“My baby” – iPod father and Nest founder Tony Fadell
Timbuktu founders Francesca Cavallo (l.) and Elena Favilli
Udacity founder Sebastian Thrun
Mr. Virtual Reality, Jaron Lanier
Airbnb host Catherine Schlereth with her cat, Otto
Social media pioneer Howard Rheingold
Probably the best part of my job is that journalists meet so many interesting people (and even the occasional chimp). Below, a selection of portraits. Many of these images are available for licensing through dpa Picture Alliance. Or just e-mail me.
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- Singer K.T. Tunstall with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz at the Moscone Center in San Francisco in September 2007
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- Bestselling author and futurist Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends
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- Frog Design founder Hartmut Esslinger at company headquarters in San Francisco.
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- Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, former CEO of social networking site Polyvore.
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- Inventor and audio pioneer Dr. Amar Bose in his office, 2007
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- In 1974, Dan Kottke traveled with Steve Jobs to India. He later became one of Apple’s first employees. Here he’s seen in front of the Apple store in Palo Alto, California
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- Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the Seti Institute in Mountain View, California.
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- Dutch author Deniz Kuypers in San Francisco, where he lives and writes, near a former shipyard
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- YouTube star Joe Penna, a.k.a. MysteryGuitarMan, in his studio in Beverly Hills.
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- Dr. Thomas Fogarty demonstrates the balloon catheter he invented in 1963 for minimally invasive heart surgery.
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- Legendary Silicon Valley restaurateur Jamis MacNiven at Buck’s in Woodside
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- Former Wall Street analyst Marina Snetkova is betting on San Francisco’s food truck movement. (It’s big, just like her cookies.)
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- Former Apple Chief Evangelist Guy Kawasaki, now a consultant to Google’s Motorola handset unit
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- Author and social media expert Howard Rheingold
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- Somewhere up there… Seti director Jill Tarter at the Allen Telescope Array in Hat Creek, California.
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- Word Lens developers John DeWeese and Otavio Good showing their augmented reality app
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- Futurist Paul Saffo.
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- Cheeta, reading his autobiography – which was published without his input by a ghostwriter in Britain. Naturally, he’s curious himself
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- Cyber pioneer Jaron Lanier at Café Leila in Berkeley, California.
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- Federico Faggin, father of Intel’s 4004, shows the world’s first microprocessor at an event in San Francisco.
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- You’ve got too much mail? He has a solution: Matt Brezina, co-founder of Xobni.
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- IT publisher and conference organizer Tim O’Reilly at his company’s HQ in Sebastopol, California.
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- Yammer founder David Sacks in his office in San Francisco in 2011
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- The XO Laptop, also known as the $100 laptop, and its designer Yves Béhar at Béhar’s design agency Fuseproject in San Francisco.
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- Zynga founder Mark Pincus at a media presentation. More here
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- Timbuktu founders Elena Favilli (l.) and Francesca Cavallo
