Wired25 Portraits
Street photographer Michelle Groskopf criss-crossed the country to shoot everyone from Mark Zuckerberg to Bill Gates.
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Michelle Groskopf03__Susan Wojcicki__, YouTube CEO
Michelle Groskopf04__Sebastian Thrun__, computer scientist
Michelle Groskopf05__Jiwoo Lee__, Stanford sophomore
Michelle Groskopf06__Jony Ive__, Apple’s chief design officer
Michelle Groskopf07__Elizabeth Blackburn__, Nobel-winning biologist
Michelle Groskopf08__Sean Parker__, Napster cofounder
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Michelle Groskopf10__Jennifer Doudna__, Crispr codiscoverer
Michelle Groskopf11__Kai-Fu Lee__, AI pioneer-turned-VC
Michelle Groskopf12__Anand Giridharadas__, author of *Winners Take All*
Michelle Groskopf13__Mark Zuckerberg__, Facebook cofounder
Michelle Groskopf14__Keller Rinaudo__, CEO of Zipline
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Michelle Groskopf16__Evan Sharp__, head of design, product, and marketing at Pinterest
Michelle Groskopf17__Fei-Fei Li__, AI researcher and activist
Michelle Groskopf18__Jewel Burks__, cofounder of Partpic
Michelle Groskopf19__Jill Tarter__, SETI Institute cofounder
Michelle Groskopf20__Marc Benioff__, founder of Salesforce
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Michelle Groskopf22__Jenny Lay-Flurrie__, Microsoft chief accessibility officer
Michelle Groskopf23__Shivani Siroya__, founder and CEO of Tala
Michelle Groskopf24__Sundar Pichai__, Google CEO
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Michelle Groskopf27__Satya Nadella__, Microsoft CEO
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