Venkatesh Rao

Consultant, author

aka Venkat Rao

author of Tempo http://www.tempobook.com/ ISBN:0982703007

Breaking Smart

He blogs at http://ribbonfarm.com.

• Gervais Principle

was a researcher in the Xerox Innovation Group, and the project manager for TrailMeme, a research beta technology that allows users to blaze and follow trails through web content and the Trailmeme for Word Press plugin.

• left early 2011

Some members of his cabal:

• David Lane - Zero To Maker, OpenROV http://openrov.com/profile/DavidLang http://makezine.com/author/davidtlang/
• Gregory Rader - http://onthespiral.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregoryjrader
• Kartik Agaram - Google; co-founded VentureHacks http://akkartik.name/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/akkartik
• Keith Adams - FaceBook engineer http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/06/facebook-hhvm-saga/all/
• Nick Pinkston - Hardware guy http://www.nickpinkston.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/nickpinkston
• Patrick Vlaskovits - Lean Entrepreneur author http://vlaskovits.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/vlaskovits/
• Vivekananda Ponnaiyan - http://www.linkedin.com/in/vivekponnaiyan working on a Physical Fitness system https://www.coachace.com/
• Adam Hogan: Chicago-based, Data Scientist https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamhogan1