The Young and Influential

THE YOUNG INFLUENTIAL AND WITH AGE COMES WISDOM, BUT NOT NECESSARILY SUCCESS. LET'S LOOK AT SOME OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY UNDER 40. KEY INTERNET MUSIC POLITICS TELEVISION MEDICINE MARK ZUCKERBERG S AGE: 28 FOUNDER AND CEO OF facebook 1 BILLION GLOBAL FACEBOOK USERS; THAT'S 1 IN 7 PEOPLE ON EARTH SERGEY BRIN S AGE: 39 (TURNS 40 IN AUGUST 2013) Google CO-FOUNDER, Google CO-FOUNDER OF A SEARCH ENGINE ORIGINALLY CALLED BACKRUB, HALF OF GOOGLE'S LEADERSHIP TEAM RECENTLY TURNED HIS NEARLY 1 IN 2 ATTENTION TO THE COMPANY'S NEW PET INTERNET USERS WHO VISIT GOOGLE DAILY PROJECT, GOOGLE GLASS, AN AUGMENTED REALITY DEVICE THAT USERS WEAR ON THEIR FACES. BRIN IS WORTH ABOUT $22 BILLION JUST OVER A DECADE REMOVED FROM WORKING OUT OF A GARAGE. MARISSA MAYER SO AGE: 37 PRESIDENT AND CEO,YAHOO! THE 20TH GOOGLE EMPLOYEE (AND ITS FIRST FEMALE ENGINEER) BECAME CEO OF YAHOO! IN JULY 2012. WHETHER THE BOARD'S LATEST MOVE (THE COMPANY HAD FOUR CEOS IN FIVE YEARS) IS PAYING OFF REMAINS TO BE SEEN, BUT THE COMPANY'S STOCK IS STEADILY RISING. $24.20 $23.53 $21.31 $19.90 $19.63 $1877 $15.83 $16.84 $15.84 $15.98 $14.65 JUN '12 JUL '12 AUG '12 SEP '12 OCT '12 NOV '12 DEC '12 JAN '13 FEB '13 MAR '13 APR '13 FRANK OCEAN & AGE: 25 SINGER-SONGWRITER OCEAN STARTED HIS CAREER IN MUSIC WRITING SONGS FOR JUSTIN BIEBER, BRANDY, JOHN LEGEND AND BEYONCE. HE MAKES MUSIC FOR HIMSELF NOW, AND ALSO MAKES HISTORY, LAST YEAR REVEALING HIS ATTRACTION TO MEN. HE RECENTLY WAS VOTED THE MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY MAN IN MUSIC IN RESPONSE. BEN SILBERMANN SO AGE: 30 CO-FOUNDER AND CEO, Pinterest 48,000,000 A SITE LAUNCHED IN 2010 HAS GROWN SLOWLY AT FIRST THEN ALL AT ONCE, EXPLODING FROMA FEW THOUSAND USERS AT FIRST TO 48 MILLION. THAT'S NEARLY 700,000 NEW USERS EVERY MONTH. 5,000 JARED POLIS AGE: 37 US. REPRESENTATIVE, COLORADO 2ND DISTRICT THE DEMOCRAT FROM BOULDER WAS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY FRESHMAN CONGRESS MAN WHEN HE TOOK THE OATH OF OFFICE IN 2009. WITH PUBLIC OPINION RAPIDLY SHIFTING AND MANY OF HIS FELLOW MEMBERS OF CONGRESS "EVOLVING" ON THE ISSUE OF MARRIAGE EQUALITY, POLIS IS IN THE CENTER, OPPOSING THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT AND SUPPORTING OTHER MEASURES TO EXTEND PROTECTIONS AND RIGHTS TO GAYS AND LESBIANS. CHARLES ADLER PERRY CHEN YANCEY JO STRICKLER AGE: 38 AGE: 36 AGE: 33 CO-FOUNDER OF CO-FOUNDER AND CEO OF CO-FOUNDER OF KICKSTARTER KICKSTARTER'S TRIO OF FOUNDERS ARE RESPONSIBLE $10 MILLION- FOR FORMING THE WORLD'S $8.5 MILLION LARGEST FUNDRAISING $5.1 MILLION PLATFORM. THE SUCCESS OF $1.2 MILLION CROWDFUNDING SITES LIKE AMANDA PALMER ALBUM AND TOUR KICKSTARTER HAS EVEN HAD AN THE VERONICA MARS MOVIE PROJECT IMPACT ON GOVERNMENT, WITH OUYA RECENT CHANGES IN LAW EXPANDING THE POWER OF PEBBLE CROWDFUNDING. BRENDAN STEINHAUSER AGE: 31 AUTHOR, TEA PARTY ORGANIZER A TEXAS NATIVE, STEINHAUSER HAS BEEN A DRIVING FORCE IN TEA PARTY CANDIDATES RISE TO POWER ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. HE TRAINS POTENTIAL VOLUNTEERS AND CANDIDATES IN SOCIAL NETWORKING, VOTER OUTREACH AND GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING A FEW HALLMARKS OF TEA PARTY CANDIDATES. ABOUT 1 IN 3 TEA PARTY-BACKED CANDIDATES ELECTED IN 2010, CONSIDERED A WATERSHED MOMENT FOR THE MOVEMENT KEVIN SYSTROMSO AGE: 28 Зndagram CO-FOUNDER AND CEO, MORE THAN JUST A PLACE FOR PEOPLE TO POST PICTURES OF THEIR FOOD, INSTAGRAM RAPIDLY BECAME THE PRIMARY PHOTO SHARING SERVICE 40 MILLION PHOTOS POSTED OR AMONG SMARTPHONE USERS, SURGING TO MORE THAN 100 MILLION USERS JUST THREE YEARS SHARED PER DAY AFTER IT WAS FOUNDED AND BEING SNAPPED UP BY FACEBOOK FOR A COOL $1 BILLION. LENA DUNHAM AGE: 26 WRITER AND ACTRESS A DIVISIVE FIGURE AMONG TV CRITICS AND FANS ALIKE, DUNHAM BURST ONTO THE SCENE IN 2012 WITH HER HBO SERIES "GIRLS" FOR HER WORK ON "GIRLS," DUNHAM WON TWO GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS IN 2013 AND WAS NAMED TIME MAGAZINE'S COOLEST PERSON OF THE YEAR. CIRLS JEFF GEORGE AGE: 39 GLOBAL HEAD OF S SANDOZ A healthy decision LEADING SANDOZ, A SUBSIDIARY OF GENERICS GIANT NOVARTIS, SINCE 2007, GEORGE HAS HELPED STEER THE COMPANY INTO ANNUAL SALES OF $9.5 BILLION AND EMERGENCE IN GENERIC BIOLOGIC DRUGS. IT'S ESTIMATED SANDOZ HAS 50% MARKET SHARE OF GENERIC BIOLOGICS. 50% JIMMY FALLON AGE: 39 COMEDIAN, LATE-NIGHT HOST, ACTOR TIM SATURDAY NIGHT A "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE" ALUMNUS AND HEARTTHROB, FALLON HAS BEEN HOSTED HIS OWN LATE-NIGHT NBC SHOW SINCE 2009, AND IN 2014, HE WILL TAKE THE BIGGEST CHAIR IN LATE NIGHT, BECOMING THE HOST OF THE "THE TONIGHT SHOW" WHEN JAY LENO STEPS DOWN, LADY GAGA & AGE: 27 SINGER, MUSICIAN BORN STEFANI JOANNE ANGELINA GERMANOTTA, LADY MY GAGA'S 2008 SINGLE "JUST DANCE" HELPED ANNOUNCE HER PRESENCE TO THE MUSIC WORLD, GARNERING CRITICAL AND COMMERCIAL ACCLAIM AND EARNING HER A GRAMMY AWARD NOMINATION. HER FAME AND INFLUENCE HAVE GROWN SINCE THEN: SHE BOASTS MORE THAN 30 MILLION FOLLOWERS ON TWITTER, IS AN ACTIVIST FOR LGBT CAUSES AND WAS JUST DANCE NAMED BY TIME MAGAZINE AS ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. SOURCES CNET TIME MAGAZINE POLICYMIC.COM GOOGLE FORBES.COM BIOGRAPHY.COM THE HUFFINGTON POST YA HDO! 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