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Matt Mullenweg

WordPress, Automattic, Akismet, Polldaddy, VaultPress, Gravatar...
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Reid Hoffman
Entrepreneur. Product Strategist. Investor.
Fred Wilson
Managing partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners.
Tim O'Reilly
Founder, CEO, O'Reilly Media
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
Dave Morin
Entrepreneur
Eric Ries
Author of The Lean Startup
Marissa Mayer
VP, Google. Investor in Minted, One Kings Lane, Square. MSCS, Stanford.
Keith Rabois
Former Executive at PayPal, LinkedIn and Slide. Current Executive at Square
Max Levchin
Co-founder/CTO PayPal; Founder/CEO Slide; Founder/CEO HVF; angel, tinkerer, cyclist, spy.
Mike Maples
Managing Partner, Floodgate • Example investments include Twitter, digg, Solarwinds, Chegg, Demandforce, Aggregate Knowledge, ngmoco, Smule, and Spiceworks
Tim Ferriss
Author of #1 NY Times bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek, Japanophile, tea drinker, tango world record holder, language learning fanatic.
Jonathan Abrams
Co-founder of Founders Den, co-owner of Slide nightclub, former founder & CEO of Socializr, Friendster, and HotLinks.
Shervin Pishevar
Managing Director at Menlo Ventures; Co-Founder of SGN
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
John Lilly
Partner @ Greylock, former CEO @ Mozilla, dad, husband, son, nerd http://john.jubjubs.net
Matt Cohler
General Partner at Benchmark Capital
Jimmy Wales
Founder, Wikipedia and Wikia
Mark Zuckerberg
Founder of Facebook.
Jason A. Hoffman
Founder/CTO at Joyent. Constant talent scout. I specialize in revenue generation, and all activities required to make it happen.
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
500 Startups (Fund)
Silicon Valley micro-VC fund & accelerator founded by ex-PayPal, Google, YouTube alums.
Getaround
Airbnb for Cars
COLOURlovers
Making "Design" Super Simple
BranchOut
The largest professional network on Facebook
Milk
We build apps
Art.sy
Spotify for the art world
Foodzie
Marketplace for Artisan Food
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.
Mark Suster
General partner, GRP Ventures & 2x entrepreneur. Sold Koral to Salesforce.com
Robert Scoble
Searching for world-changing technologies for Rackspace.
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.
David Cohen
Founder/CEO of TechStars. Investor in Amazing Startups. Geeky to the bone. http://www.davidgcohen.com
Adam Rifkin
A man. A plan. A panda.
David E. Weekly
Working on The Next Big Thing (Gaston Labs). Founded PBworks, Hacker Dojo, SuperHappyDevHouse, and Mexican.VC. Hacker. Award-winning startup advisor.
Hiten Shah
CEO / Co-Founder of @KISSmetrics. Previously started @crazyegg and @ACS. My hobby is helping entrepreneurs create something out of nothing.
Chris Yeh
VP Enterprise Marketing, PBworks; Startup Investor and Advisor
Anil Dash
Managing Director, Activate; Director, Expert Labs; Blogger, Dashes.com
Michael Marquez
Strategic Advisor, Angel Investor, Deal Strategist - passionate about the Internet and the convergence of technology and consumer behavior
Daniel Brusilovsky
Founder & CEO of Teens in Tech Labs. Associate Producer of Olive the Movie. Evangelist, Silicon Valley at JESS3. Advisor at Everyme.
Tara Hunt
CEO, Buyosphere (current); Founder, Coworking; Author, The Whuffie Factor; Speaker, Leigh Bureau; Founder, Citizen Agency; Online Marketing Director, Like.com
Ted Rheingold
VP, Say Media. Founder & CEO Dogster/Catster (sold to Say) and OneMatchFire(.com). Community. Product. Business. Start-up advisor, investor, mentor.
Lane Becker
Advisor, Freestyle.vc; founder, Get Satisfaction; founder, Adaptive Path; Author, "Get Lucky"; enjoys semicolons.
Alex Bard
CEO at Desk.com (a Salesforce.com company) VP & GM | Salesforce.com
Steve Jang
Founder/CEO, Schematic Labs, makers of Soundtracking. Co-creator, imeem investor/shareholder & advisor: Animoto, MessageParty, Stackmob, StumbleUpon, Uber
Fritz Lanman
Founder, Stealth Startup; Former Microsoft Corporate Strategy & Acquisitions.
Bill Tai
Angel or Seed in Twitter (Tweetdeck), Tango, ContextLogic, Soundtracking. VC in >15 startups that IPO'd; Founder or Chairman of 3 companies (1 IPO, 2 sales).
OwnLocal
AppStore for Local (Y Combinator W10)
DuckDuckGo
A search engine.
Andrew Mager
Developer Community Manager at Spotify in New York, NY. Formerly at SimpleGeo, Ning, CBS Interactive, and ESPN.
AppFog
Making developing applications on the cloud easier than ever before
WakeMate
Sleep less. Feel better.
WPEngine
Heroku for WordPress
Qwhisper
NLP Technology that brings meaning to the social content
Albert Lai
Serial Entrepreneur. Recently: Big Viking Games/co-founder/ceo, Kontagent/co-founder (Analytics). Sold: BubbleShare (Disney), MyDesktop (WebMediaBrands).
Miso Media
Provide the optimal user experience for music education using today’s emerging technology
ModeWalk
The most beautiful way to shop luxuries online - immersive, curated, and intimate
Open Garden
Mobile Broadband Network
Gregarious Narain
Co-Founder of Chute. Previously first employee at Klout (VP Product) where I helped grow the team from 1 to 20. Fourth startup.
Narendra Rocherolle
President, Message Bus. CEO, The Start Project. Creator Webshots, 30 Boxes, and inventor of the little things like the retweet.
Munchery
Meals from Personal Chefs, from Phone to Fork
Earbits
Artists and Labels Bid for Online Radio Airtime to Acquire Fans and Market New Releases
TracksBy
The most viral way for artists to promote their music and videos on Facebook
Michael Galpert
Founder at Aviary
Lemnos Labs
Bringing Hardware Back To Silicon Valley
four53
Great HTML5 presentations
Stipple
Discovery and commerce inside images.
 "Bubs" Darius A Monsef IV
Founder & CEO of COLOURlovers.com & CreativeMarket.com. Founder & Board of Hands.org. a disaster relief NGO. Former MSFT. YC Alum. Mentor 500Startups, PIEPDX.
Wordpress
A better way to blog.
Chartbeat
Real-time data for front-line doers
Well.ca
Health and Beauty Ecommerce in Canada
Adii Pienaar
Founder of WooThemes, Radiiate, The Rockstar Foundation, and author of Rockstar Business.
Memrise
Super-powered online learning
Chang Kim
Founder/CEO of a new media startup; Advisor/angel; former PM at Google, Samsung. Co-founded TNC (acquired by Google in 2008)
Enterproid
Work and personal profiles on a single Android device
Michael Tippett
Executive Director, Growlab.ca. 20 years of startups. Last one was NowPublic. Sold it last year to Phil Anschutz. Afternic (register.com). Webpool (telus)
Kavin Stewart
Co-founder, VP of Product @Lolapps
Tristan Louis
CEO of Keepskor, the leader in user-generated games. Writer at TNL.net. Big ideas generator.
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