Max Levchin
Co-founder/CTO PayPal; Founder/CEO Slide; Founder/CEO HVF; angel, tinkerer, cyclist, spy.
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Founding Partner, First Round Capital; Founder Half.com (sold to EBay)
Product @ Google. Previous: CEO at Milk, Founder of Digg. Co-Founder of Revision3. Board member at Tony Hawk Foundation.
A venture capitalist that invests in who we are and who we are becoming.
Co-founder of AOL; now Chairman of Case Foundation and Revolution (Zipcar, LivingSocial, Exclusive Resorts, Everyday Health, Revolution Money, Miraval, etc)
Managing Director - Mayfield. Forbes Midas List 2010 (Top 100 VCs). Stanford MBA, Univ of Michigan MSEE/BSEE. Bassist in BlackMahal and CoverFlow
WordPress, Automattic, Akismet, Polldaddy, VaultPress, Gravatar...
http://ma.tt/
@Evan Williams Farm boy from Nebraska. Co-founder of Twitter. http://evhead.com
Founder of Technology Incubator Idealab and 100 companies in last 30 years. Tweeting while on my quest for learning in life and at conferences.
Co-founder of Founders Den, co-owner of Slide nightclub, former founder & CEO of Socializr, Friendster, and HotLinks.
We like startups
Keen (Ingenio), DimensionX, Wallop, Coveroo and Cloudmark. $500+ million in exits to msft, at&t etc. Early advisor to facebook.
Founder of HOTorNOT.com, Angel Investor.
Founder/CEO of Yammer. Founder of Geni. Original COO and product leader of PayPal.
VP Product at Google
Co-founder and CEO of Yelp
Partner @ Greylock, former CEO @ Mozilla, dad, husband, son, nerd
http://john.jubjubs.net
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.
CTO at Obama for America, former CTO of Threadless and Advisor at Sandbox Industries.
Jeff Hammerbacher is a founder and the Chief Scientist of Cloudera. Past EIR at Accel. Before Accel, he conceived, built, and led the Data team at Facebook.
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.
Founding Partner, Founder Collective; Formerly CEO LiveOps
Startup investor/advisor and former entrepreneur
Grew up in Cape Town. Came to Stanford in 1998. Joined PayPal in 2000 & became CFO. Joined Sequoia in 2003. Invested in YouTube in 2005.
Co-Founder Tellme (Microsoft), Founder Swipely
Chief Monkey at Monkey Inferno. CEO/Founder of Bebo. Viral marketing/product guy.
Founder HotOrNot; I/O Ventures
CEO at Threadless. Director at Smule & Trunk Club. Former digital music entrepreneur/exec.
SVP of Marketing at HauteLook (now part of Nordstrom). Former eBay, StubHub, Live Nation
Distinguished Engineer at Google (One of first 10 employees); PM & Strategy on Gmail, GTalk, Video, Picasa, Orkut, Groups & Mobile. Co-dev of AdSense targeting.
Founder Factual. Founder Applied Semantics (developed ASI AdSense, bought by Google).
VP of Corporate Development at Google
Founder & CEO at SecondMarket
CEO at Crowdstar; VP - Business Development at AdMob
Founder/CTO at Joyent. Constant talent scout. I specialize in revenue generation, and all activities required to make it happen.
Founder of MySpace/Former President. Started two small Internet companies before MS, both profitable exits.
Executive in Residence at Greylock Partners. Most recently VP Product for Search, Platform & Mobile at LinkedIn. Previously at eBay, Preview Systems, Apple.
SVP Zynga; CEO and President of Yandex Labs; SVP Yahoo Search Group
Founder of Linden Lab / Second Life, Love Machine, Worklist.net, Coffee & Power. Building futuristic things with computers and electronics since I was a kid.
Founder Shopzilla ($562MM exit), Founder BizRate.com (top 100 website), Founder Cheers
Former COO/VP Product at Geni, designer of Yammer 1.0, founding designer at Tribe. Advising startups via 500 Startups, StartX, and Bullpen Capital.
CEO & Co-Founder of Vertica Systems and Founding Board Member at Recorded Future, CloudSwitch & Upstart
Cofounder, CEO ToyTalk. "Lean Launchpad" instructor Stanford, Berkeley. Mentor 500 Startups. EIR AugustCapital. CTO Pixar. Supervising Tech Dir "Finding Nemo".
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.
Co-founder Scopely; Chairman / Co-founder Deep Dive Media; Head of Domain Channel Google; Founding member / VP Applied Semantics; Technical Sales Engineer, AMD
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 and CTO iPrint.com (NASD:IPRT). Co-founder and CTO MessageCast (Sold to Microsoft). StartX mentor, technical advisor.
co-founded Urchin Software Corp., which is now Google Analytics. COO Euclid Inc.
Angel investor & advisor - social, mobile, local tech. Portfolio includes Summize & Tweetdeck, both acq by Twitter. CEO Collecta, Pres Reuters Tech & SVP AOL
co-founder @ zynga
Founder Kaltix (acquired by Google in 2003). Stanford CS PhD. Startup Advisor.
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.
Technology entrepreneur. Founder at Crowd Interactive and ModCloth. Investor at ClearGears.
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)
Chairman & CEO, Innovation Works
Founder and CEO of Truveo. Founder and CTO of Bang Networks. Studied at the MIT AI Lab and Lab for Computer Science.
Product Guy who can connect dots that are obvious after the fact. Motto: Kindle-ize Everything.
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 and Product Designer @AngelList. Ex-Google head of UX for Ads and Commerce. Ex-BofA head of UX.
Venture Partner, Atlas Venture. Former COO at TrialPay and Director at Symantec. Seed Investor, advisor. Swarthmore College, Harvard MBA.
Venture Hacker at AngelList, ex Head of Product at Friend.ly and WePay, engineer, designer, photographer.
Now - Hacker at AngelList. Then - Helped create Lynx, Netscape, Epinions, Xfire, MemoryMatirx, et. al.
Venture Hacker at AngelList. Previously at Super Rewards (Adknowledge).
Hacker at AngelList, at RockYou when it was #1, early at Readyforce. CS Masters 2 years early.
Founder and Geek. Former CTO of @Socialwok, now Venture Hacker.
Venture Hacker @AngelList. Ex CTO @Hearsay News. Stanford Physics/CS.
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.
Silicon Valley internet seed fund & accelerator. 500 team has worked @ PayPal, Google, AOL, Rackspace, Yahoo, YouTube, Mint.com, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund.
Founder and CTO of HubSpot and blogger at OnStartups.com
Managing Director of TechStars NYC
Managing Member of BoxGroup (Angel Investor)
Founded 3 email companies and Capital Factory. Teaching 1 Semester Startup at University of Texas. Trilogy Alumni 1999. CS Carnegie Mellon.
Founder of @AngelPad, Ex-Google Product Manager, Startup Advisor, Angel Investor http://thomaskorte.com/about-me/
Managing Member at SV Angel
Startup guy and advisor on metrics/marketing. Occassional blogger. Previously EIR at Mohr Davidow Ventures, ran product at AudienceScience.
Director of MIT Media Lab, Co-Founder of Digital Garage, Ex-CEO Creative Commons, Investor in: Flickr, Kongregate, Kickstarter, Twitter, Technorati, Last.fm
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.
Erick Schonfeld is the former Editor of TechCrunch. He has been covering startups and technology news since 1993.
Working on The Next Big Thing (Gaston Labs). Founded PBworks, Hacker Dojo, SuperHappyDevHouse, and Mexican.VC. Hacker. Award-winning startup advisor.
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
Google, Microsoft, Groove Networks, Bowstreet, Napster, AltaVista, Forte, DEC. Angel Investor.
Partner at Start Fund
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
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.
Founder Graphicly. Multiple Entrepreneur. Mentor at Techstars & 500startups. Startup Doer and Advisor.
CEO of Referly. Formerly 1st employee at Twilio. 500 Startups Mentor. Forbes 30 Under 30 in Social/Mobile Tech 2011. College dropout.
