Bangalore: If you have a great idea, and you’re a techie, you know that one meeting with the tech icons of today—Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg, Ron Conway, Marc Andreesen is more than enough to get your ball rolling.

But how do you get to talk to them? How do you connect with people like them?

Enter: the connectors in today’s tech-entrepreneurial world. Not only will they help you connect to the kingpins; they’ll also help you from point A to point B.

So if you have your notebooks open, here are the 10 people who according to Business Insider you’ll have to know to open doors in Silicon Valley:

1. Name: David Morin

Who he knows: Morin used to work at Apple, and then moved to Facebook. Now, he’s the co-founder and CEO of Path, a mobile startup that Google wants to buy.

How he can help: Morin is turning into an active investor, and he knows the veterans of Google, Facebook, and Paypal. He could invest in your mobile startup, and get you introduced to the bggies in any of these companies.