Cool

Cool Companies to Interview
Founded: 2001 Founders: Mena Trott, Ben Trott Current Size: Three offices (SF, Paris, and Tokyo): 100 employees Current CEO: Barak Berkowitz
 * 6Apart
 * Mena:Asked

Founded: 1995 Founders: Jeff Bezos Current size: 12,000 Current CEO: Jeff Bezos
 * Amazon
 * Bezos?contact
 * jeff is the right guy

Founded: 1976 Founders: Steve Jobs, Steve Woznick Current size: 16,820 Current CEO: Steve Jobs
 * Apple
 * Eddie Cue? Or who best?

Founded: 1995 Founders: Brewster Kahle Current size: 50 Founded: 2000 Founders: Erik Gandini, Lars Johansson, Tarik Saleh, Kristina Aberg Current size: 12 Current CEO: Kristina Aberg
 * Archive
 * Brewster: asked
 * Atmo.se
 * Jonathan

Founded:1995 Founders: Donald Katz Current size: 193 Current CEO: Donald Katz
 * Audible
 * who should I contact?

Founded: 2005 Founders: Mike Hudack, Dina Kaplan Current size: still searching Current CEO: Mike Hudack
 * Blip.tv - Mike Hudack (ES)

Founded: 1999 Founders: Craig Newmark Current size: 23 Current CEO: Jim Buckmaster
 * CraigsList
 * Craig: asked

Founded: 2003 Founders: Joshua Schacter Current size: 26
 * Delicious:
 * who should I contact?

Founded: 2004 Founders: Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz Current size: still searching Current CEO: Mark Zuckerberg
 * Facebook
 * who should I contact? - Mark Zuckerberg (ES)

Founded: 2004 Founders: Stewart Butterfield, Caterina Fake Current size: 26 Current CEO: Stewart Butterfield
 * Flickr
 * Stuart/Cat: asked

Founded: 1998 Founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin Current size: 7,942 Current CEO: Dr. Eric Schmidt
 * Google
 * Larry

Founded: 1999 (currently owned by SixApart. Dang Interactive, the parent company of LiveJournal was aquired by SixApart in 2005). Founders: Brad Fitzpatrick
 * LiveJournal

Founded: Mozilla Foundation, 2003; Mozilla Corporation, 2005 Current CEO: Mitchell Baker, President; Mitchell Kapor, Chairman, Current Size: 70
 * Mozilla
 * who should I contact?
 * ms baker i would presume

Founded:2003 Founders: Chris DeWolfe, Tom Anderson Current size: emailed for figures Current CEO: Chris DeWolfe
 * MySpace
 * who should I contact?

Founded: 2002 (owned by Linden Lab, which was founded in 1999) Founders: Philip Rosedale Current size: 31 Current CEO: Philip Rosedale
 * SecondLife
 * Rosedale:asked
 * try cory if that doesn't work

Founded: 2002 Founders: David Sifry Current size: 40 Current CEO: David Sifry
 * Technorati
 * who?

Founded: 2001 Founders: Jimmy Wales Current size: 8 (less than 8 full-time employees. All other contributions are volunteer) Current CEO: Jimmy Wales (Brad Fitzpatrick is the Interim Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation)
 * Wikipedia/Wikia
 * Jimmy

Founded: 1999 Founders: David Filo, Jerry Yang Current size: 9800 Current CEO: Terry Semel
 * Yahoo
 * Jerry Yang:asked
 * Marc Davis who does their video remix research/development

Founded: 2005 Founders: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Jawed Karim Current size: 67 Current CEO: Chad Hurley
 * YouTube
 * founders?

Founded: 2005 (OurMedia--2000) Founders: Marc Canter, JD Lasica Current size: little over 100 Current CEO: JD Lasica, President
 * Outthink Media (used to be OurMedia)
 * contact ceo david toole. (very relevant)

Current CEO: Angelo Sotira
 * DeviantArt
 * Angelo Sotira

Current CEO: Jordan Greenhall
 * DivX
 * Jordan Greenhall

Key Remix People to Interview
Some initial thoughts (I can help source contact info - ES)
 * Bomb Squad
 * Lee Scratch Perry
 * Prince Paul
 * Diplo/Hollertronix board/remix community
 * Dangermouse
 * Paul Marino (machinima maker and organizer of Machinima festival)
 * Jonathan Cullinane (creator of Narutrix)
 * Jonathan McIntosh (political/ad remixer)
 * Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman (power video blogging couple, not exactly remix)
 * Dave of snafu comics (www.snafu-comics.com)
 * Leaky Mug or Mugglecast Harry Potter podcasters

Cool/Key People to Interview

 * Joi
 * asked
 * Mimi
 * asked
 * Jimmy Wales
 * asked
 * JSB
 * Erik Moller
 * Tim O'Reilly
 * asked
 * Brewster
 * asked
 * Benkler
 * von Hippel
 * Henry Jenkins
 * Aram Sinnreich (writing diss on music mashup culture/biz)