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| Bill Gates |
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Person | Microsoft |
William Henry Gates is an American business magnate, philanthropist, and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen.
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| Board Member | Corbis | |||
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| Robert Cook |
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Person | Metaweb Technologies, Inc. |
Robert Cook is co-founder and head of product design and development at Metaweb. You can find out more about him at his Freebase user page.
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| Sky Dayton |
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Person | Business.com |
Sky Dylan Dayton (born 8 August 1971) is an American entrepreneur.
Dayton is the founder of EarthLink, co-founder of eCompanies, founder and Chairman of Boingo and the Chairman of Helio. He was a recipient of the TR100 award.
Dayton's father was a...
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| Board Member | EarthLink | |||
| Boingo Wireless | ||||
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| Jake Winebaum |
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Person | Business.com |
Prior to
Business.com and eCompanies, Jake held several senior management
positions at The Walt Disney Company including: Chairman of Buena Vista
Internet Group (BVIG) overseeing Disney.com, ESPN.com, ABCNews.com,
ABC.com, and Family.com, President...
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| Board Member | ECompanies | |||
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| Warren A. Bechtel |
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Person | Bechtel |
Warren A. Bechtel (September 12, 1872 - August 28, 1933) was the founder of the Bechtel Corporation, one of the world's largest engineering and construction services firm.
Warren Bechtel started as an employee of the burgeoning United States...
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| Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. | Person | Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. |
Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. (born 1926) is a American businessman and billionaire and is an early pioneer in the private equity and leveraged buyout industries founding private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and later Kohlberg & Company....
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| Henry Kravis |
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Person | Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. |
Henry R. Kravis (born January, 6 1944) is an American business financier and investor, notable for co-founding and heading a leading private equity firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR).
With an estimated current net worth of around $5.5...
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| George R. Roberts | Person | Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. |
George R. Roberts (1945-) is an American financier and was one of the three original partners of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), which he co-founded alongside Jerome Kohlberg and first cousin Henry Kravis in 1976.
Roberts has an estimated...
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| Reg Cheramy | Person | Zigtag Inc. |
Reg is an inventor and serial entrepreneur. Currently he is the founder of Zigtag Inc.,
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| Blogger | Stickyflow | |||
| mBase Commerce Inc | ||||
| Web Painter Communications | ||||
| Larry Page |
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Person |
Larry Page was Google's founding CEO and grew the
company to more than 200 employees and profitability before moving into
his role as president of products in April 2001. He continues to share
responsibility for Google's day-to-day operations with...
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| John Battelle |
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Person | Federated Media Publishing |
John Linwood Battelle is a journalist as well as founder and chairman of Federated Media Publishing. He has been a visiting professor of journalism at UC Berkeley and also maintains Searchblog, a weblog covering search, technology, and media.
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| Doug Carlston |
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Person | Brøderbund Software |
Doug Carlston was CEO, chairman, and co-founder (with brother Gary) of Brøderbund Software, a software publishing firm that produced such hit titles as Myst and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?. Brøderbund was acquired by The Learning Company...
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| Frank J. Caufield, Jr. |
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Person | Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers |
Frank Caufield has been active in the venture capital field since the early 1970s. He is a Co-Founder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Mr. Caufield has served on several company boards including Quantum Corporation, Caremark Inc., AOL...
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| Tom Perkins |
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Person | Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers |
Thomas James Perkins (born 1932) is an American businessman, capitalist, and is a Partner Emeritus at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Tom Perkins is one of Silicon Valley's pioneers, with a career spanning
entrepreneurship, the management...
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| Board Member | University Laboratories | |||
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| Eugene Kleiner |
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Person | Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers |
Eugene Kleiner (May 12, 1923 – 20 November 2003) was one of the original founders of Kleiner Perkins, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm which later became Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In 1956, he was among the first to accept an offer...
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| Deceased Person | Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. | |||
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| Herbert Boyer |
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Person | Genentech |
Dr. Boyer, a founder of Genentech who is currently retired, served as a
director of Genentech from 1976 to June 1999, when he resigned from the
Board in connection with the redemption of our special common stock. He
was reelected to the Board in...
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| Robert A. Swanson | Person | Genentech |
Robert A. Swanson (1947–1999) was a venture capitalist who cofounded the biotechnology giant Genentech in 1976 with Herbert Boyer. Genentech is a pioneer in the field, and it remains one of the leading biotech companies in the world.
He held an S.B...
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| Arthur Surveyer | Person | SNC-Lavalin | ||
| Ron Gilbert |
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Computer Game Designer | Cavedog Entertainment |
Ron Gilbert is an American computer game designer, programmer, and producer, best known for his work on several classic LucasArts adventure game, including Maniac Mansion and the first two Monkey Island games. Gilbert was also co-founder of...
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| Person | Humongous Entertainment | |||
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| Shelley Day |
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Person | Humongous Entertainment |
Shelley Day was a producer of children's video games. After leaving LucasArts, she founded Humongous Entertainment with colleague Ron Gilbert. She created the famous Putt-Putt character as a bedtime story for her son, which became a series of...
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| Bran Ferren |
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Person | Applied Minds | |
| Board Member | Associates and ferren | |||
| Danny Hillis |
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Person | Metaweb Technologies, Inc. |
William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer...
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| Computer Designer | Applied Minds | |||
| Author | Thinking Machines | |||
| Computer Scientist | Long Now Foundation | |||
| Musical Artist | Applied Proteomics, Inc. | |||
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| Roger McNamee |
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Person | Elevation 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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| Board Member | Silver Lake Partners | |||
| Integral Capital Partners | ||||
| Marc Bodnick |
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Person | Elevation Partners |
A co-founder of Elevation Partners, Marc has ten years of experience
in private equity investing and especially in large-scale transactions.
Prior to Elevation, Marc was a founding principal of Silver Lake
Partners.
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| Fred Anderson | Person | Elevation Partners | ||
| John Riccitiello |
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Person | Elevation Partners |
John Riccitiello is Chief Executive Officer of Electronic Arts, the
world’s leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment.
Mr. Riccitiello originally joined EA in October 1997 as President and
Chief Operating Officer. He was...
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| Bret Pearlman | Person | Elevation Partners | ||
| Tim Schafer |
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Person | Double Fine Productions |
Tim Schafer (born July 26 1967) is an American computer game designer. He founded Double Fine Productions in January 2000, having spent over a decade at LucasArts.
Schafer is currently designing a game for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 called...
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| Tim O'Reilly |
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Person | O'Reilly Media |
Tim O'Reilly (Irish: Tadhg Ó Raghallaigh) is the founder of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) and a supporter of the free software and open source movements. He is widely credited with coining the term Web 2.0.
O'Reilly was initially...
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| Author | CollabNet | |||
| Book Editor | Global Network Navigator | |||
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| Vinod Khosla |
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Person | Khosla Ventures |
Vinod Khosla was a co-founder of Daisy Systems and founding Chief
Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems, where he pioneered open systems
and commercial RISC processors. Vinod serves on the boards of Agami,
eASIC, Indian School of Business, Infinera,...
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| Board Member | Sun Microsystems | |||
| Venture Investor | Daisy Systems | |||
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| Charles Bugg | Person | BioCryst Pharmaceuticals | ||
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| Martin D. Cleary | Person | Juvaris BioTherapeutics | ||
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| Jeff Fairman | Person | Juvaris BioTherapeutics | ||
| Stephen Dow | Person | Juvaris BioTherapeutics | ||
| Parrish M. Galliher | Person | Xcellerex | ||
| Jeff Holden |
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Person | Pelago |
Prior to co-founding Pelago, Jeff spent almost 8 1/2 years
(1997-2006) at Amazon.com. Most recently, Jeff was the Senior Vice
President responsible for Amazon's consumer websites, worldwide. In
this role, he oversaw the end-to-end customer...
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| Darren Erik Vengroff |
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Person | Pelago |
Darren has spent his career building world-class computer systems in a variety of domains. Most recently he was a principal engineer at Amazon.com with
responsibilities in personalization, automated email targeting,
time-series analysis, content...
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| Jeffrey P. Bezos |
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Person | Bezos Expeditions |
Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is the founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. Bezos, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University, worked as a financial...
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| Venture Investor | Amazon.com | |||
| Board Member | Blue Origin | |||
| Chris Michel | Person | Military Advantage | ||
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| Fritz Demopoulos | ||||