Starting a business is the ultimate "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" American dream. We all know great examples from the local mom and pop shop to Steve Jobs or Sergey and Larry of Google.
Here at Klout, we took a look at the most influential entrepreneurs across the social web. These are not necessarily the ones with the most successful businesses but those who are truly thought leaders in their field and are influencing others online.
Check them out...
The Klout Score is the measurement of your overall online influence. The scores range from 1-100 with higher scores representing a wider and stronger sphere of influence. You can check your own score at Klout.com.
Who are your favorite entrepreneurs?
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Personally, I admire Margo Seltzer, who sold the database she wrote -- BerkeleyDB, which sits on just about every Unix and Linux web server out there, by the way -- to Oracle for a tidy sum, and now is on the CS faculty at Harvard.
And then there's Cher Wang, who started HTC corporation, and still runs it. Just a little hobby cellphone business, I guess -- worth billions.
Marissa Meyer was one of the founders of Google, and invented much of their key technology. Just a little thing to help with the filing, I guess. Not terribly influential.
Of course Carol Bartz couldn't possibly be considered influential -- what after pulling both Autodesk AND Yahoo out of the toilet.
But that's just off the top of my head. I'm sure a respected journalist with an -- gasp -- *algorithm* to work with could have found far more.
Margot Seltzer sold her Berkeley DB (it runs on every Unix and Linux server out there--if that's not influence I don't know what is) to Oracle and now is on the CS faculty at Harvard, Cher Wang started and still runs HTC, Carol Bartz pulled both Autodesk and Yahoo! out of the toilet -- and that's just in the tech sector. Hmm.
But of course this includes all industries, including entertainment. I suppose these guys-we've-never-heard-of are far more 'influential' than Oprah and Madonna, LOL.
Richard Branson is the only person who deserves to be on there and Elon Musk should be right there by him.
I will concede that the combo of both Square AND Twitter is enough and that I retract my overlook of Mr Dorsey. Square is a rather disruptive technology in a good sense.
No one on that list has influence in any start-up community I'm familiar with. Of course, that's just West Coast. Maybe someone in Prince Edward Island cares what they think.
Try again, starting with Steve Blank and skip the "Web 2.0" sites you remember visiting in 2003.
(just my opinion...)
But, no kidding.
I know KIDS who have come up with better thinking than this batch if bozos.