Every year, Time Magazine puts out their TIME 100 list of the world’s most influential people. The list is always populated with a wide range of figures from a wide range of fields – politicians, religious icons, actors, musicians, and yes, tech figures.
And this year’s list seems to be full of techies – more so than past year’s lists.
In no particular order, here are some of the tech names that grace this year’s TIME 100:
- Elon Musk, founder of both Tesla and SpaceX, who Richard Branson calls”a man who can see many things at once”
- Oh-Hyun Kwon, CEO of Samsung
- Kevin Systrom, Instagram co-founder
- Ren Zhengfei, founder and CEO of Chinese telecom giant Huawei
- Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s Chief Content Officer, who Jeffrey Tambor says is “helping create the future of entertainment”
- Markus Persson and Jens Bergensten, Minecraft developers
- Sam Yagan, OkCupid co-founder and CEO of Match.com
- David Einhorn, President of Greenlight Capital
- Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO
- Jony Ive, Apple design leader
- Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, co-founders of Coursera
- Marissa Mayer, Yahoo CEO, who Google’s Eric Schmidt calls “pathbreaker and a trailblazer and an inspiration to women everywhere
- Perry Chan, CEO of Kickstarter
- Kai-Fu Lee, tech incubator
See what I mean?
If you want to check out this year’s and previous TIME 100 lists, they’ve got every list all the way back to 2004 available on the Time 100 hub.