Suggest founders for new edition of 'Founders at work'

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Post by bootload » Thu, May 24, 2007, 6:12 AM UTC

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Re: Suggest founders for new edition of 'Founders at work'

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Post by bootload » Thu, May 24, 2007, 6:12 AM UTC

Reading Founders at Work and going through the stories I was struck by who was not in the list. Another edition is in the planning by JL. What founders would you suggest for the second edition? Mine would be ...

- Donna Dubinsky, Jeff Hawkins (Ed Colligan) ~ Palm Computing

- CmdrTaco ~ Slashdot

- Larry Ellison ~ Oracle

- Hasso Platner ~ SAP

- David Kelly ~ IDEO

- John Carmack ~ Id Software

- Peter Molyneux ~ Bullfrog, Lionshead

Re: Suggest founders for new edition of 'Founders at work'

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Post by npk » Thu, May 24, 2007, 6:31 AM UTC

I'm mostly interested in hearing from hardware and finance guys. However, the first obvious interview would be:

- Larry & Sergey

- Astro Teller @ Body Media

- Matt Flannery @ Kiva

- Ross Freeman, Bernie Vonderschmitt, and Jim Barnett @ Xilinx

Re: Suggest founders for new edition of 'Founders at work'

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Post by zach » Thu, May 24, 2007, 7:04 AM UTC

bootload wrote: post #2

Reading Founders at Work and going through the stories I was struck by who was not in the list. Another edition is in the planning by JL. What founders would you suggest for the second edition? Mine would be ... - Donna Dubinsky, Jeff Hawkins (Ed Colligan) ~ Palm Computing - CmdrTaco ~ Slashdot - Larry Ellison ~ Oracle - Hasso Platner ~ SAP - David Kelly ~ IDEO - John Carmack ~ Id Software - Peter Molyneux ~ Bullfrog…

Good suggestions. Haven't we all had enough of Molyneux, though? Plus, who out there is starting a game company? Nobody. Maybe Nolan Bushnell would be interesting, though.

I have a few suggestions of my own:

- Jeremy Wertheimer (ITA)

- Justin Frankel (Nullsoft)

- Lars Rasmussen (Where2)

- Jawed Karim (YouTube)

- Wil Shipley (Delicious Monster)

Longshots: Bill Joy, Larry or Sergey, Marc Andreessen, Pierre Omidyar

Re: Suggest founders for new edition of 'Founders at work'

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Post by staunch » Thu, May 24, 2007, 7:07 AM UTC

++++ Brad Fitzpatrick / LiveJournal

++++ Joe Kraus / JotSpot (not Excite)

+++ Chad Hurley or Steve Chen / YouTube

+++ Reid Hoffman / LinkedIn

+++ Jason Calacanis / Weblogsinc

++ Markus Frind / PlentyOfFish

++ Kevin Rose / Digg

++ Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook

+ Michael Arrington / TechCrunch

Re: Suggest founders for new edition of 'Founders at work'

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Post by davidw » Thu, May 24, 2007, 7:09 AM UTC

This has been around before, there were some listed here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=16901

Personally, I find the "big, but not huge" ones the most inspirational for some reason. Larry Ellison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and the like have been covered a lot in various ways, and have also had time to let their legends grow in their own minds.

Re: Suggest founders for new edition of 'Founders at work'

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Post by benn » Thu, May 24, 2007, 7:12 AM UTC

Ben Nolan ~ Groupswiki.com

Re: Suggest founders for new edition of 'Founders at work'

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Post by sgoraya » Thu, May 24, 2007, 7:23 AM UTC

Richard Barton of Zillow Jack Dangermond of ESRI

Also would like to see a gaming founder - Carmack is a fine candidate & -Jason Rubin & Andy Gavin formerly of Naughty Dog & currently with/founded Flektor

Re: Suggest founders for new edition of 'Founders at work'

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Post by scrob2aqe2 » Thu, May 24, 2007, 7:53 AM UTC

paul graham / Teenwag

Re: Suggest founders for new edition of 'Founders at work'

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Post by SwellJoe » Thu, May 24, 2007, 8:08 AM UTC

npk wrote: post #3

I'm mostly interested in hearing from hardware and finance guys. However, the first obvious interview would be: - Larry & Sergey - Astro Teller @ Body Media - Matt Flannery @ Kiva - Ross Freeman, Bernie Vonderschmitt, and Jim Barnett @ Xilinx

I'm clearly out of the loop. I've never heard of any of those except Larry and Sergey. They definitely aren't the "first obvious" choices for me. ;-)