American actor Taye Diggs is well-known for playing a variety of characters in theater, movies, and television. He goes by the stage name Taye, which was bestowed to him by classmates when he was still in school. Taye was born Scott Leo Berry. Diggs became well-known for his role of the landlord Benny in the Broadway hit Rent, which garnered... read full bio
Alejandro G. Iñárritu is an Academy Award-winning director, writer, and producer who is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished filmmakers of our time. Known for his masterful storytelling and unparalleled cinematic vision, Iñárritu has established himself as a force to be reckoned with in the film industry. Iñárritu's recent film, The Revenant, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy, received... read full bio
Collins Key has achieved what no other magician has ever done- let alone at 17 years of age. Not only did he change the game in the way magic is presented on America’s Got Talent and set a new standard for amazement, but he was the very first magician to make it to the final round in eight seasons. As... read full bio
Uber Co-Founder, Oscar Salazar is also a founder of the medical start-up Pager, and VP of Technology at the tech start-up, Ride. He has raised more than $25 million in funding for current ventures. Ride is a carpooling app, which companies sign up for to advertise to their employees. This revolutionary ride-sharing app uses algorithms to group employees together based... read full bio
Shiza Shahid is the Chief Executive Officer of the Malala Fund and one of the co-founders of the organization. Shiza Shahid is of Pakistani descent and is an entrepreneur and social activist. She is the worldwide ambassador for the organization, and in that capacity, she speaks on behalf of Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani activist who was shot by the... read full bio
Recognized as one of the top tech conference speakers, Kristian Segerstrale is the CEO at Super Evil Megacorp, a leading game developer. Kristian has also been named among the Top 50 most influential executives in Mobile Entertainment by ME Magazine. He has spearheaded the ever-changing game industry for over a decade. Previously, as VP of Production at EMEA, he led... read full bio
Casey Owen Neistat is a film director, producer and creator of popular YouTube videos. Casey, who got his start working as a dish washer, is a self-taught filmmaker and discovered his passion for making movies with a friend. Neistat attained commercial success with the HBO series The Neistat Brothers and indie film Daddy Longlegs. With ten years of experience in... read full bio
The Founder and Chief Product Officer of Airbnb, Joe Gebbia has been named among BusinessWeeks Top 20 Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs, Inc. Magazines Thirty under Thirty, and Fortune Magazines Forty under Forty. After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design and Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, Joe was offered... read full bio
At the helm of the body-positive movement of the new decade is supermodel Ashley Graham, who went down in history as the first plus-size model to appear on the cover of the prestigious Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition. At the young age of thirteen, she began what would become a revolutionary fashion career, when she signed with an international modeling agency.... read full bio
Dr. Drew Pinsky is a world-renowned doctor, most famous for his many television appearances on the shows Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, Dr. Drew On Call, MTV’s 16 and Pregnant, and Sober House. He is both Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Board Certified in Addiction Medicine. For over 20 years, Dr. Drew’s advice on the nationally syndicated radio show,... read full bio
Tamron Hall is an American television journalist and news anchor who has been the host of MSNBC Live with Tamron Hall, co-host of Today’s Take, and a former correspondent for NBC News. She is also host of the television series “Deadline: Crime”. Most recently, Hall has debuted a self-titled syndicated talk show. Hall graduated from Temple University with a B.A.... read full bio
Lauren Jauregui is perhaps most recognized for her time spent as a member of the all-girl pop group Fifth Harmony. It was during her time with the group that she was propelled to superstardom as a result of their performance as finalists on The X Factor. Since then, the Cuban-American powerful vocalist has built up a sizable following of her... read full bio
Social media entrepreneur and web developer Matt Mullenweg is best known as the creator and developer of WordPress, which is free and open web software and blog site. He dropped out of college to focus on his work, and he went on to found Automattic, which is the company behind WordPress.co. Automattic is also behind web tools including Polldaddy,... read full bio
Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and academician Steve Blank is most recognized for developing the Customer Development method and a founder of the Lean Startup movement. Blank dropped out of school after one semester, and he hitchhiked his way over to Miami, where he found a job loading racehorses onto aircraft at the Miami International Airport. This job piqued his interest... read full bio
Noted computer scientist Paul Graham is also an essayist and a venture capitalist. He is noted for his work with LISP, a computer programming language, and he also co-founded the Yahoo! Store (previously known as Viaweb). Viaweb, which was founded by Graham and Robert Morris, was the first application service provider on the market, and it allowed its users to... read full bio
John Donahoe is a noted businessman and former CEO of the popular e-commerce site, eBay. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Intel Corp and eBay, and he is the chairman of PayPal. He serves as the president and CEO of a cloud company called ServiceNow. Prior to eBay, Donahoe acquired his B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth... read full bio
As the former CEO of Zenefits and founder of Yammer, David Sacks is an entrepreneur, executive, and internet technology investor. Previously, Sacks worked as a management consultant for the McKinsey Company and later left to work as the CEO of PayPal. A member of the PayPal Mafia, a group of tech whizzes who went on to found a number... read full bio
Online entrepreneur Drew Houston is best known for being the mastermind behind Dropbox, an online sharing and backup storage apparatus. Previous to his work on Dropbox, Drew worked with multiple startups including Hubspot, Accolade, and Bit9, among others. Born and raised in Acton, Massachusetts, Drew learned BASIC programming on his very first computer that his father bought for him. He... read full bio
Co-founder and CEO of about.me, Tony Conrad created the site as a platform for users to represent their personal identity on the web. Prior to creating about.me, Tony also co-founded Sphere and served as its CEO, and he has invested in multiple companies including Danger, Post Communications, Milk, OnTheAir, Iconoculture, Stonyfield Farms, Sabrix, and MusicNow, among many others. He also... read full bio
As the Editor-at-Large of TechCrunch, a tech news company, Mike Butcher MBE keeps up with the current trends, fads, and successes in the tech world. Mike also founded TechHub, a site meant to connect communities with startups. An esteemed writer as well, Mike has written for many publications including The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, and... read full bio
