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Formspring CEO and Founder Ade Olonoh talks about how the social Q&A site got 10 million monthly users faster than Pinterest and how the site weathered a cyberbullying controversy.

Stack Overflow Co-Founder Jeff Atwood delves deep into the origins of the popular Q&A site, including taking the "evil" out of Experts Exchange and fixing the problems of other similar sites.

Tech evangelist and blogger Robert Scoble, of Rackspace and Scobleizer, why startups need to build their stories and how small philosophical differences can make or break a product.

Box.Com CEO and Founder Aaron Levie takes us through the early days of Box.com, how he got noted investor and Dallas Maverick owner Mark Cuban to invest in his company, and why he was scared to death of Google's long-rumored GDrive.

Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne talks about how cancer shaped how he planned his days, circumventing the conventional IPO system, and his friendship with investment guru Warren Buffett.

Dave McClure of 500startups got on his soapbox to talk about how he invests and what he looks for in entrepreneurs.

Ron Conway, the Godfather of Angel Investing, who has been called "the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley" got on his soapbox to share with us how he invests and what he looks for in his companies and entrepreneurs.

Two years and 15 million customers into developing their product, the Posterous team decided to scrap everything and start over from square one. Sachin Agarwal the founder of Posterous shared Posterous' setbacks, losses and wins, and reasoning behind many of the decisions made along the way.

Matt's was one of the most sincere, fun, laid back and brutally honest soapbox discussions we've had to date! He shared the story of his entrepreneurial journey, starting from when he disrupted the world of web design education with Sitepoint, at 14 years old, to the present, 13 years later, where he is successfully running two new businesses (99Designs and Flippa) and currently starting a fourth one (Learnable).

Kevin Hartz shared a number of great lessons from his extensive career building and launching hit startups.

Kevin reveals Wufoo's customer service strategy and the path from idea to SurveyMonkey's acquisition.

Matt discusses the growth of WordPress over the last eight years and the challenges he faced along the way.

Philip discusses the challenges he faced bringing his "unfundable" virtual world of Second Life to reality, and what he's doing now.

Tim sat down with us for a Q&A about his tactics for self promotion, building community, and productivity.

Irene Au (Google’s Head of UX) shares some juicy insights on the design process and decision making behind Google’s products.