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Recode 100

Maggie Haberman has done some of the best reporting on Trump. He (probably) keeps her on speed dial.
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Haberman is No. 23 on the Recode 100.

By Edmund Lee
Square’s Sarah Friar has made Wall Street a believer
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Friar is No. 22 on the Recode 100.

By Jason Del Rey
David Benioff and Dan Weiss made ‘Game of Thrones’ the last Really Big Show on TV
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Benioff and Weiss are No. 21 on the Recode 100.

By Peter Kafka
Colin Kaepernick almost brought the NFL to its knees, but he’s still out of a job
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Kaepernick is No. 20 on the Recode 100.

By Kurt Wagner
Ma Huateng’s WeChat is China’s one true operating system
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Ma Huateng is No. 18 on the Recode 100.

By Dan Frommer
Marc Lore has transformed Walmart into a worthy Amazon challenger
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Lore is No. 19 on the Recode 100.

By Jason Del Rey
Patty Jenkins’s ‘Wonder Woman’ gave superheroes a whole new look, and a whole new audience
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Jenkins is No. 16 on the Recode 100.

By Peter Kafka
Spotify’s Daniel Ek brought music streaming to the masses
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Ek is No. 17 on the Recode 100.

By Peter Kafka
Amazon’s Toni Reid and Rohit Prasad have made Alexa a household name
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Reid and Prasad are No. 15 on the Recode 100.

By Kurt Wagner
Rep. Adam Schiff and Sen. Mark Warner aren’t done demanding answers from tech on Russia’s election meddling
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Schiff and Warner are No. 14 on the Recode 100.

By Tony Romm
Kevin Systrom and Marne Levine have turned Instagram into Facebook’s greatest weapon
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Systrom and Levine are No. 13 on the Recode 100.

By Kurt Wagner
Satya Nadella is giving Microsoft a much needed reboot
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Nadella is No. 11 on the Recode 100.

By Dan Frommer
No one quite polices — and penalizes — tech giants like Europe’s watchdog Margrethe Vestager
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Vestager is No. 10 on the Recode 100.

By Tony Romm
The cult of Elon Musk lives on
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Musk is No. 8 on the Recode 100.

By Johana Bhuiyan
Reed Hastings built one of the most important companies on the internet, and Hollywood is scrambling to catch up
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Hastings is No. 12 on the Recode 100.

By Peter Kafka
Stitch Fix’s Katrina Lake proved innovation in retail is still possible in an Amazon world
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Lake is No. 9 on the Recode 100.

By Jason Del Rey
Sundar Pichai is keeping Google’s real business cranking while it figures out the ‘AI-first’ future
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Pichai is No. 7 on the Recode 100.

By Peter Kafka
Tim Cook is officially underrated
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Cook is No. 5 on the Recode 100.

By Dan Frommer
We’re living in a post-Weinstein era thanks to Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey and Ronan Farrow
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Kantor, Twohey and Farrow are No. 3 on the Recode 100.

By Edmund Lee
With just her words, Susan Fowler brought Uber to its knees
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Fowler is No. 2 on the Recode 100.

By Johana Bhuiyan
Jeff Bezos won 2017 — and set Amazon up to dominate the next decade
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Bezos is No. 1 on the Recode 100.

By Jason Del Rey
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son is about to make either himself or you look like a fool
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Son is No. 6 on the Recode 100.

By Theodore Schleifer
Mark Zuckerberg is changing the way we get our news — and making a boatload of money while doing it
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Zuckerberg is No. 4 on the Recode 100.

By Kurt Wagner
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Announcing the inaugural Recode 100 — nominate someone today!Announcing the inaugural Recode 100 — nominate someone today!
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Help us celebrate the real winners of 2017.

By Dan Frommer