Joe Pulizzi is the founder of numerous startups, including the content creator education platform The Tilt and the content entrepreneur conference Creator Economy Expo (CEX). He is also the best-selling author of seven books, including Content Inc. and Epic Content Marketing, which was named a "Must-Read Business Book" by Fortune Magazine. In addition to coining the phrase in 2001 and founding... read full bio
Founder of the social networking sites Foursquare and Dodgeball Dennis Crowley is a well-known entrepreneur in the internet world. Foursquare is a location-based social app that recommends places for users to go based on their previous browsing history or purchases, and Dodgeball was a similar app in which users would text in their locations and the service would notify them... read full bio
Philip Evans is a big data expert, senior partner and managing director at BCG Consulting. He has founded BCG’s media sector and has consulted for corporations all over the world in consumer goods, media, financial services, and high-tech industries. He has also advised governments. Evans is also an author and has been co-author of several articles and the best-selling book... read full bio
Simone Giertz is a Swedish YouTuber, inventor, maker, host and robotics enthusiast. Giertz has previously studied engineering physics but dropped out after a year and started creating inventions after being inspired by the open-source hardware community in Stockholm. Giertz nickname that she gave herself on YouTube is “queen of shitty robots” and on her channel she creates mechanical robots that... read full bio
Susan Yara is an American beauty and lifestyle expert, producer, YouTuber and founder of Mixed Makeup which is a women’s lifestyle YouTube channel that focuses on beauty, diet, fitness, health, and more. Yara has previously earned her B.S. in Communication and Journalism. After graduating, Yara went on to work as a news reporter for News 12 the Bronx where she... read full bio
Steven Lim, an entrepreneur in the entertainment industry and a popular YouTube personality and storyteller, gives inspiring and enjoyable speeches on topics including pursuing your aspirations, AAPI representation and the ability of food to bring people together. Lim, a former chemical engineer who worked for Procter & Gamble, would go home from the office and make YouTube films that quickly became... read full bio
Neil Patel is the co-founder of Crazy Egg, Hello Bar and KISSmetrics. He helps companies like Amazon, NBC, GM, HP and Viacom grow their revenue. The Wall Street Journal calls him a top influencer on the web, Forbes says he is one of the top 10 online marketers, and Entrepreneur Magazine says he created one of the 100 most brilliant... read full bio
Andrew Mason is the founder and former CEO of Groupon, a Chicago-based website offering users deep discounts on local businesses. Since its beginning, Groupon has sold more than six million deals. With Groupon taking 50 percent of every deal, plus a small credit-card handling fee, Groupon's annual revenue is estimated to be $800 million. Since departing Groupon, Mason released a... read full bio
Former Head of Marketing for Facebook and current CEO of Zuckerberg Media, Randi Zuckerberg makes it her business to stay several steps ahead of the next big thing. As one of the early employees at Facebook, Randi created and ran the social media pioneer's marketing program. Since starting Zuckerberg Media, she has hosted social productions and led the development of... read full bio
Loic Le Meur is the founder and CEO of Seesmic, a software company that makes one of the most popular Twitter and Facebook social software applications. Seesmic helps you share and receive all your feedback from up to 50 social networks and is available everywhere you are on the web, desktop and mobile platforms. Loic also founded and hosts the... read full bio
Mark PIncus is the visionary behind Zynga and Zynga.org. He founded the company in 2007 to enable users to build social connections through games. On his way to Zynga, Mark started three companies. In 2003 he launched Tribe.net, one of he first social networks in the industry. Before that he founded Support.com and built the company... read full bio
Bob Parsons is the CEO and Founder of The Go Daddy Group, Inc. Parsons was a U.S. Marine during the Vietnam War and received the Combat Action Ribbon, Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry and a Purple Heart Medal. An entrepreneur, he started a software company, Parsons Technology. When Parsons Technology was sold to Intuit, Inc. in 1994 for $64 million dollars,... read full bio
Dr. Nicholas Christakis is a professor at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School who has done groundbreaking research on social networks. He is the co-author of the book, Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks. His startling findings present intriguing new evidence that our real-life social networks shape virtually every aspect of our lives. How we feel, whom we... read full bio
Filmmaker and well-known Vine celebrity Zach King is known for his creative special effects videos. Zach is well-known in the social media entertainment industry thanks to his more than four million Vine followers and more than a million YouTube subscribers. Zach, who was born and raised in the US, originally rose to fame on Vine for his imaginative short films, which... read full bio
Richard Tyler Blevins, known online as Ninja or NinjasHyper, is a professional gamer, Twitch streamer, and YouTuber. Blevins began playing Halo 3 professionally several years ago, and is currently a part of Luminosity Gamings team. With over seventeen million YouTube subscribers, Blevins earns over $500,000 a month. Blevins is currently partnered with Esports sponsors, like Red Bull. Blevins has participated... read full bio
Chella Man is a deaf, genderqueer artist, model, and activist. Chella has gained significant attention after his personal documentation of Chella’s experience in gender transition. Chella has gained over 225 thousand subscribers and has gained over 2.5 million views on the documentation of his one year mark. Growing up deaf, genderqueer, Chinese and Jewish, Chella found that he didn’t have... read full bio
Miquela Sousa, or Lil Miquela, is an Instagram personality and digital art model that was created by Trevor McFedries and Sara DeCou of Brud. Miquela started as an Instagram profile and through the social media outlet it details a fictional narrative of Miquela and her life. Miquela is a CGI character who is a model that has worked with several... read full bio
Todrick Hall is an American singer-songwriter, actor, rapper, dancer, director, choreographer, producer, and YouTuber. Hall gained fame after competing in the 9th season of the reality television series “American Idol,” where he finished in the semi-finals. This attention led Hall to begin his own YouTube channel, which has since grown to nearly 4 million subscribers. He has had several viral... read full bio
JC Caylen is an American YouTube personality who currently has nearly 3 million subscribers on his personal YouTube channel, JC Caylen, and has nearly 4 million subscribers on his channel KianandJc which he manages alongside his friend Kian Lawley. Caylen was born in Houston, Texas, and grew up in San Antonio. After graduating from high school, Caylen studied at the... read full bio
Edwin Rodriguez, better known as his stage name Ed Bassmaster, is an American YouTuber who posts comedy videos that has earned over 762 million views since it’s creation. Currently, Bassmaster has nearly 2.5 million subscribers and his videos often feature him acting in various characters, shows him pranking various random people and putting them in awkward situations. His popularity has... read full bio
