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PG - "The Papa Bear" - on BusinessWeek's list of most influential people on the web

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No list there. Here it is:

1. Steve Ballmer -- microsoft.com

2. Mitchell Baker -- mozilla.org

3. Jeff Bezos -- amazon.com

4. Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt -- google.com

5. Jeff Clavier -- softtechvc.com

6. Paul Graham -- ycombinator.com

7. Arianna Huffington -- huffingtonpost.com

8. Joi Ito -- joi.ito.com

9. Steve Jobs -- apple.com

10. Jonathan Kaplan -- theflip.com

11. Loic Le Meur -- Leweb3.com, seesmic.com

12. Jack Ma -- alibaba.com

13. Matt Mullenweg -- Wordpress.org

14. Rupert Murdoch -- myspace.com

15. Craig Newmark -- craigslist.com

16. Gabe Rivera -- techmeme.com

17. Kevin Rose -- digg.com

18. Sheryl Sandberg -- facebook.com

19. Jon Stewart -- thedailyshow.com

20. Peter Thiel -- clariumcapital.com, thefoundersfund.com

21. Maria Thomas -- etsy.com

22. Anssi Vanjoki -- nokia.com

23. Jimmy Wales -- wikia-inc.com

24. Evan Williams -- twitter.com

25. Jerry Yang -- yahoo.com

OMG, Sergey Brin counts for only 1/3 a man for BusinessWeek!

I like this picture better :)

http://danhau.posterous.com/our-fearless-investor-paul-gra

That picture always reminds me of this: http://www.boreme.com/media/yr2006/crazy-mean-baby-1.jpg

They grow up so fast.

haha.. awesome pic... :o)

Note to fellow HN readers: while this is a good post, the article is NOT WORTH READING. Just note that PG appears on Businessweek and move on. Do not read his profile or that of other people unless you want your brain to hurt.

I wasn't going to read it, but now I can't resist.

Why is it important to you that others don't read it?

I can't back this up, but I'm doing this out of good will. I want to spare other HN readers. At the end of the day, the bottom line is: Because it sucks.

From the OP: "Since Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook in his dorm room at Harvard University, the social networking giant has been dominated by a freewheeling culture of young, mostly male computer engineers. That all changed in April when the company hired former Google executive Sandberg to become Facebook's chief operating officer. Sandberg, 38, was brought in to provide some adult supervision and help Silicon Valley's hottest startup to grow up—and make oodles of money."

Not cool, BusinessWeek. I hope you get a[nother] hundred hours of downtime for dissing hackers like this. I hope you try turnaround after turnaround as new market entrants eat your lunch.

I always have a strange reaction when someone tells me to do something I'm already doing, or have already done.

Congratulations PG. This is a well-deserved honor.

i can't believe they put Facebook's COO in the list instead of Mark Zuckerberg

I was surprised RMS wasn't on their list.

RMS?

Not sure why you got downmodded. google Richard Stallman.

...or google RMS!

Root mean square! (At least in the flavour of Google that is served here.)

RMS is influential and has done many things, but this article was about influential on the web.

Papa Bear?

You're a Berenstain cub

I think that seems fitting. Personable, nurturing, etc.

Bears are godless killing machines.

Spoken like a true YC alum. ;-)

Fair enough, also a good definition :)

Perhaps a title for PG's new book?

Hackers, Painters & Godless Killing Machines?

hmm..well in any case PG should perhaps avoid taking nature walks in this guys forest.

"Vanjoki, who hunts bear in his spare time" http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/09/0929_most_influentia...

Its a reference to the Colbert Report. Colbert calls Bill O'Reilly "Papa Bear".

Papa 'bert.

All the other nicknames we use to refer to pg aren't fit for a family publication.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=papa+bear

"Used in reference to somebody of great authority or of a greater social rank than you."

"A big ass pimp."

The only thing I learned from this article is that the tech/web scene needs some good headshot/editorial photographers.

Now that he got a Businessweek plug, it looks like all of PG's efforts with YCombinator have finally paid off ;)

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