I'm not surprised that Jared Kopf was able to charm his way into BusinessWeek list of tech's best young entrepreneurs even though his stealth startup, Adroll, hasn't launched yet. He's so persuasive that he could convince a car-full of teetotal Mormon virgins to give him a lift to a party. That's not an expression; true story. Sundance Festival, Park City, 2006. And let's not forget the 29-year-old wonderboy's impressive-sounding bio. "Kopf has already done his share of disrupting techdom," says a breathless BusinessWeek. "With PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, Kopf started Clarium Capital, a hedge fund. Kopf also co-founded photo-sharing site Slide.com and led investments in Friendster.com and LinkedIn for The Founders Fund." If anyone quibbles, I'm confident that silver-tongued Kopf will persuade Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, Slide's founder, or co-founder, rather, that he was actually being rather generous in giving them the credit he did.

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