Meet the Film Cast

Bronwen Grimes is half-artist, half-programmer and has been making video games for over a decade. She enjoys being part of the tight-knit technical art community, a small (but growing) collection of other artist-programmers who work in games. Growing up in Ottawa, the capital of Canada, she had an idyllic science nerd childhood. Her first experience with programming happened during a summer camp at Carleton University, where kids also got to synthesize nylon, extract cow DNA, and do the time warp again. Although Bronwen has a diploma in Digital Media Arts from Seneca College, she would say her education was mostly self-designed. She has taken classes in art, programming, and math from a half-dozen different schools to suit her unusual discipline.  For the past 5 years she’s been at Valve Corporation, where she’s contributed to several games including Portal 2, the Left 4 Dead series, Dota 2, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

Drew Houston is CEO and Co-Founder of Dropbox, and has led Dropbox’s growth from a simple idea to a service relied upon by millions around the world. Born in Acton, Massachusetts, Drew attended Acton-Boxborough Regional High School and later graduated from MIT with a degree in Computer Science. After graduating from MIT, Drew recognized that people needed a way to bring their files with them without sending email attachments or carrying USB drives. He began writing a solution to this problem in early 2007 before showing an early version to Arash Ferdowsi. The two of them then began working on the project that would eventually become Dropbox. was there that he met Arash Ferdowsi who would later go on to be co-founder and CTO of Dropbox.

Before working on Dropbox, Drew worked on a number of other startups including Bit9, Accolade and Hubspot, and has held a variety of engineering roles in other startups since age 14.  He was named one of the top “Twentysomething Entrepreneurs” by BusinessWeek in April 2008.

Gabe Newell is the President and founder of Valve Corporation, an entertainment software and technology company. Before starting Valve, Gabe spent 13 years at Microsoft, holding positions in the Systems, Applications, and Advanced Technology divisions. His responsibilities included running program management for the first two releases of Windows, starting the company's multimedia division, and leading efforts on the Information Highway PC. Inspired by Michael Abrash, who left Microsoft to work on the computer game Quake at id Software, Gabe and another Microsoft employee, Mike Harrington, left Microsoft in 1996 to found Valve.  He and Harrington used their money to fund Valve through the development of Half-Life, the company’s debut title.

In December 2010, Forbes named Gabe as "A Name You Should Know" mainly for his work on Steam having partnerships with multiple major developers.

Jack Dorsey is the creator, co-founder, and Chairman of Twitter, Inc. Jack’s early fascination for mass-transit and how cities function led him to Manhattan and programming real-time messaging systems for couriers, taxis, and emergency vehicles. Throughout this work, he witnessed thousands of workers in the field constantly updating where they were and what they were doing, which led him to conceive the idea for Twitter, a constrained simplification designed for general usage and extended by the millions of people who make it their own every day. As CEO of Twitter, Jack saw the startup through two rounds of funding by the venture capitalists who backed the company. In 2008, Evan Williams took over the role of CEO, and Jack became chairman of the board. He went on to develop a mobile payments company for small businesses called Square, released in 2010, and grew the company from 10 employees to over 100 in less than 2 years. In 2011, Jack returned to Twitter as Executive Chairman.

Jack was recognized as one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people and was named an “outstanding innovator under the age of 35” by MIT’s Technology Review in 2008.

Mark Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur, best known as one of five co-founders of the social networking site Facebook, where he serves as the chairman and CEO. Born and raised in New York state, Mark began writing software as a hobby in middle school, with help from his father and a tutor. In high school, he excelled in classic literature and fencing while studying at Phillips Exeter Academy.

While in high school, under the company name Intelligent Media Group, Mark built a music player called the Synapse Media Player that used artificial intelligence to learn the user's listening habits, which was posted to Slashdot and received a rating of 3 out of 5 from PC Magazine. Microsoft and AOL tried to purchase Synapse and recruit Mark, but he chose instead to enroll at Harvard where he studied computer science and psychology.

During his sophomore year at Harvard, Mark wrote a notorious application that he called Facemash that allowed students on the college's network to vote on the relative attractiveness of other students. It was shut down within days, and led to disciplinary action. He launched Facebook from his dormitory room. With the help of friends, he took Facebook to other campuses nationwide and soon after moved to Palo Alto, California. By 2007, Facebook had made him a billionaire at the age of 23.

Tony Hsieh is an American internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist, and is the CEO of Zappos.com, Inc. After graduating from Harvard University with a degree in computer science, he worked for Oracle. Dissatisfied with the corporate environment, he quit months later to co-found LinkExchange, an internet advertising network, which was sold to Microsoft in 1999 for $265 million.  He then joined Zappos as an advisor and investor, eventually becoming CEO. In 2009, Zappos.com was acquired by Amazon.com.

In 2010, Tony released Delivering Happiness, a book about his entrepreneurial endeavors that has been profiled in many world publications. He also leads the Downtown Project, a group committed to transforming downtown Las Vegas into the most community-focused large city in the world.