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Reid Hoffman

Entrepreneur. Product Strategist. Investor.

Followers
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
Josh Kopelman
Founding Partner, First Round Capital; Founder Half.com (sold to EBay)
Eric Ries
Author of The Lean Startup
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
George Zachary
A venture capitalist that invests in who we are and who we are becoming.
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
Steve Case
Co-founder of AOL; now Chairman of Case Foundation and Revolution (Zipcar, LivingSocial, Exclusive Resorts, Everyday Health, Revolution Money, Miraval, etc)
Tim Chang
Managing Director - Mayfield. Forbes Midas List 2010 (Top 100 VCs). Stanford MBA, Univ of Michigan MSEE/BSEE. Bassist in BlackMahal and CoverFlow
Matt Mullenweg
WordPress, Automattic, Akismet, Polldaddy, VaultPress, Gravatar... http://ma.tt/
Evan Williams
@Evan Williams Farm boy from Nebraska. Co-founder of Twitter. http://evhead.com
Mike Jones
CEO of Science, Former CEO MySpace, CEO/Founder Userplane, CEO/Founder PBJ Digital, CEO Tsavo Media, Angel Investor, Entrepreneur
Joshua Schachter
CEO at Tasty Labs; Member of Technical Staff at Google; Director Engineering del.icio.us at Yahoo; founder at del.icio.us
Bill Gross
Founder of Technology Incubator Idealab and 100 companies in last 30 years. Tweeting while on my quest for learning in life and at conferences.
Ariel Poler
Started 3 Internet companies (IPRO, Topica & TextMarks); Director at Kana, LinkExchange, Freedom Financial, Odeo and StumbleUpon. BS from MIT. MBA from Stanford
Benjamin Ling
COO at Badoo • Former Director of Search Products Google • Director of Partnerships, Content & Platforms YouTube • Director of Platform Facebook
Shervin Pishevar
Managing Director at Menlo Ventures; Co-Founder of SGN
Karl Jacob
Keen (Ingenio), DimensionX, Wallop, Coveroo and Cloudmark. $500+ million in exits to msft, at&t etc. Early advisor to facebook.
Gil Penchina
Serial Entrepreneur, 40+ Angel investments with $10 billion in exits including Linkedin, Paypal, Ziprealty, Plusmo, Vamoose, Evite Ex-CEO of Wikia, Exec at eBay
Bradley Horowitz
VP Product at Google
Jeremy Stoppelman
Co-founder and CEO of Yelp
John Lilly
Partner @ Greylock, former CEO @ Mozilla, dad, husband, son, nerd http://john.jubjubs.net
Sizhao Yang
Co-founder of BetterWorks. Founder of MyMiniLife (sold to Zynga). Co-Creator of Farmville.
Josh Elman
Principal at Greylock. Previous: product at Twitter (Growth), Facebook (launched Connect), Zazzle (ran product), LinkedIn (Growth, launched Jobs), RealPlayer
Jimmy Wales
Founder, Wikipedia and Wikia
Matt Galligan
Co-Founder & CEO of Circa. Co-Founded 1% of Nothing, SimpleGeo & Socialthing.
Harper Reed
CTO at Obama for America, former CTO of Threadless and Advisor at Sandbox Industries.
James Currier
Former VC (Battery), Co-Founder Tickle (Monster), WonderHill (Kabam), Jiff, Medpedia.
Jeff Hammerbacher
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.
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.
Hadi Partovi
Startup investor/advisor and former entrepreneur
Akash Garg
Platform Team @ Twitter; CTO at Bebo; Co-Founder of Hi5
Nat Turner
Co-Founder/CEO of Invite Media. Golfer. Angel investor. Classic rock junkie. Entrepreneur. Fisherman.
Angus Davis
Co-Founder Tellme (Microsoft), Founder Swipely
Jyri Engestrom
Founder Ditto (sold to Groupon) & Jaiku (sold to Google)
Eric Hippeau
Venture capitalist, Partner at Lerer Ventures, entrepreneur, media executive (ex-CEO of The Huffington Post, ex-CEO of Ziff-Davis), passionate about the oceans
Michael Birch
Chief Monkey at Monkey Inferno. CEO/Founder of Bebo. Viral marketing/product guy.
Josh Hannah
General Partner at Matrix Partners; Founder & Director at Betfair.com; Entrepreneur and Investor. Gambler, guy who knows how to do a lot of things.
Oakland · VC
Thomas Ryan
CEO at Threadless. Director at Smule & Trunk Club. Former digital music entrepreneur/exec.
Roger Dickey
Serial entrepreneur (3 startups), Mafia Wars founder, Angel investor (10+ companies)
Aayush Phumbhra
Entrepreneur, Founder Chegg.com
Sam Pullara
Early WebLogic engineer, EIR at Accel & Benchmark, Founder of Gauntlet Systems (Borland acq), Chief Technologist at Yahoo!, Founder of Bagcheck (Twitter acq)
Greg Bettinelli
SVP of Marketing at HauteLook (now part of Nordstrom). Former eBay, StubHub, Live Nation
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.
Mike Cassidy
Director of Search Product Management at Google CEO at Ruba, Inc. Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital CEO, Xfire at MTV Networks
Gil Elbaz
Founder Factual. Founder Applied Semantics (developed ASI AdSense, bought by Google).
David Lawee
VP of Corporate Development at Google
Ken Keller
Co-founder IGN.com & Cadence (SDA); emp #1 excite; emp #2 Frame.
Ross Mayfield
VP Biz SlideShare, Co-founder, CEO Socialtext, Founder RateXchange took IPO, advisor to Estonian President.
Sky Dayton
Founder: Earthlink, Boingo; co-Founder: eCompanies, Jamdat, Business.com; entrepreneur & investor
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.
Tom Anderson
Founder of MySpace/Former President. Started two small Internet companies before MS, both profitable exits.
Adam Nash
Executive in Residence at Greylock Partners. Most recently VP Product for Search, Platform & Mobile at LinkedIn. Previously at eBay, Preview Systems, Apple.
Leonard Speiser
Co-founder Clover (Sutter Hill, Andreessen Horowitz), Co-founder Bix (sold to Yahoo), eBay, Intuit, MIT.
Vish Makhijani
SVP Zynga; CEO and President of Yandex Labs; SVP Yahoo Search Group
Philip Rosedale
Founder of Linden Lab / Second Life, Love Machine, Worklist.net, Coffee & Power. Building futuristic things with computers and electronics since I was a kid.
Dave Goldberg
CEO of SurveyMonkey, was co-founder and CEO of Launch Media (sold to Yahoo) and ran Yahoo Music
Dave Morgan
Founder/CEO of Simulmedia. Sold TACODA to AOL for $275MM. Investor in ex.fm and Tapad
Charlie Kindel
Founder & CTO of <redacted>. Angel & advisor. Geek. Ex-MSFT (21 years).
Elliot Loh
Former COO/VP Product at Geni, designer of Yammer 1.0, founding designer at Tribe. Advising startups via 500 Startups, StartX, and Bullpen Capital.
Jason Bailey
Founder Super Rewards, acquired by AdKnowledge. Founder GrowLab Accelerator, Founder and CEO at Eastside Games. Investor in many.
Jim Barnett
Serial CEO. Entrepreneur. Investor. Partner Shasta Ventures; Chairman Turn, Extole, & Sojern Prior: CEO/founder Turn; President Overture Search; CEO AltaVista.
Andy Palmer
CEO & Co-Founder of Vertica Systems and Founding Board Member at Recorded Future, CloudSwitch & Upstart
Jeff Bonforte
CEO at Xobni; Vice President, Social Search at Yahoo!; Vice President, Real Time Communications at Yahoo, Inc.; Founder at Starbox Systems
Andrew Anker
Investor, board member, blogger and occasional executive
Matt Shobe
Serial entrepreneur, father, marathon runner, private pilot. (Order of importance varies by the hour.)
N Shivakumar
Founder of 1618Labs. Ex-Google VP Eng. PhD CS, Stanford. Advisory boards of Ayasdi, Bloomreach, Twitter, UCLA Eng Startups. Founder Gigabeat (acq. Napster)
Oren Jacob
Cofounder, CEO ToyTalk. "Lean Launchpad" instructor Stanford, Berkeley. Mentor 500 Startups. EIR AugustCapital. CTO Pixar. Supervising Tech Dir "Finding Nemo".
Rob Solomon
Former President & COO at Groupon. Former CEO, SideStep (acquired by Kayak). Board Director at HomeAway, Tiny Prints, and High Gear Media.
Lars Mapstead
Founder Friendfinder Networks (FFN) Sold 2007 Founder Fupa Games Inc.
Vince Monical
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.
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
James Franklin
CEO at SendGrid
Chipper Boulas
Investor/ Business Builder -- Consumer internet/ mobile; Formerly VP Strategy at EBay
Rich Levandov
Partner at Avalon Ventures; Co-founder Phoenix Technologies (PTEC); Vice President at America Online
Jed Katz
Spent 20 years developing, advising & investing in start-ups. Founded Rent Net and Move.com. Developed SkyScout. Managing Director of Javelin Venture Partners.
John Hanke
Serial entrepreneur - Keyhole founder (sold to Google) Google Geo VP, new project at Google
Donna Wells
CEO of Mindflash.com, former CMO of Mint, Expedia and Intuit
Steve Newcomb
co-founder of Powerset (now Bing) portfolio incl. Serious Business (now Zynga), Crowdlfower, Greplin, FastIP and Graphcast
Mika Salmi
Founder, Atom Entertainment (Viacom). Former President Global Digital Media, MTV Networks/Viacom. Board Director, INSEAD. Chairman, Sulake and Pressplane.
Garth Moulton
Co-Founder of OtherScreen. Co-Founder, Jigsaw.com acquired by SalesForce.com $175M, deep sales experience, Brown grad
Scott Crosby
co-founded Urchin Software Corp., which is now Google Analytics. COO Euclid Inc.
Sheeroy Desai
Love to start and build businesses.
Fred Hsu
Founded Oversee(sold minority chunk to Oak Hill for $150m),still #1 single shareholder, UCLA CS, Help startups build, cashout while retaining shareholder rights
Gerry Campbell
Angel investor & advisor - social, mobile, local tech. Portfolio includes Summize & Tweetdeck, both acq by Twitter. CEO Collecta, Pres Reuters Tech & SVP AOL
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
Bram Cohen
BitTorrent inventor. Founder of BitTorrent Inc. Veteran of many startups.
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.
Jeff Stibel
entrepreneur, angel investor and currently CEO, Dun & Bradstreet CC
Jack Andrys
Founder and ex CEO WebSpy (took public), Founder Netlink Inspection Systems Exited via Trade Sale, Founder Netlink CRM,
Joel Poloney
Founder of MyMiniLife. Co-Creator of FarmVille. Investor in BetterWorks, Pixelapse. Team member of Zynga, MyMiniLife.
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