Our Story
FWD.us was founded by leaders in the technology community to give our values a voice in American politics. Tech is a community of dreamers and doers, entrepreneurs and engineers. We imagine new possibilities, and then make them real. At our best, we aspire to make the world a better place for millions of people.
FWD.us’ mission is to mobilize the tech community to support policies that keep the American Dream achievable in the 21st century.
We support comprehensive immigration reform as well as efforts to reform our criminal justice system at the local, state and national levels.
To do so, we bring together a diverse group of organizers, entrepreneurs, and innovators. By mobilizing supporters through local chapters and online advocacy, we enable them to engage their elected leaders and win transformational policy changes.
Our Founders
FWD.us founders are a diverse group of leading innovators, entrepreneurs, job creators, and business owners from the tech community.
Aditya Agarwal
Vice President of Engineering
Dropbox Dan Benton
Founder and CEO
Andor Capital Management Jim Breyer
Founder and CEO
Breyer Capital Matt Cohler
General Partner
Benchmark Ron Conway
Founder and Co-Managing Partner
SV Angel John Doerr
General Partner
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Bill Gates
Founder and Technology Advisor
Microsoft Joe Green
Founder
FWD.us
Reid Hoffman
Partner, Greylock Drew Houston
Founder and CEO
Dropbox Chamath Palihapitiya
Founder and CEO
Social Capital LP Sean Parker
Cofounder and Executive Chairman
Brigade
Ruchi Sanghvi
Previously: VP, Operations
Dropbox Jeff Rothschild
Consulting Partner
Accel Partners Mark Zuckerberg
Founder and CEO
Facebook
Major Contributors
Tim Armstrong
CEO and Chairman
AOL, Inc. George Bousis
Founder and CEO
Raise.com Juan Calle
President
The Classic Motor Company LLC Garrett Camp
Founder
Expa Steve Chen
Co-Founder
YouTube Brian Chesky
CEO and Co-founder
Airbnb
Stan Chudnovsky
Head of Product, Messaging
Facebook Chris Cox
Vice President of Product
Facebook Lars Dalgaard
General Partner
Andreessen Horowitz Bita Daryabari
Founder
Pars Equality Center Faquiry Diaz
President and CEO
Tres Mares Group Barry Diller
Chairman and Senior Executive
IAC
Stanley F. Druckenmiller
Founder and Managing Director
Duquesne Capital John Fisher
Chairman of the Board
KIPP Paul Graham
Previously: President
Y Combinator Noosheen Hashemi
President and Co-founder
The HAND Foundation Reed Hastings
Founder and CEO
Netflix Chad Hurley
Founder and CEO
MixBit
Irwin Jacobs
Co-Founder
Qualcomm Josh James
Founder and CEO
Domo Peter Kellner
Founder and Managing Partner
Richmond Global Dick Kramlich
Co-Founder and Chairman
NEA Management Company Max Levchin
Co-Founder and CEO
Affirm, Inc Doug Leone
General Partner
Sequoia Capital
Jeremy Levine
Partner
Bessemer Venture Partners Phil Libin
Managing Director
General Catalyst Michael Loeb
President and CEO
Loeb Enterprises Joe Lonsdale
General Partner
8VC Andrew Mason
Co-founder
Detour.com and Groupon Marissa Mayer
CEO and President
Yahoo!
Mary Meeker
General Partner
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Dave Morin
Founder and Partner
Slow Ventures Jon Oringer
Founder and CEO
Shutterstock Hadi Partovi
Co-Founder and President
Code.org Greg Penner
General Partner
Madrone Capital Partners Alison Pincus
Co-Founder and Chief Partnership Officer
One Kings Lane
Mark Pincus
Founder, CEO & Chief Product Officer
Zynga Keith Rabois
Partner
Khosla Ventures Hosain Rahman
CEO and Founder
Jawbone Dan Rosensweig
President and CEO
Chegg Yuda Saydun
President
Genventure Justin Shaffer
Previously: Product Manager
Facebook
Eric Schmidt
Executive Chairman
Google Rishi Shah
Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Contextmedia Darian Shirazi
CEO and Founder
Radius Brad Smith
President and Chief Legal Officer
Microsoft Kevin Systrom
CEO and Co-Founder
Instagram Gary Vaynerchuk
CEO and Co-Founder
VaynerMedia
Padmasree Warrior
CEO
NextEV USA Fred Wilson
Managing Partner and Founder
Union Square Ventures and Flatiron Partners
Co-Chairs
Nima Asgharbeygi
Tech Lead Manager
Google Tom Baruch
Partner Emeritus / Strategic Advisor
Formation 8 Frank Baxter
Former Ambassador
Uruguay Seth Berman
General Partner
Susa Ventures Seth Cassel
President and Partner
EveryMundo Rameet Chawla
Founder
Fueled
Trevor Cornwell
Founder & CEO
AppBackr Anton Diego
Founder & CEO
EveryMundo Matteo Franceschetti
Co-Founder
Morphy Carlos Garcia
CEO and Co-Founder
Nobox Sloan Goan
CEO
PulsePoint Brian Goldsmith
Co-Head
Seedrs America
Will Harlan
Founder
The Mascot James Hong
CEO
Hot or Not Xavier Hughes
Co-Head
Seedrs America Yun-Fang Juan
Co-Founder & CEO
Fundastic David Kidder
Co-Founder
Bionic Dave Krupinski
Co-Founder and CTO
Care.com
Brian Manning
Co-Founder and President
Centric Digital Rick Marini
Serial Entrepreneur & Active Investor Andrew McAfee
Principal Research Scientist
MIT Mike McCue
Co-Founder & CEO
Flipboard Babak Pahlavan
Director of Product Management
Google Suraj Rajwani
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Double Rock
Alex Rampell
Tech Entrepreneur & Investor Tali Rapaport
VP of Product
Lyft James Robinson
General Partner
RRE Ventures Brett Rochkind
Managing Director General Atlantic Seth Rogin
Chief Revenue Officer
Mashable Ian Rountree
General Manager
The Mascot & Angel Investor
Reshma Saujani
Founder and CEO
Girls Who Code Hermant Taneja
Managing Director
General Catalyst Greg Tseng
Co-Founder & CEO
if(we) Josh Wiseman
VP of Product
Remind Rus Yusupov
Co-Founder
Vine Rony Zarom
Partner
Decima Ventures
Oren Zeev
Founding Partner
Oren’s Capital
Hmmmm!
That is one long list of globalists.