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Toby Sun wants the future of transportation to be on two wheels
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Sun is No. 62 on the Recode 100.

By Meghann Farnsworth
Jennifer Hyman pushed the idea of a clothing rental subscription toward the mainstream
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Hyman is No. 63 on the Recode 100.

By Jason Del Rey
Bari A. Williams has transformed from corporate lawyer to leading Silicon Valley diversity advocate
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Williams is No. 61 on the Recode 100.

By Shirin Ghaffary
Jordan Peele wrote and directed the year’s most-surprising, best-reviewed movie
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Peele is No. 60 on the Recode 100.

By Joe Brown
Reid Hoffman isn’t the Koch Brother of the left. Yet.
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Hoffman is No. 58 on the Recode 100.

By Tony Romm
Dinesh Paliwal, the bridge between Detroit and Silicon Valley
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Paliwal is No. 59 on the Recode 100.

By Eric Johnson
Shopify’s Tobi Lutke is giving startups a crack at becoming the next Amazon
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Lutke is No. 57 on the Recode 100.

By Kurt Wagner
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Brian Armstrong rode the cryptocurrency craze to create a bitcoin unicornBrian Armstrong rode the cryptocurrency craze to create a bitcoin unicorn
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Armstrong is No. 54 on the Recode 100.

By Theodore Schleifer
Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg wrote a viral guidebook to resisting the Trump agenda
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Levin and Greenberg are No. 56 on the Recode 100.

By Joe Brown
Anthony Tan is giving Uber a run for its money in Southeast Asia
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Tan is No. 55 on the Recode 100.

By Johana Bhuiyan
Julie Cordua is defending children with technology
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Cordua is No. 51 on the Recode 100.

By Rani Molla
Salesforce’s Marc Benioff is raising the bar as a woke CEO
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Benioff is No. 53 on the Recode 100.

By Joe Brown
Peter Thiel, the Valley’s most controversial investor, is also its best positioned in the Trump years
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Thiel is No. 50 on the Recode 100.

By Tony Romm
Stephanie Lampkin is building a platform to eliminate hiring bias
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Lampkin is No. 48 on the Recode 100.

By Shirin Ghaffary
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has reshaped media and telecom in just a few months on the job — like it or not
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Pai is No. 52 on the Recode 100.

By Tony Romm
Evan Spiegel became a billionaire, and showed us how hard it is to go toe-to-toe with Facebook
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Spiegel is No. 47 on the Recode 100.

By Kurt Wagner
Some of the biggest names in tech call on Joelle Emerson to make their companies more inclusive
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Emerson is No. 49 on the Recode 100.

By Shirin Ghaffary
Waymo’s John Krafcik has the answers to your self-driving car questions
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Krafcik is No. 46 on the Recode 100.

By Johana Bhuiyan
Kriti Sharma is defining the ethics of AI
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Sharma is No. 44 on the Recode 100

By Shirin Ghaffary
Apoorva Mehta turned Instacart’s nightmare scenario into its best sales pitch
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Mehta is No. 45 on the Recode 100.

By Jason Del Rey
Donald Glover is an Emmy-winning actor-writer-producer-director-rapper-stand-up comic — and now movie star
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Glover is No. 43 on the Recode 100.

By Joe Brown
Professor Amnon Shashua and Karl Iagnemma are riding the wave of exits in the self-driving space
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Shashua and Iagnemma are No. 41 on the Recode 100.

By Johana Bhuiyan
Joey Zwillinger turned a pair of shoes into a Silicon Valley touchstone
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Zwillinger is No. 39 on the Recode 100.

By Theodore Schleifer
Todd McKinnon, who successfully took his cloud management company IPO, also likes to give a lot to charity
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McKinnon is No. 42 on the Recode 100.

By Eric Johnson
Kylie Jenner’s makeup company used social media to generate $420 million in sales
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Jenner is No. 40 on the Recode 100.

By Kat Borgerding
With the help of Raj Kapoor, Lyft is firing on all cylinders
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Kapoor is No. 37 on the Recode 100.

By Johana Bhuiyan
Cardi B — the rapping sensation who used the internet to build fame on her own terms
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Cardi B is No. 38 on the Recode 100.

By Shirin Ghaffary
Issa Rae’s transition from bootstrapped web series to HBO
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Rae is No. 35 on the Recode 100.

By Kat Borgerding
Ryan Cohen kept Chewy under the radar until it sold for more than $3 billion
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Cohen is No. 33 on the Recode 100.

By Jason Del Rey
Slack is changing how people work — and it isn’t slowing down
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Stewart Butterfield and April Underwood are No. 36 on the Recode 100.

By Dan Frommer
Laura Weidman Powers is closing the employment gap for minorities in tech by the year 2040
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Weidman Powers is No. 34 on the Recode 100.

By Shirin Ghaffary
Wang Xing might bring his $30 billion food services app to the U.S.
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Wang is No. 30 on the Recode 100.

By Rani Molla
Glossier’s Emily Weiss built a budding beauty brand with the internet’s help
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Weiss is No. 32 on the Recode 100.

By Kurt Wagner
Gwynne Shotwell is leading SpaceX’s efforts to become the future of commercial space travel
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Shotwell is No. 31 on the Recode 100.

By Meghann Farnsworth
Jensen Huang’s Nvidia is the AI chip company to watch
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Huang is No. 29 on the Recode 100.

By Dan Frommer
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Laurene Powell Jobs is using her fortune to make a difference in policy, philanthropy and mediaLaurene Powell Jobs is using her fortune to make a difference in policy, philanthropy and media
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Powell Jobs is No. 24 on the Recode 100.

By Peter Kafka
Jean Liu is leading one of the world’s most powerful transportation companies
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Liu is No. 28 on the Recode 100.

By Johana Bhuiyan
Brian Chesky is building Airbnb into an enduring travel brand
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Chesky is No. 27 on the Recode 100.

By Dan Frommer
Aziz Ansari wins TV on the internet
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Ansari is No. 26 on the Recode 100.

By Rani Molla
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman is making friends out of enemies
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Schulman is No. 25 on the Recode 100.

By Rani Molla