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Bay Area entrepreneurs that I’m following on Twitter

Lots of Bay Area startup chatter on Twitter
As I’ve written about many times, I’m of the often-repeated notion that the SF Bay area is a one-of-a-kind place for entrepreneurs. There’s lots of advantages, but one great one is the constant casual chatter of other entrepreneurs and CEOs here.

I quickly combed my tweets for today and made a list of active users of Twitter who also happen to be founder/CEOs in the companies around here. Almost all of them are running VC-backed startups, and they are among the best folks to learn from. I’m purposely leaving out obvious choices like @ev and conference types that get enough visibility as it is ;-)

The quick list of folks you might follow on Twitter
Here we go:

 

Albert Lai http://twitter.com/albertsupdates Kontagent
Bob Ippolito http://twitter.com/etrepum Mochi Media
Chris Lunt http://twitter.com/chrislunt Nombray, Friendster, etc.
Daniel Ha http://twitter.com/danielha Disqus
Darian Shirazi http://twitter.com/darian314 Fwix, Facebook
David Weekly http://twitter.com/dweekly PBWiki
Gabe Rivera http://twitter.com/gaberivera Techmeme
Garry Tan http://twitter.com/garrytan Posterous
Jon Aizen http://twitter.com/yonajon Dapper
Jonathan Abrams http://twitter.com/abrams Socializr, Friendster
Joyce Kim http://twitter.com/joycekim Soompi
Lane Becker http://twitter.com/monstro Get Satisfaction, Adaptive Path
Max Levchin http://twitter.com/mlevchin Slide, Paypal
Merci Grace http://twitter.com/merci Gamelayers
Ming Yeow Ng http://twitter.com/mingyeow MrTweet
Peter Pham http://twitter.com/peterpham Billshrink, Photobucket
Philip Kaplan http://twitter.com/pud Adbrite, Fucked Company
Sachin Rekhi http://twitter.com/sachinrekhi (stealth startup), Anywhere.fm
Scott Rafer http://twitter.com/rafer Lookery, MyBlogLog
Siqi Chen http://twitter.com/blader Serious Business (Friends for Sale)
Ted Rheingold http://twitter.com/tedr Dogster

If you’re not on the list, then I didn’t see you use Twitter in the last day ;-)

And last but not least, you can follow me on Twitter here.

Am I missing anyone? Just comment if you have recommendations.

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Written by Andrew Chen
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:19 pm
  • http://www.plus8star.com Benjamin

    Interesting list – one typo: Joyce Kim's company is http://www.soompi.com/
    I was in their office yesterday :-)

  • http://pbwiki.com Chris Yeh

    Not entrepreneurs per se, but what about Jeff Clavier and Dave McClure?

  • http://andrewchen.typepad.com Andrew Chen

    duh! just fixed it- thanks.

  • Venkat

    thanks..i might follow them too @rvenkata

  • http://www.pixagogo.com/rrunge Bob Runge

    What about us poor cousins up here in Seattle?

  • Kevin Akira Lee

    There's a reason I kept pushing you to move down here… =)

  • http://andrewchen.typepad.com Andrew Chen

    you are the man ;-)

  • http://www.dogster.com Ted Rheingold

    Thanks Andrew. I'm just trying to keep up with you ;) Seriously, you're part of the reason I chose to focus more on posting value and knowledge instead of where I was having drinks with friends (well I made a private account for posting the later ;)

    I've written my heart and brain out in our company blog (blog.dogster.com plug plug) and think it's at 175 RSS readers. Twitter gives me 3500 followers and I don't even have to spellcheck. Wicked.

  • http://www.twitter.com/famolari famolari

    Admob @admob,

  • Julia

    Just of the top of my head I know there are many more-

    @micropat for AddToAny founder “Pat Diven”
    @loic – for Seesmic founder

  • http://webpreneur.net Alex MacGregor

    Kevin Rose, Digg, twitter.com/kevinrose
    Aaron Patzter, Mint, twitter.com/apatzer
    Munjal Sha, Like, twitter.com/munjalshah
    Reid Hoffmann, LinkedIn, twitter.com/quixotic

    Can't believe there aren't more people following Max Levchin.

  • http://simplyalbert.blogspot.com Albert Lai

    WTF…. Wow, I've finally made it on a list … done up by, of all people, my PROFESSIONAL SUPER HERO, Andrew Chen — that puts me, and Max Levchin, Joyce Kim, Siqi Chen, Jonathan Abrams, Ming Yeow Ng, Scott Rafer, Sachin Rekhi, Ted Rehingold, Gave Rivera, David Weekly, Peter Pham on the same list…. that blows my mind. These are some of the smartest and most interesting people I know. I have no idea how I got on that list. But that explains why I've gotta more 100x more followers it seems in the past 24 hours than ever before. Thanks for the kind recognition Andrew. I'm just a fan boy… its embarrassing. That list was the the top highlight of the day/month/quarter… hahah… rock on.

  • http://andrewchen.typepad.com Andrew Chen

    I'm going to do an angels/investors addition to this sometime ;-)

  • http://andrewchen.typepad.com Andrew Chen

    :-) I'll make a bigger list at some point…

  • http://andrewchen.typepad.com Andrew Chen

    And I follow both accounts ;-)

    Seriously though, you're one of the only guys out there willing to share real data and substantive ideas – keep it up!

  • http://andrewchen.typepad.com Andrew Chen

    i always think the corporate twitter accounts seem less attractive to follow – now specific people from admob, that would be much better.

  • http://andrewchen.typepad.com Andrew Chen

    great suggestions. I think Max just started using Twitter, that’s why.

  • http://www.chinesegum.com RG

    Hey Ted. Great to bump into here and see that you are still doing well. I recently became an entrepreneur myself and launched (the first site) of my web games network. I hope to make it onto this this list someday too… ;)

    Hope to stay in touch.

    Rob Giuffre

    http://www.chinesegum.com
    http://twitter.com/Game_Of_The_Day
    rob@chinesegum.com

  • http://www.chriskjennings.com Chris Jennings

    @ramit – Ramit Sethi of PBwiki / Iwillteachyoutoberich.com

  • skot
  • http://www.eljuegobonos.com bonos de juego de los casinos

    I admit, I have not been on this webpage in a long time… however it was another joy to see It is such an important topic and ignored by so many, even professionals. I thank you to help making people more aware of possible issues.
    Great stuff as usual….

  • http://www.fyindout.com/ Brett Kopf

    Thanks for posting this Andrew, it was really helpful!

    http://www.twitter.com/brettkopf

  • http://www.networkmarketingsuccess.ws mlgreen8753

    I never thought to follow people by geographic location, but it's a good technique for local businesses to use in their advertising and marketing strategy.

  • http://www.networkmarketingsuccess.ws mlgreen8753

    I never thought to follow people by geographic location, but it's a good technique for local businesses to use in their advertising and marketing strategy.

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