People
Meet 1950 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Seattle's tech scene.
Christine Tsai
Managing Partner at 500 Startups. Ex-Googler & ex-YouTuber. Left-handed. Ballet dancer of ~25 yrs. Go Bears.
Michael Arrington
Founder Techcrunch, @crunchfund Partner, blogger at Uncrunched.
David Cohen
Founder/CEO of @techstars. Investor in Amazing Startups. Geeky to the bone. http://www.davidgcohen.com
Jon Staenberg
Investor in @infospace, @stubhub, @serious-materials, @evite, @seagate, @spinner, @livebid. @squaretrade @angel-list-1, @splunk, @automattic @volaris @appvance
Hadi Partovi
Startup investor/advisor and former entrepreneur
Neil Patel
Neil Patel is the co-founder of Crazy Egg and @kissmetrics. He has helped corporations such as @amazon, AOL, GM, HP and Viacom make more money from the web.
Kevin Steger
2 X Tech Founder/CTO, Ex-hedge fund manager, Founder of StartupReport.com - 150k subscribers and growing, Available for Advisor Stuff.
Wesley Chan
Angel investor and former GP at @googleventures. Investor in @optimizely, @parse, @firespotter-labs, @the-climate-corporation and @crittercism. Founded @google-analytics & @google-voice.
Matt Shobe
Serial entrepreneur (@feedburner sold to @google, @spyonit sold to 724 Solutions). My head is full of zero-billion dollar business ideas.
Andy Sack
@techstars-1 Seattle Director. Founder of Abuzz (sold to NYT), Firefly Network (sold to MSFT)
Chris DeVore
GP @founders-co-op. Director @techstars Seattle. Co-founder @adjacency (ACQ @sapient). Led @patagonia eCommerce. @stanford-graduate-school-of-business, Yale.
Tony Wright
Current: just finished a 9 month travel sabbatical. Previous: @cubeduel (went viral, sold 2011) & @rescuetime (YC, @true-ventures, profitable).
Jason Seats
Managing Director @techstars • Co-founder @slicehost (acq by @rackspace)
Ben Huh
Founder @cheezburger, @circa • Studied at @northwestern-university. Allergic to cats.
Dan Shapiro
Chief Turtle Officer at Robot Turtles. CEO & Founder of @sparkbuy (sold to @google) and @ontela (now @photobucket).
David Nakayama
Angel Investor & Technology Advisor, Former SVP Engineering at @yahoo & Creator of Rocketmail & @yahoo Mail.
Andrew Conru
@stanford-university PhD, Early Internet pioneer, 20+ Internet startups including founder/CEO Friend Finder (grew to $300M/year)
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO at @amazon.com
Neal Hansch
Founder @webassist • Worked at @meltwater-foundation-mest @rustic-canyon-partners, @webmethods • Studied at @duke-university
Kelly Kampen
Biz Dev @oozou, Founder at @dojothreads, @jajoop & @startup-watches Love Growth Hacking & online to offline models.
Dave Schappell
Amazon Web Services Startup BD. Former founder and CEO, @teachstreet. Early Amazonian. Amateur poker superstah. 1/2 of a Wharton MBA.
Brad Gillespie
Partner at @ia-ventures.
Kevin Swan
Been in a startup, ran a seed fund and now a VC, but an entrepreneur at heart. A Canadian who lived in the Silicon Valley and took it back home with him.
T.A. McCann
Founder of @RivalIQ and @gist • Worked at @microsoft, @vulcan-ventures • Studied at @purdue-university • mentor @techstars and @startupweekend