By its very nature, the tech industry is full of creative people working on amazing new things.
Even so there are some people that stand out above and beyond.
These are the people who change the game. They create mind-blowing technology and startups that alter the industry.
Sometimes they do this over-and-over again.
Jony Ive, Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, Apple
Jony Ive is the star designer responsible for many of Apple's biggest, most important products including the MacBook Pro, iMac, MacBook Air, iPod, iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad and iPad Mini.
Word is, he's in charge of Apple's rumored upcoming iWatch, too.
Gabe Newell, cofounder, Valve
Don't call billionaire Gabe Newell the boss of Valve Software, the uber-successful gaming company he cofounded in 1996.
The company says it has "no bosses, no middle management, no bureaucracy. Just highly motivated peers coming together to make cool stuff."
But Gabe is clearly Valve's creative heart and soul. Valve became famous for its video games (like Half-Life and Portal). Then Newell launched Steam, an online social gaming site that serves nearly 2,000 titles to over 50 million gamers.
Valve’s Source engine is also a wildly popular game development tool.
Julie Uhrman, founder, CEO Ouya
Julie Uhrman has been a game industry exec for a long time, at Vivendi Universal, IGN, GameFly, and other places.
Ouya is a new Android-based video game console running its own version of the Android operating system that Uhrman dreamed up last year, designd by legend Yves Behar.
She put Ouya on Kickstarter to gage interest and the project went crazy, raising $8.6 million from more than 63,000 people. It's due out in June.
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