Dot-com people Dot-com people Brent Hoberman, together with Martha Lane Fox, founded Lastminute.com in 1998, an online travel and gift business that floated at the peak of the dot-com bubble, and managed to survive the subsequent burst of the bubble. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brent Hoberman"
Dan Gillmor is a noted American technology writer and former columnist for the San Jose Mercury News. He was one of the leading chroniclers of the Silicon Valley dot com boom and its subsequent bust. Gillmor is also the author of a popular weblog covering technology news and the Northern California technology business sector, criticizing rigid enforcement of copyrights, and commenting on politics from a frequently left-wing perspective. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dan Gillmor"
Dr. James H. Clark (born 1944) first became famous for technological advancement in computer graphics but later became known as a successful entrepreneur. He dropped out of high school, spent four years in the Navy, then eventually ended up with a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree (both in Physics) from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana. He earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Utah. Jim Clark was first known for his work with geometry pipelines, specialized software or hardware that accelerates the display of three dimensional images. The zenith of these advancements was the Geometry Engine, an early technology for rendering highly graphical computer images he developed in 1979. ...more on Wikipedia about "James H. Clark"
Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is the 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 analyst for D.E. Shaw before founding Amazon.com in 1994. He was TIME magazine's Person of the Year in 1999. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jeff Bezos"
Marc Andreessen (born April 26, 1971) is the chair of Opsware, a software company. He is best known as a cofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic, an early web browser. In 2005, it came out that he is one of the people behind Ning, which recently launched a free "playground" for social software. ...more on Wikipedia about "Marc Andreessen"
Martha Lane Fox (born February 10 1973) is a British e-commerce business woman and charity trustee, daughter of Robin Lane Fox and great-niece of Charles Henry Alexander Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey. ...more on Wikipedia about "Martha Lane Fox"
Philip J. Kaplan, nicknamed "Pud", created the popular Fucked Company website in May 2000, and the corresponding book F'd Companies in 2002. ...more on Wikipedia about "Philip J. Kaplan"
Pierre Omidyar (born 21 June, 1967) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, and the founder and chairman of the eBay auction site. Born in Paris, France to Iranian parents, Omidyar moved to the US at the age of 6. Growing up in Washington, D.C., he developed an interest in computing while still at high school. In 1988 he graduated in computer science from Tufts University, and joined Claris, an Apple subsidiary, where he helped write MacDraw. In 1991 he co-founded Ink Development, a pen-based computing startup that was later rebranded as an e-commerce company (and renamed eShop). ...more on Wikipedia about "Pierre Omidyar"
Steven T. Jürvetson (born in Arizona, USA, 1967) is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ). He was the founding Venture Capitalist (VC) investor in Hotmail, Interwoven, and Kana. He also led the firm's investments in Tradex and Cyras (acquired by Ariba and Ciena, respectively) and, more recently, in Skype (acquired by eBay in September 2005). DFJ holds investments in a number of other businesses. ...more on Wikipedia about "Steve Jurvetson"
Susan Mernit (b. January 23) is a technology and media consultant based in Palo Alto, California and a former vice president of Netscape and America Online. ...more on Wikipedia about "Susan Mernit"
Tim O'Reilly (born 1954, Cork, Ireland) is the founder of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) and a booster of the free software and open source movements. Tim defines his company not as a book or online publisher, or as a conference producer (though the company does all three), but as a technology transfer company, "changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators." ...more on Wikipedia about "Tim O'Reilly"
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