Joi Ito, Chad Hurley and Loic LeMeur Join TechCrunch50 As Startup Judges. Early Bird Pricing Ends on July 15th.
Today, we are announcing our latest line-up of TechCrunch50 Experts: Joi Ito, Chad Hurley and Loic LeMeur. They will join Marc Andreessen, Marc Benioff, Mark Cuban, Chris DeWolf, Marissa Mayer, and others on our panel of experts in judging and advising the presenting TechCrunch50 startups.
If you want to come to the conference (and, admit it, you do), I’d encourage you to buy tickets now, as we are expecting this year’s conference to sell out as it did last year. Here are some details:
EARLY BIRD PRICING ENDS ON JULY 15 (this saves you $1,000). Visit the TechCrunch50 web site for information on all aspects of the conference. We are hearing that hotels are starting to fill-up for the second week in September. Planning ahead will save you from having to ask to sleep on Mike’s couch . . . (anyway, that’s probably where I’m sleeping).
For companies that do not meet the criteria of a TechCrunch50 entrant (basically, your company is already launched), we are offering Exhibitor Packages. These are interactive sponsorships for relevant companies or products that want to showcase their brand and services to the TechCrunch50 attendees and media.
We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco, September 8-10.
Joi Ito
Chad Hurley
YouTube quickly became one of the web’s fastest-growing sites, and was ranked as the 10th most popular website just a year after its launch. There are reportedly 100 million clips viewed daily on YouTube, with an additional 65,000 new videos uploaded every 24 hours.
Hurley currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and was voted 28th on Business 2.0 magazine’s “50 people who matter” list in 2006. That year, he and Chen sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock.
Loic LeMeur
Loic serves as a board member on the RSS Advisory Board. He is also an active investor and mentor to entrepreneurs and contributes to the World Economic Forum blog, which he founded. Originally from the South of France, Loic lives in San Francisco, California.