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8 Most Creative People in Business 2011
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 01:21 IST |
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3. Chris Cox/Facebook:
Christopher Cox is called the 'triple threat' for the simple reason that Chris has mastered in three different skills- an engineer who can build company-defining products, an operator who can recruit and manage good people, and a long-term strategic thinker. Chris, a math nerd who loved science friction went on to do the legendary Symbolic Systems program at Stanford, and into post-graduate work in the university's natural language processing group. "I loved artificial intelligence -- it seemed like the craziest and most expansive thing in the Stanford course reader," said Cox. When Facebook came calling, Cox passed at first. "I didn't think they were working on solving a serious problem." But after a series of meetings, a picture emerged in his mind. "I could see an unencumbered ability for people to communicate with each other," he says. "I saw it as a map -- a modern form of cartography, but of relationships and people." Cox envisions a future in which what your friends recommend on social networks plays a bigger role in what you buy, do, or watch on TV.
