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Evan Williams

@Evan Williams Farm boy from Nebraska. Co-founder of Twitter. http://evhead.com

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Mitch Kapor
Lotus founder, built from 0 to $200MM in 3 yrs. Co-founder EFF. Founding Chair Mozilla. Investor: Twilio, Uber, Inkling, bit.ly.
Brad Feld
Managing Director at Foundry Group
Boulder · VC
Kevin Rose
Product @ Google. Previous: CEO at Milk, Founder of Digg. Co-Founder of Revision3. Board member at Tony Hawk Foundation.
Chris Sacca
Founder and Managing Director, Lowercase Capital
Steve Case
Co-founder of AOL; now Chairman of Case Foundation and Revolution (Zipcar, LivingSocial, Exclusive Resorts, Everyday Health, Revolution Money, Miraval, etc)
Matt Cutts
I'm the head of the webspam team at Google.
Tim Chang
Managing Director - Mayfield. Forbes Midas List 2010 (Top 100 VCs). Stanford MBA, Univ of Michigan MSEE/BSEE. Bassist in BlackMahal and CoverFlow
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
David Sacks
Founder/CEO of Yammer. Founder of Geni. Original COO and product leader of PayPal.
Bradley Horowitz
VP Product at Google
Biz Stone
I'm an Internet guy who believes in the triumph of humanity with a little help from technology. My current job is Chief Creative Officer at Obvious.
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
Harper Reed
CTO at Obama for America, former CTO of Threadless and Advisor at Sandbox Industries.
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.
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.
Robin Chan
Founder/CEO of XPD (sold, now Zynga China). Angel in Twitter, Square, and Foursquare. Advisor to Flipboard.
Jim Young
Founder HotOrNot; I/O Ventures
Michael Birch
Chief Monkey at Monkey Inferno. CEO/Founder of Bebo. Viral marketing/product guy.
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
Sam Pullara
Early WebLogic engineer, EIR at Accel & Benchmark, Founder of Gauntlet Systems (Borland acq), Chief Technologist at Yahoo!, Founder of Bagcheck (Twitter acq)
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
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.
Gil Elbaz
Founder Factual. Founder Applied Semantics (developed ASI AdSense, bought by Google).
David Lawee
VP of Corporate Development at Google
Ross Mayfield
VP Biz SlideShare, Co-founder, CEO Socialtext, Founder RateXchange took IPO, advisor to Estonian President.
Ken Keller
Co-founder IGN.com & Cadence (SDA); emp #1 excite; emp #2 Frame.
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.
Jim Barnett
Serial CEO. Entrepreneur. Investor. Partner Shasta Ventures; Chairman Turn, Extole, & Sojern Prior: CEO/founder Turn; President Overture Search; CEO AltaVista.
Bobby Yazdani
Chairman, CEO, and Founder Saba Software (public company); Investor in HotPrints, DropBox, Klout, Qwiki, CleverSense, and many more.
Andy Palmer
CEO & Co-Founder of Vertica Systems and Founding Board Member at Recorded Future, CloudSwitch & Upstart
Matt Shobe
Serial entrepreneur, father, marathon runner, private pilot. (Order of importance varies by the hour.)
Andrew Anker
Investor, board member, blogger and occasional executive
Matt Haughey
Founder, MetaFilter Network, Inc.
Eytan Elbaz
Co-founder Scopely; Chairman / Co-founder Deep Dive Media; Head of Domain Channel Google; Founding member / VP Applied Semantics; Technical Sales Engineer, AMD
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
Gerry Campbell
Angel investor & advisor - social, mobile, local tech. Portfolio includes Summize & Tweetdeck, both acq by Twitter. CEO Collecta, Pres Reuters Tech & SVP AOL
Justin Waldron
co-founder @ zynga
Taher Haveliwala
Founder Kaltix (acquired by Google in 2003). Stanford CS PhD. Startup Advisor.
Haroon Mokhtarzada
Co-Founder/CEO Webs.com (acquired by Vistaprint). Co-Founder SGN (acquired by Mindjolt). Strong product focus.
Jack Andrys
Founder and ex CEO WebSpy (took public), Founder Netlink Inspection Systems Exited via Trade Sale, Founder Netlink CRM,
Scott Hintz
Co-founder of TripIt, sold to CNQR for $120m. Previously on launch team of Hotwire, sold to EXPE for $680m. Stanford MBA.
Jack Levin
Founder of ImageShack
Ben Chestnut
Co-founder and CEO of @MailChimp, serial anti-preneur, Internet meme philanthropist, loves monkeys, cars, & technology (in that order)
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.
Joshua Slayton
Venture Hacker at AngelList. Previously at Super Rewards (Adknowledge).
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.
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.
David Lifson
CEO at Postling
Adam Rifkin
A man. A plan. A panda.
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.
Erick Schonfeld
Erick Schonfeld is the former Editor of TechCrunch. He has been covering startups and technology news since 1993.
Saar Gur
Venture Capitalist at Charles River Ventures
Anil Dash
Managing Director, Activate; Director, Expert Labs; Blogger, Dashes.com
Don Dodge
Google, Microsoft, Groove Networks, Bowstreet, Napster, AltaVista, Forte, DEC. Angel Investor.
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
Seedcamp
The #1 European Seed Investment Program. Invested in 50+ startups from all over Europe. Based in London, helping to make the world a better place for startups.
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
Michael Marquez
Strategic Advisor, Angel Investor, Deal Strategist - passionate about the Internet and the convergence of technology and consumer behavior
Steve Anderson
Founded Baseline in 2006. 60+ investments since inception and have helped more than 30 founders sell their companies with great success.
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.
Elad Gil
Director at Twitter; CEO and Co-Founder at Mixer Labs; Product Management at Google
Ville Miettinen
Founder & CEO at Microtask. Founder & CTO of Hybrid Graphics (NVIDIA Finland). HackFwd referrer. Coach at Startup Sauna.
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
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)
Kelly Perdew
Co-Founder/CEO: TargetClose Investor: Klout, TroopSwap, BetterWorks, Scopely, Social Rewards, Bitium Advisor: LinkedIn, Pandora, TroopSwap, Ustream, Bitium
Adeo Ressi
Board Member X Prize, Founder of TheFunded, Founder of The Founder Institute.
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...
Raj Kapoor
Managing Director, Mayfield Fund
Belmont · VC
Sahil Lavingia
Making Gumroad. Previously @ Pinterest.
Jonathon Triest
Founder and managing Partner of Ludlow Ventures. Angel and seed stage investing without the ego.
Hector Hulian
Entrepreneur, Investor and Internet Addict.
Enrique Allen
Founding member of the Designer Fund & 500 Startups. Previously Facebook Fund & Venrock. Teach at Stanford design school & former Stanford Persuasive Tech Lab.
Chris McCann
Welcome to the media revolution
Dave Samuel
serial entrepreneur: co-founder of Spinner, Brondell, Grouper. 4 kids. and now Freestyle Capital.
Pedro Torres Picón
Entrepreneur and angel investor from Latin America, living in New York. Founder and Managing Director at Quotidian Ventures.
Ted Rheingold
VP, Say Media. Founder & CEO Dogster/Catster (sold to Say) and OneMatchFire(.com). Community. Product. Business. Start-up advisor, investor, mentor.
Dave Knox
Partner at Rockfish Brand Ventures, co-founder at The Brandery
Brit Morin
Founder & CEO of @Brit; Worked at Google, Apple, Tiny Pictures; Investor and advisor to tech startups
Jody Sherman
CEO & Co-Founder of ecomom. Sold last startup to Richard Branson's Virgin Group. Worked at Lycos, NBCi, PTC, SGI. Several exits (Buydirect for $140M)
Ryan Merket
CEO and Founder of Appstores.com, previously Partner Engineer at Facebook, Co-founder of Ping.fm (acquired by Seesmic).
James D Robinson
Co-Founder / Managing Partner at RRE Ventures
Lane Becker
Advisor, Freestyle.vc; founder, Get Satisfaction; founder, Adaptive Path; Author, "Get Lucky"; enjoys semicolons.
Kevin Cheng
Current: Co-Founder and President, Incredible Labs. Past: Product lead for twitter.com redesign; Dir Product Raptr; Designed Yahoo! Pipes.
Dave Schappell
Director of Product, AmazonLocal. Former founder and CEO, TeachStreet
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