CHAD HURLEY, Niklas Zennstrom, Michael Birch and Jack Dorsey certainly are not household names.
But YouTube, Skype, Bebo and Twitter, the web companies they started certainly are and rank among the most influential and most valuable web companies of the last decade.
These four will be joined by over 100 other web innovators, investors, academics and social entrepreneurs in Dublin over the next three days for an invite-only get together called Founders.
Aimed at the founders of the world’s most successful and most promising internet ventures the event runs between today and Saturday at venues around the city.
Giving the event some added gravitas former president of Ireland Mary Robinson, Goldman Sachs International chairman Peter Sutherland and the World Bank’s chief economist Dr Justin Lin will also speak.
In tandem with the private event, some of the high profile attendees including YouTube chief executive Mr Hurley, Twitter inventor Mr Dorsey and Skype co-founder Mr Zennstrom will speak at the Dublin Web Summit, being held at Chartered Accountants House, Pearse Street, today and tomorrow.
The international speakers will be joined by Irish web experts who will address a sell-out crowd of 500.
Both events are the brainchild of Paddy Cosgrave who, inspired by networking events in Silicon Valley, persuaded Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and influential Californian investor Tim Draper to speak at Trinity College, Dublin.
This is the fourth Dublin Web Summit since last November.
However, this is the first time that Mr Cosgrave has run the Founders event.
He says the event features “the fastest growing companies of the 21st century”.
Despite many of the attendees being multimillionaires whose services touch the lives of millions, the vast majority are under the age of 40.
Comparisons have already been made to Davos, the annual winter get-together of the world’s monied elite in Switzerland, which takes place under the aegis of the World Economic Forum.
While technology dominates the panel discussions at Founders the state of the world economy and providing educational opportunities for the socially disadvantaged will also come under the microscope.
Early arrivals today include representatives of the world’s business and technology media, will also get the chance to visit the Irish offices of Google and Facebook, as well as indigenous success story Jolt Online Gaming.
But it being Dublin, pub crawls, a tour of the Jameson whiskey distillery and dinner at the Guinness Storehouse also feature on the agenda.
Mr Cosgrave is realistic about what the event can achieve.
“It would be very naive and wrong to suggest that the presence of the these guys in the country would directly lead to the creation of new jobs,” Mr Cosgrave said.