Pete Cashmore, born September 18th 1985, is the CEO and founder of the popular blog 'Mashable', a Technorati Top 10 blog worldwide. He grew up in Banchory and founded Mashable in Aberdeen, Scotland in 2005 at age 19. In 2009, Cashmore was chosen as one of Inc.'s "30 Under 30", Forbes' "Top 25 Web Celebs" and The Huffington Post's "Top 10 Game Changers 2009". He writes a weekly column on technology and social media at CNN. Cashmore's Twitter is one of Twitter's 40 most-followed pages, with 2 million followers. Pete Cashmore was also crowned by INQ as the most influential Briton and most influential Twitter user in the world in 2009.