Table of Contents

Max Levchin.- Sabeer Bhatia.- Steve Wozniak.- Joe Kraus.- Dan Bricklin.- Mitchell Kapor.- Ray Ozzie.- Evan Williams.- Tim Brady.- Mike Lazaridis.- Arthur van Hoff.- Paul Buchheit.- Steve Perlman.- Mike Ramsay.- Paul Graham.- Joshua Schachter.- Mark Fletcher.- Craig Newmark.- Caterina Fake.- Brewster Kahle.- Charles Geschke.- Ann Winblad.- David Heinemeier Hansson.- Philip Greenspun.- Joel Spolsky.- Stephen Kaufer.- James Hong.- James Currier.- Blake Ross.- Mena Trott.- Bob Davis.- Ron Gruner.- Jessica Livingston.

About the Author

Jessica Livingston is a founding partner at Y Combinator, a seed-stage venture firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Mountain View, California. She was previously vice president of marketing at investment bank Adams Harkness. In addition to her work with startups at Y Combinator, she organizes Startup School (www.StartupSchool.org). She has a bachelor's degree in English from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.