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Entrepreneur and investor. Co-founder, chairman, and former CEO of AngelList. Notable early-stage investments in over 200 companies including Uber, FourSquare, Twitter, and Wish.com.
Essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. Work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty.
English computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, investor, and author. Known for his work on the programming language Lisp, co-founding Viaweb (later Yahoo! Store), and co-founding Y Combinator.
Israeli author, public intellectual, historian, and professor. Author of the popular science bestsellers Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. His writings explore various topics including free will, consciousness, intelligence, happiness, and suffering.
Grew up in East Hampton, New York. Experienced poor health as a child, sparking an interest in self-improvement. Graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. in East Asian studies. Worked in sales at a data storage company after graduation.
Writer of children's and young adult fiction. Her books have sold 91 million copies worldwide since 1950. Notable characters include Ramona Quimby, Beezus Quimby, Henry Huggins, Ribsy, and Ralph S. Mouse.
Completed Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1972. Dissertation focused on a cosmological model illustrating particle creation through graviton production under the supervision of Charles W. Misner.