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| Bill Gates |
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Person | Microsoft |
William Henry Gates III (born October 28 1955), is an American business magnate, philanthropist, the world's third richest man (as of 2008), and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft,...
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| Board Member | Corbis | |||
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| Robert Cook |
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Person | Metaweb Technologies, Inc. |
Robert Cook is a co-founder of Metaweb. He was a software programmer at Brøderbund in the 1980s and was the model for one of the characters in Jordan Mechner's game Prince of Persia. He designed and created the computer game D/Generation and was...
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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.
Dayton's father was a sculptor and his mother a dancer and...
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| Board Member | EarthLink | |||
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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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| 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.
He partnered with Bear Stearns protégés Henry Kravis and George R. Roberts to form leverage-buyout shop Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. He left to start his own firm, Kohlberg &...
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| Henry Kravis |
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Person | Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. |
Henry R. Kravis (born 1944) is an American business financier and investor, notable for co-founding and heading the leading private equity firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR).
With an estimated current net worth of around $5.5 billion, he...
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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 founders of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR). He is the first cousin of Henry Kravis. He has an estimated net worth of around $5.5 billion as of 2007 .
Roberts is a native...
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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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| Larry Page |
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Lawrence Edward "Larry" Page (born March 26 1973) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the Google web search engine, now Google Inc., with Sergey Brin.
Larry Page is the son of the late Dr. Carl Victor Page, a professor of computer science...
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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 |
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Person | Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers |
Frank J. Caufield (born 1939 or 1940) is best known as a co-founder of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, based in Menlo Park, California.
From 1973 to 1978, Caufield was a General Partner and Manager of Oak Grove...
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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 was one of the founders of leading venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Perkins received a B.S. in EECS (course 6) from MIT in 1953. He earned an MBA...
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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.
The company was an early investor in more than...
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| Deceased Person | Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. | |||
| Herbert Boyer |
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Person | Genentech |
Herbert W. Boyer (b. 1936) is a recipient of the 1990 National Medal of Science, and co-recipient of the 1996 Lemelson-MIT Prize and a co-founder of Genentech.
Boyer received his bachelor's degree in biology and chemistry from Saint Vincent College...
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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 | 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 | |
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| 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 | |||
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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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| 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 (born January 28, 1955 in Pune, India) is an Indian-American venture capitalist. He is an influential personality in Silicon Valley. He was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and became a general partner of the venture capital...
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| Board Member | Sun Microsystems | |||
| Venture Investor | Daisy Systems | |||
