20 most powerful people in the field of technology
20 most powerful people in the field of technology
The site BusinessInsider recently issued its list of the most influential people in the world and there are 12 people out of 50 innovators and managers from two and influential people in the world of technology.
To determine the classification has been taking into account the more than one hundred people influential in the field of business, politics and entertainment have been assessing their influence using metrics in four key areas: power and economic leadership and important news that newsworthy, influence and these standards character picks up the importance of each of them in their respective fields.
Has been added 8 other people were not present among the fifty people who are on the list of persons has been arranged descending order as follows:
20. Mr. Reed Hastings cofounder and CEO of Netflix Inc.
Country: United States of America.
Age: 55 years.
Mr. Reed Hastings is the founder and CEO of Netflix company is operating in the field of broadcast media services, which has been credited with making more than 100 million hours of films and programs available to users as well as to have produced a large number of TV dramas.
Although the shares of Netflix Inc. are traded since the IPO in 2002, but the stock has reached a record high of $ 126.45 in August, an increase of more than eight times their value at the start of display to the public and the estimated value of the company is now more than $ 50 billion.
Wealth Mr. Hastings has amounted to more than $ 1.25 billion, which not only changes the viewing experience to the viewers, but has also strengthened the lives of its employees the company is in this summer already made a holiday of maternity and paternity unlimited paid to its employees and duration of up to one ye
ar, paving the way for other companies to follow suit .
19. Mr. Reid Hoffman, co-founder and Chairman of LinkedIn company
Country: United States of America.
Age: 48 years.
Mr. Reid Hoffman worked with many of the most prominent technology companies in the world began his career in 1994 as director of products at Apple has worked later in the Board of Directors of PayPal Inc. as well as Vice President of the Executive.
In 2003 he founded LinkedIn company that in partnership with the other founders of a company that provides professional networking service includes service site linkedin.com more than 400 million members in more than 200 countries and estimated the value of the company for $ 32 billion.
Today Mr Hoffman is a partner at Greylock Partners as advised and works with major technology companies such as Facebook and Airbnb company and has become one of the most investors closely the experience of technical projects, as well as youth and executives are waiting for his speech even learn from him whether it provides advice to management or talking about learned from Failure career early last year, the wealth of this self-made billionaire nearly $ 5 billion at least.
18. Mr. Peter Thiel, co-founder and chairman of the management company Palantir
Country: United States of America.
Age: 48 years.
Mr. Peter Thiel is one of the founders of PayPal Inc. and was an investor in an early time in the company Facebook and the owner of the best-selling from zero to one "Zero to One Book" and has a fortune estimated at more than $ 2.3 billion and is also one of the more investors are respected in the technology industry and despite than he sold most of his stake of its shares owned by the company Facebook after the IPO of the company in 2012, which however, still has many projects throughout the Silicon Valley, which is one of the most prominent Palantir company, which was valued at $ 20.2 billion after it has been increasing the amount of funding by about $ 100 million in October.
Thanks to Mr. Thiel and investments of the other founders have been able to many emerging companies and other bear fruit since 2005, including houses rental site Airbnb and company Lyft and Spotify music application run.
Mr Thiel also runs his foundation for which is given annually of 20 leading young entrepreneurs $ 100 thousand to follow their unconventional ideas as well as it is required to grant recipients to give up or leave college for two years to follow up on the program.
17. Mr. Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of my company Twitter, Square
Country: United States of America.
Age: 39 years.
Biography of Mr. Jack Dorsey impressive is the cofounder and CEO of two companies worth billions of dollars are Twitter and Square.
Dorsey as interim CEO of the company Twitter has served amid unrest in the weak performance of the company and obtained a permanent job in October but soon Macam laid off a number of employees and has donated the equivalent of $ 200 million of its shares the company for the rest of the staff present the company has served as CEO until in 2008, where he step down in order to devote himself to his hobbies and special projects and estimated his fortune at more than two billion dollars.
16. Mr. Marc Andreessen co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz
Country: United States of America.
Age: 44 years.
Everyone in Silicon Valley want investment from venture capital firm that was founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.
The company, which was established six years ago and supports some of the largest software companies in the world of technology such as BuzzFeed, Facebook, Pinterest, Skype and Slack and Twitter.
Marc Andreessen is one of the most respected names in the industry where he has the ability to destroy or ensure the future of the projects and start-ups making it one of the most powerful figures in Silicon Valley.
Marc Andreessen has been at the forefront of technology since 1994 has had assistance in the establishment of Netscape Communications Company, which has established a Web browser has begun activity of the company to emerge in 1995 and this company were considered evidence of the technology boom in the nineties and signal the start of the Internet era.
15. Mr. Travis Kalanick founder and CEO of the company Uber
Country: United States of America.
Age: 39 years.
Estimated the company headed by Travis Kalanick 51 billion dollars which the value of which is currently the most valuable company is in the field of technology which is still working to overcome regulatory hurdles as it continues to grow has been the introduction of new features such as Uber Eats and Uber Rush and private food delivery services e company operates in 311 cities and 58 countries worldwide.
Not Uber company is the only endeavor Travis Kalanick to have been left out of Stanford to work later in the Scour search engine company, which went bankrupt in 2000 but soon Travis returned to the field of technology immediately with the networking software company Red Swoosh, which sold it to the company Akamai in 2007 b $ 23 million, which is a paltry sum compared with the wealth amounting to $ 3.2 billion.
14. Ms. Meg Whitman, CEO of HP and president of the company
Country: United States of America.
Age: 59 years.
After assuming leadership of the IT company HP in 2011 amid internal scandals, the company proceeded to reform and revive the company's declining profits and revenues arose implementation of thousands of layoffs in the end the company was split into two distinct parts have been implemented in the first partition resolution in November.
Ms. Whitman now occupies the position of CEO of HP, which will focus on software and IT services and chairman of HP company, which will focus on personal computers and printers.
Previously was CEO of e-commerce site eBay for a long time and was a personal fortune estimated at $ 2.1 billion.
When he took over the executive presidency of the web site, the number of employees only 30 employees and revenues of $ 4 million, but when left to her post as chief executive of e-commerce site eBay after 10 years Total revenues amounted to $ 8 billion and the number of employees 15,000 employees.
Well it is no stranger to politics In 2010 she ran for the post of governor of California, but did not win was spent on her campaign $ 119 million, at least from her own money and this is more than what he spent it any other politician on the campaign trail of his own money.
13. Mr. Ma Huateng founder and CEO of the company Tencent Holdings
Country: China.
Age: 44 years.
Mr. Ma Huateng, known as "dowry" in English is the founder and CEO of the company Tencent Holdings, which is one of the largest technology companies in China.
It is also one of the richest people in the country with a fortune estimated at nearly $ 19 billion, but despite the prestige and influence there is little known about the personal life of a billionaire.
Fsharkth on the other hand is one of the more companies prevalent in China as one social network performing similar functions to Facebook and Twitter and Zynga and Uber combined and has more than 860 million monthly users of the service QQ messages and are expanding internationally in Southeast Asia and India.
The company has taken an early decision mobile to embrace a decision that put it in a step forward from competitors through the launch of its application mobile app Weixin messages in 2011 and who was regularly be provided with additions of new and innovative features such as GPS, which alert the user the presence of their friends in a place close to them .
12. Ms. Ginni Rometty Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of IBM
Country: United States of America.
Age: 58 years.
Last year was the Ginni Rometty abandon the idea that the profit per share of the company's shares is $ 20, a value which lasted for many years and that by 2015, but this has hatched a new plan is that the company will invest $ 4 billion in areas such as cloud computing and mobile data large in order to grow revenue by 40 billion dollars by 2018.
This plan will double the company's effort in these areas and this would be the company's move away from a hardware Maemezha for decades.
Rometty The task is to maintain one of the most well-known technology companies, which employs 380,000 people and is the same size as the population of the city of New Orleans to be profitable in the long term even Lucan that means changing some basic things about the company.
11. Mr. Robin Li, CEO of Baidu
Country: China.
Age: 46 years.
There are three kings of the Internet in China and known for short as "BAT" They Baidu and Alibaba and Tencent and for Robin Li is dominant in the Internet search market is the CEO of Baidu, equivalent to Google in China. As is the case with Google the company is Chinese invest constantly in what the future In May the company announced its partnership with Daimler company Chinese version maker of cars Mercedes-Benze to provide a program for their vehicles, which allows drivers to access content from their smart phones and in union with the BMW Group Vstqom company making model of self-driving car, which hopes to revelations by the end of the year. Chinese billionaire, who is worth more than $ 11 billion and said that his company will invest $ 3.2 billion this year in the services that allow phone users to perform traditional tasks such as digital buy movie tickets and call the taxi and others.
10. Mr. Satya Nadella CEO of Microsoft
Country: United States of America.
Age: 48 years.
Since the CEO third of Microsoft Corporation has become in the past year Satya Nadella busy it was with the help of the company to return to its former glory and although he is still Microsoft's software giant, which achieved sales worth $ 95 billion, but it is a far cry from its former glory as innovative and as a technology leader undisputed.
But Nadella a veteran at Microsoft than 23 years has made great progress in the renewal of the company where the successful Windows 10 was launched, which is a huge blow attracted more than 110 million users within three months as well as on Microsoft's rivals such as Salesforce and Oracle to partners and make Microsoft's intervention in the growing online market growth of a new database where Microsoft has made cloud storage service, as well as large data analysis service As a result, it is popular with the employees of the Company.
9. Mr. Elon Musk, CEO of my company Tesla and SpaceX
Country: United States Age: 44 years.
He is a man who believes that "there is nothing like a business, but the quest to achieve the goal" has invested in or foundations or rather the run of 18 companies so far, including two of the most innovative technology companies in America, namely my company Tesla Motors and SpaceX, where he was this In an important year for the two companies it has been launched X model car from Tesla company in September as well as the launch of a rocket company SpaceX failed and who was on his way to the International Space Station in June.
There are also watching and waiting for the car model 3 Sedan and that the company planned to unveil it in the month of March.
And it appreciates the growing wealth of Mr. Musk more than $ 11 billion, which enables it to future technology experiment was announced through Twitter that he will build a fast track five miles long and will invite students and companies to test their ideas for high-speed transportation system.
Also it donated $ 10 million to the future of Life Foundation this year to make the artificial intelligence is safe and beneficial to humans.
8. Mr. Larry Ellison, founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Oracle Corporation
Country: United States of America.
Age: 71 years.
Billionaire Larry Ellison resigned from the post of chief executive of the company in the last year but still serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Technical Director of databases and software Titan.
It has announced that this year's Oracle plans to take over as the main provider of products and services for cloud computing and technological revealed in the company's conference in October that 20% of the company's customers have bought through cloud computing technology rather than the traditional way.
It has been rated Mr. Larry Ellison as one of the 10 richest people in the world with a fortune of nearly $ 50 billion with the growing share of the real estate that are found in all parts of the world.
7. Mr. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple
Country: United States of America.
Age: 54 years.
Is the person who manages the most valuable company in the world, worth $ 645 billion thanks to the continued guidance from him in 2015 and was one of the best years that have passed on the company at all.
One of the main successes of Mr. Cook in 2015 is the launch of Apple application of Music, a private music broadcast service application has been activate the service to be used by users in the month of June and beginning of October, there are 605 million user subscribers to a paid service and 8.5 million subscribers in the specific free service time for a workout.
At the annual event for the company which will be held in the fall, Mr. Cook revealed the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus and who have been selling 13 million units, including the weekend in smashing the previous records as well Recently Mr. Cook noted that there will be a tremendous change in the automobile industry sparking rumors that Apple is planning to enter the field.
6. Mr. Jack Ma founder and CEO of the company Alibaba
Country: China.
Age: 51 years.
The second richest person in China is the founder and CEO of the company Mr. Alibaba Jack Ma, who broke records the value of his company operating in the e-commerce, which amounted to $ 25 billion when the initial public offering of the company in 2014.
However the company's wealth began to decline as the company's stock fell during 2015, about 25% of its value during the month of November and probably that this happened because of a slowing economy and fears of the counterfeiters using the company's platform in China.
Mr. Jack Ma, which has a fortune of more than $ 25.6 billion is not worried although Alibaba company still dominant in one of the largest markets in the world and says that worries the West over the economic slowdown in China is an overreaction. In fact it is believed that China is in the midst of Economic transformation and that Alibaba will become a stronger company as a result of this shift.
5. Mr. Sergey Brin, co-founder and former head of Alphabet Google Inc.
Country: United States of America.
Age: 42 years.
Along with his colleague Larry Page work to restructure the company and Google announced in August this step has made Google a subsidiary of Alphabet Holding, which holds the post of Sergey Brin and Chief Executive company.
Google also Each Other projects such as Nest and Google X are now separate companies under the umbrella of Alphabet Holding Company was born this technological bloc sales of $ 66 billion in 2014.
Sergey Brin, who emigrated from Moscow to the United States when he was a child and has been associated with the relationship of friendship with Page in 1995 at Stanford University and who had all their goal is to get a doctorate degree they founded Google three years later and today's personal wealth is estimated for each of Brin and Page B 38 billion and $ 42 billion respectively.
4. Mr. Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of the company Facebook
Country: United States of America.
Age: 31 years.
Is the head of the largest social network in the world and is this year in a successful company. In May, the Oculus Company of reality and virtual owned by Facebook to announce that he will eventually sell the first device and the virtual reality of its production starting from early next year and a few months later the company Facebook first announced that he had The visit its social communion billion by the user in a single day and that are viewed 8 billion video per day, or twice as many as had been announced in April.
The company's shares have risen about 40% during the month of November 2015 As a result, net value Mark Zuckerberg fortune to $ 47.6 billion.
And lasts Facebook founder to invest hundreds of millions of his personal fortune in Education through the Education Project, a non-profit organization created by Marc and his wife Priscilla in 2010 to improve the schools in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as AltSchool a company that promotes education Profile also provided $ 100 million to the University of Newark, schools general in the state of New Jersey, but the results were disappointing.
After the detection of Marc and his wife expectation for the arrival of their first child they announced their plan to open a K-12 school in the city of Palo Alto by next year, which will provide education and health care for low-income families.
3. Mr. Larry Page, co-founder and CEO of the company Google previously Alphabet
Country: United States of America.
Age: 42 years.
Senior Larry Page on the work of some of the big moves this year, starting from the comprehensive renewal of Google in August as announced through a press release that Google will become a subsidiary of Alphabet Holding, which will oversee all Google projects such as and Nest Calico and Google X as entities stand-alone.
Larry Page which has been associated relationship of friendship with Sergey Brin in 1995 at Stanford University and who had all their goal is to get a doctorate degree they founded Google after three years and a day of personal wealth for both Page and Brin estimated at $ 42 billion and $ 38 billion respectively.
2. Mr. Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon
Country: United States of America.
Age: 51 years.
Amazon is a superpower that can not be denied in e-commerce, it generates $ 89 billion in sales, which often fail to convert these sales to net profit may surprised investors in July by offering earnings reports quarterly value of $ 92 million which is higher than the value of analysts' expectations.
Also it has rose the company's stock price, which made a total value estimated at $ 55 billion and despite the negative media reports in August, which claimed that the company's warehouses are located in high-power pressure cables region as well as the toxic work environments, but the company continued to progress and prosperity .
This year, Mr. Jeff Bezos work initiative for the development of web services comapny through cloud computing branch and announced a plan to deliver the parcel at high speed across the drones as well as the opening of the first library of books in the city of Seattle.
Space company Blue Origin has launched owned by Mr. Jeff Bezos first spacecraft to successfully that this year and has plans to test rocket engines and launch a manned rocket within the next decade.
Clarification: Mr. Jeff Bezos investor in Business Insider site of his company through personal INVESTING Bezos Expeditions.
1. Mr. Bill Gates and co-administrative in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and co-founder of Microsoft President
Country: United States of America.
Age: 60 years.
The foundations of Bill Gates, the famous Microsoft's software company in 1975 in collaboration with childhood friend Paul Allen and thus become the richest person on the planet with an estimated fortune of 87.3 billion dollars, and although he still serves as the company's board but said he no longer works in Microsoft .
Instead, Gates focused his interest to give up his fortune and one run charities most influential in the world with his wife Melinda, where they founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000 after reading an article about treatable diseases that cause millions of deaths in children in developing countries.
Since then, the organization has provided $ 34.5 billion for a variety of reasons, including efforts to eliminate HIV, malaria and many infectious diseases and other.
It also supports agricultural development and emergency relief and international libraries and urban education and poverty has Gates began and his friend Warren Buffett in a campaign to encourage billionaires to follow up on their progress and give up half of their wealth or most of it by doing the signing of the tender pledge was signed 135 person on this pledge .