15 Sharpest and Rising CEOs in Technology


12. Travis Kalanick

CEO of Uber

Kalanick is like a dark horse is racing ahead in Silicon Valley. He has quietly built one of the best startups there.

Getting a cab in San Francisco area was almost impossible until Uber happened. It has completely changed the transportation landscape in the valley. Recently Uber unveiled Uberx, which increases the size of its fleet. The cars also cost only a little more than a typical taxi fare, which makes them even more competitive.

11. Tikhon Bernstam

CEO of Parse

Bernstam is probably building the most important startup of 2012. Parse is an app that makes it much easier to build other apps by giving users a library of some of the most widely used functions in an app.

For example, Facebook connect and push notifications are the things which are common in most apps and are very tricky to build. These are available through Parse.