There are few true visionaries left in tech. Steve Jobs is dead, Bill Gates has stepped away from Microsoft and Mark Zuckerberg is too young and too contentious to join the pantheon just yet. Of the figures with name recognition beyond hardcore geeks, two figures are notable in their boldness – Sergey Brin at Google and Jeff Bezos at Amazon.
Brin, seemingly happy to allow fellow founder Larry Page to steer Google’s business interests, busies himself with future-gazing projects. It is his vision powering the development of self-driving cars, Google Glass augmented reality goggles and a neural network designed to make sense of the web.
Where the Google co-founder’s focus is on the far future, Bezos has been disrupting established industries since 1997, when he promised shareholders: “We will make bold rather than timid investment decisions where we see a sufficient probability of gaining market leadership advantages.”
