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 64 390 500+ 68,491 Stanford University
46 Reid Hoffman LinkedIn 93 55 137,901 70,967 500+ 28,574 Oxford University
53 Dave McClure 500 Startups 91 74 3,273 89,893 500+ 35,425 Johns Hopkins University
4 Bradley Horowitz Google 90 76 98,789 26,426 500+ 706,349 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
63 Kevin Rose Milk, Inc. 88 77 14,615 1,348,672 184 241,934 University of Nevada, Las Vegas
12 Dave Morin Path 87 74 21,221 324,770 500+ 41,521 University of Colorado, Boulder
17 Mark Zuckerberg Facebook 83 58 69,783 168,482 632,254 Harvard University
69 Marc Benioff Salesforce.com 83 71 101,908 36,047 500+ University of Southern California
55 Jeremy Stoppleman Yelp, Inc. 82 43 77,355 121,372 500+ Harvard University
58 Evan Williams Twitter 81 59 88,630 1,500,496 329 59,710 University of Nebraska, Lincoln
21 Sheryl Sandberg Facebook 80 58 6,323 23,196 153 11,402 Harvard University
42 Joe Fernandez Klout 84 67 324,446 12,776 500+ 6,757 University of Miami
52 Charles Cheever Quora 79 50 19,210 8,610 500+ 3,916 Harvard University
14 Mark Pincus Zynga 79 53 30,333 32,563 276 26,429 Harvard University
13 Sean Parker Spotify 79 68 28,751 388,561 500+ 3,333
59 Kevin Hartz EventBrite 78 45 27,148 5,092 500+ Oxford University
84 Akshay Kothari Pulse 77 45 8,778 1,766 500+ 1,593 Stanford University
16 Drew houston Dropbox 77 71 454,834 17,065 500+ 5,890 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
25 Joe Kennedy Pandora Media, Inc. 77 0 39,341 104,472 500+ Harvard University
93 Sukhinder Singh Cassidy Joyus 77 45 51,303 48,614 500+ University of Western Ontario
77 Uri Levine Waze 76 80 109,649 44,277 500+ Tel Aviv University
86 Salar Kamangar YouTube 76 100 60,835 14,302,369 9,079 Stanford University
20 Keith Rabois Square, Inc. 75 59 21,600 24,221 500+ 3,901 Harvard University
10 Sam Lessin Facebook 75 71 69,783 5,372 500+ 15,510 Harvard University
32 Marc Andreessen Andreessen Horowitz 75 43 1,325 11,060 194 18,690 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
6 Meg Whitman Hewlett-Packard 74 43 19,691 242,743 259 Harvard University
43 Dustin Moskovitz Asana 73 53 18,214 6,843 367 Harvard University
7 Gideon Yu San Francisco 49ers 73 54 10,664 10,093 500+ 107 Harvard University
9 Ben Silbermann Pinterest 73 58 21,679 9,824 500+ 524 Yale University
50 Dick Costolo Twitter 72 66 88,628 986,172 180 2,959 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
74 Kara Swisher All Things D 73 67 835,815 4 31,771 Georgetown University
92 Mariam Naficy Minted.com 72 38 20,071 1,687 428 57 Stanford University
34 Sergey Brin Google 72 42 7,701 8,950 996,847 Stanford University
90 Phil Libin Evernote 72 53 214,872 8,835 500+ 1,295 Boston University
27 Blake Irving Yahoo! 72 56 97,437 5,990 500+ 23 Pepperdine University
45 Eric Grosse Task Rabbit 72 56 13,230 9,584 500+ Harvard University
100 Jason Shellen AIM - AOL 71 51 687,515 17,392 500+ St. Mary's College of California
95 Ryan Howard Practice Fusion 69 44 5,995 5,861 500+
78 Aneel Bhusri Workday 68 43 2,994 500+ Stanford University
39 Chamath Palihapitiya Facebook 68 50 353,144 3,395 500+ University of Waterloo
24 Travis Kalanick Uber, Inc. 68 57 15,551 12,430 500+ University of California, Los Angeles
60 Mike Olson Cloudera 67 49 253 4,326 500+ University of California, Berkeley
8 Jeff Weiner LinkedIn 67 52 137,885 16,889 500+ University of Pennsylvania
40 Bing Gordon KPCB 67 53 2,233 6,234 500+ Stanford University
65 Elon Musk Tesla Motors 67 61 103,674 65,340 1,051 University of Pennsylvania
66 Sundar Pichai Google 67 60 163 240,969 213 Stanford University
41 David Goldberg Survey Monkey 66 29 125,311 2,659 500+ 205 Harvard University
22 Bret Taylor Facebook 66 32 69,783 18,533 145 Stanford University
76 Peter Thiel TheFounders Fund 66 0 5,669 9,280 119 Stanford University
51 Jessica Scorpio GetAround 66 43 27,460 3,193 500+ Carleton University
75 Aydin Senkut Felicis Ventures 66 48 16,263 500+ University of Pennsylvania
96 Kevin Chou Kabam 65 11 15,793 825 500+ 412 University of California, Berkeley
91 Lars Dalgaard SuccessFactors 65 45 484 3,743 500+ 18 Stanford University
89 Sam Shank Hotel Tonight 65 48 158,603 1,063 500+ 22 Northwestern University
57 Brian Sugar Sugar, Inc. 65 52 1,708 500+ 152 George Washington University
64 Daniel Rosensweig Chegg, Inc. 65 60 144,209 14,939 469 Hobart and William Smith Colleges
54 Paul Graham Y Combinator 65 62 490 71,770 1 Cornell University
23 Kevin Systrom Instagram 65 69 13,808 24,664 216 Stanford University
35 Tony Zingale Jive Software 64 39 2,621 1,628 500+ University of Cincinnati
87 Phil Fernandez Marketo 64 40 23,704 777 500+ Stanford University
3 Tim Cook Apple, Inc. 64 57 8,787 41 Auburn University
11 Aaron Levie Box 64 59 22,307 18,161 382 University of Southern California
73 Sarah Lacy Pando Daily 64 65 8,808 57,534 311 Rhodes College
70 Shawn Fanning Path 64 68 21,227 29,747 227
5 Jack Dorsey Square 63 75 21,600 2,050,620 New York University
62 Frank Quattrone Qatalyst Group, Inc. 62 32 75 4,610 500+ Stanford University
81 David Lawee Google 62 46 20 971 500+ University of Chicago
56 Rob Hayes First Round Capital 62 47 1,974 11,370 500+ Columbia University
82 Max Levchin Slide 61 43 116 30,805 323 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
97 David Samuel Freestyle Capital 61 45 3,464 500+ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
44 Jim Breyer Accel 61 47 24,365 6,995 64 Harvard University
49 Joe Lonsdale Addepar 60 16 160 513 500+ 209 Stanford University
30 Robert Kyncl Google 60 0 60,835 693 500+ Pepperdine University
29 Andy Rubin Google 60 0 3,165 53,364 Utica College
67 David Lee SV Angel, LLC 60 60 77 500+ New York University
80 Alex Karp Palantir Technologies 60 40 162 3,907 Stanford University
79 Tony Fadell Nest Labs 68 31 11,901 1,943 500+ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
61 Susan Feldman One Kings Lane 59 37 39,092 899 500+ Stanford University
18 Ren Ng Lytro 59 0 48,312 10,816 500+ Stanford University
28 Dag Kittlaus Siri 57 27 10,740 1,052 445 Indiana University
71 Ernestine Fu ALSOP LOUIE PARTNERS 57 32 936 500+ 188 Stanford University
37 Mike McCue Flipboard 57 54 49,917 11,361 340
68 Mark Johnson Zite 57 64 2,428 500+ Stanford University
33 Alexander Asseily Jawbone 56 36 71,473 226 312 Stanford University
26 Tony Bates Skype 56 50 89,581 768 324 London South Bank University
98 Mary Meeker KPCB 56 47 2,232 9,310 DePauw University
2 Larry Page Google, Inc. 55 0 10,196 1,500,686 Stanford University
48 Reed Hastings Netflix 54 0 33,739 500+ Stanford University
99 Michael Morell Riviera Partners 57 36 521 500+ Ohio State University
88 Satoshi Nakamoto Bitcoin 53 46 6,760 24,083
1 Steve Jobs Apple, Inc. 52 0 38,217 Reed College
83 Scott Sandell NEA 51 11 38 328 500+ Stanford University
47 Eddy Cue Apple, Inc. 51 39 2,044 66 129 Duke University
15 Nathan Blecharczyk Airbnb.com 51 0 129,371 500 396 Harvard University
72 Steven Boal Coupons.com 49 0 625,562 500+
94 Vikash Varma Stoke 49 15 182 346 Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS)
31 Bill Nguyen Color 47 29 26,278 2,473
36 Gregg Zehr Lab126 44 0 145 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
38 Yuri Milner Digital Sky Technologies 38 0 234 Moscow State University
85 David Drummond Google 33 0 Stanford University