NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SEPT. 17, 1999--
The Most Influential People in Electronic Business
The inaugural Business Week e.biz 25 celebrates Internet innovators who are doing the most to spark a transformation of society that is as profound as the Industrial Revolution. From such bona fide captains of industry as Yahoo!'s Timothy Koogle to relatively unknowns such as Glen Meakem, founder of FreeMarkets Inc., they represent a wholesale redistribution of tech leadership. Business Week's e.biz 25 are profiled in the cover story of the magazine's Sept. 27 issue, to be published Friday.
As a sign of how much things have changed, the daredevil of the PC generation is not on Business Week's list: William H. Gates III. It wasn't so long ago that the honcho of Microsoft Corp. seemed to have the computer industry in a brainlock. But now, we're seeing the wholesale redistribution of leadership in the technology industry. Like the Web itself, the Internet industry has no center of gravity. Now, someone at Noname.com is just as likely to create the next great business as is someone at Microsoft. "This is the PC business times 1,000," Business Week says. "That's because these 25 larger-than-life characters, and thousands more who are aspiring to be just like them, are determined to overthrow the old world order."
The 1999 Business Week e.biz 25 are:
Empire Builders
Jeffrey P. Bezos , CEO, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Stephen M. Case, Chairman and CEO, America Online Inc. (NYSE: AOL) Timothy A. Koogle, Chairman and CEO, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO)
Innovators
Louis H. Borders, Founder and CEO, Webvan Group Inc. Jay S. Walker, Founder and vice-chairman, Priceline.com (NASDAQ: PCLN) Margaret C. Whitman, President and CEO, eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) Glen Meakem, Co-founder and CEO, FreeMarkets Inc. James H. Clark, Founder and CEO, Mycfo Inc. Christos M. Cotsakos, Chairman, CEO, E*Trade Group Inc. (nasdaq: egrp)
Bankrollers
Masayoshi Son, Founder and CEO, SOFTBANK CORP., Japan Robert C. Kagle, General Partner, BENCHMARK CAPITAL Lawton W. Fitt, Managing director, GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. L. John Doerr, General Partner, KLEINER PERKINS CAUFIELD & BYERS Bernard Arnault, Chairman, LMVH MOET HENNESSY LOUIS VUITTON, France
Visionaries
Mary G. Meeker, Managing Director, MORGAN STANLEY DEAN WITTER (NYSE: MWD)
John Hagel III, Principal, McKINSEY & CO.
William Joy, Co-founder and chief scientist, SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC. (NASDAQ: SUNW)
Architects
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., Chairman and CEO, IBM CORP. (NYSE: IBM) Pehong Chen, Chairman and CEO, BROADVISION INC. (NASDAQ: BVSN) David Peterschmidt, President and CEO, INKTOMI INC. (NASDAQ: INKT) Kevin J. O'Connor, Co-founder and CEO, DOUBLECLICK (NASDAQ: DCLK) Ellen M Hancock, CEO, EXODUS COMMUNICATIONS (NASDAQ: EXDS)
Pacesetters
David S. Pottruck, President and co-CEO, CHARLES SCHWAB CORP. (NYSE: SCH)
John T. Chambers, CEO, CISCO SYSTEMS INC. (NASDAQ: CSCO) Michael S. Dell, Founder and CEO, DELL COMPUTER CORP. (NASDAQ: DELL)
Note: The Business Week e.biz 25 will be posted in Business Week Online on Thursday evening, Sept. 16 (http://ebiz.businessweek.com) and on America Online (Keyword: BW).
(Launched in March, 1999, as a quarterly print feature with daily online updates, Business Week e.biz covers trends, developments and critical issues in the emerging world of electronic business. In 2000, Business Week e.biz will more than double the frequency of its print edition, appearing at least nine times in the coming year.)
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