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My favorite Internet person of all time - –
Vinton Cerf (not “surf”) invented the internet is now in silicon valley.
He’s on the list.
Al Gore swings by silicon valley and wins Nobel Peace Prize.
He’s on the list.
Colin Powell Washington military celebrity now silicon valley angel.
He’s on the list.
Steve Case’s AOL left Mountainview for TimeWarner NYC.
He’s on the list.
However they missed me again. Hanging out in Palo Alto trying to scare up new ideas and sponsorships.
I’m not on the list.
Each and every name links to a biography, includes name of company founded, most famous product, e-mail, “blurb”, “according to” , and recent accomplishment.
alpha list of silicon valley’s most influential.
> Al Gore Vice President Under Bill Clinton e-mail (not listed)
.most famous product Nobel Peace Prize
.blurb “An Inconvenient Truth is now an IPO way past $100M”
.according to his very own internet service he and Tipper reside in Nashville and tear it up in silicon valley as often as possible. Scored a few delectable posts such as ”Member of the Board of Directors of Apple Computer, Inc.” and “Senior Advisor to Google, Inc.” Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers and others.
.recently – - shook my hand at the San Jose Convention Center where I found a few days work as an usher
> Al Shugart Seagate Technology e-mail (not listed)
.most famous product, Shugart disk drive
.blurb – - ”It’s really impossible to look at modern business, society, communications, science, music, entertainment or anything else without seeing the power and impact of Al’s legacy,” Seagate CEO Bill Watkins said in a statement. “Al’s unique spirit made him a remarkable entrepreneur. And it also made him an unforgettable human being. Stories about Al and the many ways he touched people still circulate around the industry. Most will remember him as a man who loved to enjoy life and encouraged everyone he touched to do the same.”
.according to CNET recently deceased and CNET tells the story, however remains persistently influential
> Andy Grove Intel e-mail (not listed)
.most famous product invented the chip business and created the computer industry, and still involved in new business activities
.blurb ”On all the lists just like Bill Gates” – - Inquirer 1.29.2008
according to “Former Intel CEO Andrew S. Grove says the pharmaceutical industry could learn a lot from the computer and chip businesses.” Newsweek Nov 4, 2007,
.recently – - NAND Chip Intel and Micron Develop the World’s Fastest NAND Flash Memory with 5X Faster Performance
> Chad Hurley YouTube e-mail (not listed)
.most famous product youtube.com
.blurb “YouTube was founded in February 2005 from a garage in Menlo Park, and development began immediately. We started a public preview in May of 2005 and officially launched the company and service later that year in December. In November of 2006, YouTube was acquired by Google and continues to operate as an independent subsidiary.”
.according to chadhurley.com you need to see it to believe it
.recently – - a message from Chad and Steve
.most famous product Independent s.j. city council member elected mayor in 2007 interview
.blurb according to State of the City address “The mayor is getting unanimous praise for his 15 year green vision. The 10 Point Plan focusing on solar energy and clean tech jobs got another boost today when he pledged to set aside $2.5 million dollars in redevelopment money to support green businesses.”
.recently – - San Jose mayor’s ‘green vision’ moves closer to reality
.most famous as “Former Secretary of State Colin Powell was sworn in as the 65th Secretary of State in 2001 after unanimous confirmation by the U.S. Senate. He served in the military for 35 years, and rose to the rank of 4-star General. His last assignment, from October 1989 to September 1993, was as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest military position in the Department of Defense. During this time, he oversaw 28 crises, including Operation Desert Storm in the 1991 Persian Gulf War.”
.blurb according to Academy of Achievement “Colin Luther Powell was born in Harlem in 1937. His parents were Jamaican immigrants who stressed the importance of education and personal achievement. Powell grew up in the South Bronx, where he graduated from high school without having formed any definite ambition or direction in life. He entered the City College of New York to study geology and it was there, by his own account, that he found his calling when he joined the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC). He became commander of his unit’s precision drill team and graduated in 1958 at the top of his ROTC class, with the rank of cadet colonel, the highest rank in the corps.”
.recently – - published autobiography “My American Journey”
> David Filo Yahoo! e-mail (not listed)
.most famous product yahoo.com
.#117 according to Forbes Top 400 Wealthiest 2006 @ $2.5B
.recent blurb – - “Launching sporadic strikes at starship Google got Microsoft and Yahoo nowhere. So on Friday, Microsoft let loose a quantum blast across Google’s bow an unsolicited $44.6 billion bid to acquire Yahoo.”
.most famous product computer equipment
.blurb “HP’s first product was a resistance-capacitance audio oscillator based on a design developed by Hewlett when he was in graduate school. The company’s first “plant” was a small garage in Palo Alto, and the initial capital amounted to $538. Packard served as a partner in the company from its founding in 1939 until it was incorporated in 1947. In 1947, he became president, a post he held until 1964, when he was elected chairman of the board and chief executive officer. ”
.according to HP most recently – - Deputy Secretary of Defense under Nixon,
.exceptionally cool – - started the HP business in a garage
“The HP Garage is California Historic Landmark No. 976 — Birthplace of Silicon Valley. (1939 photo)”
> Gordon Moore Intel e-mail (not listed)
.most famous product is his ”blurb” – - “Moore is widely known for “Moore’s Law,” in which in 1965 he predicted that the number of components the industry would be able to place on a computer chip would double every year. In 1975, he updated his prediction to once every two years. It has become the guiding principle for the semiconductor industry to deliver ever-more-powerful chips while decreasing the cost of electronics. ”
.according to Intel. Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, from George W. Bush in 2002
.recently – - Betty and Gordon give money to high tech museum
> Jerry Yang Yahoo! e-mail (not listed)
.most famous product yahoo.com
.blurb “It’s become pretty clear that Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang does not want to merge the company he founded with Microsoft”
.most recently according to Jerry Yang’s letter to Yahoo! employees “first, we want to emphasize that absolutely no decisions have been made — and, despite what some people have tried to suggest, there’s certainly no integration process underway. this proposal is just that — a proposal. and it was only made in the last 24 hours. you can be sure the board is going to review it thoughtfully and carefully, and do what’s right for our great company. microsoft’s proposal is one of many options that we’re evaluating in order to maximize value for our shareholders and employees over the long-term. that’s why we will respond to microsoft after our board has completed a careful review of all of our strategic alternatives. second - –
.most famous product – - kind of invented the internet browser – - Mozilla , “blurb” – - open source and free-ware ” Our story begins in the 60′s, with the hacker culture in computer laboratories at Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon. Programmers worked in communities, sharing their code with others, and expecting others to share their own. If someone made an improvement to a program, it was passed to everybody else. Innovation thrived. In those days, hardware manufacturer’s gave out their source code, making it easier for people to improve on that code. They created what would become the internet, and used it to further promote the culture of sharing.” ,
.according to and most recently – - Netscape browser phased out according to CIOL “This December, AOL announced that on February 1, 2008 it would drop support for the Netscape Web browser and would no longer develop new releases. This week, it was announced it Netscape’s end would come after a month.”
> John Chambers Cisco Systems e-mail (not listed)
.most famous product founder of cisco systems “
.blurb “Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections-whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible-providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time.Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company’s inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 63,050 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company’s core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as
.recently – - management changes at CISCO
.most famous product – - new business ventures launched
- Amazon
- Amyris Biotechnologies
- Frontline Wireless
- M2Z Networks
- Miasolé
- Purkinje
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- Spatial Photonics
- Zazzle
“Although Clinton trails Obama in the Silicon Valley money race with $883,125 from the tech sector in her kitty, legendary venture capitalist John Doerr and his wife Ann publicly endorsed the New York senator in December. “From healthcare to national security, Hillary ‘gets it,”‘ the Doerrs said.”
.blurb and according to recent press appearance the highly political - -
> Larry Ellison Oracle e-mail (not listed)
.most famous product created in 1977 Oracle Relational Database Software
.blurb “I’m worried, Larry …” says his accountant in a 2002 e-mail. “I think it’s imperative that we start to budget and plan.” According to documents unsealed by a judge in the shareholder lawsuit, Ellison habitually pushes his credit limit of more than a billion dollars to its maximum to finance his yachts and homes.
Oracle just purchased BEA systems for $8.5 billion — and Mr. Ellison just sold $1million shares. According to infoweek,
.most recently Feb 4, Oracle Launches Data Integration Suite ”Data Integration Suite costs $60,000 per CPU for a package that bundles Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle/Hyperion Data Relationship Manager with the company’s BPEL Process Manager, enterprise service bus, application server, business-to-business engine, and business rules engine, according to a statement.”
.most famous product blurb ” Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is the premier legal advisor to technology and growth enterprises worldwide, as well as the investment banks and venture capital firms that finance them. Over the past four decades, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has established its reputation by having an unmatched knowledge of its clients’ industries and deep and long-standing contacts throughout the technology sector.”
.recently – - “Larry Sonsini is unquestionably the most sought after lawyer in Silicon Valley.” according to Business Week, here’s the interview
.most famous product google.com
.blurb “Larry Page was Google’s founding CEO and grew the company to more than 200 employees and profitability before moving into his role as president of products in April 2001. He continues to share responsibility for Google’s day-to-day operations with Eric Schmidt and Sergey Brin.”
according to Eric Schmidt “We (Page, Brin, and Schmidt) agreed the month before we went public that we should work together for 20 years. I will be 69, and according to Google I’m going to live to 84, so I should be fine.”
.recently – - planning to rebuff the Microsoft Yahoo! market maneuver of the 21st century
.most famous for first CEO after Mr. Packard, very innovative leadership
.blurb ” Widely admired for his personal energy, openness and humor, Mr. Platt successfully led HP during a period of rapid growth and technological change.”
.according to HP deceased 2005 “Mr. Platt served 33 years at HP from 1966 through 1999, rising from an entry-level engineer in the company’s medical products group to serve seven years as president and chief executive officer. In 1993, he succeeded David Packard as chairman, a position he retained, along with the president and CEO titles, until his retirement.”
.most famous product and “blurb” about her legendary life
“Lu — an English major — was a natural leader, and was active in her Delta Gamma sorority. She was selected for a job doing student counseling and she volunteered at the Stanford Convalescent Home for Children, established in 1919 to treat children with tuberculosis. It was here that the seeds were probably sown for a 50-year devotion to community and children’s health issues. In the fall of 1933, while attending a party at her sorority, the vivacious young Lucile was introduced to David Packard. But David wasn’t at the party as a guest; he was washing dishes in the kitchen, one of the many jobs he held to help pay his tuition The lanky young man was an excellent athlete who had actually considered a career in basketball before deciding in favor of more academic pursuits. His parents wanted him to follow his father into law, but he had a different plan. His interest was piqued by engineering. While the odd job washing dishes brought Lucile into his life, his engineering classes introduced him to Bill Hewlett.
according to everybody these are the people to emulate - – founder of Hospital in Palo Alto, David and Lucille Packard Foundation
.recently – - among may silicon valley angel organizations that sponsor crazy events like Zero1, 6.4.2008 .
> Marc Andreessen Netscape e-mail Blog
.blurb “My name is Marc Andreessen. This is my blog. You can send me email at pmarcablog (at) gmail (dot) com. Due to volume and other responsibilities I probably won’t respond but I will try to at least read all messages.”
.most famous product invented “mosaic” which became the first internet browser and foundation for the internet, now doing – -pmarcablog, other products
“AOL drops Netscape Browser according to Netscape Navigator, the web browser that launched the consumer Internet and changed the way humanity seeks information, will be terminated tomorrow. Parent company AOL, after years of neglect and indifference to a Netscape mortally wounded by Microsoft Corp., has decided it’s not worth keeping the browser alive with security updates. It ends after 13 years.”
.most recently Ning
.most famous product facebook.com
.recently – - “Millions of protesters against the outlaw Colombian group FARC gathered in more than 140 cities around the world to protest its brutal tactics and to call for the release of the estimated 3,000 hostages the group still holds. What prompted this outpouring was a small group of Facebook users tired of the situation.”
.most famous product E-Bay a mega success of unparalled size and scope
.blurb in a 1996 letter to internet community “I launched eBay on Labor Day, 1995. Since then, this site has become more popular than I ever expected, and I began to realize that this was indeed a grand experiment in Internet commerce.
By creating an open market that encourages honest dealings, I hope to make it easier to conduct business with strangers over the Internet.”
By creating an open market that encourages honest dealings, I hope to make it easier to conduct business with strangers over the Internet.”
.according to the Financial Times (FT.com) recently – - CEO Meg Whitman to retire immediately, why ? two years later or a few days into the next 365 really it all got very old at internet speed
.most famous product google.com
.blurb “Sergey Brin, a native of Moscow, received a bachelor of science degree with honors in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park. He is currently on leave from the Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University, where he received his master’s degree. Sergey is a recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship as well as an honorary MBA from Instituto de Empresa. It was at Stanford where he met Larry Page and worked on the project that became Google. Together they founded Google Inc. in 1998, and Sergey continues to share responsibility for day-to-day operations with Larry Page and Eric Schmidt.”
.according to 2.4.2008 New York Times it’s Google’s 58 percent of internet searches that makes them the irrefutable leader
.recently – - Google decided to try to block any moves on the part of rival search giant Yahoo! in almost any conceivable way “Google executives have asked company lobbyists to develop a political strategy to challenge the acquisition, which could threaten Google’s dominance of Internet advertising. Google’s top legal officer posted a statement Sunday that criticized the proposed deal.”
> Scott McNealy Sun Microsystems e-mail (not listed)
.most famous product sun industrial strength hardward that left IBM out of the picture for a while ”
Sun Microsystems Inc., (NASDAQ: JAVA) develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision — “The Network is the Computer” — Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership.
core brands include
.blurb Have some fun – -
.according to “make history giving up reigns ”
.recently – - “on the hotseat”
> Steve Case AOL e-mail (not available)
.most famous product AOL and the subscriber-based internet service category
.blurb “AOL Time Warner Inc. announced Sunday that Steve Case has decided to step down as chairman of the company effective at the annual shareholders meeting in May. Case notified CEO Dick Parsons and the board of directors of his decision over the weekend. Here is his statement –
.according to Academy of Achievement “Fresh out of college, Steve Case became fascinated with interactive media, at a time when few Americans owned personal computers, and no personal computers came equipped with modems. He left a secure job with a corporate giant to sign on with a struggling game company in the volatile computer marketplace of the 1980s. Through his efforts, that company became America Online, the world’s largest Internet provider. Under his leadership, AOL acquired media colossus Time Warner and created the largest media company in the world. ”
.recently – - Revolution Health and charity projects
> Steve Chen YouTube e-mail (not listed)
.most famous product youtube.com
.blurb according to area police the value of YouTube “It turned a Tennessee man and his plea for the meanies of the world to “Leave Britney Alone” into a worldwide sensation. The ode from “Obama Girl” to the Democratic presidential candidate earned her tens of millions of fans.”
.recently – - 2.4.2008 TV Week “YouTube’s audience stayed steady last week, after small declines in January. For the week ending Jan. 27, the world’s biggest video site drew 30.7 million unique visitors, about on par with the week before, when it reached 30.3 million unique users.”
.most famous product Mac SE
.blurb – - “smart cars at less and $5,000 are the future”
.according to MacWorld Keynote there’s a lot to say
.recently – - introduced the “Air Book” this week
.recommeded new product line — “i.wear from apple”
> Vinton Cerf did I mention he was at Google ?
.famous as he who invented the internet now in silicon valley
.blurb “It took Bob about a year to get everybody far enough along to demonstrate a bunch of applications on the ARPANET. The idea was that we would install a packet switch and a Terminal Interface Processor or TIP in the basement of the Washington Hilton Hotel, and actually let the public come in and use the ARPANET, running applications all over the U.S.” The demo was a big success.
.according to his official google blog ”keep the net neutral”
.recently – - Rated #2 out of top 10 Techies in America “He holds a billion medals, awards and honorary degrees but he is, as we are constantly reminded, the father of the internet.”
Did I miss your version of silicon valley’s most influential ?
Additional Resources – -
- Who’s Who Online
- International Who’s Who
- Marquis Who’s Who in America
- Biography Channel Who’s Who
- valleylist fifth edition — most influential people
