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