AGENDA SETTERS - WHO ARE THE DRIVING FORCES IN THE TECH INDUSTRY?

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Agenda Setters 2006
TOP 50
Niklas Zennström

No. 10 Niklas Zennström, CEO and co-founder, Skype

Last year's position: 4

Why? Causing grief for the telcos

Skype sold out to eBay but Niklas Zennström hasn't sold out to anyone, according to the Agenda Setters panel, and is setting agendas in the telecoms and ecommerce worlds by championing easy-to-use voice over IP.

Hardly a lackey, he rules the Skype dominion and has the ear of one of the most successful dot-commers, eBay CEO Meg Whitman.

Though down six positions on the top 50 list from last year, he is still the ultimate champion of disruptive technologies. Remember - before Skype popularised VoIP, Zennström helmed file-sharing hottie Kazaa and brought acclaim to the peer-to-peer model.

His prominent spot on the list is as much about what he's done with VoIP as it is about what our panel expects a serial entrepreneur with such a troublemaking track record will get into next.

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Agenda Setters Past

Take a walk down memory lane - and find out who made the Agenda Setters poll over the years:

QUOTATION

"Ray Ozzie is a radical change force for Microsoft. He is moving them in a very different direction."
--Richard Sykes, Agenda Setters panellist

"My observation is that [kids today] are far more networked and open than any other generation we have ever seen."
--Peter Cochrane, Agenda Setters panellist


AGENDA SETTERS .EXTRA

The world's most powerful women Forbes.com

Smart 50 - Asia's best users of IT ZDNet Asia

Chron 500 - The San Francisco Bay Area's top public companies San Francisco Chronicle

The 50 people who matter now Business 2.0


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