<div class="image-container float_right" style="width:400px"><div class="image"><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5137857f6bb3f74952000007-640-480/kim-jabal-anne-toth.jpg?maxX=400&amp;maxY=300" border="0" alt="Kim Jabal and Anne Toth" width="400" height="300" /></div>Path/YahooNew <keyword id="6497922" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="path">Path</keyword> CFO <keyword id="1760646" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Kim-Jabal">Kim Jabal</keyword> (left) and privacy advisor <keyword id="326668" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Anne-Toth">Anne Toth</keyword> (right)</div>Long thought of as a pool of talent ripe for acquisition by Facebook or Google, Path, the mobile-focused social network, is making two big new hires.
With those moves, we believe Path CEO <keyword id="274435" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Dave-Morin">Dave Morin</keyword> is sending a signal about his ambitions for long-term independence.
AllThingsD reports that Path <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20130306/path-hires-ex-google-lytro-finance-head-as-new-cfo/">just hired Kim Jabal</a>, formerly of camera maker Lytro, as its CFO. That's a high-level position; most startups make do with a VP of finance.
And Business Insider has learned that Path has also hired Anne Toth, a former chief privacy officer at Yahoo and Google, as a consultant.
She's going to <a href="http://blog.path.com/post/42023928427/path-and-the-ftc">work on compliance issues with a settlement the company reached with the Federal Trade Commission</a>. The FTC levied an $800,000 fine on the startup after it was found uploading users' address books without their explicit consent and allowing children under the age of 13 to sign up for accounts.
Morin has <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/path-ceo-dave-morin-hbo-nbc-2013-2">talked about his plans to make money directly from Path users via subscriptions</a>, rather than from advertising, though it hasn't unveiled any subscription products yet. (It sells filters for enhancing photos, though in our experience of using Path, we've never seen anyone use them.)
Path, which limits users to mobile devices where they can keep up with a maximum of 150 friends, may have an opening given Facebook fatigue. Celebrities and teens, we hear anecdotally, are <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2013/03/06/five-reasons-bold-faced-names-should-be-using-path/">flocking to the service</a> as an alternative to overexposure on social networks where everything is either public by default, like Twitter, or privacy settings are simply too confusing.
It has nearly 6 million registered users, about a quarter of whom are active at least once a week, and has raised $42 million from investors.
And the fact that Path is making high-profile hires like Jabal and Toth shows that the company is staffing up for big ambitions.

With Two Big Hires, Path CEO Dave Morin Sends A Signal That He's Gunning For The Big Time

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/582269ad691e88bb798b5025-2400/stewart-001-17.jpg" alt="Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield" data-mce-source="Slack" data-mce-caption="Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield" />SlackSlack CEO Stewart Butterfield</div></div></div>We keep hearing about more executive departures at hot startup Slack.Business Insider has confirmed that Anne Toth, the company's head of HR who was also the company's head of policy, has left.In addition to running HR she was responsible for things like the company's security and privacy policies. Toth had been with Slack for about two years. We're told she left at the end of September, though <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/annetoth">her LinkedIn profile</a> has not yet been changed to show her departure or her next gig. Toth cut her teeth working on privacy policies for Yahoo, went on to do the same for Google, then went out on her own consulting before landing at Slack.We've also learned that Creative Director Mark Lawson has left after about eight months on the job. He had been working with Giant Ant studios to create a series of <a href="http://www.giantant.ca/slack-traffic">animated promotional materials.</a><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/marklawsonadsf"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/582269e9691e88bb798b5026-810/anne toth.jpg" alt="Anne Toth" data-mce-source="Anne Toth/Twitter" data-mce-caption="Anne Toth" />Anne Toth/TwitterAnne Toth</a></div></div></div>Lawson's LinkedIn profile, as we write this, also does not yet show that he left the company, but a Slack spokesperson confirmed both departures to Business Insider."Their departures are entirely unrelated. There are 700 people at Slack - occasionally some of them leave," a spokesperson told us.These exits <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/slack-cmo-bill-maciatis-steps-down-2016-11">follow </a><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/slack-cmo-bill-maciatis-steps-down-2016-11">Bill Macaitis</a>, a tech industry veteran and former Salesforce and Zendesk executive who also quietly left.He was <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/slack-hires-first-cmo-2014-11">hired as Slack's first Chief Marketing Officer back in 2014</a> and stepped down a few months ago, moving to an advisory role at the compay, according to his<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bmacaitis"> LinkedIn page</a>.These changes come at a time when Slack, is facing increasing competition from both Microsoft and Facebook. It followed that with <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/3/13504932/slack-microsoft-teams-letter-wtf">a potential marketing blunder</a>, when it took out a full-page ad as <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/3/13504932/slack-microsoft-teams-letter-wtf">a not-very-well-received grand gesture</a> after Microsoft released a competition product earlier this monthEven in Silicon Valley's move-fast culture, Slack's meteoric rise has been amazing. It makes the incredibly popular chat app for work groups, and is led by an incredibly popular founder CEO Stewart Butterfield.Although it appears that Slack's honeymoon period with the press and the Valley may be coming to an end, Slack's spokesperson says that the company is still hiring like crazy, telling us:"We're hiring aggressively for multiple roles. In the last 45 days alone, Slack has grown more than 15%, and between open recs and accepted offers, there are more than 100 new hires right behind them." <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-unveils-solar-roof-solarcity-video-2016-10">Elon Musk just unveiled something that could revolutionize how you power your home </a></h3> <div> <div> <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="ZtcHQzNzE6rJiNVeNBtErYRi4yljUmMb" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> <script> if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; } RunFunctions.push(function() { var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', 'ZtcHQzNzE6rJiNVeNBtErYRi4yljUmMb',{ autoplay: 'false' }); }); </script> <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div> </div> <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script> </div>

Two more executives have quietly left $3.8 billion startup Slack

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5822d265dd0895a2478b4a56-2400/21470472099_87d36edd12_o.jpg" alt="Sam Altman Y Combinator" data-mce-source="Getty Images" />Getty ImagesY Combinator president Sam Altman.</div></div></div>Good morning! Here's the tech news you need to know this Wednesday.1. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-leaders-react-to-trump-lead-2016-11">Silicon Valley leaders are shocked by Donald Trump's lead in electoral race</a>. Y Combinator president Sam Altman said: "This feels like the worst thing to happen in my life."2. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/karhoo-confirms-it-is-shutting-down-2016-11" target="_blank">Uber rival Karhoo confirms it is shutting down.</a> The company gave out hundreds of pounds worth of free taxi rides.3. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/tesla-to-build-gigafactory-2-europe-2016-11" target="_blank">Tesla is planning to build a futuristic "Gigafactory" in Europe that will produce more than just batteries.</a> The announcement was made by CEO Elon Musk.4. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/amazon-is-paying-robert-de-niro-850000-per-show-for-new-series-2016-11" target="_blank">Amazon is paying Robert De Niro $850,000 (£681,000) per episode for a new series as it goes to war with Netflix.</a> It makes De Niro one of the highest paid actors on TV.5. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/slack-loses-two-more-execs-ann-toth-mark-lawson-2016-11" target="_blank">Two more executives have quietly left $3.8 billion (£3.1 billion) startup Slack.</a> Anne Toth, the company's head of HR, and creative director Mark Lawson have departed.6. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/gopro-recalls-karma-drones-2016-11" target="_blank">GoPro is recalling 2,500 of its new Karma drones.</a> The company's stock is tanking.7. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/ibm-is-going-to-announce-a-uk-data-centre-in-the-next-few-weeks-2016-11" target="_blank">IBM is going to build another data centre in the UK, according to industry sources.</a> The data centre - due to be officially announced in the coming weeks - will be IBM's third in the <keyword id="6354868" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="UK">UK</keyword>.8. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/r-after-uber-case-uk-union-pushes-for-pay-deal-at-deliveroo-2016-11" target="_blank">A UK trade union is pushing food delivery startup Deliveroo to give its drivers a better pay deal.</a> It is the latest push for greater employment rights that could hit the flourishing "gig economy."9. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/electric-jukebox-the-music-streaming-startup-backed-by-stephen-fry-and-robbie-williams-is-finally-launching-2016-11" target="_blank">The British music streaming startup backed by Stephen Fry and Robbie Williams is finally launching a product.</a> Magic Works is about to release the Electric Jukebox device.10. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/samsung-apologizes-for-galaxy-note-7-recall-2016-11" target="_blank">Samsung apologised for the Note 7 debacle in an open letter to customers.</a> The letter was printed in full-page ads in major newspapers this week. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/men-perfect-body-changed-history-video-2016-10">How the 'perfect body' for men has changed over the last 150 years</a></h3> <div> <div> <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="k3dmszNzE6rI1CJmReq9ubSqLK0z-VaY" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> <script> if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; } RunFunctions.push(function() { var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', 'k3dmszNzE6rI1CJmReq9ubSqLK0z-VaY',{ autoplay: 'false' }); }); </script> <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div> </div> <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script> </div>

10 things in tech you need to know today

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5a1d761b3dbef48d0e8b8700-2265/gettyimages-870326036.jpg" alt="Armie Hammer" data-mce-source="Getty Images">Getty Images</img></div></div></div><ul><li>Actor Armie Hammer deleted his Twitter account.</li><li>It likely has to do with his response to a BuzzFeed News article that was critical of his fluctuating career.&#xa0;</li><li>On Monday, he called the article "bitter AF" in a tweet.</li><li>Hammer&#xa0;stars in the critically acclaimed film, "Call Me By your Name," which is getting major Oscar buzz.</li></ul><hr>&#xa0;Actor <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/s?q=armie+hammer">Armie Hammer</a>&#xa0;deleted his Twitter account after calling the writer of a negative article about him "bitter AF."&#xa0;Hammer deleted the account&#xa0;on Monday without any statement, after responding to a Buzzfeed News&#xa0;piece&#xa0;that was critical of his career trajectory. (Hammer's representatives were not immediately available to comment to Business Insider.)&#xa0;Hammer currently stars in the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/call-me-by-your-name-review-2017-9">critically acclaimed</a>&#xa0;movie "Call Me by Your Name," and&#xa0;seems&#xa0;to be campaigning for an Oscar nod for his role. In the film, he plays a 24-year-old grad student who falls in love with&#xa0;a&#xa0;professor he's staying with's 17-year-old son in Italy. It's a role that has gained him the most buzz since he&#xa0;appeared&#xa0;in 2010's "The Social Network."But just as awards talk is starting to heat up, Hammer has made a sudden exit from Twitter. That exit is likely related to&#xa0;<a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/annehelenpetersen/ten-long-years-of-trying-to-make-armie-hammer-happen?utm_term=.kkk5xpMpm#.okJ57RERV">the BuzzFeed News article published on Sunday</a>, called "Ten Long Years of Trying to Make Armie Hammer Happen," written by senior culture writer Anne Helen Petersen.Hammer tweeted a response to the article on Monday:"Your chronology is spot on but your perspective is bitter AF. Maybe I'm just a guy who loves his job and refuses to do anything but what he loves to do…?"The piece analyzes Hammer's fluctuating career. Hammer got his start with small roles on TV shows including "Gossip Girl," "Desperate Housewives," and "Veronica Mars." His breakthrough role was in 2010's "The Social Network." His acclaimed performance as the Winklevoss twins - and his stunning looks - practically ensured he was going to be a huge star.&#xa0;But that didn't happen.Hammer tried big movies, like "The Lone Ranger," which failed with critics and at the box office. He starred opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in "J. Edgar," but the movie came and went quietly. In 2015, he starred alongside Henry Cavill and Alicia Vikander in "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." - a fun movie that wanted a sequel, but did poorly at the box office.In analyzing Hammer's early career, the article asks why Hammer&#xa0;got&#xa0;second and third and fourth chances despite repeated failure. It speculates that one reason is that he is a privileged - Hammer's grandfather was oil tycoon Armand Hammer - and very attractive white man."Countless stars have fallen into Hammer-like career trajectories and never recovered," Petersen writes. "Many of those women, spit out by mainstream Hollywood, have crafted nuanced second acts on television, or figured out how to monetize their lifestyles."The article also&#xa0;characterizes&#xa0;Hammer's recent dive into independent film as more of a career necessity than an artistic choice, and speculates that he's been using his Twitter&#xa0;account to rebrand himself - including&#xa0;<a href="https://www.cosmopolitan.com.au/celebrity/armie-hammer-likes-bdsm-nsfw-twitter-posts-21207">"liking" several BDSM tweets</a>, and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/celebrities-call-out-james-woods-on-twitter-for-armie-hammer-criticism-2017-9">sparring with actor James Woods</a>, who critiqued the age difference of the romantic leads in "Call Me by Your Name."But now Hammer's Twitter account has vanished, at least temporarily. Still, you can always see "Call Me by Your Name" (currently in theaters) or&#xa0;watch&#xa0;this clip of him dancing on repeat:<div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/dJ_p4Z_yVpM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/cryptocurrency-value-explained-by-crypto-hedge-fund-cio-ari-paul-2017-11">The CIO of a crypto hedge fund explains the value in cryptocurrency - and why the market will explode over the next 2 years</a></h3> <div> <iframe class="bijwplayerclass" data-player="jwplayer" src="https://content.jwplatform.com/players/eUIMbufw-CEZHWCBG.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" style="margin:0px;" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><script>function receiveMessage(event){ console.log(event.data.fullscreen); Android.fullscreen(event.data.fullscreen); }window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);</script> </div> </div></hr>

Actor Armie Hammer deleted his Twitter account after calling the writer of a negative article about him 'bitter'

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5547a93469beddb01cfecf5c-1200-924/fred-wilson-37.jpg" border="0" alt="fred wilson">REUTERS/Lucas Jackson</img></div></div></div>Legendary venture capitalists Ron Conway and Fred Wilson kicked off TechCrunch Disrupt NY on Monday morning.In a talk moderated by TechCrunch's Kim-Mai Cutler, the two venture capitalists talked about government regulation of tech companies like Airbnb, and how tech can have an impact on philanthropy and local community.In San Francisco, <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Airbnb-foes-mount-campaign-for-SF-ballot-measure-6231816.php">a group called Share Better SF - composed of residents, housing activists, and neighborhood organizations - is trying to get a measure on the ballot</a> in November to put a cap on vacation rentals at 75 nights per year. Hosts would receive steep fines for not complying with the rules, should they be made law. Perhaps unsurprisingly, both Wilson and Conway seem to view the measure as anti-innovation. "The notion that Airbnb is part of the problem is false. It's just a part of the argument from people who don't understand the sharing economy," Conway said. "Why should the government be involved in that?"The new measure, were it to be passed, would potentially be a threat to Airbnb's business model. In the face of government regulation, Conway and Wilson had different opinions on whether a company like Airbnb should hand over anonymized data about users to try assuaging governments."Private companies should not be forced to hand over data about their users," Conway said. But Wilson disagreed, saying that there's a limit to what companies can do without violating the trust they have with their users, but the more that companies like Airbnb can be up front with anonymized data without outing any specific user, the better."If they did hand over the data they could resolve a lot of concerns. Companies could use data to make clear that the fears are unfounded," he said. "I would encourage companies to share data as much as possible." Airbnb initially fought a <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/21/technology/social/airbnb-new-york/"> subpoena issued by the New York attorney general last May</a>. The company ended up anonymizing and submitting data about its New York City rentals. In October, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman released a report called "<a href="http://www.ag.ny.gov/pdfs/Airbnb%20report.pdf">Airbnb in the city</a>." In it, he concluded that 72%, or more than 25,000 of short-term rentals through Airbnb seem to violate New York zoning regulations and other laws. Other big-name tech companies, like Slack, <a href="http://slackhq.com/post/117871977170/transparency">have released transparency reports</a> without prompting. In a blog post Sunday, Slack's vice president of people, policy and compliance, Anne Toth said: "Hard as it is to believe, to date Slack has not received a single request for user data or a single content removal request." <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/skateboarders-speed-down-crazy-downhill-road-alps-skateboard-cyclist-2015-4">Intense video captures skateboarders speeding down a road in the Alps</a></h3> <div> <div> <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="syeDlrdDqp-zhZnGO12hZoMHyuHPZABV" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> <script> if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; } RunFunctions.push(function() { var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', 'syeDlrdDqp-zhZnGO12hZoMHyuHPZABV',{ autoplay: 'false' }); }); </script> <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div> </div> <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script> </div>

Fred Wilson: Here's why companies like Airbnb should share their data with the government

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5787c6594321f1e2008b8361-1848/trump.jpg" alt="trump" data-mce-source="AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill" data-mce-caption="Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump, speaks during the CNN Republican presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015, in Simi Valley, Calif." />AP Photo/Mark J. TerrillDonald Trump.</div></div></div>Tech leaders are taking a stand against Donald Trump.In <a href="https://medium.com/@KatieS/an-open-letter-from-technology-sector-leaders-on-donald-trumps-candidacy-for-president-5bf734c159e4#.hunna75a7" target="_blank">a scathing open letter</a> posted by former Twitter vice president Katie Stanton, leaders from some of Silicon Valley's biggest tech companies, venture-capital firms, and startups voiced their concerns about a Trump presidency - specifically, that Trump "stands against the open exchange of ideas, free movement of people, and productive engagement with the outside world that is critical to our economy."The letter is signed by more than 140 tech leaders, including:<ul><li>CEOs of relatively young tech companies and startups such as Box, Twilio, Slack, TaskRabbit, and Tumblr.</li><li>Well-known VCs and investors like Vinod Khosla, Pierre Omidyar, Shervin Pishevar, and Chris Sacca.</li><li>Tech industry veterans like former Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, and Interactive Corp. CEO Barry Diller.</li></ul>Tech leaders who openly support Trump are rare, with the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-speaking-at-republican-national-convention-2016-7">exception of Peter Thiel</a>, who is a delegate for Trump and will speak at the Republican National Convention next week.<a href="https://medium.com/@KatieS/an-open-letter-from-technology-sector-leaders-on-donald-trumps-candidacy-for-president-5bf734c159e4#.jcv3hsuw9">Read the whole thing here&gt;&gt;</a>Here's the full list of signatories:Marvin Ammori, General Counsel, Hyperloop One Adrian Aoun, Founder/CEO, Forward Greg Badros, Founder, Prepared Mind Innovations; Former Engineering VP, Facebook Clayton Banks, Co-Founder, Silicon Harlem Phin Barnes, Partner, First Round Capital Niti Bashambu, Chief Analytics Officer, IAC Applications John Battelle, Founder/CEO, NewCo, Inc. Ayah Bdeir, Founder/CEO, Little Bits Piraye Beim, Founder/CEO, Celmatix Marc Bodnick, Co-Founder, Elevation Partners John Borthwick, Founder/CEO, Betaworks Matt Brezina, Co-Founder, Sincerely and Xobni Stacy Brown-Philpot, CEO, TaskRabbit Brad Burnham, Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures Stewart Butterfield, Co-Founder/CEO, Slack Troy Carter, Founder/CEO, Atom Factory Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Founder/CEO, Joyus Vint Cerf, Internet Pioneer Amy Chang, Founder/CEO, Accompany Aneesh Chopra, President, NavHealth; Former US CTO Patrick Chung, General Partner, Xfund Tod Cohen, General Counsel, StubHub Stephen DeBerry, Founder/Managing Partner, Bronze Investments Peter Diamandis, Entrepreneur; Author, Abundance and BOLD Barry Diller, Chairman, Expedia and IAC Esther Dyson, Executive Founder, Way to Wellville; Investor Amy Errett, Founder/CEO, Madison Reed Caterina Fake, Founder/CEO, Findery; Co-Founder, Flickr Christopher Farmer, Founder/CEO, SignalFire Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group; Co-Founder, Techstars Josh Felser, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital &amp; ClimateX Hajj Flemings, Founder/CEO, Brand Camp University Natalie Foster, Co-Founder, Peers David Grain, Founder/Managing Partner, Grain Management, LLC Brad Hargreaves, Founder/CEO, Common Donna Harris, Co-Founder/Co-CEO, 1776 Scott Heiferman, Co-Founder/CEO, Meetup David Hornik, General Partner, August Capital Terry Howerton, CEO, TechNexus Reed Hundt, Former Chair, FCC Minnie Ingersoll, COO, Shift Technologies Sami Inkinen, Founder/CEO, Virta Health; Co-Founder, Trulia Craig Isakow, Head of Revenue, Shift Technologies Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., President and Founder, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Irwin Jacobs, Founding Chairman/CEO Emeritus, Qualcomm Inc Paul Jacobs, Executive Chairman, Qualcomm Inc Leila Janah, Founder/CEO, Sama &amp; Laxmi Sujay Jaswa, Former CFO, Dropbox; Founder, Witt Capital Partners Mark Josephson, CEO, Bitly Sep Kamvar, Professor, MIT David Karp, Founder/CEO, Tumblr Jed Katz, Managing Director, Javelin Venture Partners Kim Keenan, President/CEO, Multicultural Media, Telecom &amp; Internet Council Ben Keighran, Entrepreneur; Former Design Lead, Apple William Kennard, Former Chair, FCC Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures; Co-Founder, SUN Microsystems Ron Klain, Executive Vice President, Revolution LLC Walter Kortschak, Former Managing Partner and Senior Advisor, Summit Partners Jared Kopf, Founder AdRoll, HomeRun, Worldly Joseph Kopser, Co-Founder, Ridescout Karen Kornbluh, Former US Ambassador, OECD Othman Laraki, Co-Founder/President, Color Genomics Miles Lasater, Serial Entrepreneur Jeff Lawson, CEO, Twilio Aileen Lee, Founder/Managing Partner, Cowboy Ventures Bobby Lent, Managing Partner, Hillsven Capital Aaron Levie, Co-Founder/CEO, Box John Lilly, Partner, Greylock Partners Bruce Lincoln, Co-Founder, Silicon Harlem Ruth Livier, President, Livier Productions, Inc. Mark Lloyd, Professor of Communication, University of Southern California?-?Annenberg School Luther Lowe, VP of Public Policy, Yelp Nancy Lublin, Founder/CEO, Crisis Text Line Kanyi Maqubela, Partner, Collaborative Fund Jonathan Matus, Founder/CEO, Zendrive Josh McFarland, Vice President of Product, Twitter Andrew McLaughlin, Head of New Business, Medium; Venture Partner, betaworks Shishir Mehrotra, Entrepreneur &amp; former VP of Product &amp; Engineering, YouTube Apoorva Mehta, Founder/CEO, Instacart Doug Merritt, CEO, Splunk Dinesh Moorjani, Founder/CEO, Hatch Labs; Co-Founder, Tinder Brit Morin, Founder/CEO, Brit + Co Dave Morin, Entrepreneur; Partner, Slow Ventures Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder, Asana; Co-Founder, Facebook Amanda Moskowitz, Founder/CEO, Stacklist Alex Nogales, President/CEO, National Hispanic Media Coalition Alexis Ohanian, Co-Founder, Reddit Mike Olson, Founder/Chairman/CSO, Cloudera Pierre Omidyar, Founder, eBay Felix W. 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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/56a278f458c3238c008b46f9-3718-2788/ap_461353314425.jpg" alt="AP_461353314425" data-mce-source="(AP Photo/Al Goldis)" data-mce-caption="Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder delivers his State of the State on January 19, 2016.">(AP Photo/Al Goldis)Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder delivers his State of the State on January 19, 2016.</img></div></div></div>When Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) first ran for the office in 2010, he championed himself as "one tough nerd." (It's even his <a href="https://twitter.com/onetoughnerd" target="_blank">Twitter handle</a>.)For someone who was experienced with computers and accounting and campaigned on a moderate platform, the "nerd" moniker worked.&#xa0;The former Gateway executive and venture capitalist had never previously run for political office prior to his 2010 campaign, but it didn't stop him from winning the election in a landslide.&#xa0;"One tough nerd" was in office.Fast-forward more than five years later.Snyder - whose main appeal was that he could fix Michigan's sagging economy in the aftermath of the nationwide economic collapse of 2008 -&#xa0;has enraged faced&#xa0;a barrage of across-the-board for his handling of the water crisis in Flint, whether they be a part of his constituency or Democratic&#xa0;presidential candidates <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/why-people-think-rick-snyder-must-resign-2016-1">like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Hillary Clinton</a>.The crisis in Flint is nearly unfathomable to imagine&#xa0;in modern America.An entire city <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/why-people-think-rick-snyder-must-resign-2016-1">was drinking and bathing in&#xa0;water</a> that had been contaminated&#xa0;with lead after the state switched its water supply to the Flint River in April 2014. The Flint River contained more corrosive water than what was being sent to the city from Detroit's water supply, and it&#xa0;ended up causing the lead from an aging pipe system to be leached.Even after complaints the water tasted and smelled bad, caused rashes, and was shown to contain high levels of lead, the state took months to act, not making its first moves until last October and not declaring a state of emergency until January. Clinton has chastised Snyder for the state government's&#xa0;inaction, and Sanders has called on him to resign.A water expert called the crisis one of the greatest American drinking water disasters in history, according to&#xa0;<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/who-poisoned-flint-michigan-20160122?page=2">Rolling Stone</a>.Snyder finds himself&#xa0;face-to-face with a situation that will play perhaps the defining role in his governorship."The&#xa0;tragedy that we're seeing in Flint is a man-made crisis," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Thursday.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/56a25f0bc08a80bd448b7d9a-4608-3456/ap_184100472040.jpg" alt="Rick Snyder" data-mce-source="AP Photo/Carlos Osorio" data-mce-caption="Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder">AP Photo/Carlos OsorioMichigan Gov. Rick Snyder.</img></div></div></div><h2>How he got here</h2>Snyder's appearance on the political scene came after more than a quarter century in the business world.His career started with a near decade-long stint at the Detroit office-accounting firm Coopers &amp; Lybrand.&#xa0;That was followed by a stint in California working as executive vice president before he was promoted to become the president and chief operating officer of Gateway.&#xa0;He later cofounded a venture capital fund in Ann Arbor, hometown to his alma mater, the University of Michigan.&#xa0;His first political stunt came early in the 2010 election process, as Snyder was competing against four other contenders for the Republican nomination in a crowded primary. He ran an ad during the Super Bowl declaring himself "One Tough Nerd" - the phrase Snyder has come to embrace so much, he even uses it as his Twitter handle.It worked. Snyder won the primary with 36% of the vote. He later won the general&#xa0;election with 58% of the vote, promising to bring Detroit back from bankruptcy and the state back from the economic disaster that had gripped much of the country.He's clashed with <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/19/meet-rick-snyder-the-governor-at-the-center-of-the-flint-water-crisis/">both the right and the left</a> in his state. The former, at times, has criticized him for defending Common Core. He has been disparaged as not sufficiently conservative on social issues, such as when he <a href="http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/12/abortion_rick_snyder_michigan.html" target="_blank">vetoed an abortion bill</a>.&#xa0;And he has talked about the need to welcome more immigrants, though&#xa0;he was also the first governor to suggest a pause on Syrian refugees being admitted to the country <a href="http://www.npr.org/2015/11/20/456713306/governor-who-started-stampede-on-refugees-says-he-only-wants-answers">last fall</a>.For their part, Democrats have been enraged with Snyder over&#xa0;right-to-work legislation and other unfriendly union policies, in addition to the handling of the most recent public health catastrophe in Flint.He is often&#xa0;credited with helping Detroit to emerge from bankruptcy. But Snyder nevertheless saw his approval ratings plunge,&#xa0;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/19/meet-rick-snyder-the-governor-at-the-center-of-the-flint-water-crisis/">The Washington Post reported</a>, and he barely won re-election in 2014.Snyder came up as a potential vice-presidential nominee&#xa0;for 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney, whose father George was once the governor of Michigan, before Romney ended up tapping then-US Rep.&#xa0;Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin).His name was floated around as a possible 2016 candidate, but decided against entering the crowded field."I'm very happy being governor," he <a href="http://time.com/3630172/gov-rick-snyder-explains-how-detroit-was-saved/" target="_blank">told Time in December 2014</a>.Now, after <a href="http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/01/19/snyder-requests-emergency-aid-flint/79018348/">promising</a> to "fix" the problems in Flint in his State of the State address Tuesday, he's about to embark on arguably the greatest test of his governorship.&#xa0;<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/56a2906358c32393008b483e-1500-1125/flint_water.jpg" alt="flint water" data-mce-source="Sarah Rice/Getty">Sarah Rice/Getty</img></div></div></div><h2>His biggest crisis</h2>Problems with Flint's water supply were discussed within Snyder's office immediately after the city switched to the Flint River in April 2014.An email recently released by the governor's office contained&#xa0;a press release from the announcement of Flint's switch that&#xa0;made note of concerns from residents about the quality of the water. They were shot down as "myths."<div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">Initial press release on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Flint?src=hash">#Flint</a> switching its water supply: concerns about water quality were "myths" <a href="https://t.co/mkN1SlvQCF">pic.twitter.com/mkN1SlvQCF</a>- Allan Smith (@akarl_smith) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/689931497432838148">January 20, 2016</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>On October 1, two months after the state "quietly" delivered 1,500 water filters to the city and almost 18 months after the initial switch, Snyder first said he was aware of the problems with Flint's water supply, <a href="http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/01/12/why-did-snyder-help-bring-filters-flint-august/78673474/">The Detroit Free Press reported</a>.The state did not immediately instruct residents to stop drinking the water without a filter, however. It wasn't until January that the state began delivering water bottles and filters door-to-door, and Snyder declared a state of emergency in the area&#xa0;earlier this month, on January 5.It wasn't until nine days after that announcement, on January 14, that Snyder asked Obama to declare a federal state of emergency, which <a href="http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/01/16/president-obama-declares-emergency-flint/78898604/">freed up to $5 million</a> in federal aid for Flint. The state previously allocated $10 million to assist Flint, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-michigan-governor-apologizes-for-states-handling-of-flints-water-2015-12">Reuters reported</a>.Free Press columnist&#xa0;Nancy Kaffer&#xa0;<a href="http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/nancy-kaffer/2016/01/11/flint-lead-water/78629628/">found</a> that an analysis claiming&#xa0;Flint's water was safe last summer was deemed to be flawed by a number of state staffers - but was still subsequently promoted by the state. Another analysis&#xa0;that raised more concerns about the contaminated water supply was "disregarded," according to Kaffer.&#xa0;Recently, it's become clear that a "dramatic"&#xa0;increase in cases of Legionnaires disease, a severe form of pneumonia, in Flint are likely connected to the tainted water supply, according to&#xa0;<a href="http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/01/13/snyder-flint-area-has-seen-spike-legionnaires/78750610/">the Free Press</a>, which cited officials from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.&#xa0;At least eight petitions to recall Snyder were filed with Michigan's secretary of state as a result of the water crisis, <a href="http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2016/01/14/8-more-recall-petitions-filed-against-gov-snyder/78793002/">the Free Press reported</a>&#xa0;Thursday."I think every single American should be outraged," Clinton <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/18/politics/flint-water-democratic-debate-clinton-sanders-snyder/">said</a>&#xa0;during Sunday night's Democratic debate. "We've had a city in the United States of America where the population, which is poor in many ways and majority African-American, has been drinking and bathing in lead-contaminated water. And the governor of that state acted as though he didn't really care."Sanders then&#xa0;<a href="%C2%A0http://www.businessinsider.com/why-people-think-rick-snyder-must-resign-2016-1">added</a>:&#xa0;"Secretary Clinton was right and what I did, which I think is also right, is demanded the resignation of the governor.&#xa0;A man who acts that irresponsibly should not stay in power."Adding fuel to the fire, In a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/rick-snyder-flynt-michigan-emails-2016-1">recently released email</a> from September 25 - just days before Snyder (R) said he first became aware of the severity of the water crisis in Flint - his former chief of staff Dennis Muchmore wrote that he "can't figure out why the state is responsible."The email came a day after doctors reported high levels of lead in Flint children. Muchmore said the responsibility fell to local government, per emails which were released by Snyder Wednesday, and added the issue had become a "political football."Muchmore did note that&#xa0;former state Treasurer Andy Dillon signed off on the city's plans to build a water pipeline from Lake Huron, which required a temporary switch to the Flint River during construction."We're not able to avoid the subject," he explained.&#xa0;<div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">Snyder's chief of staff in September: "I can't figure out why the state is responsible" <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FlintWaterCrisis?src=hash">#FlintWaterCrisis</a> <a href="https://t.co/KHt68maR31">pic.twitter.com/KHt68maR31</a>- Allan Smith (@akarl_smith) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/689941268173099009">January 20, 2016</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Muchmore&#xa0;later told the governor that residents were "caught in a swirl of misinformation" about lead contamination and that it was up to city and county leaders to confront the issue."Of course, some of the Flint people respond by looking for someone to blame instead of working to reduce anxiety," Muchmore wrote. "We can't tolerate increased lead levels in any event, but it's really the city's water system that needs to deal with it."&#xa0;He&#xa0;also said two state agencies and the US Environmental Protection Agency could not "find evidence of a major change" in lead levels.Once Snyder said as soon as he became aware of elevated lead levels in people's blood, he took action. He insisted to <a href="http://time.com/4182474/michigan-governor-defends-handling-of-flint-water-crisis/">Time</a>&#xa0;he was not ignoring the emergency."There was some time period where we were offering filters, we were working hard to get water," he <a href="http://time.com/4182474/michigan-governor-defends-handling-of-flint-water-crisis/">told Time</a>. "All these kind of things. But not enough of it was being accepted. Now we're to the point now where hopefully we're fully engaged and have everyone working hard to make sure everyone in Flint has access to a water filter."The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, which told residents the water was safe despite contradictory reports, was at fault&#xa0;of&#xa0;"being probably too technical in their interpretation of things or following a traditional pattern of doing things rather than stepping back to look at what else you might see in data," Snyder said.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/56a263ae5124c9d17a8b456b-800-504/michigan-governor-blames-bureaucratic-culture-for-water-woes.jpg" alt="Michigan National Guard members help to distribute water to a line of residents in their cars in Flint, Michigan January 21, 2016. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook" data-mce-source="Thomson Reuters" data-mce-caption="Michigan National Guard members help to distribute water to a line of residents in their cars in Flint, Michigan">Thomson ReutersMichigan National Guard members help to distribute water to a line of residents in their cars in Flint, Michigan.</img></div></div></div>Flint&#xa0;has been switched back onto Detroit's water supply until the lead contamination problem&#xa0;is solved. The head of Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality resigned as a result of the crisis.Snyder <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/352793/snyder-calls-flint-his-katrina-catastrophic-failure-leadership">admitted to the National Journal's Ron Fournier</a>&#xa0;that the&#xa0;water crisis is a stain&#xa0;against his governorship that's appropriately been compared to&#xa0;former president George W. 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