- Dave Winer
Dave Winer , 39, has been a commercial software developer, marketer and software demoer since 1979. Winer pioneered the category of outline processing, shipping ThinkTank for the IBM PC, Apple II and Macintosh in 1983 and 1984; Ready for the IBM PC in 1985 and MORE for Macintosh in 1986. MORE won MacUser's first Product of the Year Eddy in 1986. He founded and was president of Living Videotext, Inc., which merged with Symantec in 1987.
- Nick Denton
Nick Denton is the founder and proprietor of Gawker Media. Nick Denton was educated at University College School and University College, Oxford. He began his career as a journalist with the Financial Times. Denton is openly gay. Denton co-wrote a book about the collapse of Barings Bank called "All That Glitters".
- Ralph Lauren
Ralph Lauren (born Ralph Lifschitz on October 14, 1939) is an American fashion designer and business executive.
- Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson is a self-described authority on emerging digital technology, and considered a founding member of the digerati. Esther Dyson is the daughter of Freeman Dyson, a physicist, and Verana Huber-Dyson, a mathematician, and the sister of the digital technology historian George Dyson. After graduating from Harvard in economics, she joined Forbes as a fact-checker and quickly rose to reporter.
- Sumner Redstone
Sumner Murray Redstone (born Sumner Murray Rothstein on May 27 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts) is majority owner and Chairman of the Board of the National Amusements theater chain. Through National Amusements, he is majority owner of Midway Games, Viacom and CBS Corporation.
- Seth Godin
Godin graduated from Tufts University in 1982 with a degree in computer science and philosophy, and he earned his MBA in marketing from Stanford Business School. From 1983 to 1986, he worked as a brand manager at Spinnaker Software, where he led the team that developed the first generation of multimedia products, working with such forward-thinking authors as Arthur C. Clarke and Michael Crichton .
- Nathan Myhrvold
Nathan Myhrvold is chief executive officer and founder of Intellectual Ventures, a private firm focused on the funding, creation and commercialization of inventions. Before Intellectual Ventures, Myhrvold spent 14 years at Microsoft Corporation where he retired in May 2000 from his position as chief technology officer.
- Danny Meyer
Daniel "Danny" Meyer (b. 1958, St Louis) is a New York City restaurateur. He was born in the midwest, and spent portions of his childhood traveling throughout Europe with his father's tour company, studying food and hospitality extensively in France and Italy (including such cities as Bordeaux, Rome, and Paris). In 1985, at the age of 27, he began his career as a restaurateur with the opening of Union Square Cafe.
- William Baumol
William Baumol (born February 26 1922) is a New York University economics professor (although he is also affiliated with Princeton University) who has written extensively about labor market and other economic factors that affect the economy. He also made valuable contributions to the history of economic thought. Among his better-known contributions are the theory of contestable markets, the Baumol-Tobin model of transactions demand for money and Baumol's cost disease, …
- Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson is a founder and Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures. Fred began his career in venture capital in 1987 and he has focused exclusively on information technology investments for the past 16 years. From 1987 to 1996, Fred was first an Associate and then a General Partner at Euclid Partners, an early stage venture capital firm located in New York City. In 1996, Fred co-founded Flatiron Partners.
- Charles Wang
Charles B. Wang (born August 19, 1944) is the co-founder of Computer Associates International, Inc. (now CA, Inc.) and owner of the New York Islanders ice hockey team. He was born in Shanghai, but moved to Queens, NY, when he was eight years old. He attended the elite Brooklyn Technical High School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Queens College in New York, and began working at Columbia University.
- John Kluge
John Werner Kluge (born September 21, 1914) is an entrepreneur who was born in Chemnitz, Germany, best known as a television industry mogul in the United States. He earned his B.A. degree in Economics from Columbia University in 1937.
- Robert Metcalfe
Bob Metcalfe is an MIT engineer, Ethernet inventor, 3Com founder, InfoWorld pundit, and now Polaris partner. In 2005, Bob received the National Medal of Technology for leadership in the invention, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet, of which last year there were a quarter billion new switch ports shipped worldwide. His most recent book, INTERNET COLLAPSES, is currently working its way down the long tail at Amazon.com.
- Stephen A. Schwarzman
Stephen A. Schwarzman (born 14 February 1947) is the Chairman and co-founder of the Blackstone Group private-equity firm.
- Julian Robertson
Julian H Robertson Jr (1933-) was born in Salisbury, North Carolina in the United States. Robertson founded the investment firm Tiger Management Corp. He is credited with turning $8 million in start-up capital in 1980 into over $22 billion in the late 1990s, though that was followed by a fast downward spiral that ended with the funds' closing in 2000. In 1993, his compensation and share of Tiger's mammoth gain reportedly exceeded $300 million.
- Christian Laettner
Christian Donald Laettner (born August 17, 1969 in Angola, New York) is a former Dallas Mavericks player who has played 13 seasons in the NBA on six different teams. He started for the 1991 and 1992 NCAA champion Duke University Blue Devils. He is considered one of the greatest collegiate players of all time.
- P. Roy Vagelos
Dr. Vagelos served as Chief Executive Officer of Merck & Co., Inc. for nine years, from July 1985 to June 1994. He was first elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 and served as its Chairman from April 1986 to November 1994. He was previously Executive Vice President of the worldwide health products company and, before that, President of its Research Division, which he joined in 1975.
- Charles Ardai
Charles Ardai (born 1969) is an entrepreneur, writer, and editor. He is best known as the founder and CEO of Juno, an Internet company, and more recently as the founder and editor of Hard Case Crime, a line of pulp-style paperback crime novels. Ardai's writing has appeared in mystery magazines such as "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" and "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine", …
- James Chanos
James Chanos (born 1958 in Milwaukee) is the president and founder of Kynikos Associates, a New York City investment company that is focused on short selling. He graduated from Yale in 1980. Kynikos is one of the few firms specializing in short selling that survived the bull market of the 1990s. In October 2000, Chanos started investigating Enron Corporation.
- Lachlan Murdoch
Lachlan Keith Murdoch (born September 8, 1971), is the elder son of media mogul, Rupert Murdoch and the former Anna Torv. He resigned from his executive positions at News Corporation on 29 July 2005. Subsequently, younger brother James Murdoch is now viewed as his father's heir-apparent. Their sister Elisabeth Murdoch, an able businesswoman in her own right, is married to publicity wizard Matthew Freud.
- Darren Herman
Herman then went to work for i33 Communications, one of the premier interactive agencies. Darren worked with the new business teams for Sprint, Ralston Purina, Multex, and American Eagle Outfitters. Leaving i33, Herman went to Student.com taking on the responsibilities for the entire website. Herman worked directly with the development and management team to oversee all website design and overall marketing initiatives.
- Yaron Samid
Yaron Samid , CMO Yaron has designed products and built companies that have empowered millions of people to create, consume, distribute and monetize digital media. Pando is his latest and greatest baby. Yaron started Pando out of his NYC apartment in the Summer of 2004 and is currently driving the company's business, product and marketing strategy.
- Mike Lee
Mike Lee is an aspiring entrepreneur, web geek, wannabe writer, hopeful manager, constant student, life observer, big thinker, philosopher, part-time therapist, optimistic realist, bullshit spotter, former New Yorker, now a Bay Arean.
- Paris
I was born on February 17th 1981! My mother and father are Rick and Kathy Hilton! Making me the great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton, founder of the Hilton hotels and source of the family fortune estimated at $300 million!!!! My grandfather Conrad "Nicky" Hilton Jr. he was the first of Elizabeth Taylor's many ex-husbands. My baby sister, Nicky born in 1983 shares the throne as co-heiress of the Hilton empire. Posers Are POSERS!! So please dont waste my time saying Im a fake!!
- Thomas V. Ryan
Tom Ryan Founder, Virtu LLC Co-Founder, Cductive Vice President, Mobile Development, EMI Music North America
- Kyle Bunch
I'm currently recreating.
- Bryan Eisenberg
Bryan Eisenberg has been helping companies realize that to maximize results it is essential to incorporate expert persuasion techniques and marketing performance metrics into your marketing efforts. Bryan is an inventor of Persuasion Architecture and is also one of the founders and Chairman of the Web Analytics Association.
- David Gong
Currently Search Media Analyst at MSN. Work with premium-tier advertisers to plan, develop, implement and optimize large-scale PPC campaigns. Previously, was Online Relations & Search Marketing Manager at Ripple Effects Interactive (REI), a nationally ranked interactive agency. Began tenure at REI within business development team, and also managed accounts and agency's public relations program. Began marketing career at Havas' North American flagship PR agency, Euro RSCG Magnet, in . . .
- David
Im an enigma. I love life and living. I write often. Indeed, here are a few sentences I wrote just this morning. "...I have never understood the fear and loathing. To me, life is a gift. I have no clue what happens afterwards. And I dont really care. All I know is someone, some thing, some force has given me a brain, a body, senses, intellect, and feelings.
- New York
I am unconventional, friendly, unpredictable and innovative. I thrive on originality and may be a bit rebellious. Some may consider me a bit eccentric.
- Matt
I was born and raised in Paris. I'm grumpy in the morning, brush my teeth several times a day and I am not currently in any twelve-step program. I sang in an Opera as a kid, but apparently only I think I can still sing. I found out recently that it's a bad idea to dive from too high when you're skinny dipping.
- Scott Belsky
- Sonny Caberwal
I quit my job as a corporate attorney at a law firm in New York City to start a beverage brand focused on bringing gourmet loose-leaf tea into the American mainstream, because I want the experience of taking a broad vision and trying to turn it into reality- now, every day is filled with a unique set of challenges and experiences. Besides, if you know me at all, I'm not really the corporate type.
- David Siegel
I'm online looking for a wife in all the wrong places. I went to a yoga class and perfected my downward facing dog and all I saw was the girl behind me. I went to Craigslist and found guys pretending to be women. I went to Central Park and met some nice girls, but they weren't into men.
- Bill Lipschutz
Bill Lipschutz is a forex trader who is the co-founder and Director of Portfolio Management at "Hathersage Capital Management".
- Chad Gracia
- Peg
I am a small town girl, who loves the big city! I love any beach or European country. Ask me to go out of town - I'll just ask what time & what should I pack? I am easy going but have major work drive. I know how to have fun, maybe too much. More Everything!
- Jennifer Parlin
A lil about me......I love to laugh, see the positive in all situations, and enjoy the simple things in life. I recently moved to Miami! Chris and I own a condo overlooking the ocean and across the street from a newly constructed PGA golf course! It's beautiful here. We spend a lot of time in New York (my fav. city), and traveling to other places.
- Joshua
Down to earth. Funny. Quirky, but warm-hearted.
- Kristin
I'm sort of in the thick of things, folks - I've hired a developer/designer (beta version up in four months, fingers crossed, wood knocked, prayers prayed), documentary going swimmingly, but to tell you the truth I've been hiding in the swimming pool and locking myself in my room and reading as many books as I can get my hands on so I can learn quickly.