Who’s running this thing?
Garrick Van Buren is President of Working Pathways, Inc. a web application strategy and design company. He has assisted companies like Sun Microsystems, Target, Orbitz.com, and countless start-ups in developing and maintaining a customer-centric web presence. Garrick co-founded and contributes to the MNteractive.com and PodcastMN.com communities, and continues to publish one of the first podcasts – The First Crack Podcast. Garrick also built Kernest – the first web font licensing service.
Todd Emmel is the founder of Slantwise, a web design and Ruby on Rails development shop. Slantwise has worked on creating applications for a wide variety of clients, from large corporations to start-ups. Along the way, Slantwise produced its own apps, in which a few have been “spun out”, notably Tumblon and ZenCoder. Todd also was a co-founder in FanChatter, accepted into Y-Combinator (Summer ‘09) and spent a few months in sunny California.
