Edge Foundation/Billionaires' dinner/2008

 Edge Foundation/Billionaires' dinner/2008

Esther Dyson, John Brockman, Linda Avey (23andMe), Anne Wojcicki
Date	25 February 2008
Location	Monterey,  California,  USA
Description	"The crowd was sprinkled generously with those who had amassed wealth beyond imagining in a historical eye blink."
Participants	Bill Joy, Shannon O'Leary, Katinka Matson, John Brockman, Richard Saul Wurman, Jason Calacanis, Pierre Omidyar, Larry Page, Bill Joy, Anne Wojcicki, Sergey Brin, Steve Case, Jean Case, Paula Apsell, Pati Hillis, Tony Fadell, Jeff Bezos, Dean Kamen, Deka Research, Linda Avey, Jonathan Haidt, Salar Kamagar, Yves Behar, A. Garrett Lisi, Aubrey De Grey, Dean Ornish, Anne Ornish, Matt Groening, Amy Tan, Esther Dyson, Esther Wojcicki, Lori Park, Jean Pigozzi, Neil Turok, Marc Hodosh, Juan Enriquez, Peter Schwartz, Craig Venter, Heather Kowalski, David Bunnell, Girija Brilliant, Larry Brilliant, Peter Diamandis, Daniel Dennett, Caterina Fake, Linda Stone, Phil Zimbardo, Evan Williams, Karen Wickre, Stan Wojcicki, Tim O'Reilly, Kevin Kelly, Daniel Gilbert, Chris Anderson, Michael Specter, Keith Coleman, Pam Omidyar, Susan Dennett, Mark Zuckerberg, Christopher J. Anderson, Daniel C. Dennett, Nathan Myhrvold, Paul Romer, Antony Garrett Lisi, Ryan Phelan, Salar Kamangar, Philip Zimbardo, Aubrey de Grey, Lawrence B. Brilliant, J. Craig Venter, Jean Johnny Pigozzi, Yves Béhar

The Edge Foundation's 2008 Billionaires' dinner was held in Monterey, California on February 25, 2008.

Own words

"The crowd was sprinkled generously with those who had amassed wealth beyond imagining in a historical eye blink." (The Wall Street Journal)

 

Known Participants

25 of the 69 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Jeff Bezos	World's richest man. Founded Amazon, grandson of a DARPA co-founder
Larry Brilliant	Spooky epidemiologist
Sergey Brin	Co-founder of Google, YGL 2005
John Brockman	US literary agent who flew the plane
Jason Calacanis	US internet businessman named in Epstein's black book
Steve Case	WEF GLT businessman
Daniel Dennett	US philosopher who attended at least 5 Edge Foundation Billionaires' dinners
Esther Dyson	Billionaire investor
Tony Fadell	A WEF/YGL/2007 businessman
Matt Groening	Creator of the television series uncannily prescient The Simpsons. Flew Jeffrey Epstein's plane.
Bill Joy	US computer scientist, co-founded Sun microsystems
Dean Kamen	Invented the Segway
Nathan Myhrvold	Microsoft CTO who flew the Lolita express and whose name features in Epstein's black book
Pierre Omidyar	Entrepreneur and deep state operative who is the founder and chairman of eBay, got control of the Snowden leaks by financing The Intercept
Larry Page	Google co-founder. One of the wealthiest people in the world, WEF GLT, WEF YGL
Jean Pigozzi	Italian businessman named in Epstein's black book
Paul Romer	Chief Economist of the World Bank 2016-2018
Peter Schwartz	US futurist who attended the Lock Step event
Michael Specter	Corporate journalist
Craig Venter	US synthetic biologist
Evan Williams	A WEF/YGL/2010 who has attended multiple Edge Foundation Billionaires' dinners
Anne Wojcicki	Businesswoman with big stake in "the Google of gene-based medicine". Also ex-wife of Google-founder Sergey Brin, and sister of Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki.
Richard Wurman	Architect who attended multiple Billionaire dinners
Philip Zimbardo	Psychologist who set up the Stanford prison experiment
Mark Zuckerberg	Nominally in charge of Facebook, a rebranding of LifeLog

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