English programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist. He is known for his work on Lisp, for co-founding Viaweb (which eventually became Yahoo! Store), and for co-founding the Y Combinator seed capital firm. He is the author of On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and the book Hackers & Painters (2004).

American entrepreneur, investor, software engineer, and multi-millionaire. He is best known as co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used Web browser; as co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation; and as co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard. Andreessen is also a co-founder of Ning, a company that provides a platform for social networking websites. An innovator and creator, he is one of the few people who has pioneered a software category (Web browsers) used by more than a billion people and established several billion-dollar companies. He sits on the board of directors of Facebook, eBay, and HP, among others. A frequent keynote speaker and guest at Silicon Valley conferences, Andreessen is one of only six inductees in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame announced at the first international conference on the World Wide Web in 1994.

American businessman, investor, blogger and author. He is a high technology entrepreneur and co-founder and general partner along with Marc Andreessen of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He co-founded and served as president and chief executive officer of the enterprise software company Opsware, which Hewlett-Packard acquired for $1.6 billion in cash in July 2007. Horowitz is the author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers. In the book, to be published March 4, 2014 by HarperCollins, Horowitz offers advice on building and running a startup.

American businessman, investor, blogger and author. He is a high technology entrepreneur and co-founder and general partner along with Marc Andreessen of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He co-founded and served as president and chief executive officer of the enterprise software company Opsware, which Hewlett-Packard acquired for $1.6 billion in cash in July 2007. Horowitz is the author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers. In the book, to be published March 4, 2014 by HarperCollins, Horowitz offers advice on building and running a startup.

Serves as a Member of the Board of Trustees and Vice Chairman of the Endowment Investment Committee for University of Pennsylvania and as a member of the faculty at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches courses on technology entrepreneurship. Prior to Wealthfront, Andy co-founded and was General Partner of Benchmarc Capital, where he was responsible for investing in a number of successful companies including Equinix, Juniper Networks, and Opsware. He also spent ten years as a general partner with Merrill, Pickard, Anderson & Eyre (MPAE). Andy earned his BS from University of Pennsylvania and his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has frequently been named to Forbes magazine’s The Midas List as a top Tech Venture Investor.

Dave McClure is an entrepreneur and prominent angel investor based in the San Francisco Bay Area, who founded and runs the business incubator 500 Startups. He is often described as one of the super angel investors.

Seth Sternberg co-founded Meebo. Seth, a Connecticut native, worked in IBM’s mergers and acquisitions department, while also working on corporate strategy and venture capital initiatives prior to starting Meebo.

Noah Kagan is an American Internet entrepreneur and the founder of AppSumo.

Ryan Roberts is an American Internet entrepreneur and the founder of AppSumo.

Chris Dixon is an American internet entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder, and former CEO, of the website Hunch. He earned his BA and MA from Columbia University, majoring in philosophy, and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

David E. Weekly is an American internet entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder, and former CEO, of the website Hunch. He earned his BA and MA from Columbia University, majoring in philosophy, and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Ryan Spoon joined ESPN as Senior Vice President, Product Development in July 2012. In this role, he is responsible for digital products across all screens, including ESPN.com, ESPN Mobile, WatchESPN, ESPN3, Fantasy, and Social Media.

Andrew is responsible for all legal and contract matters and general operations of Vyopta. Prior to Vyopta, Andrew served in legal and executive capacities at two emerging growth software companies. He has practiced as a corporate attorney at international law firms such as Baker Botts L.L.P. and Gray Cary (DLA Piper) where he served as legal counsel to emerging growth and Fortune 500 companies on matters such as Mergers and Acquisitions, equity and debt financings and securities law. Andrew received his B.A. in Political Science and Policy Studies at Rice University and his J.D. from The George Washington University Law School.

Thomas R. Eisenmann is the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Faculty Co-Chair of the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. He studies the management of new ventures. Eisenmann teaches two MBA elective courses: Launching Technology Ventures, which examines challenges that entrepreneurs encounter when starting and scaling new information technology businesses, and Product Management 101, in which students specify and supervise development of a software application. He also is faculty co-leader of a Harvard Innovation Lab course, Cultural Entrepreneurship in New York City, in which students from across Harvard spend a winter break week in New York exploring new ventures in fashion, food, and fine arts. In recent years, Eisenmann has served as Chair of Harvard's MBA Elective Curriculum—the second year of the MBA Program—and as course head of The Entrepreneurial Manager, taught to all 900 first-year MBA students. He also co-led four winter break trips to Silicon Valley, and created Managing Networked Business (now called The Online Economy), an MBA elective that examines strategies for platform-based businesses that leverage network effects.

Joe Heitzeberg previously founded SnapVine, a pioneering mobile voice applications startup. Heitzeberg began his career at Paul Allen’s Starwave Corporation where he built some of the earliest interactive, paid internet services for ESPN.com and ABCNEWS.com.