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5 1/2 Questions for Jason Fried

Jason Fried is the cofounder and president of Basecamp (formerly 37signals — and currently 37Signals! ) — a privately held Chicago-based company committed to building the best web-based tools possible with the least number of features necessary. With David Heinemeier Hansson, Fried is the coauthor of Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to

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5 1/2 Questions for Derek Sivers

Derek Sivers — A unique and unusual Entrepreneur, Writer, Philosopher and Creator — very insightful, self aware and profound,
He knows how to express his thoughts and views in a clear and compelling manner. He known for his surprising quotable insights and pithy succinct writing style. Formerly a musician, programmer, TED speaker, and circus

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5 1/2 Questions for Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark — Founder of Craigslist, Philanthropist

Craig Newmark is the founder of Craigslist, the web-based platform that has fundamentally changed classified advertising. Since its founding in 1995, craigslist has become one of the world’s 10 most-visited English language web platforms. Today there are craigslist websites virtually everywhere and serving every continent on

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5 1/2 Questions for Heidi Jannenga

Heidi Jannenga is the co-founder of Phoenix-based WebPT, the leading software provider for electronic medical records and practice management for rehabilitation therapists.
Dr. Jannenga served as chief operating officer until 2015, and then as the firm’s president until 2019, when it was acquired by Warburg Pincus. Dr. Jannenga also serves

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5 1/2 Questions for Michael Crow

Michael Crow
President, Arizona State University

Dr. Michael M. Crow is an educator, knowledge enterprise architect, science and technology policy scholar and higher education leader. He became the sixteenth president of Arizona State University in July 2002 and has spearheaded ASU’s rapid and groundbreaking transformative evolution into one of the world’s

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5 1/2 Questions for Scott McNealy

Scott McNealy
Co-Founder, Former Chairman of the Board, and CEO, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Co-Founder, and Board Member, Curriki — Our Children’s Future, Our Future

Scott McNealy is an outspoken advocate for personal liberty, small government, and free-market competition. In 1982, he co-Founded Sun Microsystems and served as CEO and Chairman of the Board for

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5 1/2 Questions for Geoff Ralston

Entrepreneur, Investor, and President at Y Combinator.

Geoff has been president of Y Combinator since early 2019. He has been with YC for over ten years, joining Paul Graham as one of the first non-founder partners in 2011. Geoff has worked with hundreds of YC companies like Stripe, Gingko, Clever, Helion

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5 1/2 Questions for David Cohen

David Cohen – Entrepreneur, Investor, and Founder and Chairman at Techstars.

David Cohen is the Founder and Chairman at Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed. David has been an entrepreneur and investor for his entire life. He has only had one job interview in his career, successfully got that

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5 1/2 Questions for Brad Feld

Brad Feld – Venture Capitalist, Startup Advocate, Author

Brad Feld is a partner and co-founder of Foundry. He has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur for over 35 years, since founding his first company, Feld Technologies, in college. Brad is also a co-founder of Techstars and, with his wife Amy Batchelor,

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5 1/2 Questions for Gary Lauder

Gary Lauder is the Managing Director of Lauder Partners LLC, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm investing in various realms of the technology field. He has been a venture capitalist since 1985, investing in over 150 private companies, and is an observer or member of about 7 of their boards.

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