these were the inventive Giants
responsible for spawning and advancing
the Information Age when you’re in the
zone of doing things that no one’s ever
done before if you’re only succeeding
you’re not taking enough risk welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 most
influential business moguls in
technology for this list we’ve chosen
individuals whose companies have not
only contributed significant
technological breakthroughs but also
those tech titans who have garnered much
attention power respect and wealth for
engineering new innovations that have
led to massive cultural impacts anything
you want on on earth you’re gonna get
from us
number 10 Michael Dell founder chairman
and CEO of Dell Inc it all started as a
small hardware upgrading business in his
college dorm room but Dells love for and
expertise in the field eventually moved
him to broaden its horizons the result
one of the largest multibillion-dollar
computer companies in the world
what is this industry really all about
well it’s kind of about every industry
in the world after successfully removing
his company from public trading in the
midst of the great recession
Dell has helped his company continue to
flourish as one of the more profitable
and recognizable brands in the market
looking towards the future with new
ventures and cloud computing throughout
our 28-year history when we have had
failures those have ultimately resulted
in some of the greatest successes we’ve
ever had
number nine Reed Hastings co-founder and
CEO of Netflix Inc hi I’m Reed Hastings
CEO and co-founder of Netflix without
this guy we’d still be draining our gas
tanks on our weekly rushes to the video
rental store from this DVD service where
you can get these movies mails DVD this
burden became a thing of the past
when Hastings co-founded Netflix
pioneering the dvd-by-mail rental format
the company quickly dominated
competition through its emphasis on
quick deliveries and no late fees
it’s a relative short period of time
does it feel strange to you oh very much
so
it has since expanded to blu-ray rentals
original programming and online
streaming which more than tripled its
amount of subscribers between 2009 and
2012 Elisabeth Steven I can’t believe I
caught you you came back I knew you’d
come back I have to ask you something
anything
what is the Netflix password this man
single-handedly changed the way people
consume content and probably pioneered
the binge watching phenomenon you know
we’ve got to have some failures and so
we don’t really want to have all hits
and literally got the first ones or hits
but you know the sign that you’re right
at the the edge of chaos the edge of
creativity is that some stuff doesn’t
work number eight
Andy Grove former CEO chairman and CEO
of Intel Corporation well I don’t see
people and technology as two different
things technology is created by people
and particularly created by people who
are well versed in the technological
foundations of a new technology
computers as a common household item
would still be a fantasy were it not for
the leadership and inventive efforts of
our number eight pick although not one
of the company’s official founders Grove
was present and active from day one of
Intel’s incorporation in 1968 playing a
crucial role in the company’s
development of the earliest
semiconductors working up the ranks he
was eventually given the titles of
president chairman and CEO and in 1997
was named Time magazine’s Man of the
Year for his contributions to the
development of the microchip people
created technology technology gives
opportunity to other people to create
applications for that technology and it
keeps going like that but people are the
creators number seven Mark Zuckerberg
co-founder chairman and CEO of Facebook
Inc as the company has grown he’s tried
to hang on to the energy and flexibility
of a startup
move fast and break things is its
unofficial motto and Zuckerberg is still
closely involved in the details you
don’t get to be one of the world’s
youngest self-made billionaires without
having over a billion users supporting
your venture
Zuckerberg himself sits at an ordinary
desk just like everyone else
founded in 2004 Zuckerberg social
networks swiftly evolved into one of the
web’s most popular sites overwhelming
adept rivals such as Friendster and
myspace despite setbacks in the form of
lawsuits and an iffy IPO Zuckerberg
direction and determination has kept his
company on high speed reaching a peak in
its market value after going public in
2012 here’s one guy who knows how to
turn users into cash as a person you’d
get really bored if you had to do the
same thing lots of times in a row number
6 Elon Musk CEO and CTO of SpaceX CEO
and chief product architect of Tesla
Motors if you want quality you need
people to feel at ease you need people
to feel like this is a quality place
here I need to make a quality product
after graduating with degrees in both
economics and physics the South Africa
born musk opted to utilize his
entrepreneurial and scientific
background to reach for the stars
literally his boldness paid off when his
space travel company SpaceX made history
as the first commercial company to
launch and dock a vehicle with the
International Space Station in addition
he used his earnings to invest in tech
companies like PayPal well when we
created Tesla we wanted to show that you
could make a really compelling electric
car that that you could make an electric
car that was really better than a petrol
car with his other company Tesla Motors
increasing in popularity musk is an
accelerating force worthy of noticed on
the information superhighway by
definition we must move to renewable
energy I think people sometimes you know
how how can one argue against that
because to argue for it is to say that
we will eventually run out of energy and
die number five Larry Page and Sergey
Brin cofounders of Google Inc we had no
idea what we wanted to do you know
we were interested in doing research and
I had lots of crazy things I wanted to
do and my advisor actually Terry
Winograd said why don’t you you have
this idea about the links on the web
that sounds like a good thing to work on
what originally began as a research
project by two PhD students grew to be
the most utilized reliable and simple in
design search engine we all know and
love we experimented with a variety of
things you know we had some shared
interests and Larry had this crazy idea
that he was going to download all the
links on the web and then do something
with them it wasn’t entirely clear what
after inventing the PageRank algorithm
to change the way search results were
ranked the pair also helped build a
company culture at Google that is
consistently categorized among the best
with page at the helm as CEO Google has
achieved legendary status in the
technological world with its expansions
to other industries like mobile cellular
devices and the buyout of other popular
sites like blogger and of course YouTube
our partnership is really important to
Google we’ve been a company that’s had a
lot of partners and a lot of business
relationships I think that’s been really
important to Google’s success and I hope
it’s important to all of you as well
into your success number four
Larry Ellison co-founder and CEO of
Oracle Corporation he’s just bought the
island of Lanai which is the sixth
largest island in Hawaii for reportedly
500 million to 600 million dollars while
his company is something of an obscure
name to the masses ellison’s Oracle
Corporation has stood as a majestic
force in the fields of computer
technology and software development
since it’s 1977 founding maintaining an
emphasis and reputation for business
innovation the company’s Resource
Planning and customer management
products are heavily relied on by
countless thousands of tech based
industrial and even small businesses
around the globe whether your
application load is data warehousing or
your application load is online
transaction processing in either case
this machine will run it
faster and much more reliably Oracle
comes in just behind Microsoft as the
second most profitable software
developer and that’s partly because
Ellison is as driven as he is outspoken
Marc Andreessen for instance famously
said that none of the startups that work
with entries in Horowitz run Oracle and
I guess I’m wondering over time I know I
know it doesn’t have to rely on General
Electric and 80 and fertilise I’m saying
if the reservation which is in Reno
which of the end recent horowitz
companies did we loss number three Jeff
Bezos founder chairman and CEO of
amazon.com go back in time eighteen
years I was driving the packages to the
post office myself amazon’s founder and
chief executive officer is considered a
crucial individual responsible for the
explosion of e-commerce and with good
reason
when Bezos initially founded Amazon in
1994 it was a small online bookstore
with fluctuating profit margins when I
was driving the packages myself one of
my visualizations of success is that we
might one day be big enough that we
could afford a forklift
but Bezos knew diversification was key
and so today it’s the world’s largest
online retailer that sells just about
everything the company has further
expanded to the manufacturing and
selling of its own consumer electronics
most notably the Kindle Fire tablet and
the fire phone and set the standard for
selling stuff on the Internet
number two Bill Gates co-founder former
chairman and CEO of Microsoft
Corporation this is pretty disrespectful
I’m gonna just close this
we all know the company and its
innovative founder the daring prospect
that is Microsoft would not have come to
fruition were it not for the
relentlessness and creativity of our
number two pick Bill Gates and Paul
Allen founded Microsoft in 1975
partnered with IBM in 1980 and changed
the way people use computers every step
of the way
they weren’t kits or anything they came
out prepackaged and they looked like
they would really ignite the volume of
the market and all three of them went
out and did very well
while Gates has since stepped down as
CEO he remains on board as Microsoft’s
leading tech advisor but when you’re one
of the richest men in the world there’s
no real need for a high executive
position is there well I think the the
thing that’ll really change computing is
that the computers ability to see to
listen to talk to recognize your
handwriting it’ll make it a lot more
pervasive before we unveil our top
technological tycoon here are a few
honorable mentions Moz personal fortune
is valued around thirteen billion
dollars still money doesn’t seem to be
his motivation but building an empire is
I would not go away from that I’m still
fun you know I was what was amazing to
me about the punk scene and why I got
into it it’s because there was this
confidence I’m not going to go off and
be shy the notion is the modern career
is actually in fact changing where
there’s options for shifting companies
for how do you evolve even career tracks
are changing guy like us who come from
outside and use Internet at the hotel or
my home in Silicon Valley I said oh my
god
okay how can how can how can American
live like this
number one Steve Jobs co-founder former
chairman and CEO of Apple Inc we first
started out we didn’t know how to spell
the word software after forming Apple
with Steve Wozniak in 1976 Jobs is
credited with spurring the personal
computer revolution decided we’d sell
printed circuit boards twice what it
cost him to
and hopefully recoup our calculator and
transportation assembly today
he later paved the way for a revolution
in consumer electronics as well through
such breakthrough inventions as well
just about everything that starts with a
lowercase I also co-founder of Pixar
Animation Studios Jobs and his companies
continue to inspire the wild minds of
artists who are willing to think
different here’s to the one who was
crazy enough to think he could change
the world and actually did and while he
passed away in 2011 his legacy remains
as strong as ever
how many calculators you are true maybe
right and you have to use the automatic
bank telling machines sure so life is
already seducing you into learning this
stuff do you agree with our list which
tech mogul do you find to be the most
influential for more innovative top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com technology has taken us
places we only dream no I can do
whatever I want it gives hope to that
help us
responsible for spawning and advancing
the Information Age when you’re in the
zone of doing things that no one’s ever
done before if you’re only succeeding
you’re not taking enough risk welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 most
influential business moguls in
technology for this list we’ve chosen
individuals whose companies have not
only contributed significant
technological breakthroughs but also
those tech titans who have garnered much
attention power respect and wealth for
engineering new innovations that have
led to massive cultural impacts anything
you want on on earth you’re gonna get
from us
number 10 Michael Dell founder chairman
and CEO of Dell Inc it all started as a
small hardware upgrading business in his
college dorm room but Dells love for and
expertise in the field eventually moved
him to broaden its horizons the result
one of the largest multibillion-dollar
computer companies in the world
what is this industry really all about
well it’s kind of about every industry
in the world after successfully removing
his company from public trading in the
midst of the great recession
Dell has helped his company continue to
flourish as one of the more profitable
and recognizable brands in the market
looking towards the future with new
ventures and cloud computing throughout
our 28-year history when we have had
failures those have ultimately resulted
in some of the greatest successes we’ve
ever had
number nine Reed Hastings co-founder and
CEO of Netflix Inc hi I’m Reed Hastings
CEO and co-founder of Netflix without
this guy we’d still be draining our gas
tanks on our weekly rushes to the video
rental store from this DVD service where
you can get these movies mails DVD this
burden became a thing of the past
when Hastings co-founded Netflix
pioneering the dvd-by-mail rental format
the company quickly dominated
competition through its emphasis on
quick deliveries and no late fees
it’s a relative short period of time
does it feel strange to you oh very much
so
it has since expanded to blu-ray rentals
original programming and online
streaming which more than tripled its
amount of subscribers between 2009 and
2012 Elisabeth Steven I can’t believe I
caught you you came back I knew you’d
come back I have to ask you something
anything
what is the Netflix password this man
single-handedly changed the way people
consume content and probably pioneered
the binge watching phenomenon you know
we’ve got to have some failures and so
we don’t really want to have all hits
and literally got the first ones or hits
but you know the sign that you’re right
at the the edge of chaos the edge of
creativity is that some stuff doesn’t
work number eight
Andy Grove former CEO chairman and CEO
of Intel Corporation well I don’t see
people and technology as two different
things technology is created by people
and particularly created by people who
are well versed in the technological
foundations of a new technology
computers as a common household item
would still be a fantasy were it not for
the leadership and inventive efforts of
our number eight pick although not one
of the company’s official founders Grove
was present and active from day one of
Intel’s incorporation in 1968 playing a
crucial role in the company’s
development of the earliest
semiconductors working up the ranks he
was eventually given the titles of
president chairman and CEO and in 1997
was named Time magazine’s Man of the
Year for his contributions to the
development of the microchip people
created technology technology gives
opportunity to other people to create
applications for that technology and it
keeps going like that but people are the
creators number seven Mark Zuckerberg
co-founder chairman and CEO of Facebook
Inc as the company has grown he’s tried
to hang on to the energy and flexibility
of a startup
move fast and break things is its
unofficial motto and Zuckerberg is still
closely involved in the details you
don’t get to be one of the world’s
youngest self-made billionaires without
having over a billion users supporting
your venture
Zuckerberg himself sits at an ordinary
desk just like everyone else
founded in 2004 Zuckerberg social
networks swiftly evolved into one of the
web’s most popular sites overwhelming
adept rivals such as Friendster and
myspace despite setbacks in the form of
lawsuits and an iffy IPO Zuckerberg
direction and determination has kept his
company on high speed reaching a peak in
its market value after going public in
2012 here’s one guy who knows how to
turn users into cash as a person you’d
get really bored if you had to do the
same thing lots of times in a row number
6 Elon Musk CEO and CTO of SpaceX CEO
and chief product architect of Tesla
Motors if you want quality you need
people to feel at ease you need people
to feel like this is a quality place
here I need to make a quality product
after graduating with degrees in both
economics and physics the South Africa
born musk opted to utilize his
entrepreneurial and scientific
background to reach for the stars
literally his boldness paid off when his
space travel company SpaceX made history
as the first commercial company to
launch and dock a vehicle with the
International Space Station in addition
he used his earnings to invest in tech
companies like PayPal well when we
created Tesla we wanted to show that you
could make a really compelling electric
car that that you could make an electric
car that was really better than a petrol
car with his other company Tesla Motors
increasing in popularity musk is an
accelerating force worthy of noticed on
the information superhighway by
definition we must move to renewable
energy I think people sometimes you know
how how can one argue against that
because to argue for it is to say that
we will eventually run out of energy and
die number five Larry Page and Sergey
Brin cofounders of Google Inc we had no
idea what we wanted to do you know
we were interested in doing research and
I had lots of crazy things I wanted to
do and my advisor actually Terry
Winograd said why don’t you you have
this idea about the links on the web
that sounds like a good thing to work on
what originally began as a research
project by two PhD students grew to be
the most utilized reliable and simple in
design search engine we all know and
love we experimented with a variety of
things you know we had some shared
interests and Larry had this crazy idea
that he was going to download all the
links on the web and then do something
with them it wasn’t entirely clear what
after inventing the PageRank algorithm
to change the way search results were
ranked the pair also helped build a
company culture at Google that is
consistently categorized among the best
with page at the helm as CEO Google has
achieved legendary status in the
technological world with its expansions
to other industries like mobile cellular
devices and the buyout of other popular
sites like blogger and of course YouTube
our partnership is really important to
Google we’ve been a company that’s had a
lot of partners and a lot of business
relationships I think that’s been really
important to Google’s success and I hope
it’s important to all of you as well
into your success number four
Larry Ellison co-founder and CEO of
Oracle Corporation he’s just bought the
island of Lanai which is the sixth
largest island in Hawaii for reportedly
500 million to 600 million dollars while
his company is something of an obscure
name to the masses ellison’s Oracle
Corporation has stood as a majestic
force in the fields of computer
technology and software development
since it’s 1977 founding maintaining an
emphasis and reputation for business
innovation the company’s Resource
Planning and customer management
products are heavily relied on by
countless thousands of tech based
industrial and even small businesses
around the globe whether your
application load is data warehousing or
your application load is online
transaction processing in either case
this machine will run it
faster and much more reliably Oracle
comes in just behind Microsoft as the
second most profitable software
developer and that’s partly because
Ellison is as driven as he is outspoken
Marc Andreessen for instance famously
said that none of the startups that work
with entries in Horowitz run Oracle and
I guess I’m wondering over time I know I
know it doesn’t have to rely on General
Electric and 80 and fertilise I’m saying
if the reservation which is in Reno
which of the end recent horowitz
companies did we loss number three Jeff
Bezos founder chairman and CEO of
amazon.com go back in time eighteen
years I was driving the packages to the
post office myself amazon’s founder and
chief executive officer is considered a
crucial individual responsible for the
explosion of e-commerce and with good
reason
when Bezos initially founded Amazon in
1994 it was a small online bookstore
with fluctuating profit margins when I
was driving the packages myself one of
my visualizations of success is that we
might one day be big enough that we
could afford a forklift
but Bezos knew diversification was key
and so today it’s the world’s largest
online retailer that sells just about
everything the company has further
expanded to the manufacturing and
selling of its own consumer electronics
most notably the Kindle Fire tablet and
the fire phone and set the standard for
selling stuff on the Internet
number two Bill Gates co-founder former
chairman and CEO of Microsoft
Corporation this is pretty disrespectful
I’m gonna just close this
we all know the company and its
innovative founder the daring prospect
that is Microsoft would not have come to
fruition were it not for the
relentlessness and creativity of our
number two pick Bill Gates and Paul
Allen founded Microsoft in 1975
partnered with IBM in 1980 and changed
the way people use computers every step
of the way
they weren’t kits or anything they came
out prepackaged and they looked like
they would really ignite the volume of
the market and all three of them went
out and did very well
while Gates has since stepped down as
CEO he remains on board as Microsoft’s
leading tech advisor but when you’re one
of the richest men in the world there’s
no real need for a high executive
position is there well I think the the
thing that’ll really change computing is
that the computers ability to see to
listen to talk to recognize your
handwriting it’ll make it a lot more
pervasive before we unveil our top
technological tycoon here are a few
honorable mentions Moz personal fortune
is valued around thirteen billion
dollars still money doesn’t seem to be
his motivation but building an empire is
I would not go away from that I’m still
fun you know I was what was amazing to
me about the punk scene and why I got
into it it’s because there was this
confidence I’m not going to go off and
be shy the notion is the modern career
is actually in fact changing where
there’s options for shifting companies
for how do you evolve even career tracks
are changing guy like us who come from
outside and use Internet at the hotel or
my home in Silicon Valley I said oh my
god
okay how can how can how can American
live like this
number one Steve Jobs co-founder former
chairman and CEO of Apple Inc we first
started out we didn’t know how to spell
the word software after forming Apple
with Steve Wozniak in 1976 Jobs is
credited with spurring the personal
computer revolution decided we’d sell
printed circuit boards twice what it
cost him to
and hopefully recoup our calculator and
transportation assembly today
he later paved the way for a revolution
in consumer electronics as well through
such breakthrough inventions as well
just about everything that starts with a
lowercase I also co-founder of Pixar
Animation Studios Jobs and his companies
continue to inspire the wild minds of
artists who are willing to think
different here’s to the one who was
crazy enough to think he could change
the world and actually did and while he
passed away in 2011 his legacy remains
as strong as ever
how many calculators you are true maybe
right and you have to use the automatic
bank telling machines sure so life is
already seducing you into learning this
stuff do you agree with our list which
tech mogul do you find to be the most
influential for more innovative top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com technology has taken us
places we only dream no I can do
whatever I want it gives hope to that
help us
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