Aug 17, 2017 - Technology

The business leaders who cracked FORTUNE’s latest “40 under 40”

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FORTUNE has its annual "40 under 40" list up, ranking the most influential young people in business under the age of 40 — "a litany of fresh-faced leaders upending industries and helming some of the world's most important businesses, not to mention the largest global economies."

Emmanuel Macron, president of France
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder, Facebook
Cheng Wei and Jean Liu, co-founders, Didi Chuxing
Brian Chesky, Airbnb CEO; Nathan Blecharczyk and Joe Gebbia, Airbnb co-founders
Leo Varadkar, Ireland prime minister
John and Patrick Collison, Stripe co-founders
Serena Williams, living tennis legend
John Zimmer and Logan Green, Lyft co-founders
Daniel Schwartz, CEO, Restaurant Brands
Brian Armstrong, CEO, Coinbase; and Vitalik Buterin, co-founder, Ethereum

Bonus: Axios' chief tech correspondent and author of our Login newsletter, Ina Fried, is named to the Advocate's "50 Most Influential LGBT's in Media," along with Kara Swisher, NYT columnist Charles Blow, Frank Bruni, Jonathan Capehart, Anderson Cooper, MSNBC's Steve Kornacki, Rachel Maddow, HuffPost editor-in-chief Lydia Polgreen, Robin Roberts, Nate Silver, Shep Smith...

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3 keys to Joe Biden picking Kamala Harris

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Three quick points about Joe Biden's historic selection of Sen. Kamala (pronounced COMMA-luh) Harris of California as his running mate — and clues they give us to how Biden would govern:

She was always at the top of his list. As I look back through my text threads with top Dems over the past five months, she was always assumed to be the most likely pick.