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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.
Canadian psychologist, author, and media commentator known for his views on cultural and political issues. Often described as conservative and has identified as a classic British liberal and traditionalist.
I tweet about marketing, rigorous thinking, and cohort-based courses | Co-founder at Maven (http://maven.com) | Prev: Co-founder at altMBA
American multinational technology corporation known for its Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft 365 suite of productivity applications, and Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. Produces Xbox video game consoles and Microsoft Surface lineup of touchscreen personal computers. Ranked No. 14 in the 2022 Fortune 500 rankings. Considered one of the Big Five American information technology companies.
Restaurateur, chef, and entrepreneur. Owner of The Kitchen Restaurant Group and co-founder and chairman of Big Green and Square Roots. Board member of Tesla Inc. and SpaceX.
American businessman, author, speaker, and internet personality. Co-founder of Resy and Empathy Wines. Chairman of New York-based communications company VaynerX, and CEO of VaynerMedia.
Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft.Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a California privately held company on September 4, 1998, in California. Google was then reincorporated in Delaware on October 22, 2002. An initial public offering (IPO) took place on August 19, 2004, and Google moved to its headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex. In August 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a conglomerate called Alphabet Inc. Google is Alphabet's leading subsidiary and will continue to be the umbrella company for Alphabet's Internet interests. Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of Google, replacing Larry Page who became the CEO of Alphabet.
The company's rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond Google's core search engine (Google Search). It offers services designed for work and productivity (Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides), email (Gmail), scheduling and time management (Google Calendar), cloud storage (Google Drive), instant messaging and video chat (Duo, Hangouts), language translation (Google Translate), mapping and navigation (Google Maps, Waze, Google Earth, Street View), video sharing (YouTube), note-taking (Google Keep), and photo organizing and editing (Google Photos). The company leads the development of the Android mobile operating system, the Google Chrome web browser, and Chrome OS, a lightweight operating system based on the Chrome browser. Google has moved increasingly into hardware; from 2010 to 2015, it partnered with major electronics manufacturers in the production of its Nexus devices, and it released multiple hardware products in October 2016, including the Google Pixel smartphone, Google Home smart speaker, Google Wifi mesh wireless router, and Google Daydream virtual reality headset. Google has also experimented with becoming an Internet carrier (Google Fiber, Google Fi, and Google Station).Google.com is the most visited website in the world. Several other Google services also figure in the top 100 most visited websites, including YouTube and Blogger. Google was the most valuable brand in the world as of 2017, but has received significant criticism involving issues such as privacy concerns, tax avoidance, antitrust, censorship, and search neutrality. Google's mission statement is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". The company's unofficial slogan "Don't be evil" was removed from the company's code of conduct around May 2018, but reinstated by July 31, 2018.
Creator of the customer development method and the Lean Startup movement. Developed the Lean Launchpad class and the Hacking for Defense Class.
Business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. Founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. Third-wealthiest person in the world.
Politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. First African-American president. Former U.S. senator and Illinois state senator. Civil rights lawyer and university lecturer.
Author, blogger, a lifetime of projects.
