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Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist.com

Craig Newmark is the founder of the world's largest classified listings website. Craigslist.org receives more traffic than either eBay or Amazon, and is the most popular site in the US for jobs, dating and property listings.

Craig talked to the Dublin Web Summit 2.0 audience about the Craigslist business model, creating trust and verification on the web and ... Harry Potter.

Watch highlights from Craig's talk here.

Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress

Matt Mullenweg is the founder of popular blogging platform WordPress, used by more than 202 million blogs - and websites - worldwide, including the New York Times.

Matt talked to the web summit crowd about the beauty of open source, how it performs as a business model and why WordPress always remembers that quality content is facilitated by quality writing tools.

Watch highlights from Matt's talk here.

Ben Hammersley, editor-at-large, Wired magazine

Ben Hammersley is Wired UKmagazine's editor-at-large, wrote as a technology journalist for the Guardian, has published several tech manuals with O'Reilly Media, has his own start-up, Dangerous Precedent, oh, and he coined the term 'podcasting'.

Aside from sparring with Mark Little in preparation for an upcoming boxing match, Ben told us why we should stop complaining about information overload and just learn to unsubscribe from feeds and emails and filter our own content. He also shared his thoughts on succeeding in business: "Make it beautiful."

Watch highlights from Ben's talk here.

Chris Horn, co-founder and former CEO, Iona Technologies

Chris Horn is co-founder and former CEO of Iona Technologies, which had the fifth-largest IPO in Nasdaq history. Horn is a member of the Irish Government's Innovation Taskforce and board member of Trinity College Dublin. He is chair of several tech companies, including Cloudsmith and Gridstore.

Chris got down to brass tacks at the web summit and said restoring competitiveness to the Irish economy was simply a race to the bottom.

Watch highlights from Chris' talk here.

Ciaran Bollard, CEO, MUZU TV

Ciaran Bollard is the co-founder and director of business development for the music-video site MUZU TV and has led the attainment of investment of more than €6 million.

Recently, his company unveiled its premium ad format strategy and has already struck video syndication deals with a number of publishers, including AOL Music, the Irish Independent, Bebo and Communicorp.

Dylan Collins, CEO, JOLT

Dylan Collins, an Irish entrepreneur who, at the age of 26, sold his Dublin-based technology company, DemonWare, to the world's biggest computer-game company, Activision, for US$15 million, has built up JOLT to be one of the most pioneering, free-to-play browser games firms on the planet.

Dylan talked about Jolt's exclusive deal with PlayBoy and the thrill of making a sale.

Fred Karlsson, CEO, DoneDeal.ie

Fred Karlsson co-founded DoneDeal.ie in 2004, as "an easy, safe marketplace for people to buy or sell all sorts of things." The site is now one of the most popular Irish-owned websites, attracting about 1.5 million visits per month, according to Ireland Metrix.

He told the audience that the biggest priority this aspiring knowledge economy should have is broadband access for all.

Colm Lyon, CEO, Realex Payments

Colm Lyon runs a global online payments powerhouse employing 70 people and responsible for online transactions worth €6.5 billion per annum for some of the biggest banks and companies in Ireland and the UK.

His views on cultivating entrepreneurial spirit and success in Ireland is that it is up to us, not just the State, and how his early business model involved scraping together all the resources he could to make it work.