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In the spirit of doing a retrospective of the decade, here are the Top 9 Businessmen, Technologists / Business Technologists of the 2000s according to me (the order is not that important, except for the Google people)
1. Sergey Brin & Larry Page – Google
- For showing how pure IQ can build fantastic technologies and businesses
- For valuing Engineering and Engineers
- For making this decade exciting again relative to Technology, Business and the World
- For making the world less Microsoft
- For hiring Eric Schmidt
- For contributing so much to open-source
- For giving away so many free but incredibly useful technologies
2. Eric Schmidt – Google
- For showing how the suits can mingle very well with the geeks and make their grand plans scale as a business. (Well, Schmidt is also an Engineer)
- For understanding the Geeks
3. Richard Branson – Virgin
- For taking people out to space. Amazing inspiration throughout.
4. Mark Shuttleworth – Canonical / Ubuntu
- For delivering CDs and DVDs of an open-source Operating System based on GNU/Linux for free worldwide
- For making a very impressive GNU/Linux distribution
5. Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone – Twitter
- For making a small idea in which I didn’t believe in initially into a potential heavyweight IPO to look forward to.
6. Steve Jobs – Apple
- For showing the results of the most amazing come-back as a CEO ever
- For one of the most inspiring speeches ever – “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”
- For making Apple mass-market multi-touch touch-screen technology
- For making the world less Microsoft
7. Gary Vaynerchuk – Wine Library tv
- For being such a good representation of living your passion
- For crushing it regularly
- For the book showing the story of how an immigrant crushes it
- For the Thunder Show, aka The Internet’s most passionate wine program
- For the amazing Wine recommendations
- For falling and getting straight back up and building even more business around the story
And if only there had been no story of idea stealing:
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