Rule No. 2: Current Influence With customers, Wall Street, and the industry at large.
Rule No. 3: Vision for Storage Networking In other words, addicted to it and not about to retire anytime soon.
Rule No. 4: Rules Subject to Change We can introduce a new rule whenever we feel like it.
To all those on the first list: Congratulations. But hold on, Mr. Hot Stuff. Like our Top Ten Private Companies list, we won't be able to resist dabbling in it from time to time, so don't get too comfortable. Should anyone on this list slip up, we will boot them off. If we discover things about them that don't add up, they're history.
There are a few folks who nearly made it, until we realized they are probably the very executives their companies' PR firms would have nominated. These people belong in our Missed-the-Cut Bucket for now. It's possible they will redeem themselves and make it onto the list, particularly if someone on the current Top Ten puts their foot in it.
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