Count the 25 most creative people in the technology industry

Inventory of the technology industry's most creative 25 people published 21 hours ago | Times Read | SOURCE csdn| 0 Reviews | Author Qian Shu Googleiphone founder Open Source Abstract: The secret of competitive advantage is innovation, corporate culture should promote innovation, and this innovation will lead to the success of competition. Business Insider, America's leading media, recently ranked 25 of the most creative people in the tech industry, who changed the rules of the game, developed exciting technologies, devised fantastic new products and created companies that could affect the entire industry.

Recently, the U.S. well-known Technology media Business Insider (BI) ranked the technology industry 25 most creative people, they shook the High-tech world.

Because of the special nature of the technology industry, the scientific and technological community is full of innovative talent in the design of a variety of wonderful new products. Even so, there are people who stand out and differ. These people have changed the rules of the game, developed exciting technologies, and created companies that can influence the entire industry.

Sometimes they are not enough to do one time, but they never stop on the road of innovation.

Jony Ive:jony Ive, senior vice president of Apple Industrial design, is the designer of Apple's largest and most important product, designing many excellent products: MacBook Pro, IMac, MacBook Air, ipod, ipod Touch, IPhone, IPad Andipad Mini.

He is also said to be responsible for Apple's upcoming iwatch.

Valve founder Gabenewell: Billionaire Gabe Newell is the boss of Valve Software company, who co-founded a super successful gaming company in 1996. "We have no bosses, no middle managers, no bureaucracy," the company said. Only a positive and enterprising peer together to do something cool. ”

But Gabe is clearly the heart and soul of valve innovation, Valve has a high profile in video games (like Half-Life and portal). Newell also launched the online social gaming website Steam, which offers nearly 2000 games and more than 50 million gamers.

Valve's source code engine is also a very popular game development tool.

Julie Uhrman, founder and CEO of Ouya, is a veteran of the gaming industry who has worked for Vivendi Universal, IGN, GameFly and other companies.

Ouya, who carries the Android 4.0 system, is a common product of game executive Julie Uhrman and designer Yyes Behar. It looks like a nice little box with an exquisite corresponding controller distributed above.

She released the Ouya project in Kickstarter, and received a good response, raising 8.6 million dollars from more than 63000 people.

Fuseproject founder Yves Behar:yves Behar is a famous industrial design company Fuseproject founder, the company designed a large number of products (sports equipment, consumer products, fashion supplies).

Successful technology projects have won a lot of praise from Behar, including the 86 million-dollar Ouyer, XO laptops and Jawbone headphones that were raised at Kickstarter. He even worked in igoogle.

Cloudera, Doug Cutting:doug Cutting, a developer of open source software, has developed three open source software projects that are important to the enterprise market.

He is famous for developing products around Hadoop, especially as large data technologies are used by thousands of businesses. He also invented Lucene and Nutch search engines. This makes the enterprise-class search application Server SOLR competitive with Google search appliance.

Doug Cutting is the president of the Apache Software Foundation and the administrator of some of the world's most important open-source projects.

Jack Dorsey:jack Dorsey, Square's chief executive, was a self-taught programmer who founded Twitter and became the first CEO, a career that had been successful for others, but Jack Dorsey was not satisfied.

He then developed square, which opened up the mobile payment era, where users (consumers or businesses) used the mobile card reader provided by Square to work with smartphones, and could use the application to match swipe-card consumption in any 3G or WiFi network, allowing the iphone/ The ipad turns into a payment machine.

Eben Upton:eben Upton, founder and director of Raspberry Pi Foundation, invented a mini PC based on Linux, with a minimum price of just 25 dollars, the size of which is similar to a credit card, and is now a pet of the Geek who likes to do it. In the first year of Raspberry Pi, the sale of this ultra-low-priced computer was up to millions.

In 2006, Eben Upton and his colleagues at the Cambridge University Lab had the idea of inventing a cheap computer so children could learn to program. He worked full-time at the chip manufacturing company, Broadcom, and spent two years finally developing a computer with a credit card size, and founded the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble Marvell, designed the Combinator electronic paper watch when Eric Migicovsky started a start-up project in the famous startup y Pebble.

Pebble is a smart watch compatible with iphones and Android phones, and its biggest feature is its ability to match iphones and Android phones, display phone calls, SMS messages, You can even add additional functionality to your application, such as installing it on a bicycle for use as a computer.

Pebble did not raise enough money on Y Combinator, and Pebble's founding team Kickstarter through a cool video and a number of exquisite designs to show Pebble. Within days, the start-up team received more than 85,000 orders and more than 10 million dollars in support funds, making Pebble one of the most successful financing projects since Kickstarter's inception.

With Pebble, Apple is now chasing the smart-watch market, making wearable devices the latest trend.

MakerBot founder and CEO Bre Pettis: Because Makerbot,bre Pettis pioneered a new manufacturing sector, 3D printing. MakerBot your thoughts into reality and become a real physical object.

The previous 3D printer may have cost tens of thousands of dollars, but MakerBot Replicator 2 is only 2200 dollars, a price many people can afford. In addition, in addition to adhering to open source design, available for hack, MakerBot The biggest difference is the establishment of a mature and effective 3D printing ecological environment. The 3D printer may one day appear in every family.

At the same time, Bre is the founder of the New York hacker organization, Nycresistor, and makes a video/podcast series for Make magazine.

The founder and CEO of Box, Aaron Levie:aaron Levie, is the CEO of a successful company. He is 27 years old, after learning to set up the box company, after 7 years of development, now the company has more than 500 employees, so far has received a 284 million dollar investment, the total billion assets of more than 1.25 billion U.S. dollars.

Box provides an enterprise with cloud storage services that are popular and provide better security support for IT organizations. Levie is trying to create a platform for 17,000 developers to build apps around Box's file-sharing capabilities.

He also performs magic tricks and adjusts himself when he is in a bad mood.

VMware Chief Technology Officer Martin Casado:vmware is a global leader in virtualization and cloud computing infrastructure, offering customer-proven solutions to improve it efficiency by reducing complexity and more flexible and agile delivery of services.

Martin Casado invented a breakthrough technology called OpenFlow that could be used to build the company's SDN network in a new Way (Software definied Networking). SDN enables businesses to save on network hardware (router/switch) spending, and it is easier to design and build.

Martin Casado co-founded a company called Nicira, which was bought by VMware at a price of 1.26 billion dollars last summer. His success has also sparked a wave of investment and acquisitions against other SDN start-ups.

Kickstarter CEO Perry Chen:kickstarter website is dedicated to supporting and motivating innovative, creative and creative activities. Through the network platform to face public fund-raising, so that creative people can get the money they need in order to make their dreams possible.

He was frustrated by the fact that he was forced to cancel a planned concert at the New Orleans Jazz Festival in 2002, and began to build a fund-raising website. After unremitting efforts, seven years later Kickstarter finally on-line.

Today, Kickstarter not only proves that the model is effective, but also that it can raise millions of of billions of dollars. Many technology projects that have changed the world have been successful, such as Pebble and Ouya.

Quirky founder Ben Kaufman:25-Year-old Ben Kaufman is the founder of the creative commodities online marketplace Quirky, quirky is a creative product community and E-commerce site, leveraging the crowdsourcing approach that allows community people to participate in product development throughout the process.

Ben Kaufman is only 25 years old this year, but he has more than 6 years of entrepreneurial experience. Before college, Ben Kaufman his first entrepreneurial project--mophie. In 2006, Ben Kaufman, with his mophie, won the first prize at the Macworld Show and got 1 million dollars in investment, when he was only 19 years old. Last year his company managed to get 68 million dollars in a C-round financing.

Ben Kaufman invented mobile phone accessories mophie and ipod accessories kluster, he said quirky every week to launch at least three consumer products from the crowdsourcing mode.

Tony Fadell, founder and CEO of Nest, looks pretty. Programmable Nest Thermostat, round, front with large area of transparent glass, behind the glass is backlit LCD screen, click on the screen will appear menu, rotating the outer ring can adjust the temperature. This has changed the way people think about smart homes and energy-saving concepts,

Nest's attention cannot be said to have nothing to do with Tony Fadell's reputation, his team has designed Apple's ipod and the first three generations of iphones, but crucially, it is a truly aesthetic and innovative product. Nest's combination of inner beauty and external beauty brings to mind Apple's excellence in its products.

Tony Fadell, who worked for Philips Electronics before joining Apple, has more than 100 patents in his name.

Bryan Cantrill:2005, a 31-year-old Joyent Engineering Vice President, has designed DTrace for the entire IT industry, a technology that can test software problems in real time.

Prior to joining the Joyent team, Cantrill was an outstanding engineer for Sunmicrosystems, and Bryan Cantrill joined the leading global provider of cloud computing solutions Joyent after Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, Responsible for directing the global development with operating system as the center.

At Joyent, he invented Node.js, a JavaScript toolkit for writing high-performance Web servers. JODE.NS is used by many companies, including Microsoft, Uber, LinkedIn, Yahoo, ebay, etc., and is often used to develop online applications.

Pinterest founder Ben Silbermann:pinterest's success proves that Facebook is not a well-rounded social networking site.

Pinterest uses the waterfall flow form to show the content of the picture without the user paging, the new picture is automatically loaded at the bottom of the page, so that users constantly find new pictures.

Ben Silbermann, 29, co-founded Pinterest with his friends in 2011, and has developed several failed iphone apps together.

Pinterest had a tough start, but with Ben Silbermann's full commitment, the site now has more than 40 million users, and he has become one of the most watched internet start-ups.

Clara Shih:clara Shih, founder and CEO of Hearsay Social, first worked as an engineer at Microsoft, after working for Google and Salesforce. She developed the first social business application Faceforce for Facebook in 2007.

Clara Shih has written a business book called the "The Facebook Era" and is now a textbook for marketing at Harvard Business School.

Today, he runs a popular corporate social marketing tool Hearsaysocial,hearsay Social is designed to help branch offices of well-known big brands such as Starbucks and retailer to manage and run their Facebook, Twitter is a series of public homepages on social media. It is popular with companies such as JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Allstate.

Sebastianthrun:sebastian Thrun, Google's vice president and Udacity chief executive, became a reality by focusing on driverless cars and Google Glass as they lost their friends drunk driving.

Thrun has an amazing talent for artificial intelligence and robotics and has spent a lot of time poring over it. At the beginning of 2000, he was the head of the AI department at Stanford University and developed an unmanned car in 2004, causing a sensation.

Thrun and Sergey Brin co-founded Google's X labs and developed projects such as driverless cars and googleglass. Thrun also created his own start-up company Udacity, the main goal is to open the top university courses free of charge to all people around the world.

He still teaches at Stanford University.

The development team led by Alex Kipman:alex Kipman, Microsoft's Kinect development director, spent years studying the Kinect, which could be said to be the coolest product ever made by Microsoft.

The goal of Microsoft's Kinect control system for the Xbox 360 gaming platform is not just to try to change video games, but also to change the way people interact with all other entertainment devices.

Kipman also worked in other important parts of Microsoft.

Razer founder and creative director Min-liang Tan:min-liang Tan established a company in 1999 in partnership with the competition friends, which aims to provide players with top-game mouse or keyboard products, which are built by first-class engineers and designers.

Tan is not satisfied with the success of the game computer and tablet computer and won the honor, he is more pursuit of product quality. He Fiona Project's tablet gaming computer in a crowdsourcing format, attracting more than 10,000 people to design the product's shape, weight/thickness, chip and price.

Stephen Wolfram:stephen Wolfram, founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, developed Mathematica Software, founded Wolframresearch, and worked on the development and distribution of Mathematica. Mathematica is the most powerful software in the world for universal computing.

Wolfram released Wolfram Alpha in May 2009 and is a new search engine. Wolfram has not yet officially appeared, just published online simulation demo, they received a lot of praise from the media, called it "Google Terminator", a synonym for super intelligent search.

23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki:23andme is a biotech company that allows consumers to do genetic testing at home. In this way, people can find out whether they are at risk of having a disease. such as breast cancer, diabetes and Parkinson's. Her husband is Google co-founder Sergey Brin, a genetic gene for Parkinson's syndrome.

The cost of genetic testing is only two hundred or three hundred dollars and is a reminder of the personal quirks that develop into serious illnesses. But the company does not sequence the whole genome of each client, but rather the sites of known features (the DNA fragments that may have been found to be problematic because of a disease).

Uber, StumbleUpon co-founder Garrettcamp: From the Garrett Camp resume, he was the founder and chairman of Uber, a start-up company offering private car rides, whose business in the United States was 26% per month Growth rate of rapid development. The company succeeded in crossing regulatory barriers and evacuating urban traffic.

He also established the StumbleUpon company, StumbleUpon is an addictive social-networking site with about 25 million members. He recently founded a third company, Blackjet, a private jet market Uber, which can be booked into a private jet seat at the price of a business class.

He was also the founder of Angel Investment SERIESG.

TaskRabbit founder Leah Busque:taskrabbit is a crowdsourcing site dedicated to part-time and odd jobs, founded by IBM as a software engineer. She wants to build a web and mobile platform where neighborhoods can do simple things for each other.

Similar to Taobao, ebay and other shopping site principles, people can be posted on the Web site work content, the runner can pick up the task, the completion of the task can also receive the corresponding remuneration. The web site works on a variety of topics, from messengers to assembling IKEA furniture. As an innovative service, TaskRabbit provides jobs for many unemployed people.

The site raised nearly 25 million dollars.

Cue founder Robby Walker:2007, Robby Walker's first company was bought by Google before the launch of the product. Zenter was the Terminator to the online PowerPoint presentation and later became part of the Google app. Walker worked for Google for three years, mainly to improve online slide apps.

Now he is busy cue the start-up project on Y Combinator, and another young founder is Daniel Gross. Cue is a mobile app that can bring your emails, calendars, and social media streams to a manageable day plan.

Walker is a teenager programming genius, nine years old when entering university, 22 years old to obtain a doctorate, 23 years old will Zenter sold to Google. (Text/Chang Zebian/Wei Bing)

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