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#41 Marc Andreessen (Kingmaker)
Better known as the co-author of the popular web browser, Mosaic and co-founder of Netscape Communications Coproration, Marc Lowell Andreessen is an American multi-millionaire engineer, entrepreneur and investor.
Graduate of BS Computer Science in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he worked at the university's National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), where he became familiar with Tim Berners-Lee's open standards for the World Wide Web. Andreessen and a full-time salaried co-worker Eric Bina worked on creating a user-friendly browser with integrated graphics that would work on a wide range of computers. The resulting code was the Mosaic web browser.
He co-founded the Netscape Communications (formerly Mosiac Communications Corporation) with Jim Clark in 1993 and Netscape Navigator became its flagship internet browser. On 2001, Andreessen left Netscape and founded Loudcloud, a services-based web hosting company. It was later sold to EDS company in 2003 where Loudcloud was changed its name to Opsware. Opsware was sold in September 2007 to Hewlett-Packard for approximately $1.6 billion.
Andreessen remained influential because of his different ventures and investments in different web companies including Ning, Digg. Plazes, Netvibes, CastTV and Twitter. Moreover, He serves on the board of Facebook, eBay, Kno, Hewlett-Packard, Bump, TinyCo, and Mixed Media Labs.
Graduate of BS Computer Science in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he worked at the university's National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), where he became familiar with Tim Berners-Lee's open standards for the World Wide Web. Andreessen and a full-time salaried co-worker Eric Bina worked on creating a user-friendly browser with integrated graphics that would work on a wide range of computers. The resulting code was the Mosaic web browser.
He co-founded the Netscape Communications (formerly Mosiac Communications Corporation) with Jim Clark in 1993 and Netscape Navigator became its flagship internet browser. On 2001, Andreessen left Netscape and founded Loudcloud, a services-based web hosting company. It was later sold to EDS company in 2003 where Loudcloud was changed its name to Opsware. Opsware was sold in September 2007 to Hewlett-Packard for approximately $1.6 billion.
Andreessen remained influential because of his different ventures and investments in different web companies including Ning, Digg. Plazes, Netvibes, CastTV and Twitter. Moreover, He serves on the board of Facebook, eBay, Kno, Hewlett-Packard, Bump, TinyCo, and Mixed Media Labs.
#55 Sheryl Sandberg (Chief Operating Officer)
Nevertheless, the highest-paid employee in Facebook company is also one of the most influential individual in the world. Sheryl Sandberg indeed is such a big inspiration to every aspiring women in this digital era.
As a Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, Sandberg was able to lead the company in times of obstacles and company's greatest struggles and pursuit for fame and survival. Being in the second highest position in the company, she is in-charge of everything except the product. And as the social networking giant reaches the peak of its success in terms of population, fame and wealth, she continued to help people make the most of a more open, more transparent world, as Facebook creates dynamic new connections between individuals, organizations and causes-connections with the power to brighten our shared future, one click at a time.
#57 Tim Cook (CEO)
When the former legendary CEO and visionary, Steve Jobs formally resigned Apple company on August 24, 2011, Cook immediately took the huge responsibility of driving the company into its impeccable journey and keeping the velocity high towards providing and maintaining innovative, high-quality products which the company has been widely appreciated and become known. It wasn't easy that time as the world was in very high expectations about what the company has yet to offer - there was also tension and fear among investors that the company's standing might go at some point lower than expected.
Despite all the challenges and expectations, Cook fiercely protected Job's legacy and lead Apple company to new heights while implementing major policy changes smoothly and brilliantly. He has indelibly imprinted his leadership on all areas of Apple- from managing its complex inner workings to identifying and shepherding new "insanely great" technology and design breakthroughs into the product pipeline.
Prior to Spotify, he became a CTO of Jajja Communications and Stardoll and CEO of µTorrent, the world's most popular BitTorrent client with more than 100 million downloads.
Despite stern criticisms about the integrity of Spotify as a profitable platform for various music labels, Daniel's efforts to revolutionize the music business and creating a good team in tech have helped him bring his company to new heights making Spotify a successful business until today.
Better known for her nickname "Ginni", Virginia Marie Rometty is the current and the first woman CEO of the top computer firm IBM. On her appointment on January 2012, Ginni began to face new and bigger challenges in the company.
Her 30 years of experience, efforts and dedication to IBM made her credited for spearheading IBM's growth strategy by getting the company into the cloud computing and analytics businesses. She was also at the helm of readying Watson, the Jeopardy! playing computer, for commercial use.
In her new role, her impact will only be amplified. IBM spends a whopping $6 billion a year on R&D. With that investment and platform, Rometty will undoubtedly bring to bear innumerable technological breakthroughs — a big reason IBM's stock trades at record highs.
Despite all the challenges and expectations, Cook fiercely protected Job's legacy and lead Apple company to new heights while implementing major policy changes smoothly and brilliantly. He has indelibly imprinted his leadership on all areas of Apple- from managing its complex inner workings to identifying and shepherding new "insanely great" technology and design breakthroughs into the product pipeline.
#59 Daniel Ek (Music Man)
Daniel Ek is the brain behind the music streaming site Spotify. An entrepreneur and technologist, he founded the company in 1997 at age 14.
Prior to Spotify, he became a CTO of Jajja Communications and Stardoll and CEO of µTorrent, the world's most popular BitTorrent client with more than 100 million downloads.
Despite stern criticisms about the integrity of Spotify as a profitable platform for various music labels, Daniel's efforts to revolutionize the music business and creating a good team in tech have helped him bring his company to new heights making Spotify a successful business until today.
#60 Virginia Rometty (Top Techie)
In her new role, her impact will only be amplified. IBM spends a whopping $6 billion a year on R&D. With that investment and platform, Rometty will undoubtedly bring to bear innumerable technological breakthroughs — a big reason IBM's stock trades at record highs.
