HuffPost Game Changers: Who Is The Ultimate Game Changer In Business?

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HuffPost's Game Changers celebrates 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders in 10 categories who are harnessing the power of new media to reshape their fields and change the world. So far we've announced our picks in Entertainment, Green, Politics, and Style, and asked you to vote for the Ultimate Game Changer in each category. Over a million votes have already been cast. With your help, we've picked 10 people who are changing the game in Business. We honor and salute them.

Now it's up to you to pick the Ultimate Business Game Changer. Click through the slideshow below, get the lowdown on why we chose them, then VOTE. We'll reveal the Ultimate 10 in November.

JEFF BEZOS

Current Status: Modern day Gutenberg



Changing The Game By: Having the chutzpah, know-how and persistence to reinvent the book by bringing to market a wireless reading device so good even die-hard book fans are succumbing to it. Created by Amazon's in-house hardware guru Gregg Zehr and his Lab 126, the Kindle 2 quickly replaced the clunker 1.0 version, followed by the new DX designed for newspapers and text books and a Kindle iPhone app. There are other e-readers, but the Kindle integrates Amazon's user-friendly customer interface and service, and offers over 365,000 titles downloaded wirelessly to your device in just a few seconds. Amazon says people with Kindles buy 3.1 times the number of books they did before owning the device. The future of publishing is here -- better get used to it.



Sample (Gushing) Testimonial: Bezos “has built a machine that marks a cultural revolution,” said Slate’s Jacob Weisberg. “Printed books, the most important artifacts of human civilization, are going to join newspapers and magazines on the road to obsolescence.”



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[JasonY79]

07:41 PM on 10/28/2009

The creator of YouTube isn't on here? That's just silly.

[Soulsurfer]

12:20 PM on 10/25/2009

My vote goes for Heidi Fleiss..........get the moth......f..kg government out of her bidnez, don't stifle innovation!

[hypnotoad72]

04:15 PM on 10/24/2009

Games are for children.

[drymartini1]

04:49 PM on 10/23/2009

Netflix is in, Blockbuster brick and mortar stores are out.

Amazon is in, Circuit city and other brick and mortar stores are out.

see the trend. I am surpised the b&m stores are still surviving. most of the items we purchase (discretionary items, not grocery of course) have no business being in physical stores any more. Online shopping hopefully replaces all of this.

[hypnotoad72]

04:16 PM on 10/24/2009

Not entirely. I prefer going to Big Box store, so when I buy a TV with a stuck or dead pixel, it's easier to get it exchanged...

[drymartini1]

10:20 PM on 10/24/2009

minor inconvenience......Amazon has excellent return policy too.

think about how much efficient it is to not have a big box store...you save on inventory carrying costs, compensation, property taxes...etc etc...

[drymartini1]

12:56 PM on 10/23/2009

Amazon's Jeff Bezos...for sure when it comes to online business.

Amazon ate most of brick and mortar retailing business. I have been an amazon customer for around 9 years...very satisfied...excellent customer service.

[JackRusselTerrier]

12:31 PM on 10/23/2009

This should NOT be the main. There are more pressing issues than this.

[ReedYoung]

12:15 PM on 10/23/2009

Just because you use Google AdSense doesn't mean you should be so afraid of an appearance of conflict of interest that you shut them out. Maybe calling Google a game-changer was considered a statement of the obvious and excluded for that reason?

I'd knock the Amazon Kindle guy off your list and put the Google duo in, because Google has changed the game of profiting from Internet content, while Kindle is not only going nowhere, it has probably setback online publishing of old printed works. I guess that's change, but not in the direction that I think this "Game Changer" series is meant to spotlight.

[BlueZoo]

12:02 PM on 10/23/2009

Just an aside here but if HuffPo is insistent on running these "polls," it would certainly be more helpful if you would list the candidates and their companies BEFORE we vote on them! Running through them all and them having to backtrack to decide a vote is decidedly unhelpful!

[GQB]

11:37 AM on 10/23/2009

hmmm...
Steve Jobs upends the entire mobile communications/computing industry and not even a candidate?
Give me a break.

[MarketingGuy]

11:18 AM on 10/23/2009

Zappos is focused on "service"? Are you kidding me? Zappos business lacks any heart and soul much like the misguided and A.D.D. youth running it. Zappos is as sterile as they come. And Denuo, innovative? Yeah, it takes a lot of innovation and groundbreaking work to spend a client's millions of dollars. Please.

[texastrixie]

11:14 AM on 10/23/2009

If the last ten years is any example, the ultimate game changer in US business is the devil, or whatever other entity actually embodies the evil and selfishness that brought us to this pit of an economy.