Architects of the Business Revolution

Architects of the Business Revolution is a journey through the remarkable new territory of e-business and the new economy. Dearlove and Coomber identify the entrepreneurs, radicals and thinkers who have made the greatest contribution to this new world. From wunderkinds like Marc Andreessen and Sabheer Bhatia and rocket scientists like Tim Berners-Lee and Vinton Cerf to visionaries like Don Tapscott and Esther Dyson and business engineers like Scott McNealy and Jim Clark, these are the guys and girls you have to know about. Beyond the individuals themselves, Dearlove and Coomber take ideas into action and offer practical guidance drawn from these pioneers.

History's perspective Wealth creation The first wave Clicks and bricks The future of e-commerce Architects of the business revolution Marc Andreessen - Netscape Loudcloud Tim Berners-Lee Jeff Bezos - Amazon.com Sabheer Bhatia - Hotmail & Arzoo Scott Blum - Buy.com Sergey Brin & Larry Page - Google.com Steve Case - America Online Vint Cerf John Chambers - Cisco Christos Cotsakos - E*trade Jim Clark Michael Dell - Dell Corp Matt Drudge - The Drudge Report Esther Dyson Richard Egan - EMC Larry Ellison - Oracle Shawn Fanning - Napster David Filo & Jerry Yang - Yahoo! Bill Gates -Microsoft George Gilder Rob Glaser - RealNetworks Seth Godin - Permission Marketing James Gosling - Sun Microsystems & Java Bill Gross - Idealab! Andy Grove - Intel Jeff Hawkins - Palm Computing & Handspring Steve Jobs - Apple Computer Guy Kawasaki - Garage.com Harry Knowles - Ain't It Cool News Martha Lane Fox & Brent Hoberman - Lastminute.com Scott McNealy - Sun Microsystems Nicholas Negroponte - MIT Media Lab Jorma Ollila - Nokia Pierre Omidyar - eBay Kevin O'Connor - DoubleClick Tony Perkins Chris Alden - Red Herring Tom Perkins - Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Bryers Jon Postel Michael Robertson - MP3.com Arthur Rock Louis Rossetto - Wired Magazine John Seely Brown - Xerox PARC William Shockley - Farchild Semiconductors Masayoshi Son - Softbank Don Tapscott Linus Torvalds - Linux Jay Walker - Priceline.com Alan Webber - Fast Company David Wetherell - CMGI Bob Young - Red Hat