Pete Cashmore is a prominent Scottish business executive. He is the Founder and previous Chief Executive Officer of Mashable, a media and entertainment company. Furthermore, Pete was raised in Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and founded Mashable in Aberdeenshire in 2005 when he was nineteen.
Emmett Shear is a noted American internet entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder of live video platforms Justin.tv and Twitch. He worked as Twitch CEO until he announced that he was resigning as CEO and that Daniel J. Clancy would take over his role in March 2023. He is now a part-time partner at venture capital firm Y Combinator.
Michael Seibel is a popular American YC Group Partner and Managing Director of YC Early Stage (the startup accelerator). He also works on the board of two YC companies, Reddit and Dropbox. Previously, Michael was a co-founder and CEO of two Y Combinator startups Justin.tv/Twitch (2007 – 2011) and Socialcam (2011 – 2012).
Stewart Butterfield is a well-known Canadian billionaire businessman. He is the co-founder of the photo-sharing website Flickr and the team messaging application Slack. He was named Inc. Magazine’s 2015 Company of the Year. Butterfield announced his departure as CEO of Slack in December 2022 and also left Salesforce early in January 2023. In addition, he also co-founded Ludicorp with Caterina Fake and Jason Classon in Vancouver in the summer of 2002.
Kyle Vogt is a popular American businessman who is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cruise. He founded Cruise in 2013 with Dan Kan. Before becoming CEO in 2022, Kyle was the company’s President and Chief Technology Officer. He left MIT during his Junior year to take a job with the team that would go on to form Justin. tv and Twitch.
Arash Ferdowsi is a popular Iranian-American billionaire entrepreneur who is the co-founder of Dropbox. He launched Dropbox in June 2007 with his business partner, Drew Houston. Before, Arash worked as the company’s chief technology officer, and owns a nearly 10% stake in the company. Founders Drew Houston and Arash were named among the top 30 under 30 entrepreneurs by Inc. in 2011
Anousheh Ansari is a noted Iranian-American engineer. She is the co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems. Before that, she worked as co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI). She was the fourth overall self-funded space tourist and the first self-funded woman to fly to the International Space Station. In addition, she published her memoir My Dream of Stars in 2010.
Rachel Demy is a famous American Visual Artist who is a documentary and fine art photographer based in Seattle, Washington. Her photographs have also been featured in Rolling Stone, The Fold, Portland Monthly, Willamette Week, NPR, Boing Boing, Talkhouse, and The Village Voice. In addition, she is the wife of American singer and songwriter Ben Gibbard. In December 2022, she published her first book, Between, Everywhere a book that documents life on tour with Death Cab for Cutie.
Ben Gibbard ( Full Name: Benjamin Gibbard) is a popular American singer, songwriter, and guitarist known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, with whom he has recorded ten studio albums, and as a member of the supergroup The Postal Service. He released his first solo album, Former Lives, in 2012, and a collaborative studio album, One Fast Move or I’m Gone (2009) with Jay Farrar.
Jan Koum is a noted Ukrainian-American billionaire businessman and computer programmer. He co-founded and worked as the CEO of WhatsApp which was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for US$19.3 billion. Koum donated $2 million to AIPAC to support their involvement in the 2022 Democratic primaries. In addition, his net worth is $15.2 Billion as of October 2023.
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