50 Most Important And Influential People In The Tech Business

According to, soon to be no-more, Business 2.0 magazine, the following people are the 50 most important, most influential in the tech sector of business:

50. Jay Adelson - CEO of Digg.
49. Jason Calacanis - Jason was the founder of Weblogs, Inc, which was sold to AOL in 2005. His latest internet venture is Mahalo. "Mahalo" means "thank-you" in Hawaiian.
48. Gina Bianchini - Gina is the CEO of Ning, a website that allows people to create their own social networks, like the Brooklyn Art Project, for example.
47. Ed Iacobucci & Vern Raburn - Co-founders of Citrix Systems and, soon-to-be, DayJet air taxi.
46. Paul Graham - Founder of Y-Combinator, a new seed fund that takes a hands-on approach to nurturing startups.
45. You - Almost as cheesey as Time's person of the year.
44. Evan Williams - Founder of Twitter, and the man responsible for "daily tweets."
43. Elon Musk - Currently involved with 3 ventures: Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and Solar City.
42. Doug Melton - Co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.
41. Tim O'Reilly - CEO of O'Reilly Media and the person who coined the term "Web 2.0."
40. Sam Zell - Print media mogul and not afraid of picking fights with powerhouse Google.
39. John Edmond - Co-founder of Cree, an LED lightbulb manufacturer
38. Arianna Huffington - Political blogger Ariana's wildly popular Huffington Post is one of the most visited blogs on the internet.
37. Fake Steve Jobs - The real Dan Lyons is AKA Fake Steve Jobs.
36. Kevin Walsh - Walsh's Renewable Energy division at GE Energy Financial Services plans to spend $4 billion on renewable energy investments trough to 2010.
35. Howard Draft - CEO of DraftFCB, a big-time marketing agency.
34. Mark Zuckerberg - The face of The Facebook. Mark started "The Facebook," which is now just Facebook without the "the."
33. Richard Branson - Virgin.
32. Indra Nooyl - CEO of Pepsi. Coca-Cola is better!
31. Mukesh And Anil Ambani - Billionaire brothers from India.
30. Charles Phillips - President of Oracle.
29. Nicholas Negroponte - Chairman of non-profit One Laptop Per Child.
28. Reed Hundt - Vice Chairman of Frontline Wireless.
27. Janus Frils & Niklas Zennstrom - Co-founders of Joost and Skype.
26. Tom Cogan - Chief Project Engineer at Boeing.
25. Philip Rosedale - Founder of Linden Labs which created a Second Life for people with no first life.
24. Tony Fadell - Senior VP at Apple
23. Min Kao - CEO of Garmin, a manufacturer of GPS devices
22. Michael Arrington - Getting TechCrunched can do wonders for an internet startup.
21. Randall Stephenson - CEO of AT&T.
20. Shigeru Miyamoto - Senior Managing Director at Nintendo.
19. Martin Eberhard - CEO of Tesla Motors
18. Agile Software Development - Not really a "person."
17. Robin Li - Cofounder of Baidu, China's biggest search engine.
16. Barry Diller - CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp, which owns Ask.com.
15. Bruce Chizen - CEO of Adobe.
14. Mark Hurd - CEO of Hewlett-Packard.
13. Jimmy Wales - Founder of Wikipedia. Check out what Michael Scott has to say about Wikipedia in the video below:



12. Jeff Bezos - CEO of Amazon.com
11. Brian McAndrews - CEO of aQuantive.
10. Katsuaki Watanabe - President of Toyota.
9. John Chambers - CEO of Cisco Systems.
8. Arnold Scharzenegger - Governor of California, AKA The Governator
7. Susan Decker - VP of Yahoo!.
6. Rupert Murdoch - CEO of Newscorp, which owns MySpace.
5. Paul Jacobs - CEO of Qualcomm.
4. Michael Moritz - Managing Director at Sequoia Capital.
3. Private Equity - Also not a real person.
2. Steve Jobs - The REAL Steve Jobs
1. Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin - Google is taking over the world!