- Dan Gillmor
Dan Gillmor is a noted American technology writer and former columnist for the "San Jose Mercury News". He was one of the leading chroniclers of the Silicon Valley dot com boom and its subsequent bust. Gillmor is also the author of a popular weblog covering technology news and the Northern California technology business sector, criticizing rigid enforcement of copyrights, and commenting on politics from a frequently left-wing perspective. - Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang
Jerry Yang Chih-Yuan (born November 1968) is a Taiwanese American entreprenuer, co-founder with David Filo and CEO of Yahoo! Inc. He is also one of the two Chief Yahoo!s and board director of the company. As of 2007 his net worth is estimated to be US$2.2 billion and is ranked 432nd among the world's richest people according to Forbes. - Jason Calacanis
Jason McCabe Calacanis is CEO and co-founder of Weblogs Inc., a network of close to 100 widely read blogs including Engadget, Joystiq, Luxist, Gadling and Blogging Baby. Weblogs, Inc. was founded in January of 2004 and spurred the growth of blogs. The company a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL in November of 2005. Calacanis, who was appointed a senior vice president of the AOL, maintains editorial supervision of Weblogs. - Susan Mernit
Susan Mernit (b. January 23) is an executive at Yahoo! Personals, a technology and media consultant based in Palo Alto, California and a former vice president of Netscape and America Online. As an executive, Mernit launched several corporate media sites since introducing Scholastic Press on America Online in 1992. She developed the children's educational site Yuckiest Site on the Internet with Jeff Jarvis and served as the editor of New Jersey Online. - Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen (born July 9, 1971, in New Lisbon, Wisconsin) is the chair of Opsware, a software company, and cofounder of Ning, a consumer Internet company. He is best known as a cofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser. In 2005, it was revealed that he is one of the people behind Ning, which recently launched a free "playground" for social software. - Henry Blodget
Henry Blodget is CEO of Cherry Hill Associates, LLC, an Internet research and consulting firm. He serves as an advisor to several Internet companies, edits an award-winning blog, Internet Outsider , and is a frequent contributor to Slate , Newsweek International , The New York Times , and other publications. He is the author of The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual: A Consumer's Guide to Intelligent Investing . - Terry Semel
Terry Semel was born on February 24, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.. His father was a women's coat designer and his mother was a bus company executive. Terry was raised in Bay Terrace, a community in Bayside, Queens. He was the middle child and has two sisters. At the age of 23, he graduated from Long Island University in Brooklyn with a B.S. degree in accounting. - Kathy Sierra
Kathy Sierra (born June 19, 1957, Fresno, California) is a programming instructor and game developer. Sierra is the co-creator of the "Head First" series of books on computer programming, along with her partner, Bert Bates. The series, which began with "Head First Java" in 2003, takes an unorthodox, visually intensive approach to the process of teaching programming. - Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz is a writer, web developer, and entrepreneur. At age 14 he was a co-author of the RSS 1.0 specification. Since then he has become a member of the W3C’s RDF Core Working Group, co-designed the formatting language Markdown with John Gruber, and has been involved in many other projects. Aaron was the founder of Infogami, a startup that was part of Y Combinator’s first Summer Founders Program. Previously, he attended Stanford University for a year, … - 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, … - Robert Shiller
Robert Shiller is the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, and Professor of Finance at the International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1972. Robert Shiller has been a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1980. - Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor, who previously served as the San Francisco correspondent for TIME magazine, and is now a senior editor at Business 2.0 magazine, was born in Liverpool, England, and received his primary education in the small northeastern town of Chester-le-Street. He attended Oxford University, reading history at Merton College. Taylor gained an interest in journalism after editing "Cherwell", the university's student newspaper, … - Pierre Omidyar
Unlike many other high-tech entrepreneurs, Omidyar didn't set out to become an Internet tycoon. Born in Paris, he moved to Maryland as a child when his father accepted a residency at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center. Hewrote his first computer program at age 14, to catalog books for the school library. He graduated from Tufts University in 1988 with a degree incomputer science and went to work for a company that developed Macintosh software. - Mike Daisey
Mike Daisey (b. 1973) is an American monologist, author, and actor best known for his full-length extemporaneous monologues. His breakthrough work "21 Dog Years" is an account of life as an Amazon.com employee during the Dot-com boom. Since that time he has created monologues about Nikola Tesla, L. Ron Hubbard, the history of the New York transit system, 9/11, Wal-Mart and a variety of other topics, … - Steve Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He was the founding VC investor in Hotmail (MSFT), Interwoven (IWOV), and Kana (KANA). He also led the firm's investments in Tradex and Cyras (acquired by Ariba and Ciena for $8B), and most recently, in pioneering companies in nanotechnology and molecular electronics. Previously, Mr. Jurvetson was an R&D Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where seven of his communications chip designs were fabricated. - Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos loves being on the move. He sits in the back of a white van, beaming as usual, surrounded by an entourage of lanky young lieutenants from Amazon.com, the Web's biggest retail store and, someday, if Bezos gets it right, Earth's Biggest Store. The early-morning landscape of southeast Kansas hustles by: wood-frame houses, trailers, motels with lots of pickup trucks in their parking lots, a Kum & Go convenience store, cow pastures and the dull, forever flatness of the prairie. - Glenn Davis
Glenn Davis was one of the first web designers. He is best known for his site, Project Cool, which included a daily Project Cool Sighting (formerly known as: Cool Site of the Day) which was a single daily link showing some of the best web design of the time. Glenn has been recognized for defining the technique of liquid web design and for co-founding The Web Standards Project alongside of such visionaries as Tim Bray, Jeffrey Zeldman, George Olsen, and Jeff Veen. - Martha Lane Fox
Martha Lane Fox (born February 10 1973), great-granddaughter maternally of Charles Henry Alexander Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey, is a British e-commerce business woman, charity trustee and board member of Channel 4. She is the daughter of the British historian and gardening correspondent Robin Lane Fox. She was educated at Oxford High School, Westminster School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where she read ancient and modern history. - Philip J. Kaplan
Philip J. "Pud" Kaplan created the Fucked Company website in May 2000 and wrote the corresponding book "F'd Companies" in 2002. He has subsequently created other websites and web-based ventures, including the online advertising market site AdBrite and the photo site Mobog. Kaplan is currently chairman and Chief Product Officer of AdBrite, having stepped down in May 2006 from his original position as CEO. Kaplan resides in San Francisco, California. - Brent Hoberman
Brent Hoberman, together with Martha Lane Fox, founded Lastminute.com in 1998, an online travel and gift business that floated at the peak of the dot-com bubble, and managed to survive the subsequent burst of the bubble. After building revenues more successfully than his peers, Brent Hoberman was hailed as a survivor of the bubble, and remained as CEO of Lastminute.com Ltd. - Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world, and an activist for open standards. O'Reilly Media also publishes online through the O'Reilly Network and hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and the Web 2.0 Conference. - Dotcomguy
DotComGuy was the name of a former computing systems manager who legally changed his name to DotComGuy from Mitch Maddox in 2000. His project was to live for one year (beginning on January 1, 2000) without leaving his house in Dallas, Texas, ordering all food and necessities off the internet and having them delivered. The house was monitored 24/7 and several video feeds were streamed online. - Jonathan Dube
Jonathan Dube is an award-winning print and online journalist and a pioneer in the online journalism world. He's been described as a "a web reporting pioneer" by The Poynter Institute, "a major figure in the online-news business" by Editor & Publisher and "one of the first journalists to use an online (blog) journal" by The New York Times. He currently serves as the editorial director for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's award-winning website, CBC.ca, … - Dick Hardt
Dick Hardt (May 28, 1963) is the founder and CEO of Sxip Identity. He is an advocate of Identity 2.0. Hardt has spoken at tech events such as Web 2.0, Supernova, Digital ID World, ETech, OSCON, Anti-Phishing Working Group, at New Yo - Chuck Mead
Chuck Mead (born in 1957) is a long time member and leader in the Linux and open source communities. He works for Red Hat in their Global Learning Services division. Mead was the former President, Treasurer, and Director of Information Technology for the Linux Professional Institute as well as the former Chief Technical Officer of LinuxMall.com, a dot-com era Linux vendor. He was also the founder and owner of MoonGroup.com, … - James H. Clark
Dr. James H. Clark (born 1944) is a prolific entrepreneur and former computer scientist. He founded several notable Silicon Valley technology companies, including Silicon Graphics, Inc., Netscape Communications Corporation, myCFO and Healtheon. His research work in computer graphics led to the development of systems for fast rendering of computer images. He is also a devoted sailor and the owner of several high-tech sailboats that he has helped to design. - Charles P. Kindleberger
Charles Poor Kindleberger was a historical economist and author of over 30 books. His 1978 book "Manias, Panics, and Crashes", about speculative stock market bubbles, was reprinted in 2000 after the dot-com bubble. He is well known for [[hegemonic stability theory] - Eric Hahn
Eric Hahn is an American entrepreneur who started Collabra Software in 1992. Collabra was an early e-mail-based groupware company. Netscape acquired Collabra in 1995. In 1997 Eric became Netscape's CTO. According to SEC filings Hahn netted approximately $29 million from sales in Netscape stock. Hahn is also the creator of Lookout Software, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2004. Mr. Hahn currently lives in Palo Alto, California with his wife and two sons, … - Susan Polis Schutz
Susan Polis Schutz is an American poet and producer of greeting cards. She was born in Peekskill, NY, in 1944. A longtime activist for women's rights and antiwar causes, she initially worked as a freelance writer. In 1971, she turned her hobby of writing poetry into a commercial venture by founding (with husband Stephen Schutz) the greeting card and poster company Blue Mountain Arts. Schutz's poetry focuses heavily on themes of love, family, motherhood, trust, … - David O. Sacks
David O. Sacks is Founder and CEO of Web 2.0 company Geni, Inc.. Sacks was previously the COO of PayPal until its acquisition by eBay. He produced the recent Hollywood movie, "Thank You for Smoking". He was interviewed in a recent episode of Venture Voice. He attended Memphis University School in Memphis, Tennessee. - Dick Sabot
Richard "Dick" Sabot (February 16 1944 - July 6 2005) was an economist, scholar, farmer, and Internet pioneer who was co-founder of Tripod.com, one of the first and most successful dot-coms, in 1992. (It was subsequently sold to Lycos in 1998) He was also a co-founder of Eziba (later acquired by Overstock.com), an Internet venture which sold handcrafted goods from artisans around the world. He was a professor emeritus of economics at Williams College, … - Fran Rooney
Fran Rooney (Dublin, Ireland) is one of Ireland's best known businessmen. He and his companies have received many awards for achievements in business. The President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, presented Mr. Rooney with the Businessman of the Year award in 2000. He was Bank of Ireland Entrepreneur of the Year in 2001. Baltimore Technologies was Company of the Year in 1998 and 2000. Fran Rooney is Executive Chairman and major shareholder of ICE Broadband. Mr. - Scott A. Jones
Scott A. Jones (born in 1960) is an American inventor, serial entrepreneur and pioneer. For more than two decades, Jones has created companies that have produced over a dozen award-winning industry firsts. He revolutionized the modern workplace in the mid-1980s, when at 25 years old, after forming his first company, Boston Technology, he invented the voicemail system that is now used by nearly all telephone companies around the globe. - Marc Fest
Marc Fest (born 1966, in Muenster, Germany) is notable as the creator of multiple websearch media and a pioneer in this technology. He is a former journalist and self-taught programmer. His most recognized achievement is originating the concept known as "metabrowsing" through his creation of Quickbrowse.com in 1999. This is a Web-based subscription service that enables users to browse multiple web pages by combining them vertically into a single web page. - Lawrence Kestenbaum
Lawrence Kestenbaum is an attorney, politician, and the creator and webmaster of the Political Graveyard website. The site was created in 1996 when he was an academic specialist at Michigan State University. He was later on staff at the University of Michigan. He was formerly a county commissioner, and in 2004, he was elected as the Washtenaw County, Michigan Clerk and Register of Deeds. - Brett Atwood
Brett Atwood is a print and online journalist, whose writings have appeared in "Billboard", "Rolling Stone", "Vibe", "Hollywood Reporter" and other publications. In addition to his writing career, Atwood has held managing editor positions at leading Internet sites Amazon.com and RealNetworks. In 2001, Atwood's career shifted to academia. - Wendy Bucklew
Wendy Bucklew is an American folk singer/songwriter who became well-known as part of the Atlanta folk scene, which she joined in 1988. She recently moved back to California. Her most recent album, "After You", was able to achieve distribution after a record label dispute when a fan who became a dot-com millionaire after listening to Bucklew's music during a difficult life period bought her contract and all of her product, … - Marc Scarpa
Marc Scarpa (born September 25th 1969 in New York City) is a pioneer in directing and producing live interactive media. His first company, JumpCut, was a part of the dot-com era in New York known as Silicon Alley. - Damian Stephens
Damian Stephens (born November 1, 1969 in Oxford, England) is a music producer and user experience designer. Stephens has produced Techno and Hip Hop since 1991. Currently living in South Africa, Stephens is founder and CEO of PioneerUnit Records and Director of User Experience Design at Travelstart, an online travel agency established by Swedish entrepreneur Stephan Ekbergh. As a music producer, his production credits include Pro Kid, Trusenz, KONFAB, Ben Sharpa, … - Jon Mittelhauser
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