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Top Innovators and Disruptors
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Tags: innovators, business, money, finance
Call them innovators, entrepreneurs, or good old-fashioned trouble-makers. These 24 disrupters have gone up against the odds as they've rattled old industries and tried to create new ones.
| | Mark Gorton, Lime Group Gorton made his name with popular, and controversial, file-sharing service, Limewire. He also runs three other businesses and a nonprofit foundation. | | | Alan Jay Glueckman and Gail Kantor, eJamming Glueckman and Kantor created eJamming, a subscription service that allows musicians to play together on the Internet, as a virtual studio. | | | Hjalmar Winbladh, Rebtel The Stockholm startup, offers international calls for the cost of a local connection by assigning local phone numbers to the dialer and the dialed, without requiring customers to buy special software. | | | Craig Venter, J. Craig Venter Institute Venter's studying microorganisms that have unique ways of producing and managing energy in hopes of finding a way to eliminate our dependence on fossil fuel. | | | Sunil Shaunak, Professor of infectious diseases, London University's Imperial College; PolyTherics Sunil Shaunak is out to prove that academics can develop less expensivemedicines by concocting a compound that resembles a patented drug, keeping it different enough to avoid legal problems and then fund it with philanthropic grants. | | | Diane Greene, VMware Thanks in part to the virtualization at the core of Greene's company VMware, Windows can now run on a Mac, Mac operating systems on a PC and your desktop can be hosted on a server somewhere | | | Nick Grouf, Spot Runner Grouf found Spot Runner, which is a web-driven do-it-yourself ad-production company that allows even the most modest of businesses to whip up professional TV ads, buy airtime, and schedule them to run across the nation | | | Caleb Chung, Pleo Chung and his robotics team at Ugobe are unleashing Pleo, which 35 sensors and six processors that let it see, hear, feel, and respond to touch. It's the most hyped toy since the Furby (also Chung's), and at $300. | | | Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons, Yelp Yelpers log on to the site to write reviews of their favorite - and least favorite - haunts, such as restaurants, bars, and dry cleaners. | | | Glenn Kelman, Redfin Glenn Kelman is looking to topple the traditional structure of the real estate industry. If you're willing to do the legwork (e.g., taxi yourself to open houses), Redfin will handle the essentials of the offer and the close, while also getting a cut of the brokerage commission. | | | Dan Olschwang, JumpTap The two-year-old company, founded by Olschwang and based in Cambridge, Mass., has developed a search engine and search-advertising platform complete with keyword auctions specifically designed for cellphones. | | | David Della Terza, votefortheworst.com Launched in 2004, the votefortheworst.com gets people to vote for a contestant based not on singing ability but on sheer ironic entertainment value. | | | Jack Memishian, Analog Devices Analog fellow Jack Memishian developed the breakthrough chip for unimagined handheld devices, which is now a major component of Nintendo's Wii remote. | | | Martin Eberhard, Tesla Motors Eberhard built the breakthrough Tesla roadster, a $92,000 two-seater that can go from zero to 60 in four seconds, powered entirely by lithium-ion batteries - and it looks sexy. | | | Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures Vinod Khosla, a lion of IT venture capital investing in his years at industry heavyweight Kleiner Perkins, has turned his attention to energy - specifically, to coming up with alternative fuels to replace environmentally unfriendly petroleum-based products. |
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