Naval Ravikant
Sweat - AngelList, Venture Hacks, Vast, Epinions; Money - Twitter, Heyzap, SnapLogic
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Entrepreneur. Product Strategist. Investor.
Managing partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners.
Founder, CEO, O'Reilly Media
Lotus founder, built from 0 to $200MM in 3 yrs. Co-founder EFF. Founding Chair Mozilla. Investor: Twilio, Uber, Inkling, bit.ly.
Managing Director at Foundry Group
Entrepreneur
Founding Partner, First Round Capital; Founder Half.com (sold to EBay)
Author of The Lean Startup
VP, Google. Investor in Minted, One Kings Lane, Square. MSCS, Stanford.
Former Executive at PayPal, LinkedIn and Slide. Current Executive at Square
Investor in Skype, Chegg, Square, Etacts, Dailybooth, Flipboard, Nowmov, CitizenNet, Optimizely, Mobile Roadie, Brizzly.
Product @ Google. Previous: CEO at Milk, Founder of Digg. Co-Founder of Revision3. Board member at Tony Hawk Foundation.
General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
Founder and Managing Director, Lowercase Capital
Co-founder at Founder Collective; Co-founder, CEO at Hunch; CEO/Co-founder at SiteAdvisor (acquired by McAfee)
A venture capitalist that invests in who we are and who we are becoming.
Co-founder/CTO PayPal; Founder/CEO Slide; Founder/CEO HVF; angel, tinkerer, cyclist, spy.
Managing Partner, Floodgate • Example investments include Twitter, digg, Solarwinds, Chegg, Demandforce, Aggregate Knowledge, ngmoco, Smule, and Spiceworks
Founder Techcrunch, CrunchFund Partner, blogger at Uncrunched.
Co-founder of AOL; now Chairman of Case Foundation and Revolution (Zipcar, LivingSocial, Exclusive Resorts, Everyday Health, Revolution Money, Miraval, etc)
Author of #1 NY Times bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek, Japanophile, tea drinker, tango world record holder, language learning fanatic.
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
WordPress, Automattic, Akismet, Polldaddy, VaultPress, Gravatar...
http://ma.tt/
@Evan Williams Farm boy from Nebraska. Co-founder of Twitter. http://evhead.com
CEO of Science, Former CEO MySpace, CEO/Founder Userplane, CEO/Founder PBJ Digital, CEO Tsavo Media, Angel Investor, Entrepreneur
CEO at Tasty Labs; Member of Technical Staff at Google; Director Engineering del.icio.us at Yahoo; founder at del.icio.us
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.
Family 1st! but after that, Businessman, @winelibrary, @VaynerMedia, Author of @TYEbook and a dude that Loves the hustle (hard work), people and the @nyjets
Customer Development & Secret History, Teaching at Stanford, Berkeley and Columbia
http://www.steveblank.com
Started 3 Internet companies (IPRO, Topica & TextMarks); Director at Kana, LinkExchange, Freedom Financial, Odeo and StumbleUpon. BS from MIT. MBA from Stanford
We like startups
venture capitalist, dad, husband, music lover, optimist
http://www.bijansabet.com
COO at Badoo • Former Director of Search Products Google • Director of Partnerships, Content & Platforms YouTube • Director of Platform Facebook
Managing Director at Menlo Ventures; Co-Founder of SGN
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 YCombinator, Founder of FriendFeed, Creator of GMail
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
Co-Founder of Reddit, launched Hipmunk as marketing guy (now advisor), Chief Swine Defender at Breadpig,
Founder of HOTorNOT.com, Angel Investor.
Team member of Pinterest, Google.
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
General Partner at Benchmark Capital
Founder at @Pinterest
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.
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.
Co-founder of Votizen • Founder Advisor at SV Angel • First Designer-in-Residence at Bessemer • Former Lead Designer at Mint.com
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
Formerly VP Product at Twitter;
Product Manager at Google
Founder and CEO of Mint
Founder, Wikipedia and Wikia
Founder of Facebook.
Co-Founder & CEO of Circa. Co-Founded 1% of Nothing, SimpleGeo & Socialthing.
CTO at Obama for America, former CTO of Threadless and Advisor at Sandbox Industries.
Owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theaters, Magnolia Pictures, and the chairman of HDNet. He is also a "shark" investor on Shark Tank.
Partner at Index Ventures
Former VC (Battery), Co-Founder Tickle (Monster), WonderHill (Kabam), Jiff, Medpedia.
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.
Business guy for @Asana, entrepreneur, angel investor in many great start-ups. Former Chief Product officer at SolarWinds (SWI).
Founder and CEO of Grove (grove.io). Former technical co-founder of Pownce (sold to Six Apart). Co-author of OAuth and OEmbed.
Partner at Accel
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.
UTexas Austin Professor of Innovation, Murchison Fellow of Free Enterprise; Polaris Partner; MIT Trustee. Past: Harvard, PARC, Stanford, 3Com, InfoWorld.
Entrepreneur/engineer. CTO/co-founder Webmail.us (acq RAX). I also help a few amazing companies, including via Capital Factory, 500 Startups, TechStars & 21212
Single-handedly pioneered Social Gaming industry (Vampires/Zombies). Created 1st version of Causes. Founder BuildForge (Sold to IBM), Founder Ohai.
Founder, LUXr. Leader in the UX+Startup world. Entrepreneur. Co-founder and former CEO of Adaptive Path.
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 & Former CEO of StubHub
Product Director, Ads at Facebook
Founding Partner, Founder Collective; Formerly CEO LiveOps
Startup investor/advisor and former entrepreneur
Long-time entrepreneur. Current partner at Google Ventures
VC @ Lightspeed
Platform Team @ Twitter; CTO at Bebo; Co-Founder of Hi5
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/CEO of Invite Media. Golfer. Angel investor. Classic rock junkie. Entrepreneur. Fisherman.
Co-Founder Tellme (Microsoft), Founder Swipely
Founder Ditto (sold to Groupon) & Jaiku (sold to Google)
Founder & CEO of BranchOut.
Prior Co-Founder of Tickle (sold to Monster).
Advisor to several Bay Area start-ups.
Partner at Imagine K12. Partner at Y Combinator.
Former CEO of music startup Lala (acquired by Apple); Former Chief Product Officer at Yahoo!
Visiting scholar at NYU in journalism. Developed first blogging software, RSS and podcasting, outliners, web CMS.
http://scripting.com/
Co-Founder and CEO of Uber
Venture capitalist, Partner at Lerer Ventures, entrepreneur, media executive (ex-CEO of The Huffington Post, ex-CEO of Ziff-Davis), passionate about the oceans
Chief Monkey at Monkey Inferno. CEO/Founder of Bebo. Viral marketing/product guy.
Founder HotOrNot; I/O Ventures
Family man, Chairman and CEO Dell.com msdf.org msdcapital.com
Founder and CEO at Eventbrite
Partner of Bessemer Venture Partners, blogger, father of 3, born again atheist, singer with VIH
http://WhoHasTimeForThis.com
General Partner at Matrix Partners; Founder & Director at Betfair.com; Entrepreneur and Investor. Gambler, guy who knows how to do a lot of things.
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.
CEO at Threadless. Director at Smule & Trunk Club. Former digital music entrepreneur/exec.
Serial entrepreneur (3 startups), Mafia Wars founder, Angel investor (10+ companies)
