NY Tech Old Farts
Faces you may recognize from the golden era of NY Tech (2006-2016).
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@innonate.com
@mayafish.bsky.social
Tired mom, lover of good books and good video games. Always trying to recreate the good old days of the internet. Head of Podcast Product at Spotify ๐๏ธโจ
@alexiskold.bsky.social
Pre/Seed VC ๐งฌ๐คโ๏ธ @2048vc | Pitch me http://2048.vc/pitch-alex | Coach @HarvardHBS | Blog http://startuphacks.vc | Systems Thinker
@paul.bz
๐ค Lightspeed ๐ธ MistralAI, Neko Health, Methodical Games, Smartex, CuspAI, Supercritical, Soba, Berry Health, AudioMob, Kumospace plus a few that didn't quite make it ๐ฐ๏ธ Northzone, Betaworks, Giphy, Dots โค๏ธ๐ช๐โโ๏ธ
@witheiler.bsky.social
Investor formerly known as an entrepreneur Anandtech and operator AMD. Nobel Prize hopeful. Fax me at 303-593-5149 ๐
@schlaf.bsky.social
Founder of Downshift. I help high performers navigate transition and answer lifeโs biggest questions.
@sztul.com
Physicist, Entrepreneur, Dad CTO @boweryfarming Formerly @shelbytv Purveyor of fine breads
@scottbelsky.bsky.social
helping the creative world make ideas happen. partner @a24 / founder A24Labs; founder of @Behance, author, product obsessive, angel in startups the world needs.
@ianschafer.com
President & Co-Founder (w/Issa Rae), Ensemble (@followensemble.bsky.social). Ownership, Queens FC. Founder & Chairman Emeritus, Deep Focus. Advisor, Rock the Bells. AAF National Hall of Achievement Inductee. Mets/Knicks/Giants/Rangers content warning.
@learmonth.bsky.social
Enterprise editor at Reuters. Priors: Telemundo Studios, Vice News, Advertising Age, BI, Variety, etc.
@roj.as
Now: SVP, New Products at Mozilla Past: Founder of Gizmodo, Engadget, Joystiq, RCRD LBL, and gdgt Founding partner, Betaworks Ventures Head of Product for NPE, Meta's experimental products group VP of Strategy, AOL
@aac.social
Being miserable doesn't make you better than anybody else, House. It just makes you miserable. aac.social
@pkafka.bsky.social
Bleep blop bloop. Talking https://link.chtbl.com/kafka typing https://www.businessinsider.com/author/peter-kafka
@elspethjane.bsky.social
I tell big brands what to do on social. And like it. Ex Vox Media, EA1, Google, etc. etc. Know Your Meme Co-Founder. Ride or die for Techno Viking.
@carolinemccarthy.bsky.social
๐ฉ๐ผโ๐ฌ - marketer + advertising ethics nerd ๐ - did some TED talks and stuff ๐ - world traveler but based in NJ ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ถ - minerva, freyja, hela, becky instagram.com/caro
@moth.bsky.social
producer/designer/founder โข launched things like youtube creators, youtube originals, & the duolingo cinematic universe. nyc. he/they http://linktr.ee/timshey ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐๏ธ
@tnl.net
Optimist; builder; instigator; entrepreneur; writer; father; New Yorker; immigrant (not necessarily in that order) CEO at @Casebook.net I am one of "those people" who believe =>รท Also me: https://mastodon.social/@TNLNYC More at https://www.tnl.net
@ganeumann.bsky.social
I started companies and helped other people start companies for a really long time. Now I'm teaching and writing about what I learned and thinking about technology and society ReactionWheel.net, FounderVsInvestor.com, NeuVC.com
@nitasha.bsky.social
technology mother @ the washington post. baddie in the digital badlands. signal: nitasha.10
@albertwenger.bsky.social
VC at usv.com, blog at continuations.com, book at worldaftercapital.org
@epcostello.com
Amateur dog walker, corporate burnout, somnolent scrivener. New York City / MidโHudson Valley
@zachklein.com
https://www.zachklein.com/about/ Foreign exchange student in Spain. Past: CEO of Dwell Magazine. Co-founder of Vimeo.
@tonybgoode.bsky.social
I publish zines and rage against machines. I believe movements of local community gatherings can help us escape our addictions to screen heroin. Head of Community at Scalepath.
@noneck.org
Be realistic; demand the impossible! Orion's father; Lauren's partner; @beta.nyc's Executive Director; 20+ years in Public Interest Tech; NYC COPIC Member; #ASL beginner; #OpenData; #civictech; #PiTech; ๐ต๐ท; #BikeNYC; Opinion = Own
@jherskowitz.com
๐ธ as Quarantine Angst (https://quarantineangst.com/) โถ๏ธ Tinkering โฎ๏ธ Product @ SeatGeek, Spotify, Tomahawk, LimeWire, AOL music, DigiScents, GameShark & some other stuff ๐ชน Brooklyn, NY
@kmonson.bsky.social
Founding partner at Codeword, helping tech companies with their words. Former editor and journalist. NYC-based.
@hmason.bsky.social
Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many things. NYC
@fromedome.bsky.social
Writer, designer, explorer. Founder of @newconsumer.com: https://newconsumer.com/
@bhoggard.bsky.social
art collector (Hoggard Wagner collection) and software engineer with very left-of-center politics
@donsteele.bsky.social
@styer.bsky.social
Welp, this again. Ex-Google product leader in privacy, product strategy, & UX design. Early Internet human who keeps on internet-ing about burnout, propaganda, politics, and sci-fi jokes. See also: Covert stuttering, exertion interfaces, & Land Rovers
@justin-singer.org
caliperholdings.com / tryripple.com. Telecom law -> big data startups -> cannabis. For consumer protection; against consumer fraud. Actual human being.
@edzitron.com
British, But In Las Vegas and NYC ezitron.76 Sig Newsletter - wheresyoured.at https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio Columnist at Business Insider - https://www.businessinsider.com/author/ed-zitron CEO at EZPR.com - Award-Winning Tech PR
@anildash.com
that guy from the internet โข waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and xmas โข big fan of being a big fan of things โข see https://anildash.com
@jevaun.bsky.social
๐จ๐พโ๐ป Tech, Product, & VP Design Guy. โ๐พ Pixels, Politics, Pro Sports, & Pop Culture. โ ๏ธ Not necessarily in that order. ๐ณ๏ธ Do Not Obey in Advance
@jessemiddleton.com
@srcasm on Twitter. Parent to a splendid eight year old son and rambunctious one year old daughter. Husband to a brilliant woman. GP at Flybridge and co-founder of Next Wave NYC and WeWork Labs.
@laurengoode.bsky.social
WIRED senior writer covering Silicon Valley and its impact beyond. Send tips to Signal handle ChaoticGoode.12. (No PR pitches please)
@fredbenenson.com
currently: investing in technology and films creator: Breadwinner, Emoji Dick, ๐ฆช formerly: kickstarter, creative commons, y combinator into: bread, data, surfing, literature, art 'not an artist per se' - The Guardian
@lauriesegall.bsky.social
Lover of coffee and nuance. CEO @mostlyhuman, former @cnn @60minutes.
@amit.bsky.social
Writer making writerly AI tools at Sudowrite.com Previously started Photojojo, Jelly, and other stuff. amitgupta.com ๐ค
@antderosa.com
VP of Newsletters and Programming at Pluralsight. Alumni of The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Circa, and The Daily Show.
@ering.bsky.social
NYT reporter covering startups & venture capital Writing a book about startups in the 2010s๐ฆ
@arctictony.com
CEO of Filament. Recovering Twitter PM, Founding CEO of Scroll and Chartbeat. "A glib non-journalist" - Jill Abramson "British" - Walter Isaacson
@baratunde.com
host, writer, & speaker exploring interdependence across our relationships with nature, each other, and technology. Latest project is the YouTube podcast "Life With Machines." Other work includes: PBS's America Outdoors, How To Citizen podcast, and Puck
@weisenthal.bsky.social
Cohost of The Odd Lots Podcast Singer and guitarist in Light Sweet Crude
@dens.nyc
I like to build things (@HopscotchLabs.co ๐ง, Foursquare๐ฑ, Dodgeball ๐, @StockadeFC.com & @StreetFC โฝ๏ธ). Husband to Chelsa & Dada to ๐ง๐ผ๐ง๐ผ&๐ถ๐ผ. Splitting time btw NYC & Kingston, NY. Other keywords for the AI: snowboards, hot dogs denniscrowley.com
@alexrainert.com
Product and design person, socialble introvert, Liverpool fan, peloton nerd, easy laugh. VP Traveler Products @ Tripadvisor Past: NYTimes, foursquare, google, itp@nyu Blogging like itโs 1999 over at www.alexrainert.com
@innonate.com
๐ป Made some photo apps, an office hours community, and once led the largest Meetup in the world. ๐ Now: Trying to save the planet as organizer of the Baltimore Climate Tech Meetup and blogger at @heatpump.review ๐ Baltimore, MD