Launched in 2000, silicon.com's Agenda Setters poll has named the top 50 individuals in the tech industry for seven years running. Here's a look back at some of the highlights.
1. Rupert Murdoch is the only individual to place on every list
2. There have been two British winners - Chris Gent (2000) and Ashley Highfield (2004)
3. Ray Ozzie (2006) is the first winner from Microsoft. The closest Bill Gates came to winning was number 2 in 2003
4. The oldest Agenda Setter is Rupert Murdoch, aged 75 (2006). The youngest is Sven Jaschan who was 18 years old when he placed on the 2004 list
5. One Agenda Setter is now an employee of CNET Networks, the publisher of silicon.com - Esther Dyson (2000)
6. A different person has won the Agenda Setters poll each year
7. 2003 was the year with the fewest CEOs in the top 10 - only three
8. 2006 is the first year without Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer
9. Google is the only company to have four Agenda Setters in one year - Eric Schmidt, Larry Page and Sergei Brin, and Omid Kordestani (2006)
10. Carly Fiorina is the only woman to make the top 10 (2003)
Take a walk down memory lane - and find out who made the Agenda Setters poll over the years:
"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
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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