- 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, … - Meg Whitman
Another dreamy CEO choice, except she has already been a big company CEO at eBay (EBAY), has proved her mettle in building it to a powerhouse-despite the online auction site's currently harder times-and has the giant fortune to prove it. And, oh yes, she is likely to be using that pile of cash to run for governor of California, on the Republican ticket. - 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. - 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, … - 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. - Bill Miller
Bill Miller is Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Legg Mason Capital Management, a subsidiary of Legg Mason Inc. managing more than $60 billion of pooled assets and separate accounts. He is a portfolio manager of the Legg Mason Value Trust mutual fund (LMVTX), … - 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. - Janus Friis
Janus Friis is a Danish entrepreneur best known for co-founding the file-sharing application KaZaA, and the peer-to-peer telephony application Skype. He and his partner Niklas Zennström recently sold Skype to eBay for $2.6bn. They are currently working on Joost - an interactive software for distributing TV shows and other forms of video over the Web. Before embarking on an entrepreneurial career with Zennström, Friis worked at the help desk of CyberCity, … - 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. - Peter Yarrow
Peter Yarrow (born May 31, 1938) is an American singer who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Yarrow cowrote (With Leonard Lipton) the group's most famous song, "Puff, the Magic Dragon." Yarrow's parents were Jewish, born in the Ukraine; the family name was changed from Yaroshevitz to Yarrow after immigrating to Providence, Rhode Island. Yarrow received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Cornell University in 1959. - Tom Smith
Tom Smith (born 1981) is an English musician. He is lead singer, lyricist, keyboardist and guitarist for Birmingham-based indie rock band Editors. His vocal style has been compared to that of 80s post-punk singers such as Ian Curtis of Joy Division, and Robert Smith of The Cure. His guitar of choice is a Fender Telecaster Custom. When Smith lost his voice during the 2006 SXSW, the band had to cancel the last song of their first gig. - Marsha Collier
Marsha Collier is one of the foremost eBay/eCommerce experts and educators in the world. With over 1 million copies of her books in print (with special editions for the UK, Germany, France, Canada, Australia - and an edition in Spanish), she is the top selling eBay author. Among her books, eBay For Dummies is the best selling book for eBay beginners while her eBay Business All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies is the best selling title on operating an eBay business. - Steve Westly
Steven Paul Westly (born August 27, 1956, in Arcadia, California) is an American businessman and politician. He was the State Controller of California from 2003 to 2007 and was one of the top two candidates in the Democratic primary for Governor of California in the 2006 election. He was defeated in the Democratic primary by California State Treasurer Phil Angelides, who later lost to incumbent Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in the November 2006 elections. - Alex Gordon
Alex Jonathan Gordon (born February 10, 1984 in Lincoln, Nebraska) is a Major League Baseball player for the Kansas City Royals. Gordon, a third baseman, played collegiately at the University of Nebraska. In 2005, Gordon won the Golden Spikes Award, Dick Howser Trophy, Brooks Wallace Award, ABCA National Player of the Year Award, and Baseball America Minor League Player of the Year Award, and was considered by many to be the best collegiate player in the nation. - Chip E.
Irwin Larry Eberhart II, whose professional name is Chip E. (born 1966 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American DJ and record producer. He attended St. Ignatius College Prep, Kenwood Academy, Columbia College and DePaul University. He started spinning records in 1982 and by 1984 he was producing records. In 1985 "Street Mix" magazine declared Chip E. as the "Godfather of House Music". - Mafiaboy
MafiaBoy (Mike Calce) was the Internet alias of a high school student from the upscale area of The West Island in Montreal, Canada who launched a series of highly publicized denial-of-service attacks in February 2000 against large commercial websites including Yahoo!, Amazon.com, Dell, Inc., E*TRADE, eBay, and CNN. Canada's Youth Criminal Justice Act forbids Canadian news outlets from publication of MafiaBoy's real name in connection with this incident. - Louis Monier
Louis Monier is founder of Internet search engine AltaVista. Later, he was chief technical officer at eBay. He currently works at Google. Monier received a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Université de Paris in 1980 and did stints at Carnegie Mellon University, Xerox PARC, and DEC's Western Research Laboratory. - 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. - Brian Sack
Brian Sack is an American actor and humorist based in New York City. He appears on the "Glenn Beck on Headline News", a daily television program on CNN Headline News. Sack serves on the show as a correspondent and as the "Public Viewer" - where he takes the host, Glenn Beck, to task on a variety of subjects, usually revolving around Beck's own performance on the show. Sack writes humor for a variety of outlets including "Radar", "The Independent", … - Morten Lund
Morten Lund is an entrepreneur from Copenhagen, Denmark. Along with Soren Kenner, Lund is founder and managing partner of LundKenner, a venture capital firm focusing on technology ventures. Lund has founded and/or invested in more than 40 high-tech start-ups, including Skype, in which he was an early contributor. Skype was sold to eBay in October 2005 for $4.1 billion. Lund’s other adventures include a Chinese browser Maxthon and online backgammon at Play65.com. - Scott Cook
Scott Cook (Intuit, Inc.), HBS 1976, started his career at Procter & Gamble, where he learned about product development, market research, and marketing. He soon began using the insights he was learning there to look for an idea for a company of his own. That idea came to him one day when his wife was complaining about paying the bills. With personal computers just coming out at the time, … - Gil Penchina
Penchina is currently CEO of Wikia Inc. He was formerly vice president and general manager, international at eBay. He attended the Kellogg School of Management and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. - Edward Woodward
Edward Albert Arthur Woodward (born June 1, 1930 Croydon, Surrey) is an English stage, film and television actor and singer. Originally a Shakespearian stage actor, he is best known for his role in the 1960s spy series, "Callan", his lead role in the 1980s American television series "The Equalizer" and for the 1973 film The Wicker Man. - Jeffrey Skoll
Jeffrey Skoll (born January 16, 1965) is a Canadian born businessman who lives in Los Angeles, California. He was the second employee and first president of internet auction firm eBay, and used the wealth this gave him to become a philanthropist and to found the independent movie production company Participant Productions. - Jeremy Jaynes
Jeremy Jaynes (born 1974) was a prolific e-mail spammer, broadcasting junk e-mail from his home in North Carolina, United States. Under a variety of aliases,, Jaynes was accused of utilizing T1 internet connections to send hundreds of thousands of e-mails per day, using e-mail lists later reported stolen from AOL and eBay, amongst others. Spamhaus, a directory of junk e-mailers, estimated that he was the eighth most prolific spammer in the world for the period in question. - Kenneth Walton
Kenneth Andrew Walton(born November 23, 1967) is an American software developer and author of the memoir "FAKE: Forgery, Lies, & eBay", which details his time spent selling forged art on the online auction site eBay. He currently lives in Sacramento, California. In 1999 and 2000 Walton was working as an attorney in Sacramento, California, and selling art on eBay. - Alexander Samwer
Alexander Samwer (*1975), was an entrepreneur and cofounder of Jamba! (bought by VeriSign) and Alando (bought by eBay). - Scott Heiferman
Scott Heiferman is a co-founder of the website Meetup.com, a service that helps people use the internet to organize local community groups with local offline meetings. Meetup originally gained notoriety as the grassroots backbone of the Howard Dean presidential campaign in 2004. As of November 2006, approximately 3 million people have registered on Meetup. Meetup's investors include eBay, Omidyar Network, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Esther Dyson, and others. - David Faber
David Faber is a market news analyst for CNBC, and appears on "Squawk on the Street" (along with Mark Haines and Erin Burnett). He was dubbed "The Brain" by co-workers after he broke the Enron scandal. He has hosted several documentaries on corporations such as Wal-Mart and eBay; the Wal-Mart piece earned Faber a Peabody Award. Faber joined CNBC in 1993 after seven years at Institutional Investor. - Posterchild
Posterchild is the nom de plume of a street artist based in Toronto, Canada who is best known for his Mario Blocks project, the purpose of which is to install homemade Mario blocks in public spaces. After being featured on Boing Boing the project has expanded as others have made and hung their own blocks. Currently Posterchild also runs his own website, called Posterchilds Blade Diary. The term comes from the fact that graffiti stencils are cut using a blade. - Carolina Gynning
Carolina Gynning is a Swedish model and television personality. She became famous in Sweden in 2004 when she won the television game show "Big Brother". She has written a book called "Ego girl", in which she described how she became a model at 17 and got lost into a world of drugs and sex before straightening out her life. Gynning is now a host for tv4 show "Förkväll". - Josh Kopelman
Josh has been an active entrepreneur and investor in the Internet industry since its commercialization. In 1992, while he was a student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Josh co-founded Infonautics Corporation - an Internet information company. In 1996, Infonautics went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange. - 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, … - Rosie Reid
Rosie Reid was a student from the University of Bristol who sold her virginity online in 2004 to the highest bidder. Her rationale behind the move was that she preferred it to running up large student debts. Originally posting the "sale" on eBay, she was forced to move off that site; she ended up relocating to a site she could individually own and operate. Reid has claimed that around 7 bidders showed interest in her offer with highest bidder, a divorced man, … - Tawny Peaks
Tawny Peaks (born May 10, 1970 in New York, New York, USA) was the stage name of Michele Ann Laird. She is now retired from big-bust modelling and stripping and is a housewife in Michigan. In January 1998 she appeared on the cover of "Playboy's Voluptuous Vixens", a Playboy newsstand special. For the most part, she confined her performances to solo modelling and the occasional girl-girl video, … - Claudia Brücken
Claudia Brücken (born 7 December 1963, in Berching (Oberpfalz), Germany) is a German singer who fronted the synthpop groups, Propaganda and Act. After Propaganda, she released one solo album, "Love: And A Million Other Things" (1991). In the UK, from this album, Brucken released "Absolut(e)" in 1990, and "Kiss Like Ether" in 1991 as singles. She has also collaborated with Apoptygma Berzerk, and with the composer, Andrew Poppy on the album "Another Language". - Andrew Dickson
Andrew Dickson is a multi-disciplinary artist who makes work that combines comedy with social commentary. His performances include AC Dickson: eBay PowerSeller, An Evening with Bradlee and There’s a Humongous Fungus Among Us. His films include Hunter Dawson, Autographhss.com, and Good Grief. His work has appeared at the 2006 Arnolfini IBT festival, 2005 Notdance festival, Tramway, the 2004 and 2003 PICA TBA festivals, the New York City, … - Bill Leeb
Bill Leeb is a musician, born Wilhelm Anton Leeb on September 21, 1956 in Vienna (Austria). Leeb began his career with industrial band Skinny Puppy under the pseudonym Wilhelm Schroeder in 1985, contributing bass synth and occasional backing vocals to a few of their recordings and live shows from his period. He left in mid-1986 and formed his own industrial project Front Line Assembly with Michael Balch, … - Fred D. Anderson
Fred D. Anderson is a managing director and co-founder of Elevation Partners. He previously served as executive vice president and Chief Financial Officer of Apple Computer from March 1996 through June 2004. His responsibilities at Apple included oversight of the companies controller, treasury, investor relations, tax, information systems, internal audit, facilities and human resources operations. - Michael Holt
Michael Holt is a professional snooker player from Nottingham, England. As of 2006, he has reached the quarter finals of three ranking tournaments. In the 2005 World Snooker Championship, he beat his friend Paul Hunter in the first round. In the second round he faced Steve Davis, losing 13-10 after having led 8-2. For the 2005 tournament he used eBay to auction the sponsorship space on his waistcoat to Cabaret, a Nottingham nightspot.
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