- Peter Thiel
Peter Andreas Thiel (born 1967) is an American financier, entrepreneur, and prominent donor to charities focusing on economic liberty and technology. With Max Levchin, Thiel co-founded PayPal and is its former CEO. Thiel once proposed that PayPal could be a catalyst for change in world politics. From Foster City, California, Thiel is an avowed libertarian. He studied 20th-century philosophy at Stanford University before going on to Stanford Law School. - 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, … - Elon Musk
SpaceX ( www.spacex.com ) is the third company founded by Mr. Musk. Prior to SpaceX, he co-founded PayPal, the world's leading electronic payment system, and served as the company's chairman and CEO. PayPal has over twenty million customers in 38 countries, processes several billion dollars per year and went public on the NASDAQ under PYPL in early 2002. Mr. Musk was the largest shareholder of PayPal until the company was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion in October 2002. - Chad Hurley
Chad Meredith Hurley (born 1977) is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the popular San Bruno, California-based video sharing website YouTube, one of the biggest providers of videos on the Internet. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0's "50 people who matter" list. In October 2006 he sold YouTube for $1.65 billion to Google. According to an October 10 2006 "Wall Street Journal" article, … - 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. - Steve Chen
Steve Shih Chen (born August 1978 in Taiwan) is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube. Chen grew up in Taiwan until the age of 8, when his family emigrated to the United States. He attended high school at John Hersey High School as well as the Illinois Math and Science Academy and college from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was an early employee at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. - Jawed Karim
Jawed Karim (born 1979) is the co-founder of the popular video sharing website YouTube. Karim was born in Merseburg, East Germany in 1979 and moved to West Germany in 1982. His father, Naimul Karim, is a Bangladeshi researcher at 3M. His mother, Christine Karim, is a research assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Minnesota. Karim grew up in Germany, and his family moved to the United States in 1992. He graduated from Central High School (Saint Paul, … - Roelof Botha
Roelof Botha is a venture capitalist. He began his career as an actuary. He was the CFO of PayPal. Now he works for Sequoia Capital and sat on the board of directors of YouTube before its acquisition by Google. Botha sits on the board of Insider Pages, Meebo, and Xoom. Botha graduated from Stanford Business School in 2000. He also attended the University of Cape Town where he did a BSc in Actuarial Science, Economics, and Statistics. - Michael Moritz
Michael Moritz (born Cardiff, Wales, 1954) is a venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California in the Silicon Valley, and a former member of the board of directors of Google inc. He was educated at Howardian High School, Cardiff before moving on to Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated as a Master of Arts in history. In 1978, he received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. - Eric M. Jackson
Eric M. Jackson is the president of Children's Publishing firm World Ahead Publishing and a former marketing employee at PayPal. He served on the board of directors of The Stanford Review and holds a degree from Stanford University. Jackson maintains the book publishing industry blog called Conservative Publisher. Jackson's own book "The PayPal Wars" (ISBN 0-9746701-0-3) chronicles PayPal's origins and discusses the legal, regulatory, … - 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. - Luke Nosek
Luke Nosek is an American entrepreneur. With Max Levchin and Peter Thiel, Nosek co-founded PayPal and is its former Vice President of Marketing and Strategy. Prior to PayPal, Luke was an evangelist at Netscape. During college, Luke was a partner at SponsorNet New Media. Luke received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. - Ken Howery
Ken Howery is a general partner at The Founders Fund. He was previously a co-founder of PayPal and he got his start, right out of college, working with Peter Thiel at Thiel Capital Management. - Greg Stolze
Greg Stolze (born 1970) is an American novelist and writer, whose work has mainly focused on properties derived from role-playing games. Stolze has contributed to numerous role-playing game books for White Wolf Game Studio and Atlas Games, including Demon: the Fallen. Some of Stolze's recent work has been self-published using the "ransom method", … - Matthew McDaniel
Matthew McDaniel (born in 1959; former carpenter in Oregon) is a human rights activist working to improve human rights for the Akha people of Thailand and Laos. He lived in Thailand for many years. On April 18, 2004, he was arrested at Thailand's border with Myanmar by Thai immigration authorities and later deported. He then lived in Laos for awhile, and now lives in the USA with his Thai Akha wife and their children. - Justine Musk
Justine Musk (born Justine Wilson in 1972 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada) is the author of BloodAngel, published in 2005 by the ROC imprint of Penguin Books. BloodAngel is a contemporary fantasy novel, similar to works by Dean Koontz or Stephen King. However, since the protagonist is empowered, rather than running scared from an unseen monster, the book is closer in feel to a sophisticated version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer than classic horror. - Dave McClure
Dave McClure has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for almost twenty years as a software developer, entrepreneur, startup advisor, angel investor, blogger, & internet marketing nerd. He is an advisor or investor for Mint, Mashery, Simply Hired, TeachStreet, Oortle, CrazyEgg, SlideShare, Eventvue, RichRelevance, HealthUnity, & Canopy Financial. Dave is the conference chair for Graphing Social Patterns, and a co-chair for Web 2.0 Expo. - Thomas Pytel
Tomasz (aka Thomas) Pytel is a Polish-American programmer, better known as Tran / Renaissance in the demoscene. He is notable for the creating the Timeless demo in 1994, and for co-creating the PMODE DOS extender with Charles Scheffold (a.k.a Daredevil). He was also the designer of the PC game Zone 66. After that, he went to 3D Realms and was one of lead programmers on Prey. - Antony Clough
Antony Clough (born in Oldham, Greater Manchester in 1978) is a business entrepeneur from Heywood, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, in April 2005 along with friend and business associate David Bargh they were searching for Internet investment ideas when they came up with the idea of investing in a U.S based Internet site called youtube.com. - Ghulab Khan
Ghulab Khan (born Gujranwala, Punjab, Pakistan, 1944) is the founder of Ghulab Khan Capital Partners (GKCP) one of the world’s leading venture capital firms based in Silicon Valley. His early childhood was spent in Pakistan with his schooling taking place in Switzerland at the Institut Le Rosey. He later attended Eton College and graduated with a First Class Honours degree from Trinity College, Cambridge University. - Albertus Jakobus van Wyk
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Risk Management professional with broad experience in technology, risk, data protection, fraud prevention, and compliance. Direct experience with strategy/policy development, project management, and payments processing infrastructure. Strong communication skills. Interested leadership roles in risk, payments, and/or technology on dynamic, international projects with serious growth potential. - Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is founder and president of Clarium, a San Francisco-based hedge fund. He is also a founding partner of The Founder's Fund, a VC firm with early-stage investments in Facebook, LinkedIn, Rapleaf, IronPort, and Powerset, among other startups. Thiel was the initial investor in Facebook, and serves on the company's board of directors. Before Clarium, he was co-founder, chairman and CEO of PayPal, which was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002. - Jim Tramel
- David Li
David Li has extensive entrepreneurial, product management, marketing and operational experience with a variety of Internet and global Fortune 500 companies. As Sr. Director of Product Management for PayPal, David was responsible for team product strategy, planning, roadmap, and execution. David successfully managed various Product teams during his 5+ years tenure, including Global Risk & Operations, eBay Team, & Merchant Services team. Under his leadership, the merchant services . . . - Ross Stuart
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- Jeremy Stoppelman
Jeremy Stoppelman , Co-Founder and CEO, Yelp: Jeremy is Co-Founder and CEO of Yelp. Previously, Jeremy was VP of Technology at PayPal, which was acquired by eBay. Between Yelp and PayPal, Jeremy was a student at Harvard Business School. He elected to put off his last year of business school to start Yelp. Jeremy graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in computer science. - Avery Kadison
Broad exposure to the cutting edges of the financial services industry including stints building derivatives trading systems for Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan, structuring and selling entertainment royalty bonds for Iron Maiden, and leading an early experiment in mobile payments for a leading wireless software company (Openwave/Phone.com). I have managed teams fighting fraud and building new financial services while at PayPal. I'm currently at eHealth, where I am leading the overall . . . - Kelly Braun
My experiences at eBay and PayPal have honed my skills at working under tight deadlines with ever-changing requirements . I'm an expert at inserting usability and user research into a growing company in the most cost efficient and effective way as well as presenting cost justification for the importance of design and research. I'm always open to hearing about the next break through company interested in finding a director to either manage or build a user research organization. - Scott Banister
Scott Banister is an advisor with Banister Advisors. Scott has built his career on identifying new markets early and shaping innovative products for them. In 1995, he identified Internet search engines as a significant new advertising medium and invented the first products to automate marketing in multiple search engines, ultimately creating the bid-for-placement business model used by GoTo/Overture (and now Google AdWords) and serving as VP, Ideas at GoTo-incubator Idealab. - Deven Alimchandani
i love fried chicken and im looken for a women who can do some cooken. not aguinst big bootie love. i like white girls with big bootie. and she gotta be a cuttie. those hotters girls can keep there hot wings. i like to watch tv and movies my favirote movie is sleeping bootie. i mean beauty. well i also like to ice skate and enjoy long walks in the park. i have a pet poddle her name is mrs t. after my hero mr.t that was one bad black man. well thats all about me for now. - Kevin Jundt
- Tony Adam
Creative guy that lives life to fullest on a daily basis. Music and technology have been a huge part of my life and makes me who I am. They both drive me in the same and yet separate ways and are really the make-up of who I am. In my spare time I maintain a blog (selfless promotion below) and I write song lyrics, poetry, and spoken word.
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