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Tim Ferriss

Author of #1 NY Times bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek, Japanophile, tea drinker, tango world record holder, language learning fanatic.

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
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
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/
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
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
John Lilly
Partner @ Greylock, former CEO @ Mozilla, dad, husband, son, nerd http://john.jubjubs.net
Josh Elman
Principal at Greylock. Previous: product at Twitter (Growth), Facebook (launched Connect), Zazzle (ran product), LinkedIn (Growth, launched Jobs), RealPlayer
Matt Galligan
Co-Founder & CEO of Circa. Co-Founded 1% of Nothing, SimpleGeo & Socialthing.
Robin Chan
Founder/CEO of XPD (sold, now Zynga China). Angel in Twitter, Square, and Foursquare. Advisor to Flipboard.
Jyri Engestrom
Founder Ditto (sold to Groupon) & Jaiku (sold to Google)
Sachin Agarwal
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.
Thomas Ryan
CEO at Threadless. Director at Smule & Trunk Club. Former digital music entrepreneur/exec.
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
Barry Silbert
Founder & CEO at SecondMarket
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.
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.
Ben Huh
Founder & CEO of Cheezburger, Inc.
Lukas Biewald
I'm the founder of CrowdFlower/Dolores Labs. http://lukasbiewald.com
Andy Palmer
CEO & Co-Founder of Vertica Systems and Founding Board Member at Recorded Future, CloudSwitch & Upstart
Rob Solomon
Former President & COO at Groupon. Former CEO, SideStep (acquired by Kayak). Board Director at HomeAway, Tiny Prints, and High Gear Media.
Taher Haveliwala
Founder Kaltix (acquired by Google in 2003). Stanford CS PhD. Startup Advisor.
Jack Andrys
Founder and ex CEO WebSpy (took public), Founder Netlink Inspection Systems Exited via Trade Sale, Founder Netlink CRM,
Doug Taylor
Angel Investor. Expertise in web site performance monitoring and load testing. COO of Webmetrics which sold to NeuStar.
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
Joshua Slayton
Venture Hacker at AngelList. Previously at Super Rewards (Adknowledge).
Dustin Dolginow
Funding team at AngelList + VC at Atlas Venture; founded and killed Social Swipe. Retail + SMB in my DNA.
Boston · VC
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.
Robert Scoble
Searching for world-changing technologies for Rackspace.
500 Startups
Silicon Valley internet seed fund & accelerator. 500 team has worked @ PayPal, Google, AOL, Rackspace, Yahoo, YouTube, Mint.com, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund.
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.
Joshua Baer
Founded 3 email companies and Capital Factory. Teaching 1 Semester Startup at University of Texas. Trilogy Alumni 1999. CS Carnegie Mellon.
Thomas Korte
Founder of @AngelPad, Ex-Google Product Manager, Startup Advisor, Angel Investor http://thomaskorte.com/about-me/
Adam Rifkin
A man. A plan. A panda.
AngelPad
San Francisco based incubator founded by @Thomas Korte and other ex-Googlers
Paige Craig
Founder + CEO BetterWorks, adrenaline fueled angel, Marine...
Erick Schonfeld
Erick Schonfeld is the former Editor of TechCrunch. He has been covering startups and technology news since 1993.
David E. Weekly
Working on The Next Big Thing (Gaston Labs). Founded PBworks, Hacker Dojo, SuperHappyDevHouse, and Mexican.VC. Hacker. Award-winning startup advisor.
Garry Tan
Partner at Y-Combinator. Co-founder of Posterous. Early designer / engineering lead at Palantir.
Saar Gur
Venture Capitalist at Charles River Ventures
Esther Dyson
Prolific Investor. Medstory, Evernote, Flickr, Meetup, EDventure, Release 1.0, del.icio.us
Hiten Shah
CEO / Co-Founder of @KISSmetrics. Previously started @crazyegg and @ACS. My hobby is helping entrepreneurs create something out of nothing.
Saul Klein
husband. dad. serial entrepreneur (firefly, lovefilm, seedcamp). operator (wpp, msft, skype). investor (index, TAG) http://localglo.be
Don Dodge
Google, Microsoft, Groove Networks, Bowstreet, Napster, AltaVista, Forte, DEC. Angel Investor.
Peter Bordes
Founder & Exec Chairman of MediaTrust PerformanceExchange .Founder Internet Media Labs. Technology innovation & social media. Thiel Fellowship Foundation Mentor
Micah Baldwin
Founder Graphicly. Multiple Entrepreneur. Mentor at Techstars & 500startups. Startup Doer and Advisor.
Jon Staenberg
Investor in Infospace, StubHub, Serious Materials, Evite, Seagate, Spinner, LiveBid.
Seattle · VC
Danielle Morrill
CEO of Referly. Formerly 1st employee at Twilio. 500 Startups Mentor. Forbes 30 Under 30 in Social/Mobile Tech 2011. College dropout.
Brendan Baker
Currently @ Greylock. Was 2nd in at AngelList (managed dealflow through 8K startups), Oxford MBA, Cambridge Eng.
Jeff Fagnan
GP at Atlas Venture; founder of TUGG; advocate of uncertainty...
Steve Anderson
Founded Baseline in 2006. 60+ investments since inception and have helped more than 30 founders sell their companies with great success.
Ryan Swagar
Co-founding Partner @Venture51
Paul Bragiel
Partner at i/o ventures. Previously CEO of lefora, meetro & paragon5
Tara Hunt
CEO, Buyosphere (current); Founder, Coworking; Author, The Whuffie Factor; Speaker, Leigh Bureau; Founder, Citizen Agency; Online Marketing Director, Like.com
Kent Goldman
Team member of First Round Capital.
Ben Parr
Entrepreneur, CNET/CBSi commentator & columnist, startup advisor, former PM. Most recent: Co-Editor & Editor-at-Large of Mashable. Not gonna stop until we win.
Othman Laraki
growth @ twitter by profession / kiter by addiction / nerd & entrepreneur by passion / casablanca native by origination
Ville Miettinen
Founder & CEO at Microtask. Founder & CTO of Hybrid Graphics (NVIDIA Finland). HackFwd referrer. Coach at Startup Sauna.
Pejman Nozad
Angel investor and founding partner of Amidzad, investor in Dropbox, Zoosk, Path, Causes, Soundhound, Backplane, Addepar, Ark and 40 other startups
Hackers And Founders
We make life suck 34% less for early startups. 5.8k members Silicon Valley. 15 global chapters. 15+ members
Jeff Pulver
co-founder, 3-Rings GP, Hafooch Investments, Inc. GP, Pulver Equities III founder, #140conf events founder, pulver.com co-founder, Vivox
Adeo Ressi
Board Member X Prize, Founder of TheFunded, Founder of The Founder Institute.
Nick ONeill
I founded Social Times Inc. in 2007 and sold it to WebMediaBrands (parent company behind mediabistro.com) in 2010. Now I'm building my next company...
Sahil Lavingia
Making Gumroad. Previously @ Pinterest.
Raj Kapoor
Managing Director, Mayfield Fund
Belmont · VC
Enrique Allen
Founding member of the Designer Fund & 500 Startups. Previously Facebook Fund & Venrock. Teach at Stanford design school & former Stanford Persuasive Tech Lab.
Chris McCann
Welcome to the media revolution
Ted Rheingold
VP, Say Media. Founder & CEO Dogster/Catster (sold to Say) and OneMatchFire(.com). Community. Product. Business. Start-up advisor, investor, mentor.
Dave Knox
Partner at Rockfish Brand Ventures, co-founder at The Brandery
Brit Morin
Founder & CEO of @Brit; Worked at Google, Apple, Tiny Pictures; Investor and advisor to tech startups
Lane Becker
Advisor, Freestyle.vc; founder, Get Satisfaction; founder, Adaptive Path; Author, "Get Lucky"; enjoys semicolons.
Jody Sherman
CEO & Co-Founder of ecomom. Sold last startup to Richard Branson's Virgin Group. Worked at Lycos, NBCi, PTC, SGI. Several exits (Buydirect for $140M)
Mike Walsh
Frontman at Rockstar Group, Advisor, Investor, trying to be an author (writing in process).
Peter Pham
Co-Founder/Partner at Science. Entrepreneur, Advisor. Built a few startups - Color, BillShrink, Photobucket. Always the first on the dance floor.
Christina A. Brodbeck
Co-Founder/CEO of theicebreak, founding team member of YouTube, YouTube's first UI designer, Design Lead of YouTube Mobile, and angel investor.
Nova Spivack
Serial entrepreneur / angel; 20 ventures, 2 IPOs. 1st investor in Klout. Founder: Bottlenose, Live Matrix, Daily Dot, StreamGlider, Twine, EarthWeb & Dice.
Alex Bard
CEO at Desk.com (a Salesforce.com company) VP & GM | Salesforce.com
Jai Choi
Founder, Managing Director, Tekton Ventures (seed fund). Former entrepreneur, sold last co. to FormSpring. Public servant to company builders.
Ariel Arrieta
Marketer Serial Entrepreneur & Angel Investor. Co-Founder of NXTP Labs Co-founded Digital Ventures & InZearch, sold them to Fox a News Corp company (NASDAQ:NWS)
Arjun Dev Arora
Founder and CEO Retargeter. Bus Dev & Strategy at Yahoo. Investment Banker at Jefferies
Jonas Lamis
Co-founder and VP Marketing of Rally.org. 4X venture backed exec (Troux, Ventix, Question.com). MBA + Engineer.
Steve Jang
Founder/CEO, Schematic Labs, makers of Soundtracking. Co-creator, imeem investor/shareholder & advisor: Animoto, MessageParty, Stackmob, StumbleUpon, Uber
Bernard Moon
CEO of Vidquik, co-founded 4 startups, raised over $50 million, led product to BusinessWeek's "Best of the Web" list, blogger, TEDster, mentor at MuckerLab
Jeff Miller
Hacker Angel. Founder @Punchfork. 11 yrs on Wall Street as a quant trader at Millennium & Goldman Sachs. BS Harvey Mudd, MS NYU/Courant. Data enthusiast.
Max Niederhofer
Investor in Last.fm, Boticca, Skimlinks, Onefinestay, Fliptop.
Europe · VC
Benjamin Joffe
'Mister Asia' since 2000 (JP/KR/CN, SEA) Mentor @500 Startups @Founder Institute @YetiZen @JFDI.Asia, @GammaRebels, @Chinaccelerator 100+ talks, 20 countries
Soraya Darabi
Cofounder of Foodspotting. In a prior life, the Manager of Social Media + Digital Partnerships at The New York Times.
David Hauser
Founder of Grasshopper. Founder of Chargify. Founder of PopSurvey. Angel Investor.
Roy Rodenstein
Co-founder & CEO, SocMetrics. Co-founder HackerAngels, Going.com (acquired by AOL). MIT Media Lab 2000.
Sam Decker
Founder/CEO Mass Relevance, Founding CMO Bazaarvoice, Co-founder Capital Factory, 7-year Dell Exec, 5 startups B2B & B2C (product, marketing, biz dev), author.
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