THE
VALLEY
Visionaries and venture capitalists transforming the
tech industry. (See also: “The Moguls,” page 83.)GSK for a four-year exclusive
partnership to share data
and identify new drug targets.8
JACK DORSEY
Cofounder and CEO of
Twitter and Square; digital
monk AGE: 42
Dorsey, a Vipassana practitioner,
wants to “consciously
observe that all pain and pleasure
aren’t permanent, and will
ultimately pass and dissolve
away.” If only.9
TRISTAN HARRIS &
ROGER MCNAMEE
Ethicists, Center for Humane
Technology AGES: 35, 63
Fighting the tide of technology.
Harris says Big Tech is
“downgrading” humanity.
McNamee, an early Zuckerberg
adviser, fears the problem
is “bigger than Facebook.”10
JOHN FOLEY
Peloton CEO, boutique fitness
addict AGE: 48
Foley is betting he can convince
Wall Street that cultlike
tness company Peloton isn’t just
stationary bikes—it’s a tech
platform. The potential payo?
An IPO that could value
the brand at more than $8 billion.1
SUSAN WOJCICKI
CEO of YouTube, the world’s
largest video platform AGE: 51
With global scale (and 2 billion
monthly users) comes world-
historical problems. “Everybody
is angry at you all the time,”
Wojcicki has said of her battle to
rid YouTube of extreme content.
In August, she rearmed that
YouTube will remain an “open
platform”—even if she oends
some people along the way.2
SATYA NADELLA
CEO of Microsoft, the world’s
most valuable public company
AGE: 52 EMPLOYEES: 130,000
Microsoft had missed the boat on
mobile and was a drifting
also-ran when Nadella took over.Now it’s a world leader in cloud
computing, and, at nearly
$1.1 trillion, bigger than Apple.
Who would have guessed?3
ANDY JASSY
CEO of AWS AGE: 51
The most powerful Amazon
executive not named Je runs the
company’s web services division,
the hyper-protable core of
Bezos’s e-commerce empire. It
might also be one of the most
valuable businesses in the
world—if Bezos ever spun it o.4
MARY MEEKER
Venture capitalist
AGE: 60 WEAPON OF CHOICE:
LinkedIn SlideShare
Digital Nostradamus and key
adviser behind investments
in Airbnb, Uber, and Slack. After
building a global following
with her Internet Trends report,
Meeker secured $1.25 billion
for her debut fund, Bond Capital.5
ZHANG YIMING
CEO of TikTok, the
new anti-Facebook AGE: 36
NET WORTH: $16.2 billion
TikTok, the crown jewel
of Zhang’s $75 billion ByteDance
empire, may be the rst genuine
new social media phenomenon,
on a global scale, since Snapchat.6
DARA KHOSROWSHAHI
Uber CEO and turnaround
artist AGE: 50
The canary in the self-driving
coal mine. Khosrowshahi missed
Susan
Wojcicki
Zhang
Yimingout on a $100 million post-IPO
bonus, but he’s sanguine in the
face of multibillion-dollar losses.
His new mantra? “Scale, scale.”7
ANNE WOJCICKI
CEO of 23andMe; Susan
Wojcicki’s sister AGE: 46
Has collected more than
6,500 gallons of human saliva.
Inked a $300 million deal withTop Venture
CapitalistsNEIL SHEN
Sequoia Capital China
LEE FIXEL
Tiger Global Management
JEFF JORDAN
Andreessen Horowitz
MARY MEEKER
Bond
ALFRED LIN
Sequoia Capital
BRIAN SINGERMAN
Founders Fund
RAVI MHATRE
Lightspeed Venture PartnersSNOOP DOGG
Casa Verde CapitalFacebook
Revolving DoorKEVIN SYSTROM and
MIKE KRIEGER,
Instagram cofounders
JAN KOUM and
BRIAN ACTON, who
cofounded WhatsAppJENNIFER NEWSTEAD,
who helped draft the
Patriot Act
JOHN PINETTE, flack
for billionaires Paul Allen
and Bill AckmanMost Feared Regulators- Margrethe Vestager
2.
Elizabeth Warren- Ro Khanna
- Josh Hawley
- Zoe Lofgren and Anna Eshoo
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500 10,000 24
hours of video uploaded
to YouTube every minutehours it took YouTube to
block all video uploads of the
New Zealand shootinghuman moderators
the company says
it employsBird’s Soaring
Valuation
March 2018–July 2019$2.5B
$400MIN
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