TechCrunch50 is right around the corner. Please register for your tickets before we sell out!! You will not believe what we have planned for you this year (September 8, 9 and 10).
Today we are announcing four new luminaries who will be joining our distinguished team of TechCrunch50 Experts. We are pleased to announce that Henry Blodget, Josh Kopelman, Tim O’Reilly and Robert Scoble will be joining us in San Francisco in September. Bios for each of these TechCrunch50 Experts are referenced below.
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Henry Blodget
Henry Blodget is the CEO, Co-Founder & Editor in Chief of Silicon Alley Insider. He is currently CEO co-Founder, and Editor in Chief of Silicon Alley Media, Inc., a network of real-time business news and analysis sites.
From 1994-2001, he was an investment banker and equity research analyst at Prudential Securities, Oppenheimer & Co., and Merrill Lynch & Co. From 1999-2001, he was ranked one of the top Internet and eCommerce analysts on Wall Street by Institutional Investor, Greenwich Associates, and other third-party firms. From 1999-2001, he ran the global Internet research practice at Merrill, coordinating teams of analysts in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
Josh Kopelman
Josh Kopelman is a venture capitalist and Managing Partner at First Round Capital.
Previously, Kopelman founded Half.com, which was acquired by eBay in 2000. He remained with eBay for three years, running the Half.com business unit and growing eBay’s Media marketplace to almost half a billion dollars in annual sales.
In late 2003 Kopelman helped to found TurnTide, an anti-spam company that created the world’s first anti-spam router. TurnTide was acquired by Symantec just six months later.
In 2001 Kopelman co-founded the Kopelman Foundation, a non-profit grant fund for social entrepreneurs. He also serves as a member of the advisory boards for Wharton Entrepreneurial Center and the Weiss Tech House at the University of Pennsylvania.
Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble is a leading blogger, technical evangelist, and author. Scoble is best known for his popular blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. He currently works for Fast Company as a video blogger. He is also the co-author of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers.
Tim O’Reilly
Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O’Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the Web 2.0 Summit, the Web 2.0 Expo, the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, and the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. Tim’s blog, the O’Reilly Radar, “watches the alpha geeks” to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is an activist for open source and open standards, and an opponent of software patents and other incursions of new intellectual property laws into the public domain. Tim’s long-term vision for his company is to change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.
Scoble?
Yeah…. the guy with a blog. The fat kid nobody wants on their team, standing there with waving his arms *pick me pick me* right up until there’s nobody else to pick.
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…are you two f’ing each other?
they all look like winners including scoble and blodget are real winners in my book . really
Nice
Thanks, Mike. Great event. Looking forward to working with everyone.
(And thanks to Lance for the kind words.)
How did Scoble and O’Reily not get on the list before
well, scoble keeps trashing the conference, and we’ve had O’Reilly on the sidelines waiting to announce him.
so excited. Mike, thanks for hooking it up this summer with August and this.
Let me know if you need any help. I’ll be happy to lead everyone in a nice round of Kumbaya before the presenters, just to break the ice and get in the mood. Really, I don’t mind.
Thus continues the rehabilitation of Henry Blodget. Enough respectable appearances like this and people may even start to forget about the 90s…
can he code in html hell can anyone of these fools code in basic html
dreamweaver does not count
Knowing HTML is not the achievement you’ve led yourself to believe it is.
Nice job TC 50.
10 reasons for a tic (response to twitter post)
http://tinyurl.com/6d5frk
Blodget is scum…he is no longer the arrogant prick we saw in the 90s but he’s still scum.
History never repeats itself, but there are always fools repeating history.
(Remember Blodget saw Google at $1000 yet months ago.)
Blodget had Google at $2000 not too long ago.
http://www.tech...muzzle-blodget/
How can you use “Expert” and “Blodget” in the same sentance? A lot of people lost money listening to this guy… dirtbag.
You just lost a reader with the Blodget addition. He’s a crooked as they come. Poor move.
Sometimes it’s apparent that replies in certain threads need to be turned off. :/
This is a crappy conference. Oh, wait, I’m on the panel now? Hmmm. Even crappier!
Ben: want to say that to my face? Thought not.
@Scoble – Truth hurts? You’re the definition of “pick me!”. Not in an entirely bad way, but your best attribute is the noise you generate (not smarts, or chops, or knowledge)
Blah. Blodget is a web 1.0 bubble-creating has been. He doesn’t deserve a second chance.
And Blodget is still up to his old tricks. In November of 2007, he publicly talked up a possible Yahoo buyout by Microsoft and following his comments, YHOO went up 7%. Blodget OWNED YHOO stock at that time. HE IS UNETHICAL