Jonah Peretti
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Peretti is the founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, and a cofounder of the Huffington Post. As documented in a series of emails forwarded widely around the Web, Peretti once tried to get Nike to print “sweatshop” on a pair of customized sneakers. The request was denied.
Gabe Rivera
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Rivera was a software engineer at Intel before founding Techmeme, a popular tech-news aggregator. He is now Techmeme’s CEO, overseeing the growth of a site that’s been called “a thermometer of today’s news, with more context per headline than any single news source can offer.”
Ben Huh
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Huh is the CEO of Cheezburger, an Internet-humor conglomerate made up of 60-plus websites—including I Can Has Cheezburger, FAIL Blog, The Daily What, and Know Your Meme—that together attract more than 24 million visitors a month.
Anthony DeRosa
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DeRosa is a columnist for Reuters, as well as the news organization’s social-media editor, and host of Reuters TV’s “Tech Tonic.” The New York Times once dubbed him “the undisputed king of Tumblr.”
Xeni Jardin
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Jardin is a founding partner and co-editor of the Internet culture blog Boing Boing, as well as a frequent commentator and speaker on digital media.