Valley of Genius Creators & Guests

Leo Laporte is the host of The Tech Guy's weekly radio show and author.

Jane Metcalfe is the co-founder and former president of Wired Ventures, creator and original publisher of the magazine Wired.

Mark Pauline is a performance artist and inventor, best known as the founder and director of Survival Research Laboratories.

Joey Anuff is a is a contributor on WIRED and co-founder of Suck.com.

Scott Hassan is a computer programmer and entrepreneur who was the main programmer of the original Google Search engine.

Louis Rossetto is a writer, editor, and entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder and former editor-in-chief/publisher of Wired magazine. He was also the first investor and the former CEO of TCHO chocolate company.

Aaron Sittig is a Managing Partner at Public Studio. He is the first designer at Facebook, known for creating the "Like" button.

Fabrice Florin is a multimedia innovator, social entrepreneur, and Director at Green Change.

Ev Williams is an internet entrepreneur.

Stewart Brand is a writer, best known as the editor of the Whole Earth Catalog.

Mark Pincus is an internet entrepreneur known as the founder of Zynga. He also founded the startups Freeloader, Inc., Tribe Networks, founded & launched an incubator SuperLabs, and co-founded the political movement, Win the Future.

Nolan Bushnell is an electrical engineer and businessman. He established Atari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theater chain.

Steve Wozniak, also known by his nickname "Woz", is an American electronics engineer, programmer, philanthropist, and technology entrepreneur. In 1976 he co-founded Apple Inc., which later became the world's largest information technology company by revenue and largest company in the world by market capitalization. Through their work at Apple in the 1970s and 1980s, he and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs are widely recognized as two prominent pioneers of the personal computer revolution.

Dr. Larry Brilliant is an epidemiologist, technologist, philanthropist, and author of Sometimes Brilliant.

Tiffany Shlain is a filmmaker, author, public speaker, and internet pioneer. She is the founder of the Webby Awards and the co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.

Steven Levy is a journalist who has written several books on computers, technology, cryptography, the internet, cybersecurity, and privacy.

Jaron Lanier is an American computer philosophy writer, computer scientist, visual artist, and composer of classical music.

Andrew Hertzfeld is a software engineer and innovator who was a member of the original Apple Macintosh development team.

Charles David Ayers, Jr. is an American chef, cookbook author, and restaurateur. He is the former executive chef for Google, from 1999 until 2006. His work there was widely publicized in the media, and David Vise's corporate history The Google Story contains an entire chapter about him called "Charlie's Place."