Forbes 30 under 30 in 2012

http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2012/30-under-30/30-under-30.html?v=1

by prayag • 14 years ago

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pg8• 14 years ago

I can fit it in an HN comment: Congratulations Nate, Adora, Aaron, Patrick, John, Dave, Eric, Adam, Steve, Danny, Robby, Victor, Matt, Drew, Arash, Alex, Boris, Alexis, Joshua, Blake, David, Zach, Dan, Kate, Seth, Ben, Anand, Philipp, and Prayag!

sethbannon• 14 years ago

Thanks PG. I counted 29 names -- if there were only one more YC alum on the lists we would have 30 YC Forbes 30 Under 30.

raldi• 14 years ago

What's Emmett, chopped liver?

cemregr• 14 years ago

Featured in Tech category is a YC reject :)

pg8• 14 years ago

Yipes, I missed an entire category: Congratulations Suhail, John, Apoorva, Matt, Mazy, Ben, and Emmett too!

m0th87• 14 years ago

Don't forget Kathryn. The Muse is YC funded as well.

http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eeji45eegdf/kathryn-minshew-2...

sixQuarks• 14 years ago

Forbes 30 under 30 is a joke. One of the characters on Bravo's "Startup Silicon Valley" was chosen a couple of years ago:

http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eeji45ikli/sarah-austin-host-...

Anyone that's watched that show can tell you what a joke/fake she is.

I'm not saying everyone on that list isn't impressive, but I would certainly take it with a grain of salt.

mnicole2• 14 years ago

It seems odd to me that they highlighted Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, etc. under Music when there are plenty of successful internet-/self-created acts that are much more impressive in talent and ability to market. Seems unfair to people who don't have millions of dollars and dozens of handlers.

When I think 30 Under 30, I think people I don't know that are pushing the industry forward, not people that are shoved down my throat through old methods.

tedunangst2• 14 years ago

Who do you think marketed lady gaga before she had dozens of handlers?

thaumaturgy• 14 years ago

No matter who they choose, somebody would disagree with the choice. Whereas you would prefer to see internet / bootstrapped personalities (and I would too!), somebody else would argue that pop acts are a much bigger influence among the general population.

bcoates• 14 years ago

Justin Bieber isn't exactly in my musical demographic, but wasn't he some sort of Internet-famous YouTube thing before he was real-world famous? Or is that just the usual puff piece fake backstory?

pg8• 14 years ago

She was in the media category. For some people in that category being included in even a silly TV show is a desirable career move.

joonix• 14 years ago

Forbes is a joke and so are popular media publications when they attempt to discuss the "under 30" crowd. Generalize an entire demographic into only a couple of big trends. No thanks.

pla3rhat3r• 14 years ago

This list just makes me depressed that I'm nearly 40 and haven't done half of what these brianiac kids have done. Er, I mean, BRILLIANT!

TommyDANGerous• 14 years ago

Props to the FiveStar guys.

adebelov• 14 years ago

YC dominates the list :)

Peroni• 14 years ago

Just out of curiosity, is the list intended to be US specific or do they take non-US based folk into consideration?

Matt_Mickiewicz2• 14 years ago

Nice to see so many familiar names on the Tech 30 under 30 list, congrats to Dan Siroker from Optimizely, Anthony from Kaggle and Darian. (Disclosure: I was on the list last year).

kayoone• 14 years ago

that disclosure sounds like bragging, sorry

HorizonXP3• 14 years ago

And what's wrong with that?

People can't be happy with their accomplishments?

jordo37• 14 years ago

Congrats to all the YC folks! Amazing to see how much they dominated the list.

cwe• 14 years ago

Is there an actual list of only 30 names? Trying to read through this, I see 30 in each category. I guess "450 under 30" doesn't have the same ring.

trotsky• 14 years ago

There are actually 40 names in just the tech category. Talk about completely unwilling to stick to the format.

sunsu• 14 years ago

Congrats to Darian! Radius is doing some amazing things!

sprash4• 14 years ago

Mostly kids of rich fucks... go figure.

HorizonXP3• 14 years ago

I can assure you, one of my good friends is on that list, and he is far from being a child of some rich fuck.

Temper your attitude, this is a significant accomplishment for these people. There's no need to be malicious against them for their success.

sprash4• 14 years ago

Sorry but I have a degree in nuclear physics, working a full time job and can't even afford a car. Something tells me those people just had a lot of luck!

larrys2• 14 years ago

"this is a significant accomplishment for these people"

What is the accomplishment in your mind? What they did? Or?

Because it seems like you are saying the fact that they were picked for a list by (let me repeat myself here) a panel of unnamed expert judges is an accomplishment?

Impatient• 14 years ago

Does anyone under 30 (or 40, for that matter) read Forbes?

argumentum• 14 years ago

The ones named to the lists (and their family/friends) do ;)

Matt_Mickiewicz2• 14 years ago

Yes.

dysoco• 14 years ago

I'm 15 and I read Forbes occasionally, some articles about startups are interesting.

jedberg• 14 years ago

I tweeted it, but I think I'll repeat it here: Proud to know and have worked with more than a few folks on Forbes' 30 under 30. Congrats to all of them!

robryan• 14 years ago

I am skeptical on these lists, how many tech people are they actually aware of to choose the list, would surprise me if it was chosen from a pool of less than 100 possible people.

Also as I have seen in the past from these lists they use money raised as a metric for achievement/ success.

hack_edu• 14 years ago

At the risk of offending the rah-rah YC back-patting... the entire Tech section is full of people who run or founded companies. Those all could fall into the Media, Social, or Marketing sections. It just seems like they're piling all the big-named startup dudes in wherever they can.

Shouldn't people blazing trails of real, new technologies get some recognition here? Those who bootstrapped this year's hundredth social-local-mobile app are rarely the ones creating new technologies and platforms that change the way we use technology. And yes, there are exceptions, but lets be honest here. Heaven forbid some academics or open-source maintainers get some attention. They went that route quite a bit before this boom.

trentmb• 14 years ago

social-local-mobile apps are easy to comprehend.

Genuine innovation isn't always so.

klochner• 14 years ago

The Forbes brand is about money and wealth - they're most famous for the Forbes 500 list of 500 wealthiest individuals - so including academics or open-source people wouldn't make sense.

arkem• 14 years ago

Congratulations to Parisa!

It's good to see security represented on the list, and Parisa's work at Google makes her a brilliant choice.

donal_cahalane• 14 years ago

Proud of our four Irish entrants on the tech list. Go Ireland!

jacquesm• 14 years ago

Even Forbes outsources their vetting to YC ;)

michaelochurch5• 14 years ago

This thread has made me think less of Hacker News. All of it. The hate posts were pretty petty, but the fawning is pretty gross as well.

We wonder why there's so much ageism. It's because age obsessions stem from this "cool list" narcissistic nonsense. But this is a prejudice all of us will face, because we're all (well, almost all, and with luck) going to be old some day.

The sign of maturity is to see something like this, neither be impressed nor upset/resentful, and just move on. Some magazine made a list somewhere. There were names on it. Don't remember most of 'em. Not news, not interesting, #toobusygettingshitdone, et cetera.

I didn't even read the list and have no idea who's on it, so I have no opinion of the selection, but the fact that people care is appalling.

andyakb2• 14 years ago

the fawning? it's the end of the year and forbes came out with a list recognizing people of their accomplishments. it seems like many people in this thread know some of these people and wanted to congratulate them. what's wrong with that?

k_kelly• 14 years ago

I don't understand.

The merits of hating / supporting a magazine is one thing. However achieving something of note before thirty is hardly an easy thing and not really something I'd criticize just to criticize. If you don't take support from your peers, or admire their success I don't really see what you yourself are working towards.

Also, by commentating on the general state of HN instead of reading the article, you are not in fact improving the quality of conversation found here.

Mz• 14 years ago

Oh, I think they make lists of "young people who did impressive shit" in part because most lists of "people who did impressive shit" are pretty well dominated by older people. It's a little like making lists of "women who are important for some fucking reason or other", which is lefthanded admission that general lists of "people who are important for some fucking reason or other" are extremely male dominated.

-- Observation by a 47yo female

Retric• 14 years ago

There are a lot of successful people under 30. Especially when you include things like Writer, Actor, Athletes, and people who have taken seed funding, but are not yet profitable.

What I thought was interesting was how much overlap there was with the category's. (Art & Style, Education, Energy, Finance, Food & Wine, Games & Apps, Hollywood, Law & Policy, Marketing & Advertising, Media, Music, Science & Healthcare, Social Entrepreneurs, Sports, Tech) It was like they created did some research for interesting people and then created new category's after the fact. But, that may also relate to who was willing to be on there list.

pdog2• 14 years ago

For the most part, it's a list of some pretty impressive young people doing some pretty impressive things. You don't have to shit all over it in this thread because you're butthurt.

michaelochurch5• 14 years ago

Not "butthurt". (People still use that phrase?) Not even in a startup, so out of contention anyway.

My point is that we should be excited about those impressive things, not some list that was compiled.

larrys2• 14 years ago

"Some magazine made a list somewhere"

Lists like this for magazines and are obviously a well thought out strategy to build circulation. This year the Forbes list has even been expanded into more categories so more people can have a feather in their cap. Press releases will be issued and every small town newspaper in america repeats the info about how some person made the list in Forbes. And here on Hacker News (note pg comment on this thread with congratulations confirming the authority and importance of all of this) as well as blogs and other news site that need some fresh material.

The one question that isn't answered anywhere, that I can find, is who are the "panel of expert judges" that helped the Forbes people with the choices? That's certainly relevant.

pg8• 14 years ago

The sign of maturity is to see something like this, neither be impressed nor upset/resentful, and just move on.

If that's what you think, why didn't you?

edanm• 14 years ago

Do you consider these lists interesting? Are you happy when you see YC names in this article?

jkn• 14 years ago

From OP's comment: I didn't even read the list and have no idea who's on it

He might not be interested in Forbes' list, but care about the reaction from the HN community. I see no contradiction.

kerno• 14 years ago

So. Much. Clicking. Around.

tedkalaw• 14 years ago

Congrats Remind101 and ClassDojo! It's cool to see ImagineK12 teams up there :)

wilfra• 14 years ago

It's obnoxious how they do these things, milking every last pageview they can possibly get. I can't make it through this and I'm extremely interested in the subject matter.

Is there a text list of all of the people and what company they are with somewhere? Preferably visible on one page?

BallinBige• 14 years ago

all about the ad impressions, at the end of the day. mighty mighty CPM dollars ya'll

eranation• 14 years ago

As someone 35 years old, I wonder - how many successful co-founders are there between 30-40? are there any statistics on that? What is the histogram by age for top 1000 startups? (any metric marking what "top" means will do)

And congratulations by the way to all the people on the list, instead of hurting my ego and discouraging me, I see this as a way to motivate me to make it to a 40 under 40 list (I'm sure there is one somewhere)

petercooper2• 14 years ago

how many successful co-founders are there between 30-40?

Historically, at least, it'd be most. In Gamers at Work, Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari) even noted that he was seen as being a "young" founder in Silicon Valley being in his 30s in the 1970s. What we're seeing nowadays with 20-somethings is relatively new.

mbesto• 14 years ago

how many successful co-founders

If you want to get into metrics, it'd help to define what you would consider successful. I'd think you'd do a disservice by conducting such a study.

dotBen• 14 years ago

Just remember this list is not based on meritocracy, most/all these people will have publicists and/or their startups will have "good" PR firm representation.

If you secretly wish you were on this list but don't have the above then you are doing it wrong.

DaniFong• 14 years ago

Nobody I know who is on the list has a publicist.

petercooper2• 14 years ago

Also true of many awards for companies, like "[$someMagazine]'s 10 Top Companies in Biotechnology". There are even cases where companies have to pay to be considered for such awards. I think a lot of people know that too but the awards are still considered reasonably prestigious.

joshfraser• 14 years ago

No, but most of these founders are from an incubator like TechStars or YC. The lists are usually created by reaching out to a few key people and asking for recommendations.

paganel• 14 years ago

> Just remember this list is not based on meritocracy, most/all these people will have publicists and/or their startups will have "good" PR firm representation

Yeah, somehow even I, a guy who has never been to the Staets, could figure that out only by reading the "Arts" section. Almost all of the people there were New-York-based or from around the area, it's like 2010s New York it's like Paris from 1920s full of bright artists and what have you, which I get the impression it's not true. Too bad for the arts, a pretty sweet deal for people making money out of it.

georgecmu• 14 years ago

Telling quote:

At age 14, Wilson became the youngest ever to build a nuclear fusion reactor.

Forbes 30 under 30 in 2012

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