People Interviewed for the Book
Abby Josephs
Program Manager, Stanford
Hospital and Clinics
Alan Kay
President, Viewpoints
Research Institute
Anand Chandrasekher
Senior Vice President,
Intel Corporation
Andy Grove
Former CEO, Intel Corporation
Arno Penzias
Venture Partner, NEA; Formerly
Vice President and Chief Scientist,
Bell Labs
Audrey MacLean
Entrepreneur and Mentor Capitalist
Bob Iger
CEO, The Walt Disney Company
Bob Metcalfe
General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners
Brian Gill
Senior Social Scientist,
Mathematica Policy Research
Bill Carrico
Entrepreneur
Bill Coughran
Senior Vice president,
Engineering, Google
Carol Bartz
Executive Chairman, Autodesk
Carol Dahl
Director, Global Health Discovery;
Chief of Staff, Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Charles Vest
President, National Academy of Engineering; President Emeritus of MIT
Curtis R. Carlson
CEO, SRI International
Daniel Goroff
Professor, Mathematics and Economics, Harvey Mudd College
Danny Hillis
Cochairman, Applied Minds
David Clark
Senior Research Scientist, MIT
David Culler
Professor of Computer Science,
UC Berkeley
David Kelley
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
David Kessler
Former Commissioner of the U.S. FDA
David Liddle
Partner, U.S. Venture Partners
David Tennenhouse
Partner, New Venture Partners
Deborah Estrin
Professor, Computer Science, UCLA; Director, Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS)
Dick O'Neill
Director, The Highlands Forum
E. Floyd Kvamme
Partner Emeritus, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Ed Catmull
President, Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios
Ellen Levy
Managing Director, Silicon Valley Connect
Elon Musk
CEO, SpaceX
Eric Benhamou
CEO, Benhamou Global Ventures
Eric Haseltine
Managing Partner, Haseltine Partners
Eric Schmidt
Chairman and CEO, Google
Forest Baskett
General Partner,
New Enterprise Associates
Frank Quattrone
Investment Banker
Fredrick W. (Fred) Smith
Chairman and CEO, FedEx Corporation
Esther Sternberg
Chief, Section on Neuroendocrine Immunology and Behavior, National Institute of Mental Health
Gary Guthart
President and COO, Intuitive Surgical
George Scalise
President, Semiconductor
Industry Association
Heidi Roizen
CEO, SkinnySongs
Henry Tirri
Vice President and Head of
NRC Systems Research, Nokia
Hossein Eslambolchi
Chairman, Divvio
Jeff Hawkins
Cofounder, Numenta
Jeremiah Ostriker
Professor of Astrophysics,
Princeton University
Jim Plummer
Dean, School of Engineering,
Stanford University
June Osborn
Professor Emerita of Epidemiology, Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan
Joe Huber
Vice President, Sales, Arch Rock
Joe Kennedy
CEO, Omneon
Joel Birnbaum
Retired Senior Vice President for R&D, Hewlett-Packard
Joel Klein
Chancellor, New York City
Department of Education
John Chambers
Chairman and CEO, Cisco Systems
John Cronin
Managing Director and Chairman, ipCapital Group
John Doerr
Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
John Hennessy
President, Stanford University
John Markoff
Senior Writer, New York Times
John Seely Brown
Former Chief Scientist, Xerox
John Shoch
General Partner, Alloy Ventures
Jon Rubinstein
Executive Chairman, Palm
Kal Patel
Executive Vice President,
Emerging Business, Best Buy
Kevin Compton
Venture Capitalist, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Krisztina Holly
Vice Provost for Innovation and
Executive Director, USC Stevens
Institute for Innovation at the
University of Southern California
Larry Lasky
Venture Partner, U.S. Venture Partners
Laura Ipsen
Senior Vice President, Global Policy & Government Affairs, Cisco Systems
Len Shustek
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Computer History Museum
Lezlee Westine
CEO, TechNet
Lonnie Smith
Chairman and CEO, Intuitive Surgical
Nathan Estruth
General Manager, FutureWorks,
Procter & Gamble
Norman (Norm) Augustine
Retired Chairman and CEO,
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Malay Thaker
Director of Customer Solutions,
Arch Rock
Marc Andreessen
Chairman and Cofounder, Ning
Mark Chandler
Senior Vice President and
General Counsel, Cisco Systems
Mark Josephs
Emergency Department
Physician Director, Exeter Hospital
Martin Eberhard
Entrepreneur
Martha Marsh
President and CEO,
Stanford Hospital & Clinics
Mary Ann Thode
President, Kaiser Foundation
Health Plan and Hospitals,
Northern California Region
Meg Whitman
Former President and CEO, eBay
Michael Moritz
Partner, Sequoia Capital
Michael Sheridan
Venture Capitalist
Miley Ainsworth
Director of IT Innovation,
FedEx Corporation
Mike Volpi
CEO, Joost
Paul Baran
Internet Pioneer
Paul Romer
Professor of Economics,
Stanford University
Paul Yock
Professor of Bioengineering
and Medicine, Stanford University
Peter Currie
President, Currie Capital
Peter Hart
President, Ricoh Innovations;
Group Senior Vice President,
Ricoh Company
Peter Schultz
Director, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation
Randy Scott
Chairman and CEO, Genomic Health
Reed Hastings
CEO, Netflix
Reid Hoffman
Chairman, LinkedIn
Richard Zare
Professor of Chemistry,
Stanford University
Rick Rashid
Senior Vice President
of Research, Microsoft
Rob Carter
Executive Vice President and CIO,
FedEx Corporation
Robert Lucky
Former Executive Director, Bell Labs
Robert Spinrad
Former Director, Xerox PARC
Roger McNamee
Managing Director, Elevation Partners
Ryan Jagutis
Teacher, Chicago Public Schools
Sally Ride
CEO, Sally Ride Science
Sam Colella
Managing Director, Versant Ventures
Scott Cook
Chairman of the
Executive Committee, Intuit
Scott McNealy
Chairman, Sun Microsystems
Steven Goldby
Executive Chairman, Symyx Technologies
Steve Scharf
Retired High School Principal
Susan F. Wood
Research Professor, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
Telle Whitney
CEO, Anita Borg Institute for
Women and Technology
Tom Kalil
Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Science & Technology, UC Berkeley
Van Jacobson
Research Fellow, PARC
Vint Cerf
Vice President and
Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
Wes Raffel
General Partner,
Advanced Technology Ventures
Yogen Dalal
Managing Director, Mayfield Fund