32. Global microphone for content
11.7M+
Opinion leaders
23.6M
CXO's/Owners/Partners
1.6M
Directors at Fortune
1,000 companies
238M
Members on LinkedIn
33. Arianna Huffington
President & Editor-in-Chief at
The Huffington Post
Jack Welch
Founder of Jack Welch
Management Institute
Shinzo Abe
Prime Minister of Japan
Jim Kim
President at The World Bank
Maria Shriver
Journalist, Author & Activist
Bill Gates
Co-chair of Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation
Maria Bartiromo
Television Journalist at
CNBC-TV
Jamie Dimon
Chairman & CEO at
JPMorgan Chase
Barack Obama
President of the United States
Richard Branson
Founder at Virgin Group
UNPAID content contributors
34. Sam Taylor
President & Owner, TNT transportation
18% month over month growth
40+ locations around the world
Expanded his business and hired more drivers
thanks to Uber
35. Laura Barnum
College Student - University of San Francisco
35% month over month
revenue growth
Worked 20-30 hours a week between classes
and made over $20/hour
36. Rosemarie
75% of 15,000 TaskRabbits nationwide
rely on TaskRabbit to pay bills
10% earn 100% of
their income
Earns $7,000 a month using TaskRabbit, relying on it
for 100% of her income
37. Jordan Insley
eBay Store owner
25 M sellers
1.3 M sellers use eBay as a primary/
secondary source of income.
Major refurbished TV business
38. King Arthur Flour
A “200 year old” startup rebooted itself
as a successful baking company,
providing classes and products
The average click through rate of
an Adword is 4x compared to
display ads
39. Michelle Phan
YouTube L’ancome spokesperson
4.6M subscribers
$4B paid by advertisers,
up 60% in 2012 from 2011
>1M creators signed up
40. 2M sellers on 10 different
marketplaces around the world
Brice Hoskin
Mountain Boy Sled Works
Sells more than 14K sleds a year using Amazon
marketplaces
41. 1/4 of the top 100 best selling
eBooks on Amazon.com were
independently published using KDP
Theresa Ragan
Rejected by traditional publishers
Sold nearly 250,000 books for the Kindle
43. Cari
>2% of all active internet sites are
Weebly sites.
Closed her retail gift shop and built Coquettebath.com
using Weebly.
In 2012, made over 5,000 products by hand.
44. David
Uses Airbnb to subsidize his schooling. Hosted guests
from Saudi Arabia, London, Afghanistan, and Mexico.
3M guests in 2012.
300,000 listings at
the end of 2012.
45. Hedda Parashos
31M visitors use Trulia’s
site every month
Went from under $100K in gross commissions to over
$600K in gross commissions.
Bought the real estate firm that she worked for.
46. Jodie Rosen
250,000 home improvement
professionals build their brands
and connect with homeowners
Started her own line of furniture after
exposure from Houzz.
47. Pura Vida
Ships 20,000 bracelets a week to the US.
Employs dozens of people in Costa Rica and more
than 500 campus reps in the U.S.
$10B processed annually
40K merchants on board
(* end of FY2012)
48. Alex Schwartz
6.6M editor sessions
400K monthly active
developers
Chief Scientist at Owlchemy Labs
One of several indie gaming studios enabled by
Unity3D.
49. Sarah
Seattle Landmark Mugs
Now sells them in Nordstrom. Quit her
day job
$100M goods sold in July 2013
1M members joined in July 2013
