Who matters now?

Business 2.0 Magazine invites you to vote for the businesspeople who inspire, inform and infuriate you, from CEOs to entrepreneurs to media stars.

By Business 2.0 staff
Craig Venter
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Craig Venter
Founder and CEO, Synthetic Genomics
Age: 60
Having sequenced the human genome, the maverick scientist has now turned his attention to the hot area of alternative energy. Venter's new startup plans to create new types of microorganisms, harvested in part from the sea, which would be used to produce hydrogen and ethanol. These may sound like daunting tasks, but don't count Venter out yet: He's defied the scientific establishment's expectations before.

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Tell us who you think matters now -- and why

Allen
Ambani brothers
Arrington
Barton
Bezos
Bianchini
Bloomberg
Boing Boing editors
Bono
Branson
Brin, Page
Butterfield, Fake
Calacanis
Chambers
Chizen
Chouinard
Cogan
Cuban
Decker
Dell
Denton
Desmond Hellmann
DeWolfe, Anderson
Diller
Draft
Draper
Eberhard
Edmond
Fadell
Gates
Graham
Heinemeier Hansson
Hoffman
Huffington
Hundt
Hurd
Hurley, Chen
Iacobucci, Raburn
Icahn
Jacobs
Fake Steve Jobs
Jobs
Kallasvuo
Kan
Kao
Karmazin
Kaufmann
Khosla
King
Kliavkoff
Li
Ma
Martin
Mayer
McAndrews
McCaw
Melton
Miranz
Miyamoto
Moritz
Motwani
Murdoch
Musk
Negroponte
Nooyi
O'Reilly
Otellini
Phillips
Ray
Rimer
Rojas
Rose
Rosedale
Ruiz
Russo
Sawiris
Schmidt
Schwarzenegger
Scott
Shriram
Sierra, Locke
Smith
Sood
Stephenson
Stewart
Sugar duo
Swisher, Mossberg
Thompson
Venter
Wales
Walsh
Watanabe
Whitman
Williams
Winfrey
Yunus
Zander
Zell
Zennstrom, Friis
Zuckerberg
Lam
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