Daniel Ek

Creator of Online Music Streaming Platform, Spotify

Bio Written By: Ashton Kutcher, actor, producer and venture capitalist

“The Internet has disrupted and will continue to disrupt most industries. Music was one of the first because audio files are so easy to share. What Daniel recognized best is that if you make paying for songs easier than stealing them, people will pay.”

Erik Martin

General Manager, Reddit

Bio Written By: Townsend is TIME's social-media editor

“If the Web’s most powerful images are the ones that go viral, then Erik Martin oversees the most infectious petri dish around. Martin, 33, is the general manager of Reddit, a website whose users submit items and then vote the entries up or down, creating an ever shifting news-popularity tote board.”