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Ajaypal, the Only Indian in The Businessperson of The Year List
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 23 November 2011, 02:34 IST   |    2 Comments
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Reid Hoffman, James A. Skinner
Reid Hoffman Reid Hoffman, Founder and Chairman, LinkedIn and Partner at Greylock is the only business leader on the list with no full-time job. Going by his multiple titles, he symbolizes a new sort of power broker, eminent for catalyzing the whole business sector than for constructing any particular enterprise. Makin his first fortune at PayPal, Hoffman came up with the idea for LinkedIn. He owns more than 20 percent of LinkedIn's stock. Apart from LinkedIn, Hoffman has appeared as a major impresario of the social web. He also works as an angel investor and VC at Greylock Partners. He's at present an investor, advisor and director at Zynga, Mozilla, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, and several other Silicon Valley companies. James A. Skinner Since Vice Chairman and CEO, James A. Skinner took over McDonald's in 2004, the fast-food chain has seen a killing growth with 5 percent annual revenue growth and 250 percent total stock appreciation. The company has effectively initiated healthier menu options like smoothies and wraps, and is challenging Starbucks with its McCafe coffee selection. It also maintains to create those McJobs including an April hiring spurt that added 62,000 new employees.

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