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Dara Khosrowshahi
The refugee turned dealmaker who rebuilt Expedia into a travel giant and then was handed the hardest job in tech, cleaning up and steadying Uber.
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Founders, chief executives and investors shaping tech. 17 of 70 profiles published so far.
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Nikesh Arora
From an engineering graduate in Ghaziabad to one of the highest paid chief executives in America, the rise of the leader of Palo Alto Networks.
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Tom Golisano
The son of Italian immigrants who founded Paychex with a few thousand dollars, built a payroll giant, owned an NHL team and gave away billions.
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Alon Cohen
The engineer who turned a frustrating home renovation with his wife into Houzz, the platform that connected millions of homeowners with designers and contractors.
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Mike Lazaridis
The inventor who built the BlackBerry and put email in the palm of the world's hand, then poured much of his fortune into Canadian physics and the race for quantum computing.
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Amit Yoran
The West Point trained cybersecurity leader who helped launch America's national cyber defense, founded pioneering security firms and led Tenable, until his death in early 2025.
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Dylan Field
How a college dropout and his co-founder turned a browser based design tool into one of the most influential software companies of the decade.
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Sriram Krishnan
The Chennai born engineer who helped build products at Microsoft, Twitter and Meta, became a prominent venture investor at a16z, and then took an artificial intelligence policy role in the White House.
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Jayshree Ullal
The networking veteran who left a top job at Cisco to lead Arista Networks, took it public, and built a cloud networking powerhouse that made her a self-made billionaire.
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Mark Leonard
The intensely private founder of Constellation Software who quietly built one of the world's best performing technology companies by acquiring hundreds of niche software businesses.
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Shantanu Narayen
The Hyderabad born engineer who has run Adobe since 2007, transforming it from a boxed software maker into a cloud powerhouse and one of tech's most admired chief executives.
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George Kurtz
The cybersecurity entrepreneur and racing driver who co-founded CrowdStrike, built it into a security giant, and became a billionaire even as he co-owns a Formula One team.
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Javier Olivan
The Spanish engineer who quietly drove Facebook's growth to billions of users and rose to become the chief operating officer of Meta, one of tech's most powerful operators.
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Mike Cannon-Brookes
The Australian software entrepreneur who co-founded Atlassian on a credit card, built a global developer tools giant, and became a billionaire crusader for clean energy.
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Sridhar Ramaswamy
The engineer who built Google's vast advertising business, left to launch a privacy-focused search startup, and then became chief executive of the data giant Snowflake.
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Pieter Levels
The Dutch indie hacker who builds profitable internet startups entirely by himself, from Nomad List to Photo AI, becoming the most famous solo founder of the building-in-public era.
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Sanjeev Bikhchandani
The IIM graduate who built Naukri from a servant's quarter and made some of the most profitable bets in Indian internet history.