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9. CHET KANOJIA
Founder and CEO, Aereo
Chet Kanojia’s company, Aereo, lets users stream live network TV (NBC,
ABC, Fox, PBS, etc.) to your computer, smartphone or tablet using an
anttena for only $8 a month, much less than the cost of paying for cable.
The company has raised about $97 million, but broadcasters hate it and
are fighting Aereo at the Supreme Court level later this year.
Previously, Chet was the founder and CEO of Navic Networks which gave
TV networks real-time audience measurement tools to place ads.
10. RESHMA SAUJANI
Founder and Executive Director, Girls Who Code
Reshma Saujani founded the high school program Girls Who Code.
Saujani launched Girls Who Code last summer as an eight-week intensive
program where high school women learn the basics of Ruby, HTML, Java,
and more.
She’s working to close the gender gap in engineering and increase the
number of women involved with software engineering. Girls Who Code’s
partners include Goldman Sachs Group, Twitter, Intel, and eBay.
11. SHANTANU NARAYEN
President and CEO, Adobe
Before being named CEO of Adobe in 2007, Shantanu Narayen acted
as the company’s executive vice president of worldwide products. He
recently lead to Adobe’s push to bring its creative suite to the cloud.
He first got his start at Adobe when he met an executive at a trade show
back in the 90s. At the time, he was running the photo-sharing startup
he founded, called Pictra. Adobe was about to launch its first image
editing product and Narayen wanted Pictra’s technology integrated.
The executive said that he would have to deliver a solution by the next
week, assuming that the conversation was over for good. But, amazingly,
Narayen ended up pulling it off, according to Barrons. In 2011, President
Barack Obama has appointed Narayen as a member of his Management
Advisory Board.
12. AMIT SINGHAL
Senior Vice President, Google
Amit Singhal, a software engineer, was honoured with the title “Go