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From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 22:14:38 -0400

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/tc_special/02ebiz25.htm

E-Biz Whizzes with Staying Power

Our latest choices for the most influential personalities in e-business just
might stick around because their companies are profitable or cash-rich

Jeff Bezos: Finally Relaxing?
Chief Executive and Chairman, Amazon.com

Brad Boston: No Paper
Senior Vice-President and Chief Information Officer, Cisco Systems

Patrick Byrne: Off-Price Power
Chief executive, Overstock.com

Glenn Cohen: Efficient Home Sales
Chairman, YHD Foxtons

Pierre Danon: Wireless Warrior
CEO, BT Retail

Barry Diller: Online Travel Wiz
CEO, USA Interactive

David Farber: Tech's Deep Thinker
Professor of Telecommunications, University of Pennsylvania/Wharton School
of Business

Michael George: Super Customer Service
Chief Marketing Officer and Vice-President, U.S. Consumer Marketing &
eBusiness, Dell Computer

Rob Glaser: Real Close
CEO, RealNetworks

Reed Hastings: Movies by Mail
CEO, Netflix

Kaz Hirai: Getting Games Online
President and Chief Operating Officer, Sony Computer Entertainment America

Ernest F. Hollings: Cyber-Legislator
U.S. Senator

Thomas Holtrop: Net Business Builder
CEO, T-Online International

Subrah Iyar and Min Zhu:
Meetings on the Web
CEO, and president and chief technical officer, respectively, WebEx

Kim Taek Jin: Lineage's Father
Founder, NCsoft Corp.

Max Levchin: Online Fraud-Buster
Chief Technical Officer, PayPal

Don Logan: Black-Hole Filler
Chairman, Media & Communications Group, AOL Time Warner

Dev Mukherjee: IT Service, a la Carte
Head of strategy for IBM's "E-business on Demand" initiative

Suresh Ramasubramanian: Anti-Spam Man
Chief junk-mail zapper for Hong-Kong based Outblaze

Brian Roberts: High-Speed Pipes
President, Comcast Corp.

Eric Rudder: .Net's General
The exec behind Microsoft's .Net initiative

Eric Schmidt: Super Searcher
CEO, Google

Terry Semel: Rebuilding a Portal
Chairman and CEO, Yahoo!

Dave Vucina: Wi-Fi Everywhere
CEO, Wayport

Meg Whitman: Making PayPal Pay
CEO, eBay

Barry Diller's E-Way
The head of USA Interactive says the key is doing what the Web does best:
Streamlining communication between buyers and sellers

Meg Whitman's Bid for Growth
The CEO of cyber-auctioneer eBay talks about how she plans to keep it on
track to hit some tough targets




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