Who's at D6? Valleywag has the attendee list
CARLSBAD, CA — What's this on my table at the Four Seasons Aviara's Lobby Lounge? Why, it's a copy of the program for D6! How careless for someone to have left it out in a public space, where anyone might read it. And there's even an attendee list! I won't bore you with the name of everyone who's going, but here are some names that caught my eye:
The unaffiliated — job-hoppers or the newly unemployed:
- Bradley Horowitz, ex-Yahoo, now at Google
- Bruce Jaffe, the former Microsoft dealmaker who's gone startup
- Owen Van Natta, the former COO of Facebook
Startuppers
- Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe
- Geoff Reiss, Associated Content
- Jeremy Allaire, Brightcove
- MC Hammer, Dancejam
- John Battelle, Federated Media
- Shawn Hardin, Flock
- Bill Gross, Idealab
- Dalton Caldwell, Imeem
- Donna Dubinsky, Numenta
- David Sifry, ex-Technorati, now Offbeat Guides
- Loic Le Meur, Seesmic
- Chris Alden, Six Apart
- Heidi Roizen, SkinnySongs
- Max Levchin, Slide
- Shervin Pishevar, Social Gaming Network
- Scott Banister, Zivity
- Mark Pincus, Zynga
Bigwigs
- Bobby Kotick, Activision
- Paul Sagan, Akamai
- Herb Allen, Allen & Co.
- Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com
- Ron Grant, AOL
- Bill and Melinda Gates
- Quincy Smith, CBS
- Dean Kamen, Deka Research
- Michael Dell, Dell
- Sky Dayton, EarthLink
- Esther Dyson, EDVenture
- Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Gideon Yu, Facebook
- Rupert Murdoch, Les Hinton, Peter Levinsohn, News Corp.
- Arianna Huffington
- Barry Diller, IAC
- Scott Cook, Intuit
- Martha Stewart
- Steve Ballmer, Microsoft
- Mary Meeker, Morgan Stanley
- Chris DeWolfe, MySpace (but not Tom!)
- Zach Nelson, NetSuite
- Tim O'Reilly
- Frank Quattrone, Qatalyst Group
- Rob Glaser, RealNetworks
- Steve Case, Revolution
- Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com
- Howard Stringer, Sony
- Tom Glocer, Thomson Reuters
- Jeff Bewkes, Time Warner
- Tom Rogers, TiVo
- Lowell McAdam, Verizon Wireless
- Don Graham, Washington Post
- Jerry Yang, Sue Decker, Brad Garlinghouse, Yahoo
Hacks, bloggers, and other media types
- A whole passel of Dow Jones and AllThingsD minions
- Norman Pearlstine, Bloomberg
- Jon Fine, Steve Wildstrom, Sarah Lacy, BusinessWeek
- Larry Magid, CBS News
- Jim Goldman, CNBC
- Dan Farber, Ina Fried, Rafe Needleman, CNET
- Ryan Block, Engadget
- Quentin Hardy, Forbes
- Adam Lashinsky, Fortune
- Om Malik, GigaOm
- Brian Lam, Gizmodo
- Dan Gillmor, Knight Center
- Joseph Menn, Los Angeles Times
- Therese Poletti, MarketWatch
- John Markoff, New York Times
- Ken Auletta, New Yorker
- Steven Levy, Wired
- Rafat Ali, PaidContent.org
- Mark Golin, People.com
- Paul Steiger, ProPublica
- Eric Auchard, Reuters
- Peter Kafka, Silicon Alley Insider
- Michael Arrington, TechCrunch
- Alan Citron, TMZ.com
- Scott Rosenberg, Wordyard
Venture capitalists and other investors
- Jim Breyer, Accel Partners
- Ron Conway
- Bill Elkus, Clearstone Venture Partners
- Marc Bodnick, Elevation Partners
- Rob Hayes, First Round Capital
- Sean Parker, Founders Fund
- Alan Patricof, Greycroft Partners
- David Sze, Greylock
- Ann Winblad, Mitchell Kertzman, Hummer Winblad
- Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures
- Allen Morgan, Mayfield Fund
- Geoff Yang, Redpoint Ventures
- Eric Hippeau, Ron Fisher, SoftBank Capital