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New York City is full of startups. But the real winners have amazing leadership teams driving them to succeed.
We polled tech industry executives and investors to find CEOs who are rising stars; they told us who their favorite early-stage startup CEOs are.
Jason Goldberg, CEO of Fab
Fab has quickly become one of the most exciting companies in New York tech. CEO Jason Goldberg helped it pivot from a failed concept called Fabulis into a flash sale design site with more than 225 employees. It generates $300,000 per day.
Goldberg has always been a product guy. Before Fab, he was CEO of a startup that sold to XING AG, which he became Chief Product Officer of. He also founded Jobster.
Before he founded companies, he worked in the White House under Bill Clinton.
Dave Gilboa and Neil Blumenthal, co-CEOs of Warby Parker
Warby Parker is an online prescription glasses retailer.
There are other online glasses retailers, but investors' excitement for New York-based Warby Parker seems to stem from its early traction and the big industry it disrupts.
"It's an overnight sensation which is very attractive," says one source. "It came out of the gate fast and hard and solves a real problem. No one has been able to cut Luxottica [the force behind LensCrafters and Sunglass Hut] out of the market yet."
Prior to founding Warby Parker, Gilboa was an associate at investment firm, Allen & Company. Blumenthal was a summer associate at McKinsey and attended Wharton.
Jake Schwartz, CEO of General Assembly
Jake Schwartz is founding an impressive startup school in Manhattan and London, General Assembly, that houses hundreds of entrepreneurs.
The company received initial funding from the likes of Skype and the New York City Economic Development Corporation, and most recently, it raised $4.25 million in September of 2011 from Maveron (Howard Schultz's firm).
Prior to General Assembly, Schwartz founded a few other companies and attended UPenn.
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