Michael Acton Smith OBE helped create Calm.com, Firebox.com, and Mind Candy. Michael co-founded the online gift retail site Firebox.com in his early twenties. The site sells fun and slightly bizarre gifts, and their breakthrough item was a shot glass chess set. After that item was released, their business exploded, and The Sunday Times listed them and 13th on their... read full bio
Justine Ezarik, better known as ‘iJustine’, is an American YouTuber, actress, host, and model from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She currently has nearly 6 million subscribers on her YouTube channel and has over 1 billion views. Her YouTube videos consist of tech, video games, cooking attempts, vlogs, and more. She first gained fame after the release of her “300-page iPhone bill” which... 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
An Emirati video producer named Khalid Al Ameri narrates tales that unite people from different cultures and produces content for a global audience. His popular videos, including "Why Muslims Celebrate Christmas," "Shopping While Married" and his four seasons of "The Ramadan Show," have helped him attract over 13 million viewers to his channels. Khalid received his degree from Stanford University, was... read full bio
Bodhizai, also known as Brian Mihelic, is a leading figure in the blockchain industry, dedicated to supporting independent creators, small businesses, and startups in the Web3 landscape. He is currently the Community Manager for Zoop, a digital celebrity collectibles gaming platform that utilizes blockchain technology to provide a unique gaming experience. Additionally, Brian is a contributing editor for Born Bored... read full bio
Erika Thompson, who was born in 1986, has risen to prominence in the social media and beekeeping industries. She has won the attention of people all over the world with her engaging videos showcasing her distinctive approach to beekeeping, earning her an astounding 11 million followers on TikTok. In her backyard, Thompson, who resides in Elgin, Texas, tends to close... read full bio
A well-known online personality named Anna Sitar is renowned for her intriguing persona and thought-provoking writing. She was endowed from birth with the natural ability to amuse and engage her audience, and as a result, she has gained a devoted following on numerous social media platforms. Anna exhibited a strong enthusiasm for art and self-expression at a young age. She first... read full bio
American electrical engineer Robert Kahn collaborated with Vinton Cerf to design the Internet as one of its primary architects. The A.M. Turing Award, the greatest accolade in computer science, was given to Kahn and Cerf for their groundbreaking work on internetworking, which included creating and implementing TCP/IP, the foundational communications protocol of the Internet, as well as for their outstanding... read full bio
