Othman Laraki
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Entrepreneur. Product Strategist. Investor.
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
Product @ Google. Previous: CEO at Milk, Founder of Digg. Co-Founder of Revision3. Board member at Tony Hawk Foundation.
Founder and Managing Director, Lowercase Capital
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
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.
WordPress, Automattic, Akismet, Polldaddy, VaultPress, Gravatar...
http://ma.tt/
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.
Formerly VP Product at Twitter;
Product Manager at Google
SVP Commerce & Local, Google. SVP Eng (all Ad systems & Google Apps), Google. VP Architecture & Systems, eBay. SVP Eng, Excite@Home. Board member, EA.
Single-handedly pioneered Social Gaming industry (Vampires/Zombies). Created 1st version of Causes. Founder BuildForge (Sold to IBM), Founder Ohai.
Long-time entrepreneur. Current partner at Google Ventures
Co-Founder and CEO of Uber
Founder and CEO at Eventbrite
Early WebLogic engineer, EIR at Accel & Benchmark, Founder of Gauntlet Systems (Borland acq), Chief Technologist at Yahoo!, Founder of Bagcheck (Twitter acq)
SVP of Marketing at HauteLook (now part of Nordstrom). Former eBay, StubHub, Live Nation
Founder / CEO wikiHow. Co-CEO eHow (sold to Demand Media). Co-founder at Luminescent Technologies (over $25 MM VC) and BigTray (Sequoia).
Distinguished Engineer at Google (One of first 10 employees); PM & Strategy on Gmail, GTalk, Video, Picasa, Orkut, Groups & Mobile. Co-dev of AdSense targeting.
Wrangler at Camino Real, Inc.
Founder/CEO at Green Patch, Inc.
Product Manager at Google
Software Engineer at Model N
I'm the founder of CrowdFlower/Dolores Labs.
http://lukasbiewald.com
Partner at Sigma Partners
co-founded Urchin Software Corp., which is now Google Analytics. COO Euclid Inc.
Sweat - AngelList, Venture Hacks, Vast, Epinions; Money - Twitter, Heyzap, SnapLogic
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.
Leading Search Engine
Delightful, modern payroll
Instant updates from your friends and the world
Airbnb for Cars
Its all good
Acquired by Sugar Inc.
60M Uniques & 1.7B Pageviews - Fun Sharing Community
The largest professional network on Facebook
Spotify for the art world
Crowd-powered sports coverage
Reinventing mobile app analytics. Powered by @TechStars and @500startups
Marketplace for Artisan Food
OpenTable for beauty and wellness
Angel investor in 25 startups. Creator/founder: LAUNCH, TechCrunch50, Mahalo, Engadget, WeblogsInc, autoblog, silicon alley reporter, this week in startups.
Partner at 500 Startups
Searching for world-changing technologies for Rackspace.
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.
Founder of @AngelPad, Ex-Google Product Manager, Startup Advisor, Angel Investor http://thomaskorte.com/about-me/
Managing Member at SV Angel
Founder/CEO of TechStars. Investor in Amazing Startups. Geeky to the bone.
http://www.davidgcohen.com
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.
Working on The Next Big Thing (Gaston Labs). Founded PBworks, Hacker Dojo, SuperHappyDevHouse, and Mexican.VC. Hacker. Award-winning startup advisor.
Media, Technology, Culture, Business
Chief Firestarter @ K9 Ventures
Managing Director, Activate; Director, Expert Labs; Blogger, Dashes.com
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
Co-founder & CTO of Simple. Formerly Platform Lead and early employee at Twitter
YouTube, Google, Second Life, Conan O'Brien. Builds things in San Francisco. Likes citrus fruit. Wishes he knew magic tricks.
Currently @ Greylock. Was 2nd in at AngelList (managed dealflow through 8K startups), Oxford MBA, Cambridge Eng.
International Daddy of Mystery. Investor. Hatena (Board), Google (PM), OptoMail (Founder), Barclays Global Investors (Mktg)
Allen Morgan
CEO of Socialize. Raised $1.5MM. Founded & sold PointAbout. Profiled in Wall Street Journal. General Electric TLP. Active founder+lifehacker blog. UVa McIntire
GP at Atlas Venture; founder of TUGG; advocate of uncertainty...
Investor in Automattic, Lolapps, Quantcast, Thing Labs, Hangout.
Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
Director at Twitter; CEO and Co-Founder at Mixer Labs; Product Management at Google
Director Platform at Twitter; Director and early employee at Skyhook Wireless (mobile location, local)
Angel investor
Early stage ventures capitalist at Matrix Partners. Executive at PayPal, eBay & Netscape. Founder at Respond.com
Founder and CEO @ Zaarly
Investor in 100+ great startups such as SendGrid, CourseKit, Contently, CrowdTwist, Orbotix, Intense Debate (Wordpress), DailyBurn (IAC), and Filtrbox (Jive).
CEO and Founder of Appstores.com, previously Partner Engineer at Facebook, Co-founder of Ping.fm (acquired by Seesmic).
Managing Partner of early stage VC firm Quest Venture Partners. Board member and major investor at Qik (sold to Skype), investor in Tapulous (sold to Disney).
Current: Co-Founder and President, Incredible Labs. Past: Product lead for twitter.com redesign; Dir Product Raptr; Designed Yahoo! Pipes.
Founder, StyleSeat
Serial entrepreneur / angel; 20 ventures, 2 IPOs. 1st investor in Klout. Founder: Bottlenose, Live Matrix, Daily Dot, StreamGlider, Twine, EarthWeb & Dice.
CEO at Desk.com (a Salesforce.com company)
VP & GM | Salesforce.com
Founder and CEO Retargeter. Bus Dev & Strategy at Yahoo. Investment Banker at Jefferies
Founder/CEO, Schematic Labs, makers of Soundtracking.
Co-creator, imeem
investor/shareholder & advisor: Animoto, MessageParty, Stackmob, StumbleUpon, Uber
Co-Founder: Enole. Engineer: SGI, CNET, Razorfish. Business Development: Photobucket, Clearspring.
VP Bessemer Venture Partners, Harvard, MBA
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GP @ Social Leverage, Angel Investor, Hockey Player, Coach, Dad, Husband, Skier, 7/8's CDN
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Investor at Bain Capital
Developer @Rally. Co-founder: Mojo, AirCart. Director: "Starting-Up in America". EFREI Paris / UC London / Beijing Tech M.Sc. 2007.
VC, Managing Partner, Quest Venture Partners, Haafu (Japan/US), Thunderbird, UCSB, ASIJ
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