| 1 |
You! |
The consumer as creator |
| 2 |
Sergey Brin and Larry Page |
Co-founders, Google |
| 3 |
Paul Jacobs |
CEO, Qualcomm |
| 4 |
Rupert Murdoch |
CEO, News Corp. |
| 5 |
Steve Jobs |
CEO, Apple Computer |
| 6 |
Susan Desmond-Hellmann |
President of product development, Genentech |
| 7 |
The Emerging Global Middle Class |
China, India, Russia, Brazil, and elsewhere |
| 8 |
Fujio Cho |
Chairman, Toyota |
| 9 |
The New Oil Despots |
King Abdullah bin Abdul aziz al Saud (Saudi Arabia), Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Iran), Hugo Chavez (Venezuela), and Vladimir Putin (Russia) |
| 10 |
Ray Ozzie |
Chief technical officer, Microsoft |
| 11 |
Marc Benioff |
CEO, Salesforce.com |
| 12 |
Robert Iger |
CEO, Walt Disney Co. |
| 13 |
Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake |
Co-founders, Flickr |
| 14 |
Brian McAndrews |
CEO, aQuantive |
| 15 |
Jack Ma |
CEO, Alibaba.com |
| 16 |
Barry Diller |
CEO, InterActiveCorp |
| 17 |
Ed Zander |
CEO, Motorola |
| 18 |
John Thompson |
CEO, Symantec |
| 19 |
Mark Hurd |
CEO, Hewlett-Packard |
| 20 |
Ben Bernanke |
Chairman, Federal Reserve Board |
| 21 |
Bill Gates |
Benefactor, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
| 22 |
Reid Hoffman |
Angel investor and CEO, LinkedIn |
| 23 |
The New New Media |
Kevin Rose (Digg) and Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia) |
| 24 |
Patricia Woertz |
CEO, Archer Daniels Midland |
| 25 |
Kevin Martin |
Chairman, Federal Communications Commission |
| 26 |
Ed Whitacre |
Chairman and CEO, AT&T |
| 27 |
Jeremy Allaire |
CEO, Brightcove |
| 28 |
Chad Hurley and Steven Chen |
Co-founders, YouTube |
| 29 |
Danny Rimer |
General partner, Index Ventures |
| 30 |
Muhammad Yunus |
Founder, Grameen Bank |
| 31 |
Greg Isaacs |
Director of developer relations, eBay |
| 32 |
Alex Bogusky |
Creative director, Crispin Porter & Bogusky |
| 33 |
Vinod Khosla |
Founder, Khosla Ventures |
| 34 |
David Heinemeier Hansson |
Partner, 37signals |
| 35 |
Tim O'Reilly |
Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media |
| 36 |
Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström |
Co-founders, Skype |
| 37 |
Patricia Russo |
CEO, Lucent Technologies |
| 38 |
Oprah Winfrey |
Entertainment mogul |
| 39 |
Electronic Frontier Foundation |
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| 40 |
Jeff Valdez |
Founder, SiTV |
| 41 |
Stephen Maurer and Andrej Sali |
Adjunct associate professor, University of California at Berkeley, and professor, University of California at San Francisco |
| 42 |
Jeff Bezos |
CEO, Amazon.com |
| 43 |
The Pre-Internet Dinosaurs |
Larry Ellison (Oracle), Paul Otellini (Intel), and Michael Dell (Dell) |
| 44 |
William McDonough |
Architect, William McDonough & Partners |
| 45 |
Richard Branson |
Chairman, Virgin Group |
| 46 |
Mike Morhaime |
Co-founder and president, Blizzard Entertainment |
| 47 |
Nick Denton |
Publisher, Gawker Media |
| 48 |
Naguib Sawiris |
CEO, Orascom Telecom |
| 49 |
David Allen |
Author, Getting Things Done |
| 50 |
Blake Krikorian |
Co-founder and CEO, Sling Media |
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