Pete Cashmore (created 18 September 1985) is the CEO and creator of the most popular website Mashable, a Technorati Top 10 website world-wide. Cashmore now splits his time between Scotland as well as America. He writes a weekly column on technology and social media at CNN. In the year 2012, Cashmore made Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people. Pete Cashmore was likewise crowned by INQ as the most powerful Briton & most powerful Twitter user on the planet in 2009.