Ilya Zhitomirskiy | Diaspora

image credit: Henrik Moltke/Flickr  Ilya Zhitomirskiy is one of the co-founders of Diaspora, an open-source personal web server. Zhitomirskiy developed Diaspora with co-founders Maxwell Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer, and Daniel Grippi. All students at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. The aim of Diaspora is to be a decentralized social network. Unlike Facebook, users set up their own server or "seed" to host content and seeds can then interact to share social data. The group received donations of over $200,000 via Kickstarter, an online threshold pledge funding system for funding creative projects. One of the contributers was from Mark Zuckerberg founder and CEO of Facebook.

Mark Zuckerberg | Facebook

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Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New York. He attended Harvard University where he along with his roommates Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz started Facebook. Facebook is one of the most successful social networking sites to date.

 

   

Maxwell Salzberg | Diaspora

image credit: Henrik Moltke/Flickr Maxwell Salzberg is one of the co-founders of Diaspora, an open-source personal web server. Grippi developed Diaspora with co-founders Daniel Grippi, Raphael Sofaer, and Ilya Zhitomirskiy. All students at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. The aim of Diaspora is to be a decentralized social network. Unlike Facebook, users set up their own server or "seed" to host content and seeds can then interact to share social data. The group received donations of over $200,000 via Kickstarter, an online threshold pledge funding system for funding creative projects. One of the contributers was from Mark Zuckerberg founder and CEO of Facebook.

 

 

Paul Buchheit | FriendFeed

image credit: Thomas Hawk/FlickrPaul Buchheit was the founder of FriendFeed, which was acquired by Facebook in August 2009. Buchheit was the creator and lead developer of Gmail and suggested the company's now-famous motto "Don't be evil". he is currently an angel investor.

Peter Thiel | PayPal

image credit: TechCrunch50-2008/FlickrPeter Thiel was born in 1967 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Thiel co-founded PayPal along with Elon Musk, and Max Levchin and was its CEO. He was an early investor in Facebook making an angel investment of $500,000 in Facebook for %10.2 of the company in 2004. He is currently a managing partner in the Founders Fund.