Friday, October 31, 2008

Silicon Valley Leaders Take A Stand Against Proposition 8

Kara Swisher, writer for the blog Boomtown at All Things Digital, uncovered a huge ad meant for the San Jose Mercury News.  The ad lists Silicon Valley Leaders who take a stand against California's Proposition 8 and why they do so.

Read the article here: http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081030/silicon-valley-leaders-say-no-to-proposition-8/



The honorary co-chairs of “Silicon Valley Leaders Say NO on Proposition 8″ include:
Sergey Brin, Google Co-Founder
Bill Campbell, Chairman, Intuit
David Filo, Founder, Yahoo
Chuck Geschke, Founder and Chairman, Adobe Systems
John Morgridge, Former CEO and Chairman, Cisco Systems
Pierre Omidyar, Founder and Chairman, eBay
Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook
Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google
Jerry Yang, Founder, Yahoo

LEADERS (partial list):
Deborah Barber, Principal, Jackson Hole Group
John Battelle, Chairman and CEO, Federated Media
Larry Birenbaum, Former Senior Vice President, Cisco Systems
Lorna Borenstein, President, Move
Larry Brilliant, Executive Director, Google.org
Owen Byrd, President, Byrd Development
John Chisholm, Chairman and CEO, CustomerSat
Barry Cinnamon, CEO, Akeena Solar
Tod Cohen, Director of Government Affairs, eBay
LaDoris Cordell, Administrator, Stanford University
Sue Decker, President, Yahoo!
Jack Dorsey, Chairman, Twitter
David Drummond, SVP, Corporate Development & Chief Legal Officer, Google
Donna Dubinsky, CEO, Numenta
Alan Eustace, SVP, Engineering and Research, Google
Naomi Fine, President & CEO, Pro-Tec Data
Rachel Glaser COO/CFO, Reunion.com
Carl Guardino, President and CEO, Silicon Valley Leadership Group
Andre Haddad, CEO, Shopping.com
Jeff Hawkins, co-Founder Palm, Handspring, and Numenta
David Karnstedt, Investor
Scott Kaspick, Managing Director, Kaspick & Co.
Steve Kirsch, Serial Entrepreneur
John Koza, CEO, Third Millennium
Ross LaJeunesse, Head of State Policy Western US, Google
Gary Lauder, Managing Partner, Lauder Partners Venture Capital
Laura Lauder, General Partner, Lauder Partners Venture Capital
Len Lehman, Investor
John Luongo, Former CEO, Vantive Corporation
Roger McNamee, Managing Director & co-Founder, Elevation Partners
Ken McNeely, President, AT&T California
Michael Moritz, Partner, Sequoia Capital
Susan Packard Orr, CEO, Telosa Software
Randy Pond, Executive Vice President, Cisco Systems
Amy Rao, Founder & CEO, Integrated Archive Systems
Jana Rich, Managing Director, Russell Reynolds
Miriam Rivera, Former Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Google
Dan Rosensweig, Investor
Dan Rubin, Partner, Alloy Ventures
Hilary Schneider, Executive Vice President US Region, Yahoo
Len Shustek, Chairman, Computer History Museum
Jeff Skoll, Former President, eBay Inc.
Stephanie Tilenius, SVP, eBay North America
Joy Weiss, President and CEO, Dust Networks
Steve Westly, former California State Controller & former SVP eBay
Evan Williams, CEO, Twitter

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Company leader does not mean he/she represent the value of life. Look at Clinton and many leaders in the history. Leader does mean lead "EVERYTHING" in "correct path".

Do you believe PHD represent "everything" ?

This is not a human right issue...
This is all about truth and reality of human being why different from MAN and WOMAN. We are not animal if leaders knows the difference.

Who bring up this "MONEY machines" to help to define the "truth" of human being - simply becasue they make more money....

Anonymous said...

Learn ENGLISH first before you post, moron! You make no sense...

Anonymous said...

Isn't Guardino the controversial leader of the Leadership Group who has been caught lying about BART funding and threatens people on the VTA board who disagree with him?

Joseph said...

lets all just vote no on prop 8:)