The Top 5:
1. Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin – Executives, Google
2. Steve Jobs – CEO, Apple
3. Bram Cohen – Cofounder, BitTorrent
4. Mike Morhaime – President, Blizzard Entertainment
5. Jimmy Wales – Founder, Wikipedia
Other notable names:
7. Craig Newmark – Founder, Craigslist
10. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen – Founders, YouTube
16. Matt Mullenweg – Developer, WordPress blogging site and software
19. Jerry Yang, David Filo, and Terry Semel – Executives, Yahoo
22. Ray Ozzie – Chief software architect, Microsoft
26. John Battelle – Entrepreneur and chairman, Federated Media Publishing
32. Kevin Rose – Founder, Digg
To my surprise my name was not on the list. O’well there’s always next year.
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March 7th, 2007 at 6:48 am
I wonder how they decided on these people.
March 7th, 2007 at 8:11 am
I’m not sure, it sounds like it was just PC World’s staff.
I was surprised that with over 20K SitePoint post not to see Vinnie Garcia’s name on the list