While some people might assume that the wise and brilliant minds of the older Silicon Valleyites were the ones responsible for some of the hottest web startups to recently emerge, in actual fact, many such companies were established by young founders in their twenties and thirties.
Like Mark Zuckerberg himself, the founders of popular companies like photo-sharing service Instagram, mobile credit card-reader Square and the fast-growing Pinterest are not just young but highly influential online.
PeekYou, a self-described “search company focused on indexing the public web around people,” recently released a list of some of the web’s most influential tech leaders of 2011 and 2012, based on their PeekScore. One’s PeekScore ranges from 1 to 10 and is measured by how many friends, followers, or readers one might have, in addition to how active one is in blogging, social networking and web content creation. Of course, one’s presence in the news also has a bearing on whether his or her PeekScore will turn out to be closer to 1 (“not very important”) or to 10 (“very important”).
Here is the list of the top 11 most influential leaders in tech with their corresponding PeekScore:
1. Jack Dorsey, CEO of Square – 8.44/10
2. Joe Fernandez, Co-founder & CEO of Klout – 8.17/10
3. Drew Houston, Founder & CEO of Dropbox – 8.03/10
4. Mike McCue, CEO of Flipboard – 7.81/10
5. Ben Silbermann, CEO of Pinterest – 7.76/10
6. Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb – 7.64/10
7. Billy Chasen, Co-founder and CEO of Turntable.fm – 7.43/10
8. Kevin Systrom, CEO of Instagram – 7.40/10
9. Jared Hecht, Co-founder of GroupMe – 7.23/10
10. Steve Martocci, Co-founder of GroupMe – 7.09/10
11. Adam d’Angelo, CEO of Quora – 7.07/10
View the gallery of the top 11 below:
Do you agree with the list above – are there any other young founders you think should have been included?
Source: Huffington Post
