Marc Benioff

Evangelical tech entrepreneur tirelessly pushing his vision of a more friendly, connected business world, via Salesforce.com's software Chatter. Took out two ads during the Super Bowl broadcast. Investors buy it: stock has doubled in the past year as revenues jumped 27% to $1.6 billion. Believes Salesforce can reach $2 billion in a year. Founded his first company at age 15 to write Atari videogames. He started Salesforce after stints at Apple, Oracle; championed "the end of software" and declared its mission to take traditional software online. The industry has followed. In June 2010 pledged $100 million to University of California San Francisco toward construction of new children's hospital, and plans to give more. Hawaii fan signs emails "Aloha."