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Laurene Powell Jobs is one of the world’s richest people, and for the last few years she has been a quiet but influential force in U.S. policy. Now she is raising her profile: In 2017, her investment and philanthropy vehicle Emerson Collective made splashy purchases in media — a majority stake in the Atlantic magazine — and sports — a minority stake in the group that owns the Washington Wizards and Capitals.
Jobs also became one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent opponents of the Trump administration’s restrictive immigration policies, including speaking out at public events, lobbying politicians on both sides of the aisles and funding multi-platform media campaigns, this year aimed at the at-risk Dreamers.
This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
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- 1. Jeff Bezos, Amazon
- 2. Susan Fowler, Stripe
- 3. Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, The New York Times; Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker
- 4. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
- 5. Tim Cook, Apple
- 6. Masayoshi Son, SoftBank
- 7. Sundar Pichai, Google
- 8. Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX
- 9. Katrina Lake, Stitch Fix
- 10. Margrethe Vestager, European Union
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- 12. Reed Hastings, Netflix
- 13. Kevin Systrom and Marne Levine, Instagram
- 14. Adam Schiff, U.S. Representative, and Senator Mark Warner, U.S. Senator
- 15. Toni Reid and Rohit Prasad, Amazon
- 16. Patty Jenkins, director, “Wonder Woman”
- 17. Daniel Ek, Spotify
- 18. Ma Huateng, Tencent
- 19. Marc Lore, Walmart
- 20. Colin Kaepernick, quarterback and social activist
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- 21. David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, executive producers, “Game of Thrones”
- 22. Sarah Friar, Square
- 23. Maggie Haberman, The New York Times
- 25. Dan Schulman, PayPal
- 26. Aziz Ansari, actor and executive producer, “Master of None”
- 27. Brian Chesky, Airbnb
- 28. Jean Liu, Didi Chuxing
- 29. Jensen Huang, Nvidia
- 30. Wang Xing, Meituan-Dianping
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- 31. Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX
- 32. Emily Weiss, Glossier
- 33. Ryan Cohen, Chewy
- 34. Laura Weidman Powers, Code2040
- 35. Issa Rae, executive producer, “Insecure”
- 36. Stewart Butterfield and April Underwood, Slack Technologies
- 37. Raj Kapoor, Lyft
- 38. Cardi B, musician
- 39. Joey Zwillinger, Allbirds
- 40. Kylie Jenner, Kylie Cosmetics
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- 41. Amnon Shashua, Intel, and Karl Iagnemma, nuTonomy
- 42. Todd McKinnon, Okta
- 43. Donald Glover, actor and executive producer, “Atlanta”
- 44. Kriti Sharma, Sage
- 45. Apoorva Mehta, Instacart
- 46. John Krafcik, Waymo
- 47. Evan Spiegel, Snap
- 48. Stephanie Lampkin, Blendoor
- 49. Joelle Emerson, Paradigm
- 50. Peter Thiel, Founders Fund
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- 51. Julie Cordua, Thorn
- 52. Ajit Pai, Federal Communications Commission
- 53. Marc Benioff, Salesforce
- 54. Brian Armstrong, Coinbase
- 55. Anthony Tan, Grab
- 56. Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg, Indivisible
- 57. Tobias Lutke, Shopify
- 58. Reid Hoffman, Greylock
- 59. Dinesh Paliwal, Harman
- 60. Jordan Peele, writer and director, “Get Out”
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- 62. Toby Sun, LimeBike
- 63. Jennifer Hyman, Rent the Runway
- 64. Patrick Collison, Stripe
- 65. Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber
- 66. Brad Smith, Microsoft
- 67. Michael Barbaro, The New York Times
- 68. Stefan Heck, Nauto
- 69. JT Marino and Daehee Park, Tuft & Needle
- 70. Chris Liddell, The White House
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- 71. Tiffani Ashley Bell, The Human Utility
- 72. Kyle Vogt, Cruise Automation
- 73. Matt Murphy, Menlo Ventures
- 74. Marc Stad, Dragoneer
- 75. Jason Droege, Uber
- 76. Cliff Levy, The New York Times
- 77. Jonathan Greenblatt, Anti-Defamation League
- 78. Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen, Axios
- 79. Alex Zhu, Musical.ly
- 80. Peter Szulczewski, Wish
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- 92. Tristan Walker, Walker & Company
- 93. Daniela Perdomo, goTenna
- 94. Amanda Rousseau, Endgame
- 95. James Freeman, Blue Bottle Coffee
- 96. Lauren Gross, Founders Fund
- 97. Alastair Westgarth, Alphabet
- 98. Chris Urmson, Aurora Innovation
- 99. Sarah Tavel, Benchmark
- 100. Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer, executive producers, “Stranger Things”
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