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  1. Gary Goldberg

    Gary Goldberg was a producer and writer for television and film. His TV sitcoms included the 1982 hit show Family Ties, starring Michael Fox, as well as Brooklyn Bridge and Spin City. Gary was the author of the memoir Sit Ubu Sit. Ubu Produ

  2. Fadi Ghandour

    Fadi Ghandour is one of the leading entrepreneurs of the Middle East. Fadi and his family moved from Lebanon to Jordan where his father eventually became head of Royal Jordanian Airlines. Adopting his father’s business sense and knowledge o

  3. Marc DaCosta

    Enigma (http://enigma.io/)is a company that uses the internet to make public data available and understandable to users. Enigma links across various databases to uncover relevant facts that a user might not notice by looking at a single dat

  4. Patrick Collison

    Stripe (https://stripe.com) is a financial software company that helps businesses manage their online and mobile transactions. Patrick started Stripe in 2009 when he was 21 years old with his younger brother, John. He is originally from Dro

  5. Ethan Brown

    Beyond Meat (http://beyondmeat.com/) makes meat using plant protein instead of animal protein. The goal is to make a healthier product that looks, tastes, feels, and smells like chicken or beef using fewer natural resources. Ethan speaks wi

  6. Chris Barton

    Shazam (http://www.shazam.com/) is an app that identifies the music or TV show around you simply by holding up your phone to the sound. Shazam was one of the first apps available in the Apple app store in 2008. Now, a hundred million people

  7. Joan Ganz Cooney

    Since the 1970s, The Children’s Television Workshop—now called the Sesame Workshop—intended to help low-income children become better prepared for school by using television as a tool. The Sesame Workshop’s shows—including Sesame Street, Th

  8. Jonathan Cedar

    Biolite (http://www.biolitestove.com/) is a company that produces clean, portable stoves for cooking off the grid in developing countries as well as for camping. The stove reduces toxic smoke emissions by 90 percent by using its own heat wa

  9. Nolan Bushnell

    Nolan is considered one of the pioneers of the video game industry. Nolan developed the first coin operated game (Computer Space), as well as Atari’s popular debut game, Pong. Nolan also founded Chuck E. Cheese’s, a game centric restaurant

  10. Jonathan Bush

    http://www.athenahealth.com/ is helping to build the internet architecture for the healthcare industry. It is a cloud based software enabled company that helps physicians manage patients’ electronic medical records, among other services. Th

  11. Charles Best

    DonorsChoose (http://www.donorschoose.org/) is an online philanthropic marketplace that connects citizen philanthropists— members of the public– to public school teachers who request supplies for their classroom projects across the United S

  12. Michael Dubin

    Dollar Shave Club (https://www.dollarshaveclub.com/) is a membership club for men’s grooming products. The company started delivering razors in 2011 for less than $10 per month. DSC now offers a range of bathroom products from hair gel to b

  13. Scott Harrison

    charity: water (https://www.charitywater.org/) provides clean water to communities in developing countries. Scott launched charity: water in 2006 after raising $15,000 from his friends at his 31st birthday party. Prior to launching charity:

  14. David Kelley

    IDEO (http://www.ideo.com) is a global design firm that takes a human-centered approach to innovation. IDEO has helped to innovate products including Apple’s first computer mouse in 1980, the first stand-up toothpaste for Procter and Gamble

  15. Robert Hammond

    Friends of the High Line is the organization that pioneered the transformation of an abandoned elevated train line into a public space about 1.5 miles long on Manhattan’s west side in New York City. Robert and his Co-Founder Joshua David st

  16. Emily Weiss

    Glossier (https://www.glossier.com) is an online beauty company that launched on Instagram in 2014. Emily is also the founder of Into the Gloss (https://intothegloss.com/), an online community dedicated to beauty. Visitors get tips on skin,

  17. Peter Manning

    Peter Manning launched his eponymous clothing company to focus on men 5’8″ and under. Prior to starting the company in 2012, Peter was a Tony Award winning theatrical producer. Peter speaks with Jessica Harris about his career shift– and th

  18. Jon Oringer

    Shutterstock (http://www.shutterstock.com/) is an online marketplace for photos, graphic images, video clips and music. The content is crowdsourced, with photographers, artists and other contributors uploading their content in exchange for

  19. Fred Bass

    Strand Book Store (http://www.strandbooks.com/) in New York City was founded by Fred’s father Benjamin in 1927. Fred was born in 1928 and has been working in the family business since he was thirteen years old. The Strand has roughly 2.5 mi

  20. Mark Morris

    Mark started the Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) in 1980. Headquartered in Fort Green, Brooklyn, the company is on tour more than 20 weeks per year. MMDG collaborates with leading artists, including the cellist Yo Yo Ma, the pianist Emanuel

  21. Brendan Kennedy

    Privateer (http://www.privateerholdings.com/) is a private equity firm focused on making investments in the cannabis industry as the legalization of marijuana continues throughout the United States. Some of Privateer’s portfolio companies i

  22. Neil Blumenthal

    Warby Parker (https://www.warbyparker.com/) is an online eyeglass retailer that sells low cost vintage inspired glasses. For each pair sold, Warby Parker provides a pair of glasses to low income people in more than 36 countries through non-

  23. AB Short

    MedShare (http://www.medshare.org/) is an organization that redistributes surplus medical equipment to hospitals in the developing world. These supplies include surgical instruments, gloves, stethoscopes, sutures, x-ray machines, wheelchair

  24. Andy Dunn

    Bonobos (https://bonobos.com/) is an e-commerce company that sells men’s clothing. Bonobos started off with the goal of selling better fitting pants for men in 2007 and has expanded to include all type’s of men’s apparel. Bonobos was acquir

  25. Greg Lambrecht

    Coravin (https://www.coravin.com/) produces a device that accesses wine without removing the cork. Through a medical grade needle, the Coravin System extracts a portion of the wine and replaces it with argon gas. Greg is also a medical devi

  26. Skip Bennett

    Island Creek Oysters (http://www.islandcreekoysters.com) supplies oysters to more than 400 chefs across the United States. Restaurants that serve its oysters include Thomas Keller’s Per Se and French Laundry, the Eastern Standard in Boston,

  27. Jake Wood

    Team Rubicon (http://teamrubiconusa.org/) is an organization comprised of former veterans who apply their military experience to emergency situations, working as first responders internationally. Jake served in the military, in Iraq and Afg

  28. Peter Diamandis

    The XPrize Foundation (http://www.xprize.org/) drives innovation through competitions with the hopes of improving the human experience. Its prizes are focused on bold yet achievable projects, ranging from space exploration to the human geno

  29. Drew Houston

    Dropbox (http://www.dropbox.com) is a file sharing and personal data storage company that allows users to access their content (Microsoft Word documents, photos, videos, etc.) from any of their devices. Prior to starting Dropbox, Drew start

  30. Mario Schlosser

    Oscar Health (https://www.hioscar.com/) is focused on keeping health insurance simple. The company helps users connect directly to doctors, get prescriptions, and find insurance plans that are easier to navigate. Mario speaks with Jessica H

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