Sam Altman | Loopt

image credit: eng1ne from FlickrSam Altman attended Stanford University and majored in computer science. He is the founder of Loopt a location based social network mobile application.

Saul Griffith | Squid Labs

image credit: Pop!Tech/FlickrSaul Griffith was born on February 14, 1974 in Sydney, Australia. Griffith is the co-founder of Squid Labs, a Research and Developement institution. He is also involved with Makani Power, WattzOn, HowToons, Instructables, OptiOpia, Potenco and Monkeylectric. In 2007, Griffith won the MacArthur Fellowship.

Sean Parker | Facebook

image credit: jdlasica/FlickrSean Parker was born on December 3, 1979. Parker co-founded Napster in 1999 with Shawn Fanning. In November 2002 he co-founded Plaxo, an online address book and social networking service that integrated with Microsoft Outlook. He co-founded the advocacy and fundraising application Causes within Facebook in 2007. Parker was also President of Facebook. He joined the venture capital fund Founders Fund in 2007 as Managing Partner.

 

 

Sergey Brin | Google

image credit: Freedom To Marry/FlickrSergey Brin was born on August 21, 1973 in Moscow Soviet Union. Brin is best known as the co-founder of Google.

Shawn Fanning | Napster

image credit: Joi/FlickrShawn Fanning was born on November 22, 1980 in  Brockton, Massachusetts. He attended Northeastern University. Fanning developed the peer-to-peer file sharing platform Napster. In 2006 Fanning founded Rupture a social networking site for gamers.