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Young Moguls: 20 Outstanding Entrepreneurs Under 35

Red Herring recently recognized 20 outstanding tech entrepreneurs under 35 ( Fark readers pointed out, some seemingly obvious choices like Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, both age 32, are noticeably absent from the list):

Jorge Lopez Ceballos (Seville, Spain) - The serial entrepreneur founder of Mastercom, Hergos Sistemas, Interfinancial, Interaffinity, Medianna, and Urbitas says, "I’d get bored if I weren’t starting new companies."

Jeff Chen (China) - This visionary took browser wrapper MyIE and turned it into a thriving business, Maxthon.

Chen Tianqiao (China) - The founder of $2-billion online gaming company Shanda Interactive now aims to make China's first home entertainment console.

Anurag Dikshit (India) - The author of the software for the phenomenally successful Party Poker site earned an instant $770 million selling some of his shares when his company, Party Gaming, entered the London Stock Exchange. And it's pronounced "Dixit".

Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield (Vancouver, Canada) - This husband-and-wife team sold their photo-sharing site Flickr to Yahoo in April for an undisclosed (and presumably large) amount of cash.

Dennis Fong (Menlo Park, CA, USA) - The undefeated Quake world champion developed XFire to help online gamers connect find friends based on who's online and opponents based on skill level.

Justin Frankel (San Francisco, CA, USA) - The creator of the popular Winamp MP3 player and Gnutella, the P2P software underlying Kazaa, Grokster, and other file-sharing systems, continues to crank out innovations in digital music at his new company, Cockos.

Darren Hammell (Princeton, NJ, USA) - After winning an entrepreneurship contest at Princeton, he and two of his engineering classmates founded Princeton Power Systems and are now landing contracts to cut power consumption on industrial motors, which consume 60 percent of the world's electricity.

Scott Hirsch (San Francisco, CA, USA) - The founder of Management Innovation Group helps companies rethink their management and communication styles in ways that foster innovation.

Philip Kaplan (San Francisco, CA, USA) - The f***edcompany.com founder's latest venture, AdBrite, aims to become the equivalent of eBay for online advertising.

Paul Kocher (San Francisco, CA, USA) - This self-taught cryptography expert is the founder of Cryptography Research and creator of SSL-3, the standard security protocol used in most online credit card purchases.

Karsten Kuhla (Germany) - Riding the huge growth of mobile devices, FileAnts allows users to easily connect to and view their email, files, calendars, etc., regardless of what application they were created in.

Rob Malda, aka "CmdrTaco" (Ann Arbor, MI, USA) - The creator of Slashdot, which eternally changed the nature of the web, is the geek's geek: Linux, D&D, Anime, Sci Fi, etc. He even proposed to his wife with a post on Slashdot.

Michael Merhej (Austin, TX, USA) - The creator of Audiogalaxy, one of the first file-sharing systems, is helping find professional applications for P2P with FolderShare.

Rafael Romay (Spain) - His company, AnaFocus plans to tap into the burgeoning security industry with its real-time video processing chips, which can, for example, "detect each person wearing a red coat who passed in front of the camera lens in the past 24 hours".

Dave Samuel (Silicon Valley, CA, USA) - This serial entrepreneur and hist partner sold Internet radio company Spinner.com to AOL for $320 million in 1999. Now he's into private file-sharing (Grouper) and high-tech toilets (Brondell).

Ben and Mena Trott (San Francisco, CA, USA) - The king and queen of blogging, the creators of blog softare MovableType have expanded their company, Six Apart, to include blog hosting services TypePad and LiveJournal, boasting over 10 million users worldwide.

Evan Williams (San Francisco, CA, USA) - Perhaps the other most influential technologist in blogging, the creator of Blogger, which helped make blogging mainstream, is hoping to do the same for podcasting with his new business, Odeo.

Vicky Wu (Cambridge, MA, USA) - The founder of startup Froghop is working with several online games to bring their virtual worlds to mobile devices.

Andrew Zolli (Brooklyn, NY, USA) - His strategy and forecasting firm, Z+ Partners, helps companies anticipate and respond to impending market and societal changes.