Seth Priebatsch

Chief Ninja, SCVNGR & LevelUp

Seth Priebatsch was born in Boston at the age of 7. At the age of 12, he founded his first web start-up. It failed gloriously, achieving profits several times those of Twitter. After completing his freshman year at Princeton (the official 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 who has delivered the opening keynote at SXSW Interactive and addressed a packed TED audience all about the game layer on top of the world. He’s also spoken at Fast Company’s Innovation Uncensored and ad:tech, and has written for Fast Company, Inc. and Huffington Post on everything from building great start-up teams to innovation-based disruption.