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FWD.us

ORGANIZATION

Lobbying group established by tech industry leaders to pursue H1-B immigration reform.

Official Website:
http://www.fwd.us/

Founding Date:
2013

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Steve Ballmer Business 24-Mar-1956 CEO of Microsoft, 2003-14

James W. Breyer Business c. 1962 Venture capitalist, Accel Partners

Steve Chen Business 1978 Co-Founder of YouTube

Ron Conway Business 9-Mar-1951 Angel Investors LP

Barry Diller Business 2-Feb-1942 CEO of USA Interactive Corp.

John Doerr Business 29-Jun-1951 Silicon Valley venture capitalist

Bill Gates Business 28-Oct-1955 Co-Founder of Microsoft

Paul Graham Computer Programmer 13-Nov-1964 Y Combinator

Reed Hastings Business 8-Oct-1960 Founder and CEO of Netflix

Reid Hoffman Business 5-Aug-1967 Co-Founder of LinkedIn

Chad Hurley Business 1977 Co-Founder of YouTube

Max Levchin Business 11-Jul-1975 Co-Founder of PayPal

Andrew Mason Business c. 1980 Groupon

Marissa Mayer Business 30-May-1975 CEO of Yahoo!

Elon Musk Business 28-Jun-1971 CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors

Sean Parker Business 3-Dec-1979 Napster, Facebook millionaire

Eric Schmidt Business 27-Apr-1955 CEO of Google, 2001-11

Kevin Systrom Computer Programmer 21-Sep-1984 Instagram

Fred Wilson Business 20-Aug-1961 Union Square Ventures

Mark Zuckerberg Business 14-May-1984 Founder of Facebook

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