{"id":653217,"date":"2013-04-18T15:10:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T19:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=225667"},"modified":"2013-04-18T15:10:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T19:10:23","slug":"tech-figures-are-all-over-times-100-most-influential-people-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/653217","title":{"rendered":"Tech Figures Are All Over TIME\u2019s 100 Most Influential People List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, Time Magazine puts out their TIME 100 list of the world&#8217;s most influential people. The list is always populated with a wide range of figures from a wide range of fields &#8211; politicians, religious icons, actors, musicians, and yes, tech figures.<\/p>\n<p>And this year&#8217;s list seems to be full of techies &#8211; more so than past year&#8217;s lists.<\/p>\n<p>In no particular order, here are some of the tech names that grace this year&#8217;s TIME 100:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elon Musk, founder of both Tesla and SpaceX, who Richard Branson calls&#8221;a man who can see many things at once&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Oh-Hyun Kwon, CEO of Samsung<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Systrom, Instagram co-founder<\/li>\n<li>Ren Zhengfei, founder and CEO of Chinese telecom giant Huawei<\/li>\n<li>Ted Sarandos, Netflix&#8217;s Chief Content Officer, who Jeffrey Tambor says is &#8220;helping create the future of entertainment&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Markus Persson and Jens Bergensten, Minecraft developers<\/li>\n<li>Sam Yagan, OkCupid co-founder and CEO of Match.com<\/li>\n<li>David Einhorn, President of Greenlight Capital<\/li>\n<li>Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO<\/li>\n<li>Jony Ive, Apple design leader<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, co-founders of Coursera<\/li>\n<li>Marissa Mayer, Yahoo CEO, who Google&#8217;s Eric Schmidt calls &#8220;pathbreaker and a trailblazer and an inspiration to women everywhere<\/li>\n<li>Perry Chan, CEO of Kickstarter<\/li>\n<li>Kai-Fu Lee, tech incubator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>See what I mean?<\/div>\n<p>If you want to check out this year&#8217;s and previous TIME 100 lists, they&#8217;ve got every list all the way back to 2004 available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/time100.time.com\/\">Time 100 hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=fjWGvKTpvJ8:aog99vs2Shg:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=fjWGvKTpvJ8:aog99vs2Shg:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=fjWGvKTpvJ8:aog99vs2Shg:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=fjWGvKTpvJ8:aog99vs2Shg:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=fjWGvKTpvJ8:aog99vs2Shg:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=fjWGvKTpvJ8:aog99vs2Shg:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=fjWGvKTpvJ8:aog99vs2Shg:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=fjWGvKTpvJ8:aog99vs2Shg:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=fjWGvKTpvJ8:aog99vs2Shg:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/fjWGvKTpvJ8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, Time Magazine puts out their TIME 100 list of the world&#8217;s most influential people. 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