People
Meet 2550 founders, developers, designers, and operators building San Francisco's tech scene.
Lars Mapstead
Founder @friendfinder-networks (FFN) Sold 2007 Founder @fupa-games-inc
Euwyn Poon
Founder of @opzi.
Ryan Block
VP Product at @aol, co-founder, @gdgt, @engadget
Jacob Brody
Co-Founder and CEO at Benny; former Partner at MESA+
Paul Stamatiou
Designer at Twitter.
Sean Rad
Founder & CEO of Tinder. Previously Founder of @adly (largest celebrity endorsement platform for social media).
Christian Sanz
Founder & CEO at @skycatch. DroneGames founder and Chief Organizer. Cofounded @geeklist , Engineer @ Disney, Built break.com from the ground up. Military vet
Jeff Tannenbaum
Investor @ @bluerun-ventures. also: developer, product designer, founder and investor in mobile & consumer web start-ups.
Yee Lee
4x founder, over 20 angel investments, 8 acquisition exits and an IPO. Prior teams: @paypal, @slide, @skype , @google , @taskrabbit
Igor Shoifot
VC at TMT Investments, convicted serial entrepreneur, investor, teacher (@university-of-california-berkeley, @new-york-university, @stanford-university, @university-of-california-san-francisco), chairman at HappyFarm incubator
Taher Haveliwala
Founder @kaltix (acquired by @google in 2003). @stanford-university CS PhD. Angel Investor.
Adam Marchick
Founder @kahuna, @glow-foundation • Worked at @facebook, @oracle-corporation • Studied at @stanford-university, @stanford-university Graduate School of Business
Tom Conrad
Angel, Advisor, CTO & EVP of Product at @pandora. Formerly @apple, You Don't Know Jack, Pets.com, etc.
Gil Dibner
Investor in @innovid, @profitect, @the-gifts-project, @sisense, @yedda.
Michael Kim
Founder and Managing Partner @cendana-capital
David Ulevitch
Started @opendns. Forced to step down by VCs. Replaced investors. Took back over as CEO. Aiming for the moon. Started and sold @everydns. Positively Disruptive.
Adam Smith
Started selling software online at age 13 (viratech.com); MIT EECS; founded @xobni in YC S06; seed investor in @upverter, @dropbox, @rescale; forever hungry
Nick ONeill
I founded Social Times Inc. in 2007 and sold it to WebMediaBrands (parent company behind mediabistro.com) in 2010. Now I'm building my next company...
Ravi Belani
Ravi Belani is Fenwick & West Lecturer of Entrepreneurship at Stanford University, and Managing Director of the Alchemist Accelerator, an enterprise seed accelerator backed by Cisco, DFJ, Khosla Ventures, Salesforce, SAP Ventures, and USVP.
Christina A. Brodbeck
Founding team member of @youtube, @youtube's first UI designer, Design Lead of @youtube Mobile, Co-Founder/CEO of @theicebreak, mentor/advisor, and angel investor.
Nathaniel Whittemore
CMO @partnered. Investor in edu startups (@learn-capital), writer (@change, @incmagazine + more), Live in the Mission, SF.
Fritz Lanman
Founder, Stealth Startup; Former @microsoft Corporate Strategy & Acquisitions.
Roy Bahat
Head of Bloomberg Beta, a new thing. Chairman of OUYA, also new :)
Jeff Bonforte
CEO at @xobni; Vice President, Social Search at @yahoo; Vice President, Real Time Communications at Yahoo, Inc.; Founder at @i-drive and others.