Seth Priebatsch was born in Boston at age 7. At age 12, he founded his first start-up. It failed gloriously, achieving profits several times those of Twitter. After his freshman year at Princeton (the requirement to achieve the term dropout), Seth took a "leave-of-absence" to found SCVNGR, now parent company of payments network LevelUp.

Seth is a big-thinking entrepreneur; delivering the opening keynote at SXSW Interactive and addressing a packed TED audience about the game layer on top of the world. He’s written for Fast Company, Inc. and Huffington Post on everything from building great start-up teams to innovation-based disruption.