Cliff Lerner

Cliff Lerner gave up a Wall Street career to launch the online dating startup SNAP Interactive, which he led as CEO and chairman for eleven years. Under his leadership, SNAP became the first social media company to go public, in 2006, and grew to more than 100 million users; its revenue rose 4,412 percent from 2007 to 2011, ranking it the ninth fastest-growing internet company in the United States.

He has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fortune, and his work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. He is the author of Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing to 100 Million Users and Losing $78 Million.