Steve Yegge is an American blogger and computer programmer. He is best known for writing about productivity, programming languages, and software culture through his site called “Stevey’s Drunken Blog Rants” and “Stevey’s Blog Rants.” Steve has twenty years of industry experience covering scalable e-commerce systems, embedded operating systems, software productivity tools, and applications for mobile devices.
Fred Wilson is a preeminent American blogger, venture capitalist, and businessman. He is the co-founder of Union Square Ventures. This is a New York City-based venture capital firm with investments in Web 2.0 companies such as MongoDB, Etsy, Kickstarter, Zynga, Foursquare, Tumblr, and Twitter.
Danielle Walker is an American blogger, founder, writer, and editor. Currently, she serves as the editor of the gluten and grain-free food blog Against All Grain. Danielle is the author of the best-selling cookbook of the same name. She started experimenting with healthy cooking after she suffered from an inflammatory bowel disease called ulcerative colitis.
Joel Spolsky is a software engineer and writer. He is the author of Joel on Software, a blog on software development, and the creator of the project management software Trello. He was a Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel team between 1991 and 1994. He later founded Fog Creek Software in 2000 and launched the Joel on Software blog.
Brian Solis is a prominent American author, speaker, and digital analyst. As of now, he works at Salesforce as a Global Innovation Evangelist. Brian’s work focuses on research and thought leadership that explores the cognitive enterprise, commerce, CX, and digital transformation as well as innovation and disruption.
Lauren Singer is a popular American environmental activist, entrepreneur, and blogger in the zero-waste movement. Since 2012 she has claimed to have been living a zero-waste life. She is also known for claiming to have collected all of the waste she has created since 2012 in a 16oz mason jar. Lauren’s blog “Trash is for Tossers” provides readers with tips for living more sustainably while documenting her own zero-waste lifestyle. Lauren is the founder of Package Free and of The Simply Co.
Craig Newmark is an American philanthropist and internet entrepreneur known as the founder of Craigslist, a classifieds website. In 2015, he also founded Craig Newmark Philanthropies. Furthermore, Craig made a $20 million endowment to the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism which was renamed the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.
Janelle Shane is a famous American public speaker, writer, artificial intelligence researcher, blogger, and optics research scientist. As of now, she works at Boulder Nonlinear Systems as a research scientist. Furthermore, Janelle also runs a machine learning humor blog at aiweirdness.com.