The Innovators

Cool video! We asked them to correct the name in the video, is says LIMOR LARAMINE and not LIMOR FRIED 🙁 Yay! it’s fixed, I am Limor Fried in the video 🙂

Traveling with Entrepreneur Magazine in 2011 we’ve interviewed some of the brightest innovators all across the U.S.A. We decided to bring them all together in this short film.

Among those featured in this video are:

Bre Pettis
CEO, MakerBot Industries

Dennis Crowley
Co-Founder/CEO, Foursquare

Jack Dorsey
Twitter Co-Founder/Chairman, Square Co-Founder/CEO

Ben Kaufman
CEO, Quirky

Daniel Lubetzky
CEO, KIND Healthy Snacks

John Laramie
Founder/CEO, ADstruc

Cyriac Roeding
CEO/Co-Founder, Shopkick

Jodie and Danielle Snyder
Founders, Dannijo Jewelry

Limor Fried
Founders, Adafruit Industries

Scott Hamlin
Co-Founder, LooptWorks

Scott Belsky
Founder/CEO, Behance LLC

Angelo Sotira
Co-Founder/CEO, DeviantART

Sara Blakely
Inventor/Founder, Spanx

Maggie Nemser
CEO/Founder, Blackboard Eats

Trip Hawkins
Founder/CEO, Digital Chocolate

Adam Rich
Co-Founder, Thrillist

Joe Fernandez
Co-Founder, Klout

Ann Mincieli
Owner/Founder, Jungle City Studios

Peter Shankman
Founder/CEO, HARO

Scott Flora
Co-Founder, Blik Wall Graphics


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2 Comments

  1. Well Limor Fried, it appears that your complaint was heard!

  2. @bob, thanks! on twitter they said they’d fix it and did!

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