TIME unveiled its annual list of the world's most important power players and 20 tech darlings were among the chosen 100. From CEOs to scientists, tech's top influencers for 2013 include:
Elon Musk, Founder of SpaceX and Telsa
Marissa Meyer, CEO of Yahoo
Kai-Fu Lee, Founding President of Google China and founder of Innovation Works
Oh-Hyun Kwon, CEO of Samsung
Kevin Systrom, Co-founder of Instagram
Ren Zhengfei, Founder and CEO of Huawei
Ted Sarandos, CTO of Netflix
Markus Persson and Jens Bergensten, Developers of Minecraft
Sam Yagan, Founder of OKCupid and CEO of Match.com
Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook
Jonathan Ive, Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple
Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, Co-founders of Coursera
Perry Chen, Co-founder and CEO of Kickstarter
Roya Mahboob, Founder of Afghan Citadel Software Company
Dan Yeomans, Senior Research Scientist (aka "the asteroid hunter") at NASA
Jared Cohen, Director of Google Ideas
Erica Kochi and Christopher Fabian, Co-founders of UNICEF Innovation Unit NY
[via TIME]