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Andreessen Horowitz is a $300 million venture capital firm focused on software and Internet investments.
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, the firm’s general managers and founders are well-known entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley,
having founded and successfully grown multiple companies, including Netscape, Loudcloud/Opsware and Ning.
Current investments include Skype, Zynga, Foursquare, Asana, Proferi, Kno, Fusion-io, Rockmelt, Okta, and Nicira.
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Spark Capital is a venture fund based in Boston, Massachusetts. Its investment focus is on the conflux of the
media, entertainment and technology industries. Spark Capital invests in companies that it believes will benefit
from the rapid transformation of media and content driven by innovative technologies and evolving business models.
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Ron Conway
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Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing
Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Paypal, and Brightmail.
Ron has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Bright Mail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture, Associated
Content, Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo, Photobucket, and Anchor Intelligence.
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Jeff Fluhr
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Jeff Fluhr co-founded StubHub in March 2000 and served as its Chief Executive Officer until he sold the company
to eBay in January 2007.
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David Goldberg
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David Goldberg is the CEO of SurveyMonkey. Prior to this role, he served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at
Benchmark Capital. He was the General Manager of Music at Yahoo! since the acquisition of LAUNCH Media, Inc. by Yahoo! in August 2001.
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Jon Love
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Jon Love has 20 years of experience in executive recruiting and has run his own successful practice
specializing in recruiting high impact senior executives for early-mid stage VC funded startups in the Consumer
Internet space since 1996. Jon has successfully worked with numerous startups including Facebook, where he
placed several members of the early executive team, LinkedIn, StubHub, Trulia, IMVU, PowerReviews, Homestead,
Hotmail and many others. Along the way Jon has worked with many of the leading venture capital firms and also
been an active investor in Consumer Internet startups.
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Dustin Moskovitz
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Dustin Moskovitz is a co-founder of Facebook and, more recently, Asana, a startup tackling the problem
of workplace collaboration. At Facebook, he was a leader in the technical staff, where he oversaw the major
architecture of the site. He was also responsible for the company’s mobile strategy and development. Dustin
attended Harvard University as an Economics major for two years before moving to Palo Alto, California to work
fulltime at Facebook.
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Chamath Palihapitiya
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Chamath Palihapitiya is the Vice President of User Growth, Mobile and International at Facebook. Chamath
joined Facebook from The Mayfield Fund. Prior to Mayfield, Chamath spent five years with AOL in roles of increasing
responsibility, culminating in his position as the Vice President and General Manager of AIM and ICQ.
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Rick Thompson
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Rick Thompson is a serial entrepreneur, in a good way. Prior to founding Playdom, Rick co-founded and served
as CEO and/or chairman of two successful Internet technology companies, Adify and FlyCast Communications. Rick
was also on the founding team of Octel Communications, a leading manufacturer of voice information processing systems.
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