Pete Cashmore is a social media blogger. In 2005, while working as a web technology consultant, he founded the blog Mashable, a popular site that describes itself as a "social media guide." The site focuses on its slogan, "all that's new on the Web", including information about Social networks, websites, technology and various other content. Cashmore was selected as a top 25 Forbes Web Celeb in 2007 and was also featured in BusinessWeek. In 2009, the astute self-promoter was chosen as one of Inc Magazine's 30 Under 30, Forbes' Top 25 Web Celebs and the Huffington Posts' Top 10 Game Changers 2009.

Michael Arrington is the founder and co-editor of TechCrunch, a blog covering the Silicon Valley technology start-up communities and the wider technology field in USA and elsewhere. Magazines such as Wired and Forbes have named Arrington one of the most powerful people on the Internet. In 2008, he was selected by TIME Magazine as one of the most influential people in the world. Wired magazine also included him in a flowchart of "internet blowhards" citing his obsession with "Web 2.0".

Kevin Rose is an American Internet Entrepreneur who first became an on-air talent and later as a co-host working on TechTV's show The Screen Savers (which later became Attack of the Show! on G4) until his departure from the network on May 22, 2005. Rose is known for his Internet start-ups. He is the co-founder of Revision3, Pownce, WeFollow and the social-bookmarking website Digg. Rose also co-hosts a weekly podcast Diggnation with Alex Albrecht where they discuss the top stories from Digg.com. Rose was featured on the cover of BusinessWeek for the August 14, 2006 issue. The cover text was "How This Kid Made $60 Million In 18 Months". The story mainly covered his success as a young entrepreneur and explained how he risked it all to make Digg.com a reality. It also says he lost his girlfriend during the launch and that money meant for a house deposit payment was instead used to fund his idea.

Bill Gates s an American business magnate, philanthropist, and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2010, excluding 2008. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8 percent of the common stock. He has also authored or co-authored several books.

Tom Anderson co-founded the social networking website MySpace in 2003 with Chris DeWolfe. Anderson was previously president of MySpace, and is now a strategic adviser for the company. Because newly created MySpace accounts previously included Tom as a default "friend," he has become known as the default picture of MySpace. As of February 2010, Tom's profile has over 12 million friends.

Guy Kawasaki is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist. He was one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing the Macintosh in 1984. He is currently a Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures, and has been involved in the rumor reporting site, Truemors, and an RSS aggregator, Alltop. He is also a well-known blogger.

Howard Lindzon has over twenty years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. Mr. Lindzon spent the last ten years managing his hedge fund, Lindzon Capital Partners, and is Partner and Principal of Knight’s Bridge Capital, a private equity firm based in Toronto. Mr. Lindzon’s new media and internet business investments include: MyTrade.com (purchased by Think or Swim in December 2008, NASD SWIM), Limos.com (sold December 2008), Covestor.com, Blogtalkradio.com, Foodzie, and Tweetdeck, to name a few. Mr. Lindzon is actively involved in his latest venture, Stocktwits, an open, community-powered investment idea and information service built on the twitter platform.

Tim O'Reilly is the founder of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) and a supporter of the free software and open source movements. O'Reilly was initially interested in literature upon graduating from high school, but after graduating from Harvard College in 1975 with a B.A. cum laude in Classics he became involved in the field of computer user manuals. He 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." O'Reilly is on the board of CollabNet, and was on the board of Macromedia until its 2005 merger with Adobe Systems. In March 2007, he joined MySQL AB’s Board of Directors.

Michael Dell is an American businessman and the founder and CEO of Dell, Inc. Dell dropped out of the university at the age of 19 to run PC's Limited, which later became the famous Dell Computer Corporation, then ultimately Dell, Inc. Over time, and despite a number of setbacks (including laptops that caught on fire in 1993, temporarily losing the consumer market to Gateway in the mid 1990s, and others), Dell survived the race to become the most profitable PC manufacturer in the world, with sales of $49 billion and profits of $3 billion in 2004. As Dell expanded its product line to more than computers, shareholders voted to rename the corporation Dell, Inc. in 2003.

Chris Fralic joined First Round Capital in 2006. Chris was most recently VP of Business Development at del.icio.us, which was acquired by Yahoo in December 2005, focusing on distribution partnerships to integrate del.icio.us across a broad set of browsers, tools and publishing partners.Chris previously spent 6 years at eBay, and his last position there was a combination ad sales and business development role helping entertainment companies such as Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Music Group, Apple and Netflix reach and connect with eBay users. Chris previously led the Entertainment categories, managing the transaction, platform and supply/demand aspects of the books, movies and music marketplaces on eBay in the United States. Chris had been the VP of Business Development at Half.com, which was acquired by eBay in June 2000.

Evan Culver is a young professional in the field of web front-end development and software engineering. He recently left Mahalo as a Front-end developer. At his blog you will find his rants and insights on things mostly related to web technologies and life in general as a young developer. The goal of this blog is simply to share Evan’s opinions, knowledge and interesting interweb destinations with the world in the most practical way possible. Cevanculver.com.

Loic Le Meur is a French entrepreneur and blogger. He served as Executive Vice President EMEA at software company Six Apart after merging French blogging company Ublog with Six Apart in July 2004. In late 2006 Le Meur became a public backer of French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy and joined Sarkozy's campaign team as an advisor on Internet-related topics.

Steve Case is an American businessman best known as the co-founder and former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online (AOL). He reached his highest profile when he played an instrumental role in AOL's merger with Time Warner in 2000.

Trevor Blackwell is the founder of Anybots, where he developed the first dynamically balancing biped robot. He has published papers on congestion control in high speed wide area networks, signalling protocol architecture, and file system performance. For fun he reverse-engineered the Segway, writing all the software in one day. He has a BEng from Carleton, and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard.

Marrissa Mayer s the Vice President of Search Product and User Experience at the search engine company Google. She acts as a gatekeeper for their product release process, determining when or whether a particular Google product is ready to be released to users. She has become one of the public faces of Google, providing a number of press interviews and appearing at events frequently to speak on behalf of the company.

Randi works on marketing, politics, current events & non-profits for Facebook. She is the unofficial Facebook correspondent for CNN & loves singing & running! She is the sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Jason Calacanis is an American Internet entrepreneur and blogger. His first company was part of the dot-com era in New York, and his second venture capitalized on the growth of blogs before being sold to AOL.