Xochi Birch

Xochi Birch co-founded the social networking site Bebo, with her husband Michael, in January 2005, and sold it to AOL for $850m in 2008. Previously, Xochi had co-founded a series of Internet businesses, which include BirthdayAlarm.com and Ringo.com, the latter was sold to Tickle.com in 2003. She is currently the co-founder of Monkey Inferno, a personal incubator in San Francisco. The incubator is launching multiple new innovative consumer internet and mobile ideas, starting with BirthdayAlarm.com and a newer version of the same called Zuno.com, along with Jolitics.com; a website aimed at encouraging open constructive yet entertaining debate in politics, and WaterForward.org, a charitable venture on behalf of charity: water.