- Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8% of the common stock. "Forbes" magazine's list of The World's Billionaires has ranked him as the richest person in the world since 1995, …
- Evan Williams
Evan Williams, born in 1972, a native of Nebraska, is an American entrepreneur who has founded two Internet companies. Williams and Meg Hourihan co-founded Pyra Labs to make project management software, but parts of the application were used to create Blogger, one of the first web applications for creating and managing blogs. The company survived despite the departure of Hourihan and other employees, and was eventually acquired by Google.
- Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin (born August 21, 1973 in Moscow, Russia) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Larry Page. Brin is currently the President of Technology at Google and has a net worth estimated at $16.6 billion as of march 9, 2007, making him the 26th richest person in the world together with Larry Page and the 9th richest person in the United States. He is also the 4th youngest billionaire in the world.
- Larry Page
Lawrence Edward "Larry" Page (born March 26 1973 in Lansing, Michigan) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the Google internet search engine, now Google Inc., with Sergey Brin. Page is currently the President of Products at Google Inc. and has a net worth estimated at 16.6 billion dollars, making him the 26th richest (living) person in the world together with Sergey Brin according to Forbes' annual list of billionaires on 2007
- Michael Arrington
I am the editor of TechCrunch and owner of the TechCrunch Network of blog and podcasting sites.
- Joi Ito
Joi Ito , an activist, entrepreneur and venture capitalist, has received much recognition for his role as an entrepreneur of Internet and technology companies. He has founded companies such as PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan and is the founder and currently the CEO of the venture capital firm, Neoteny Co., Ltd.
- David Filo
David Filo (born 1966 in Wisconsin) is the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang. David Filo, at age 6, moved to Moss Bluff, Louisiana, a suburb of Lake Charles, Louisiana. He graduated from Sam Houston High School and then earned a BS in Computer Engineering from Tulane University (through the Dean's Honor Scholarship) and a MS from Stanford University. Until the company recently decided to switch to PHP, his Filo Server Program, …
- Max Levchin
Max Levchin (b. 1975) is a Russian-born American computer scientist and entrepreneur widely known as co-founder (with Peter Thiel) and former Chief technology officer of PayPal. Originally from Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), he moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1991. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997 and co-founded two companies that made Internet-tools, …
- Caterina Fake
What she does: The co-founder of Flickr (now owned by Yahoo), Fake was one of the pioneers of the site-based photo sharing model. Before Flickr, sharing photographs meant sending them piecemeal as email attachments. The site is now widely used as a photo repository by individuals and companies alike. How she got there: Fake graduated with a BA in English from Vassar.
- John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow (born October 3, 1947) is an American poet, essayist, retired Wyoming cattle rancher, political activist and former lyricist for the Grateful Dead.
- Brian Alvey
Brian Alvey along with Jason Calacanis co-founded the publishing company Weblogs, Inc., home to such blogs as Engadget, Autoblog, Joystiq, TV Squad Cinematical and Slashfood. Time Warner's America Online purchased Weblogs, Inc. in October 2005. In November 2006, AOL also purchased the blogging platform Blogsmith which Alvey built. Blogsmith is used to power Weblogs, Inc. and other AOL blogs such as TMZ.com.
- Hasso Plattner
Hasso Plattner is a cofounder of software giant SAP AG. Today he's Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SAP AG.
- Alan Turing
This short on-line biography of Alan Turing is based on the entry I wrote for the British Dictionary of National Biography in 1995. The eight parts correspond roughly to the eight sections of my full biography Alan Turing : the enigma. There are no hyperlinks in the text. For links and for more images, go to the corresponding page of the Alan Turing Internet Scrapbook. Part 8 - Alan Turing 's Crisis
- Reed Hastings
Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings, Jr.) is the founder of Netflix. He is currently Netflix's chief executive officer, president and chairman of the board, and was the founder of Pure Software. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Microsoft Corp. His father was a lawyer who once served in the Nixon administration, serving as general counsel in the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
- Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is the American multiple-Emmy Award winning host of "The Oprah Winfrey Show", the highest rated talk show in television history. She is also an influential book critic, an Academy Award-nominated actress, and a magazine publisher. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century, the most philanthropic African American of all time, and the world's only black billionaire for three straight years.
- 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 .
- Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki , who was Apple's software evangelist, is passionate about the idea that products and services reach critical mass 'because mere mortals spread the word for you.' He also has noted that the people who developed the original Macintosh didn't really have any idea of what people would do with the machine-and thus how its users would influence its development. We're wired to create patterns, but that doesn't mean the first patterns are necessarily useful.
- Jeremy Allaire
Jeremy founded Brightcove in early 2004 with a vision for the transformation of television with the Internet. As President of Brightcove, Jeremy leads the company's technology, marketing and business development strategy.
- Chris Hughes
Chris Hughes co-founded and served as spokesperson for the online social directory, Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz. Hughes currently serves as a consultant for the popular site, but primarily acts as coordinator of online organizing within the Barack Obama presidential campaign. He also served on the National Board of Directors of the Roosevelt Institution in 2005 and 2006.
- Larry Brilliant
Dr. Lawrence (Larry) Brilliant is a medical doctor, epidemiologist, technologist, author and philanthropist. Born in Detroit, Michigan (May 5, 1944), he received his undergraduate training as well as his MPH (Masters in Public Health) from the University of Michigan and his M.D. from Wayne State University. He moved to California for his internship at the Pacific Medical Center, and developed thyroid cancer from which he recovered.
- David Korten
David Korten dkorten@bainbridge.net Dr. David Korten is a respected author and a leading authority on International Development in Third World countries. He has over thirty-five years of experience in pre-eminent business, academic and international development institutions as well as in contemporary citizen action organizations.
- Andy Bechtolsheim
Andy Bechtolsheim , co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and employee number one, is a product architect with the Systems Group. Andy works with the Systems Group to help drive next generation X64 and storage servers product architecture as well as HPC opportunities. Bechtolsheim has more than 25 years of Network Computing knowledge and expertise.
- John Mackey
John Mackey is Chairman and CEO of Whole Foods Market (which he co-founded in 1980). Mackey was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year in 2003. Mackey is a strong believer in FLOW principles, including free market principles and empowerment management. Mackey is one of the biggest leaders in the movement for organic food.
- Harry Browne
Harry Browne was an American libertarian writer, politician, and free-market investment analyst. He was a U.S. Presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party in 1996 and 2000.
- Meg Hourihan
Meg Hourihan co-founded Pyra Labs, the company behind Blogger before its acquisition by Google. She now runs a weblog at Megnut.com and co-founded Kinja along with Nick Denton of Gawker Media. She married notable blogger Jason Kottke on March 25th, 2006, and gave birth to their son, Ollie Peter Kottke, on July 3, 2007. She is the co-author of "We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs" (ISBN 0-7645-4962-6), …
- Paul Stanley
Stanley Harvey Eisen (born January 20, 1952, Queens, New York) known by his stage name Paul Stanley, is an American Hard rock guitarist and vocalist for the rock band Kiss. He is the writer or co-writer of most of the band's highest-charting hits, including "Rock and Roll All Nite," "Hard Luck Woman," "I Was Made For Lovin' You," "Crazy Crazy Nights" and "Forever."
- Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore (born December 29 1936) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and comedian, perhaps best known for "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (1970-1977), in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a news producer at WJM-TV in Minneapolis, and for her role as Laura Petrie, wife of television comedy writer Rob Petrie (played by Dick Van Dyke) on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (1961-1966).
- Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman believes that Facebook has a big future as a development platform, arguing that many fresh-from-college coders will turn to the popular social networking site when building their next Web-based entertainment application. But he questions whether the Facebook "friends list" - or "social graph" - is suited to business applications and other tools that go beyond entertainment. Of course, that’s what you’d expect him to say.
- Jessica Valenti
Jessica Valenti (born 1978) is a prominent blogger and feminist writer from New York. She received her master's degree in Women's and Gender Studies from Rutgers University and has worked for NARAL Pro Choice America, Planned Parenthood, and Ms. Magazine. Her work has been featured in The Guardian (UK), Bitch, Guernica Magazine, and Alternet.
- Anousheh Ansari
Anousheh Ansari (born 12 September 1966) is the Iranian-American co-founder and chairman of Prodea Systems, Inc. Her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI). The Ansari family is also the title sponsor of the Ansari X PRIZE. On September 18, 2006, just a few days after her 40th birthday, she became the first female and fourth overall space tourist, the first female Muslim, and first Iranian in space.
- Gigi Sohn
Gigi Sohn , President and Co-Founder, Public Knowledge. Ms. Sohn is an internationally known communications attorney. In September 2001, she founded Public Knowledge with Laurie Racine and David Bollier . Gigi serves as PK's chief strategist, fundraiser and public face. Gigi is a Non-Resident Fellow at the University of Southern California Annenberg Center, and a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne Faculty of Law.
- Joe Torre
The classic example of an affiliative leader - and the one often cited by Goleman - is Joe Torre , the ex-manager of the New York Yankees. Just think about the challenges faced by the manager of a professional baseball team. And the New York Yankees are not just any team. Joe Torre was the manager of one of the most talented teams in all of baseball. And with all that talent come a lot of ego-centric players.
- Ted Waitt
Theodore "Ted" Waitt (born January 18, 1963 in Sioux City, Iowa) was a co-founder of Gateway, Inc. Waitt was born and raised in Sioux City, Iowa and attended the University of Iowa. Along with Mike Hammond, he co-founded the company - then called Gateway 2000 - on his father's cattle ranch on September 5, 1985 with a $10,000 loan secured by his grandmother. The company eventually moved to Sergeant Bluff, Iowa and later to North Sioux City, South Dakota, …
- Donna Dubinsky
Donna Dubinsky, president and CEO of Handspring, Inc. and former president of Palm Computing, speaks about her career. Topics include: early...
- Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz (born May 22, 1984) co-founded the online social directory, Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg and Chris Hughes. Together they have grown the site to be used by more than 25 million people. Dustin currently serves as the VP of Engineering of Facebook and works out of the company's Palo Alto office.
- Bill Bowerman
William J. Bowerman (born February 19, 1911 in Fossil, Oregon, died December 24, 1999) was an American track and field coach and co-founder of Nike, Inc. He was a very successful track and field coach, having trained 31 Olympic athletes, 51 All-Americans, 12 American record-holders, 24 NCAA champions, and 16 sub-4 minute milers. During his 24 years as coach at the University of Oregon, the track and field team had a winning season every season but one, …
- Jim Lee
Jim Lee (born august 11, 1964) is a Korean American comic book artist, writer, creator and publisher. After graduating from Yale, he decided to give comic book drawing a shot and was met with succes. Jim Lee's distinctive, crisply hatched line art style and rigid, idealized anatomical forms established a new stylistic standard for superhero comic-book illustration, and reinforced a popular trend away from brushed to penned inking in the latter 20th and early 21st century.
- Peter Saville
Peter Saville (born 1955 in Manchester) is an English graphic designer based in London. Saville attended St Ambrose College. He studied graphic design at Manchester Polytechnic (later Manchester Metropolitan University) from 1975 to 1978.
- Steven Frank
Steven Frank is a Macintosh developer and the author of the popular webcomic "Spamusement!" Frank is a co-founder of the software company Panic. He is thought of by his fans as having a stylish haircut and a pipe, from one of his Spamusement strips, Want to go on a cruise on us stevenf?. His family and friends, however, know him to be the wizard painted on the side of the van in Impress the Females
- Kate Spade
Kate Spade (born Katherine Noel Brosnahan in Kansas City, Missouri in 1962) is the co-founder and namesake of the designer brand Kate Spade New York.