Previous guests of the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference have included an American internet entrepreneur who was the co-founder and executive chairman of what business-oriented social network?
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Allen &amp; Company Sun Valley Conference The Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference is an annual media finance conference hosted and wholly independently funded by private investment firm Allen & Company. The conference has taken place in Sun Valley, Idaho for one week each July since 1983. The conference typically features business leaders, political figures, and major figures in the philanthropic and cultural spheres. Previous conference guests have included Bill and Melinda Gates, Warren and Susan Buffett, Tony Blair, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Allen alumnus and former Philippine Senator Mar Roxas, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch, eBay CEO Meg Whitman, BET founder Robert Johnson, Time Warner Chairman Richard Parsons, NBA player LeBron James, Governor Chris Christie, entertainer Dan Chan, Katharine Graham of "The Washington Post", Diane Sawyer, InterActiveCorp Chairman Barry Diller, Linkedin co-founder Reid Hoffman, Sandro Salsano from Salsano Group, and Washington Post CEO Donald E. Graham, and Oprah.
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Reid Hoffman Reid Garrett Hoffman (born August 5, 1967) is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author. Hoffman was the co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network used primarily for professional networking. He is currently a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners. On the "Forbes" 2017 list of the world's billionaires, Hoffman was ranked #631 with a net worth of US$3.1 billion.
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Chris Hughes Christopher "Chris" Hughes (born (1983--) 26, 1983 ) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded and served as spokesman for the online social directory and networking site Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Andrew McCollum. He was the publisher and editor-in-chief of "The New Republic" from 2012 to 2016.
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Adrian Scott (entrepreneur) Adrian Scott is a Canadian social networking site founder, technology entrepreneur, investor, and film and TV actor. He is best known as founder of the social networking site Ryze in the summer of 2001, and as a founding investor in Napster.
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Jim Breyer James W. Breyer (born July 1961) is an American venture capitalist, founder and CEO of Breyer Capital, an investment and venture philanthropy firm, and a partner at Accel Partners, a venture capital firm. Breyer has invested in over 30 companies that have gone public or completed a merger, with some of these investments, including Facebook, earning over 100 times cost and many others over 25 times cost. On the "Forbes" 2016 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked #722 with a net worth of US$2.4 billion.
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Chad Anderson (businessman) Chad C. Anderson (born 20 June 1980) is an American entrepreneur and executive, best known as CEO of Space Angels Network.
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Dan Schneider (entrepreneur) Dan Schneider is an American entrepreneur and current CEO of SIB Development & Consulting, Inc. He is known for his entry into the business world at an early age, and for unconventional business strategies in areas such as marketing, office culture, and employee retention incentives.
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Mark R. Hughes Mark Reynolds Hughes (January 1, 1956 – May 21, 2000) was an American businessman who was the founder, chairman and CEO of Herbalife International Ltd, a multi-level marketing company.
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Alfred A. Marcus Alfred Allen Marcus (born 1950) is an American author and the Edson Spencer Professor of Strategy and Technology Leadership at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota and the Technological Leadership Institute. He has worked as a consultant with companies such as 3M, Corning Inc., Xcel Energy, Medtronic, General Mills, and IBM and has also taught as a visiting professor at Technion, INCAE, BI Norwegian Business School, and MIT.
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Dave Morin Dave Morin is an American entrepreneur, angel investor, and the CEO and co-founder of the social network Path. A former manager at Facebook, he co-created the Facebook Platform and Facebook Connect.
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Ramy Adeeb Ramy Adeeb is the founder and CEO of social curation platform Snip.it and is a former venture capitalist investor in start-ups such as Square and Groupme.
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Sunil Coushik Sunil Coushik is an entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Boole Inc. that makes wireless projection hardware for meeting rooms called Prijector. He was also the founder and president of Bubble Motion which was funded by Sequoia Capital.
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Michael Gale (businessman) Michael Jonathan Gale (Born October 27, 1962) is a former Silicon Valley technology entrepreneur and venture investor. He was the Founder of VoteGlobal and sits on the Boards of numerous technology companies. He has been involved in over 100 start-up companies in the US and Asia.
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Alan Fuerstman Alan Fuerstman is an American entrepreneur and business executive. He is best known as the founder of Montage Hotels & Resorts where he serves as the company's CEO. He is listed on the Haute 100 and has won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
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Mark Thompson (investor) Mark C. Thompson is an American author, executive coach, keynote speaker, businessman and venture capitalist. He is the co-author of the international bestsellers, "Admired - 21 Ways to Double Your Value", "Success Built to Last" and "Now, Build a Great Business!" as well as a venture investor, executive coach, and a producer/coach of the executive leadership program, "Leader Powertools". Thompson’s list of clients includes executives, entrepreneurs, non-profit leaders, billionaires, presidents of nations all over the world, and the leaders of small and large organizations. Thompson is CEO and co-founder of "Virgin Unite" Mentors, Sir Richard Branson's network for executive coaching and entrepreneurial innovation. Thompson is also a Broadway producer of the Tony Award-winning play "Peter and the Starcatcher" and Tony nominated "StickFly".
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Bob Parsons Robert Ralph "Bob" Parsons (born November 27, 1950) is an American entrepreneur, billionaire, and philanthropist. In 1997, he founded the GoDaddy group of companies, including domain name registrar GoDaddy.com, reseller registrar Wild West Domains and Blue Razor Domains. In July 2011, Parsons sold approximately 70 percent of Go Daddy to a private equity consortium and resigned his position as CEO. In June 2014, he stepped down from his position as Executive Chairman and currently serves on Go Daddy's board. Parsons owns 28 percent of the company and is its largest shareholder.
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Talmon Marco Talmon Marco is an Israeli-American entrepreneur and businessman, best known as the CEO and founder of Viber - a proprietary cross-platform instant messaging VoIP application for smartphones with over 400 million users and Juno - a ride sharing service.
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Brent Freeman Brent Freeman is an American digital entrepreneur, startup advisor, contributor at Entrepreneur.com and INC.com, Entrepreneur in Residence at early stage venture capital firm Crosscut Ventures in Los Angeles, and Co-Founder / President of Stealth Venture Labs, a startup accelerator based in Silicon Valley & Los Angeles that owns and operates subscription commerce consumer brands.
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Vince Thompson Vince Thompson (born 1963) is an American businessman, venture capitalist, author, and the founder and managing partner of Middleshift.
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Aharon Wasserman Aharon Wasserman (born December 11, 1986) is an entrepreneur and software designer. Currently he serves as the Vice President of Creative and Marketing for NGP VAN, the data company at the center of the Democratic Party's technology infrastructure. He co-founded NationalField, a company started on the 2008 Obama campaign to help monitor the daily activities of the sprawling grassroots effort with Justin Lewis and Edward Saatchi.
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Eric A. McAfee Eric Armstrong McAfee (born September 24, 1962) is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist, founding and funding companies in renewable energy, oil and gas, agriculture, networking devices and enterprise software. Based in the Silicon Valley, McAfee is Chairman of McAfee Capital, a growth equity investment fund; is a principal at merchant bank, Cagan McAfee Capital Partners; and co-founded Berg McAfee Companies, a holding company.
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Kevin Allen (author) Kevin Allen, (b. Sept. 17, 1954, United States) is an American bestselling author, business growth consultant and speaker. He has written two books, "The Hidden Agenda: A Proven Way to Win Business and Create a Following" (2012), which was a Wall Street Journal bestseller, and "The Case of the Missing Cutlery: A Leadership Course for the Rising Star" (2013) both published by Bibliomotion.