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| x Anne Wojcicki |
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23andMe |
Anne brings to 23andMe a 10-year background in
healthcare investing, focused primarily on biotechnology companies.
Anne left the investing world with the hope that she could have a
positive impact on the medical world and the biotechnology...
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| x Antony Brydon | Visible Path |
As CEO and Co-Founder of Visible Path, Antony focuses on new
technologies, strategic direction and new market opportunities. Prior
to founding Visible Path, Antony served as CEO of IUMA, a leading
digital music company, which he sold to EMusic in...
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| x Bing Gordon |
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Electronic Arts |
William "Bing" Gordon is a partner of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and former Chief Creative Officer for video game publisher and developer Electronic Arts. He is also a board member of Amazon, Ngmoco, and Zynga.
On April 28, 2008 Gordon...
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| x Briton Hadden | Time Inc. |
Briton Hadden (February 18, 1898 – February 27, 1929) was the co-founder of Time Magazine with his Yale classmate Henry Luce. He was Time's first editor and the inventor of its revolutionary writing style, known as Timestyle. Though he died at 31,...
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| x Dave Lockton | Airplay |
Dave Lockton is the founder of AirPlay. As one of the country's
leading start-up entrepreneurs, David Lockton has founded or co-founded
over a dozen enterprises and has been responsible for raising over $450
Million for them. Companies he has...
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| x Dick Cheney |
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Project for the New American Century |
Richard Bruce Cheney (born January 30, 1941) served as the 46th Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 in the administration of George W. Bush. Cheney was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, but soon moved with his family to Casper, Wyoming,...
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| x Frederick W. Smith |
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FedEx |
Frederick Wallace Smith (born August 11, 1944, in Marks, Mississippi), or Fred Smith, is the founder, chairman, president, and CEO of FedEx, originally known as Federal Express, the first overnight express delivery company in the world, and the...
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| x George W. Bush |
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Arbusto Energy |
George Walker Bush ( /ˈdʒɔrdʒ ˈwɔːkər ˈbʊʃ/ (help·info); born July 6, 1946) was the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.
Bush is the eldest son of George H. W. Bush (the 41st...
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| x Henry Holt | Henry Holt and Company |
Henry Holt (1840 – 1926) was a Baltimore, Maryland native book publisher and author. He joined the publishing company of Frederick Leypoldt in 1866 that became Henry Holt and Company in 1873. Holt's company specialized in publishing and did not sell...
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| x Henry Luce |
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Time Inc. |
Henry Robinson Luce (April 3, 1898 – February 28, 1967) was an influential American publisher.
Luce, known to his friends as "Father Time," was born in Penglai City, China, the son of Elizabeth Middleton (née Root) and Henry Winters Luce, who was a...
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| x Henry Winkler |
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Henry Winkler/John Rich Productions |
Henry Franklin Winkler (born October 30, 1945) is an American actor, director, producer, and author.
Winkler is best known for his role as Fonzie on the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days. "The Fonz", a leather-clad greaser and auto mechanic, started...
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| x James Gutierrez | Progreso Financiero |
James Gutierrez, CEO, Co-Founder, is a serial
entrepreneur who believes in changing the world through entrepreneurship and early
stage investing. After graduating from college, James started Magic Beanstalk,
a 3rd party recruiting company that...
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| x Jeffrey Friedman | Telling Pictures |
Jeffrey Friedman is a political scientist and the editor of Critical Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Politics and Society.
Friedman graduated from Brown University in 1983 with a double major in History and Philosophy, and received an MA in...
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| x Joel Spolsky |
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Fog Creek Software |
Avram Joel Spolsky (born 1965) is a software engineer and writer. He is the author of Joel on Software, a blog on software development targeted mainly at writers of Windows software. He was a Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel team between 1991...
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| x Joel Z. Hyatt |
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Hyatt Legal Services |
Joel Z. Hyatt (born Joel Hyatt Zylberberg, 1950) is a prominent businessman and former attorney and American politician of the Democratic party. He is the founder of Hyatt Legal Services, and was featured in the law firm's television commercials...
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| x John E. Bryson |
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National Resources Defense Council |
John E. Bryson is the former Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Edison International, the parent company of Southern California Edison. He is also a director of The Boeing Company, W. M. Keck Foundation, and The Walt Disney Company,...
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| x John Ousterhout |
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Electric Cloud |
John Kenneth Ousterhout (pronounced /ˈoʊstərhaʊt/) is the chairman of Electric Cloud, Inc. and a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He founded Electric Cloud with John Graham-Cumming. Ousterhout previously was a professor of...
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| x Jordan Mechner |
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Smoking Car Productions |
Jordan Mechner (born 4 June 1964) is an American game programmer, game designer, screenwriter and movie director. Mechner was born in New York City. He graduated from Yale University with a BA in Psychology in 1985. He is best known for creating the...
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| x Kevin P. Ryan |
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Panther Express |
Kevin is one of the most accomplished and well known Internet
entrepreneurs in New York City, having been involved with numerous
success stories. From 1996-2005, first as President and later CEO, he
helped build DoubleClick from a startup of 20...
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| x Mitchell Kapor |
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On Technology |
Mitchell David Kapor (born November 1, 1950) is the founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3.
Kapor was born in Brooklyn, New York, and attended public schools on Long Island in Freeport, New York, where he graduated...
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| x Pat Robertson |
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International Family Entertainment Inc. |
Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson (born March 22, 1930) is a televangelist from the United States. He is the founder of numerous organizations and corporations, including the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), the Christian Broadcasting Network...
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| x Paul Newman |
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Newman's Own |
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 — September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 Martin...
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| x Richard Rogers |
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Team 4 |
Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside, CH, Kt, FRIBA, FCSD, (born 23 July 1933) is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs. He was born in Florence in 1933 and attended the Architectural Association School of...
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| x Robert Cook |
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Metaweb Technologies, Inc. |
Robert Cook is co-founder and SVP Platform Partnerships at Metaweb. You can find out more about him at his Freebase user page.
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| x Robert Glaser |
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RealNetworks |
Rob Glaser (born January 16, 1962) is the founder of RealNetworks (1994) which produced RealAudio, RealVideo, RealPlayer, and Helix, among other products and services. Before founding RealNetworks, he had become a millionaire by working for...
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| x Roger McNamee |
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Integral Capital Partners |
Roger McNamee is a Managing Director and
Co-Founder of Elevation Partners. Prior to Elevation, Roger was a
co-founder of Silver Lake Partners, the leading private equity fund
focused on technology and related growth industries. He was a member of...
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| Elevation Partners | |||
| x Ronald Rivest |
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RSA Data Security |
Ronald Linn Rivest (born 1947, Schenectady, New York) is a cryptographer. He is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Computer Science at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a member of MIT's Computer...
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| x Stephen A. Schwarzman |
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Blackstone Group |
Stephen Allen Schwarzman (born February 14, 1947) is a billionaire American businessman and investor and the chairman and co-founder of the Blackstone Group, the private-equity and financial advisory firm.
Schwarzman attended the Abington School...
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| x Steve Fox | The Web Magazine |
Steve Fox is Editor in Chief of Affinity Labs, where he oversees content for a burgeoning number of online communities. Prior to joining Affinity Labs, Fox was Editor in Chief of InfoWorld Media Group, where he was responsible for editorial strategy...
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| x Theodore J. Forstmann |
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Forstmann Little & Company |
Theodore J. Forstmann (born 1940) is one of the founding partners of Forstmann Little & Company, a private equity firm, and chairman and CEO of IMG, a leading international talent agency. Forstmann is a graduate of Greenwich Country Day School,...
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| x Tomi Pierce | Sensei Software | ||
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| x William DeWitt, Jr. |
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Spectrum 7 |
William O. DeWitt, Jr. (born August 31, 1941), an American businessman and noted George W. Bush campaign contributor, is currently the managing partner and chairman of the St. Louis Cardinals. He served on the President's Foreign Intelligence...
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| x William H.T. Bush |
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Bush O’Donnell & Co., Inc. |
Mr. Bush is a co-founder, Director and shareholder of Bush O’Donnell & Co., Inc., serves as its Chairman and as a Principal of Bush O’Donnell Smith Capital Services. From 1996 - 1998 he was Finance Chairman of the...
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| x William McDonough | William McDonough and Partners |
William Andrews McDonough is an American architect and founding principal of William McDonough + Partners, whose career is focused on designing environmentally sustainable buildings and transforming industrial manufacturing processes.
McDonough was...
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