-founder, ZenPayroll. Co-founder/CEO, Vizmo. Worked at Bump, Intel. PhD cand. at Stanford EE. Stanford Graduate Fellow in Engineering.
Michael Tanne
Innovator, investor. Founder, AdForce, Wink. Worked @ Verity, Apple. Investor/Advisor: LinkedIn, Cloudmark, Wikia, ICONAircraft, BrightRoll, Fundly, GAINFitness
Fritz Lanman
Founder, Stealth Startup; Former Microsoft Corporate Strategy & Acquisitions.
Jared Kopf
entrepreneur: HomeRun, AdRoll, Slide, Justarrive; soldier: PayPal, IDEO; investor: Clarium, angel
Adam Jackson
Founder of DriverSide, Founder of MarketSquare, acquired by Intuit
Rebecca Woodcock
Founder Cake Health. Corporate strategy, Seagate. Market research manager, Ipsos (clients: Google, Intel, LG, Sprint, Apple). Santa Clara U., Magna Cum Lauda
John Furrier
Founder in SiliconANGLE. Investor & Founder in SiliconANGLE Labs Incubator. Angel Investor and Cofounder, VerticalEngine
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