The 2012 Business Insider Silicon Valley 100

as scored and ranked by PROskore

Below is the Business Insider Silicon Valley Top 100 - a compilation of the people who did what Business Insider considers to be the "coolest things" in Silicon Valley.
This year PROskore ranked the Top 100 using our own scoring algorithm that combines each persons professional background (i.e. education, work experience) with their
social media influence (followers, engagement, etc.). Click the headers below to sort each professional according to rank, following, and more.


B.I. Rank Pic Name Company College
19 Michael Arrington CrunchFund 75 64 380 500+ 68,491 Stanford University
46 Reid Hoffman LinkedIn 93 55 125,194 62,403 500+ 28,574 Oxford University
53 Dave McClure 500 Startups 91 74 2,654 83,333 500+ 35,425 Johns Hopkins University
4 Bradley Horowitz Google 90 76 87,437 24,718 500+ 706,349 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
63 Kevin Rose Milk, Inc. 88 77 14,677 1,332,197 143 241,934 University of Nevada, Las Vegas
12 Dave Morin Path 87 74 16,204 313,686 500+ 41,521 University of Colorado, Boulder
17 Mark Zuckerberg Facebook 83 58 66,527 150,854 632,254 Harvard University
69 Marc Benioff Salesforce.com 83 71 85,866 33,158 500+ University of Southern California
55 Jeremy Stoppleman Yelp, Inc. 82 43 72,623 116,196 500+ Harvard University
58 Evan Williams Twitter 81 59 85,154 1,474,804 269 59,710 University of Nebraska, Lincoln
21 Sheryl Sandberg Facebook 80 58 5,077 17,485 153 11,402 Harvard University
42 Joe Fernandez Klout 84 67 278,248 12,057 500+ 6,757 University of Miami
52 Charles Cheever Quora 79 50 15,666 8,004 500+ 3,916 Harvard University
14 Mark Pincus Zynga 79 53 29,122 29,572 276 26,429 Harvard University
13 Sean Parker Spotify 79 68 26,891 381,636 500+ 3,333
59 Kevin Hartz EventBrite 78 45 23,989 4,589 500+ Oxford University
84 Akshay Kothari Pulse 77 45 8,045 1,648 500+ 1,593 Stanford University
16 Drew houston Dropbox 77 71 434,767 15,410 500+ 5,890 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
25 Joe Kennedy Pandora Media, Inc. 77 0 32,500 100,178 500+ Harvard University
93 Sukhinder Singh Cassidy Joyus 77 45 50,114 39,182 500+ University of Western Ontario
77 Uri Levine Waze 76 80 86,785 37,466 500+ Tel Aviv University
86 Salar Kamangar YouTube 76 100 57,494 12,385,496 9,079 Stanford University
20 Keith Rabois Square, Inc. 75 59 19,460 21,850 500+ 3,901 Harvard University
10 Sam Lessin Facebook 75 71 66,527 5,292 500+ 15,510 Harvard University
32 Marc Andreessen Andreessen Horowitz 75 43 1,080 9,044 194 18,690 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
6 Meg Whitman Hewlett-Packard 74 43 17,994 243,669 260 Harvard University
43 Dustin Moskovitz Asana 73 53 17,374 5,504 367 Harvard University
7 Gideon Yu San Francisco 49ers 73 54 9,409 9,623 481 107 Harvard University
9 Ben Silbermann Pinterest 73 58 19,166 8,997 500+ 524 Yale University
50 Dick Costolo Twitter 72 66 85,154 975,408 180 2,959 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
74 Kara Swisher All Things D 73 67 820,361 4 31,771 Georgetown University
92 Mariam Naficy Minted.com 72 38 16,622 1,547 404 57 Stanford University
34 Sergey Brin Google 72 42 6,875 8,298 996,847 Stanford University
90 Phil Libin Evernote 72 53 202,521 8,081 500+ 1,295 Boston University
27 Blake Irving Yahoo! 72 56 93,123 5,637 500+ 23 Pepperdine University
45 Eric Grosse Task Rabbit 72 56 12,089 8,868 500+ Harvard University
100 Jason Shellen AIM - AOL 71 51 685,727 16,866 500+ St. Mary's College of California
95 Ryan Howard Practice Fusion 69 44 5,561 5,598 500+
78 Aneel Bhusri Workday 68 43 1,618 2,469 500+ Stanford University
39 Chamath Palihapitiya Facebook 68 50 339,671 3,007 500+ University of Waterloo
24 Travis Kalanick Uber, Inc. 68 57 11,444 11,045 500+ University of California, Los Angeles
60 Mike Olson Cloudera 67 49 210 3,857 500+ University of California, Berkeley
8 Jeff Weiner LinkedIn 67 52 125,170 13,973 500+ University of Pennsylvania
40 Bing Gordon KPCB 67 53 1,919 5,711 500+ Stanford University
65 Elon Musk Tesla Motors 67 61 91,377 25,375 1,051 University of Pennsylvania
66 Sundar Pichai Google 67 60 156 201,038 213 Stanford University
41 David Goldberg Survey Monkey 66 29 118,472 2,289 500+ 205 Harvard University
22 Bret Taylor Facebook 66 32 66,527 16,501 144 Stanford University
76 Peter Thiel TheFounders Fund 66 0 4,740 7,348 119 Stanford University
51 Jessica Scorpio GetAround 66 43 27,764 2,859 500+ Carleton University
75 Aydin Senkut Felicis Ventures 66 48 15,020 500+ University of Pennsylvania
96 Kevin Chou Kabam 65 11 15,256 800 500+ 412 University of California, Berkeley
91 Lars Dalgaard SuccessFactors 65 45 446 3,001 500+ 18 Stanford University
89 Sam Shank Hotel Tonight 65 48 136,623 671 500+ 22 Northwestern University
57 Brian Sugar Sugar, Inc. 65 52 1,651 500+ 152 George Washington University
64 Daniel Rosensweig Chegg, Inc. 65 60 127,814 14,122 393 Hobart and William Smith Colleges
54 Paul Graham Y Combinator 65 62 422 64,799 1 Cornell University
23 Kevin Systrom Instagram 65 69 634,968 21,636 217 Stanford University
35 Tony Zingale Jive Software 64 39 2,394 1,525 500+ University of Cincinnati
87 Phil Fernandez Marketo 64 40 20,453 628 500+ Stanford University
3 Tim Cook Apple, Inc. 64 57 7,332 6 Auburn University
11 Aaron Levie Box 64 59 19,394 9,171 381 University of Southern California
73 Sarah Lacy Pando Daily 64 65 8,793 54,152 312 Rhodes College
70 Shawn Fanning Path 64 68 16,204 27,258 227
5 Jack Dorsey Square 63 75 19,460 1,980,064 New York University
62 Frank Quattrone Qatalyst Group, Inc. 62 32 66 4,198 500+ Stanford University
81 David Lawee Google 62 46 15 911 500+ University of Chicago
56 Rob Hayes First Round Capital 62 47 1,845 10,788 500+ Columbia University
82 Max Levchin Slide 61 43 104 27,525 323 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
97 David Samuel Freestyle Capital 61 45 3,259 500+ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
44 Jim Breyer Accel 61 47 11,472 6,055 64 Harvard University
49 Joe Lonsdale Addepar 60 16 137 467 500+ 209 Stanford University
30 Robert Kyncl Google 60 0 57,493 509 500+ Pepperdine University
29 Andy Rubin Google 60 0 3,143 49,158 Utica College
67 David Lee SV Angel, LLC 60 60 48 500+ New York University
80 Alex Karp Palantir Technologies 60 40 153 3,611 Stanford University
79 Tony Fadell Nest Labs 68 31 9,964 1,662 500+ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
61 Susan Feldman One Kings Lane 59 37 36,216 764 500+ Stanford University
18 Ren Ng Lytro 59 0 46,217 10,508 500+ Stanford University
28 Dag Kittlaus Siri 57 27 9,343 953 433 Indiana University
71 Ernestine Fu ALSOP LOUIE PARTNERS 57 32 771 500+ 188 Stanford University
37 Mike McCue Flipboard 57 54 44,478 10,464 340
68 Mark Johnson Zite 57 64 2,319 500+ Stanford University
33 Alexander Asseily Jawbone 56 36 69,458 184 312 Stanford University
26 Tony Bates Skype 56 50 86,961 575 324 London South Bank University
98 Mary Meeker KPCB 56 47 1,919 7,829 DePauw University
2 Larry Page Google, Inc. 55 0 95,296 1,500,686 Stanford University
48 Reed Hastings Netflix 54 0 31,587 500+ Stanford University
99 Michael Morell Riviera Partners 57 36 482 500+ Ohio State University
88 Satoshi Nakamoto Bitcoin 53 46 6,436 23,490
1 Steve Jobs Apple, Inc. 52 0 32,750 Reed College
83 Scott Sandell NEA 51 11 35 289 500+ Stanford University
47 Eddy Cue Apple, Inc. 51 39 1,767 66 129 Duke University
15 Nathan Blecharczyk Airbnb.com 51 0 112,434 464 344 Harvard University
72 Steven Boal Coupons.com 49 0 578,796 500+
94 Vikash Varma Stoke 49 15 174 326 Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS)
31 Bill Nguyen Color 47 29 22,920 2,287
36 Gregg Zehr Lab126 44 0 139 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
38 Yuri Milner Digital Sky Technologies 38 0 228 Moscow State University
85 David Drummond Google 33 0 Stanford University