Not a single person who's younger than 30 today had a hand in inventing the Internet. That was Al Gore's generation. But scores of men and women born after the Vietnam generation have made significant contributions to the global network invented by their parents and their parents' peers. If you ask today's 30-and-under set, many take credit for defining the new, networked economy.
"In the early days of the Internet industry, the vast majority of knowledge was held in younger minds," says entrepreneur Matt Cutler, the 27-year-old co-founder of Web software and service provider NetGenesis. "These are the people who adopted the technology soonest."
Although still young, those Internet integrators 30 years old and under represent to the new millennium what Dan Bricklin, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs did to the '80s. They are its visionaries, whiz kids and catalysts. Thirty of them are profiled on the pages that follow.
Some, including Linus Torvalds, are approaching their 30th birthdays. Shawn Fanning just celebrated his 20th birthday. Not all are technologists or entrepreneurs at heart. Fanning, for one, has no formal computer or business training. He purchased a book on programming, hammered out some simple code and then literally wandered into the spotlight. But regardless of their backgrounds, all are serious trailblazers in their fields. And given their tender age, they are likely to remain so for years to come.
Joe Cha and Jamie Lerner, Xuma
Herald Chen and Mark Terbeek, Jamcracker
Matt Culter and Eric Richard, NetGenesis
Josh Jacobs and Tim Roberts, Bigstep.com
Christopher Klaus, Internet Security Systems
Danny Lewin, Akamai Technologies
Adam Lieb and Selina Tobaccowala, Evite
Allison Okamura, John Hopkins University
John Roese, Enterasys Networks
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