The Business Week e.biz 25: Masters of the Web Universe.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SEPT. 17, 1999-- The Most Influential People in Electronic Business The inaugural Business Week e.biz 25 celebrates Internet innovators who are doing the most to spark a transformation of society that is as profound as the Industrial Revolution. From such bona fide [Latin, In good faith.] Honest; genuine; actual; authentic; acting without the intention of defrauding. A bona fide purchaser is one who purchases property for a valuable consideration that is inducement for entering into a contract and without suspicion of being captains of industry as Yahoo!'s Timothy Koogle to relatively unknowns such as Glen Meakem, founder of FreeMarkets Inc., they represent a wholesale redistribution of tech leadership. Business Week's e.biz 25 are profiled in the cover story of the magazine's Sept. 27 issue, to be published Friday. As a sign of how much things have changed, the daredevil of the PC generation is not on Business Week's list: William H. Gates III. It wasn't so long ago that the honcho Honcho A slang term describing the leader or person in charge of an organization. Notes: The CEO of a company could be referred to as the honcho or "head honcho." See also: CEO, CFO, COO, Insider, Leprechaun Leader of Microsoft Corp. seemed to have the computer industry in a brainlock. But now, we're seeing the wholesale redistribution of leadership in the technology industry. Like the Web itself, the Internet industry has no center of gravity. Now, someone at Noname.com is just as likely to create the next great business as is someone at Microsoft. "This is the PC business times 1,000," Business Week says. "That's because these 25 larger-than-life characters, and thousands more who are aspiring to be just like them, are determined to overthrow the old world order." The 1999 Business Week e.biz 25 are: Empire Builders Jeffrey P. Bezos , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : AMZN AMZN Amazon.com (NASDAQ symbol) ) Stephen M. Case, Chairman and CEO, America Online Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. ) Timothy A. Koogle, Chairman and CEO, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO YHOO Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ symbol) ) Innovators Louis H. Borders, Founder and CEO, Webvan Group Inc. Jay S. Walker, Founder and vice-chairman, Priceline.com (NASDAQ: PCLN PCLN Priceline.com (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ) Margaret C. Whitman, President and CEO, eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) Glen Meakem, Co-founder and CEO, FreeMarkets Inc. James H. Clark James H. Clark - Dr. James H. Clark , Founder and CEO, Mycfo Inc. Christos M. Cotsakos, Chairman, CEO, E
rade Group Inc. (nasdaq: egrp)
Bankrollers
Masayoshi Son, Founder and CEO, SOFTBANK CORP., Japan
Robert C. Kagle, General Partner, BENCHMARK CAPITAL
Lawton W. Fitt, Managing director, GOLDMAN SACHS & CO.
L. John Doerr, General Partner, KLEINER PERKINS CAUFIELD & BYERS
Bernard Arnault, Chairman, LMVH MOET HENNESSY LOUIS VUITTON, France
Visionaries
Mary G. Meeker, Managing Director, MORGAN STANLEY DEAN WITTER
(NYSE: MWD)
John Hagel III, Principal, McKINSEY & CO.
William Joy, Co-founder and chief scientist, SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC.
(NASDAQ: SUNW)
Architects
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., Chairman and CEO, IBM CORP. (NYSE: IBM)
Pehong Chen, Chairman and CEO, BROADVISION INC. (NASDAQ: BVSN)
David Peterschmidt, President and CEO, INKTOMI INC. (NASDAQ: INKT)
Kevin J. O'Connor, Co-founder and CEO, DOUBLECLICK (NASDAQ: DCLK)
Ellen M Hancock, CEO, EXODUS COMMUNICATIONS (NASDAQ: EXDS)
Pacesetters
David S. Pottruck, President and co-CEO, CHARLES SCHWAB CORP.
(NYSE: SCH)
John T. Chambers, CEO, CISCO SYSTEMS INC. (NASDAQ: CSCO)
Michael S. Dell, Founder and CEO, DELL COMPUTER CORP. (NASDAQ: DELL)
Note: The Business Week e.biz 25 will be posted in Business Week
Online on Thursday evening, Sept. 16 (http://ebiz.businessweek.com)
and on America Online (Keyword: BW).
(Launched in March, 1999, as a quarterly print feature with daily
online updates, Business Week e.biz covers trends, developments and
critical issues in the emerging world of electronic business. In 2000,
Business Week e.biz will more than double the frequency of its print
edition, appearing at least nine times in the coming year.)
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