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</table><p><span>They are driven, innovative, intelligent and young. These leaders are wise beyond their years, have risen up in their industries and on their missions to become voices of their generation. From entrepreneurs to actresses and activists, below are the eight young leaders every business owner should watch and learn from in 2014.</span></p>
<h2>Malala Yousafzai, Education Activist, 16</h2>
<p>At the age of 11, Yousafzai was writing under a pseudonym for the BBC, detailing what it's like to live under Taliban rule. In 2009, <em>The New York Times</em> filmed a documentary about her life. Today, as a 16 year old, Yousafzai is an influential communicator and education activist. In October 2012, she was shot in the back of the head by Taliban gunmen, but survived the assassination attempt.</p>
<p>Yousafzai was the recipient of the UN 2013 Human Rights Prize and is the youngest person to have ever been a Nobel Prize nominee.</p>
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<h2>Rachel Haot, Technologist And Innovator, 30</h2>
<p>Born in Manhattan and raised in Park Slope, Brooklyn, it makes sense that Haot would end up working for the city of New York, which is exactly what happened. In 2011, Mayor Michael Bloomberg named Haot as the city's first chief digital officer. Her job? To think of big-picture ways to improve the lives of New Yorkers by implementing digital and high-tech initiatives.</p>
<p>This includes overseeing the city's official website (nyc.gov) and nearly 300 social media channels that reach approximately 6 million visitors monthly.</p>
<p>In December, <a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2013/12/8537606/cuomo-hires-bloomberg-digital-officer-rachel-haot" target="_blank">Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration</a> announced that Haot would be joining the team as deputy secretary for technology. "Rachel brings a proven track record of success from her work in both the public and private sectors, and I am confident that she will help take New York state's digital presence to the next level," <a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2013/12/8537606/cuomo-hires-bloomberg-digital-officer-rachel-haot">Cuomo </a><a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2013/12/8537606/cuomo-hires-bloomberg-digital-officer-rachel-haot">says</a>.</p>
<p>Before working for the city, Haot launched journalism platform GroundReport, digital consulting group Upward, and worked as a business developer for file-sharing site LimeWire. </p>
<p><div class="image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source">NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment</p></div></div></p>
<h2>Jennifer Lawrence, Actress, 23</h2>
<p>Just watch Lawrence on screen and you'll understand why she's one of the most sought-after actors of her generation. Despite her young age, her roles in films like <em>The Burning Plain</em> (2008), <em>Winter's Bone</em> (2010), and <em>Silver Linings Playbook</em>(2012) make her appear ageless. They've also earned her nominations for the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Satellite Award, Independent Spirit Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress.</p>
<p>In 2013, Lawrence was named one of <em>TIME</em>'s 100 most influential people in the world.</p>
<p><div class="image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source">Eric Charbonneau/Invision for Lionsgate/AP Images</p></div></div></p>
<h2>Jennifer Fleiss and Jennifer Hyman, Rent The Runway, 29 and 33</h2>
<p>As the co-founders of glamorous e-commerce venture <a href="http://www.renttherunway.com/">Rent the Runway</a>, Fleiss and Hyman have been everywhere. Their company, which has been compared to a "Netflix for fashion," is <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20130311/netflix-for-dresses-rent-the-runway-raises-4-4-million/" target="_blank">reportedly backed by approximately $55 million</a> in venture capital funding.</p>
<p>Both Fleiss and Hyman, who met at Harvard Business School, have been recognized on <em>Inc.</em>'s list of "Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30" and <em>Fast Company</em>'s "Most Influential Women" list in 2011.</p>
<p><div class="image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/k-ideas/4089502683/sizes/o/">Flickr via K-ideas</a></p><p class="caption">Jennifer Hyman and Jenny Fleiss co-founded Rent the Runway in 2009.</p></div></div></p>
<h2>Lena Dunham, Writer, Director And Actor, 27</h2>
<p>Dunham's a triple threat whose hit HBO show <em>Girls</em> has received nominations for Emmy Awards and won two Golden Globe Awards as of 2013. The show is set to return in 2014. Dunham, a feminist and voice of her generation, whether she wants to be or not, has recently received $3.5 million in advance for a collection of book essays.</p>
<p><div class="image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source">Jason Merritt/Getty</p></div></div></p>
<h2>Magnus Carlsen, Chess Champion, 22</h2>
<p><span>In November, Carlsen won the </span><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/magnus-carlsen-our-first-post-modern-chess-champion-2013-11" target="_blank">World Chess Championship</a><span> and currently has the highest peak rating in history. Carlsen started playing chess from a young age. He's often been called the "Prince of Chess" for his young age and aggressive style during competition.</span></p>
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<h2>Evan Spiegel, CEO Of Snapchat, 23</h2>
<p>Snapchat was just a neat photo app that young people used until it stirred headlines by reportedly <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-rejected-a-3-billion-all-cash-offer-from-facebook-2013-11" target="_blank">turning down a $3 billion all-cash buyout</a> from Facebook in 2013.</p>
<p>Spiegel's company handles more than 400 million photo messages on a daily basis, and the Pew Research<strong> </strong>Center reports that <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/why-the-multi-millionaire-ceo-of-800-million-startup-snapchat-still-lives-at-home-2013-11" target="_blank">9 percent</a> of all Americans who own cellphones use it.</p>
<p>Snapchat's upcoming investment will reportedly value the company at $3.6 billion.</p>
<p>Not bad for a 23 year old. </p>
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<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="The Beatles" title_caption="Vinyl: Apple's preferred business model." class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/557875a4dd08958a3d8b45be-960/91l7ue6wohl._sl1500_.jpg"><span class="sprites click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Suddenly anyone, anywhere could copy and send music for free as much as they wanted. Napster, and online digital music, basically destroyed the global music business, halving its revenues in less than 10 years through 2009.</p><p>Record label execs and musicians alike still suffer from the post-traumatic stress disorder of seeing the business they loved torn apart (and the money they made from it vanish). </p><p>This apocalypse is EVERYTHING that informs Apple's new Apple Music launch. </p><p>Note that red section in the chart above, of digital music sales.</p><p>That red bit is iTunes, basically. In the early 2000s, <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/how-steve-jobs-killed-free-music-2015-5">Apple persuaded all the record labels to agree</a> to the same deal: Sell your music through iTunes at the same price, 99 cents per song. </p><p>Digital music sales are the only piece of the pie that is growing. And the only reason they are growing is because Apple's <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/how-steve-jobs-killed-free-music-2015-5">iTunes downloads helped kill off Napster, Kazaa, Limewire</a> and the rest of the free music piracy business. The record labels sued Napster out of existence. And iTunes made it easier to buy music rather than search for free music. While that red chunk is small compared to the vinyl years, the point is that it was growing.</p><p>iTunes essentially rescued the old vinyl/CD industry agreement. </p><p>What started as an actual conspiracy over how to promote and sell vinyl was now a completely legal agreement that everyone in the music industry signed up to, even though they were supposed to be competing against each other. (<a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/apple-antitrust-lawsuit-on-itunes-and-ipod-2014-12">Some people do regard iTunes' price structure as an actual conspiracy</a>, but those people lost their case in court.)</p><p><strong>But then this happened:</strong></p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>By 2013, 21% of music industry revenues were NOT coming from Apple's iTunes downloads. They were coming from streaming services like Spotify and Pandora - a business that Apple had no part of. One record company, <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/its-official-music-streaming-is-finally-bigger-than-downloads-2015-5">Warner, even reported that its streaming revenues exceeded its paid download revenue</a>.</p><p>Worse, these services provided the streams for free in return for the users' agreement to listen to ads between songs, a bit like the radio.</p><p>From the consumers' position, it was like the return of Napster - free music!</p><p>And although music streaming provides some revenue to the labels, it doesn't provide a lot. Worse, it was literally killing iTunes. Look at this <a href="http://www.asymco.com/2015/01/22/bigger-than-hollywood/">chart of iTunes revenue over time broken out by format, from Asymco</a>.</p><p><strong>iTunes music sales are the green bit, which is clearly going nowhere or even getting smaller:</strong></p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>This is where vinyl history comes in.</p><p>When tech companies demonstrated that CDs were obviously going to be better than vinyl, record labels got on board because they knew consumers would still have to pay to listen. When Apple launched iTunes, record labels got on board for the same reason - consumers would have to pay to listen.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="AP" title_caption="Apple's Eddy Cue" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/51ba5001ecad047a7d000011-960/eddie-cue.jpg"><span class="sprites click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span></a><p class="source"><span>AP</span></p><p class="caption">Apple's Eddy Cue</p></div><p></p></div></div>Now Apple - which apparently still doesn't have all the label agreements it wants in place, <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jimmy-iovine-eddy-cue-talk-filling-the-hole-with-apple-music-20150608">according to Apple svp/internet software Eddy Cue</a> - has a new product that requires listeners to pay, again. There is no free streaming tier with Apple Music. It starts at $9.99 a month.</p><p>Unsurprisingly, record labels are mostly on board. Listeners have to pay. Streams are difficult to copy. Apple is going to get widespread agreement from artists that this is the way to go - no free streams.</p><p>It's not an illegal conspiracy just because everyone <em>agrees</em> to do the same thing. (Although some <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/apple-music-collusion-questions-2015-6">states attorneys general are investigating whether an illegal agreement</a> may have taken place.) But by amazing coincidence, just like in the days of vinyl and payola, you are going to find that everyone in the music business is totally on the same page again. </p><p><a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/jimmy-iovine-apple-music-real-agenda-2015-6">Apple is even offering artists leverage</a> to force this to happen. One of the most interesting bits of Apple Music is Connect, the artists' platform. Connect is a place inside Apple Music where artists can promote their songs and talk to their fans. It's a lot like MySpace, in concept. (Before you start laughing, bear in mind that a lot of smaller artists really liked MySpace for this reason in its early years, and they still miss its presence today.)</p><p>A band can release a song for free in Connect before any other platform, or put it on sale in iTunes before anywhere else, or have it available to stream for the Apple Music fee before anywhere else. For a lot of bands, that will be a powerful incentive to be inside Apple Music and on Connect. It adds another way for bands to reach fans and let people discover their music.</p><p>Here is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/09/apple-music-interview-jimmy-iovine-eddy-cue">Eddy Cue in The Guardian</a>:</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">"Our viewpoint was very simple: let the artist and label control it. They can put it up on Connect for free if they want to, or they can put it up behind the [subscription] paywall, or they can make it available on the </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/itunes" class=" u-underline" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag">iTunes</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> Store for sale. They're in control of their music and how they want to distribute it," says Cue.</span></p><p>So now you have a situation where Apple is saying, "Hey music people! We rescued you from Napster with iTunes. Now let us rescue you from Spotify with Apple Music."</p><p>It's the same deal - everyone pays - but with bells on. Artists get a free MySpace to help them shift units.</p><p>So, yes, there is every reason to believe this is going to work. That mush of features inside Apple Music isn't a mark of confusion or disorganisation.</p><p>It's Apple's very focused vinyl music strategy all over again.  </p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-ios-9-new-features-2015-6">The 12 best new features coming to the iPhone</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="5maTJrdTpgHbMWUI2q_PxsufXl1FPqkr" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

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<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span>Mike Nudelman </span></p></div><p></p></div></p>
<p>There's a fierce fight between ridesharing app startups and the taxi companies currently raging around the country and I think I know a way to make peace, let both sides walk away with a win, and most importantly, give the riding public the best of all worlds.  </p>
<p>This taxi tiff reminds me of the fights over Napster and other music download services that I had a front row seat for during my time in Congress. Back then, Steve Jobs was the one who managed to bridge the gap between the startup upstarts and the record labels. Borrowing a page from his playbook could similarly lead to a solution here.   </p>
<p>Steve is no longer with us, but I think there's someone else who can step up and play his role in this rideshare row-Rahm Emanuel. So, how does the Chicago mayor morph into the cab world's answer to Steve Jobs? Allow me to explain.   </p>
<p>In this case, Uber, Lyft, Hailo and Sidecar and others that let you hail cabs on a smartphone are like a modern version of the old filesharing  companies.  They are giving consumers something they want delivered in a format they want for a really sweet price. The discounts they offer might not be as cheap as a House of Pain song was on Limewire in 2001, but being able to get across Manhattan for $6 is pretty close. And just as Napster was illegal, it is pretty clear that the Ubers of the world are operating in a legal grey area in a lot of cities that have laid down clear legal markers about requirements for cars, drivers, insurance and other tools of the trade.    </p>
<p>Up to now, sadly, the taxi medallion owners have responded to this challenge like the record companies did in the 2000's - with bluster, outrage and their own lobbyists and lawyers. And like the record companies, they have run up a pretty impressive list of states, localities and courts that have heeded their demands that these upstarts stop.   </p>
<p>However, I believe the taxi industry should lay down arms in the regulation wars. They should learn the lesson of the music industry and go into the e-hail business themselves.   </p>
<p>While record companies were fighting a death battle to protect their business model of CDs sold at record stores, they missed a chance to adapt and become leaders in the a la carte cheap download world that Napster had created. It was Jobs with his iTunes platform who eventually showed the way for the music industry to make money in a world where MP3s were king. Jobs also showed that consumers would opt for a well-regulated and legal model even if the price point isn't zero.  </p>
<p>Cab companies have a chance to adopt a similar strategy. They should lose the obsession with requiring the ridesharing companies to comply with every single requirement that is imposed on medallion cabs.  The yellows may have good arguments for their positions, but if these startups want to have drivers with insufficient insurance or illegally use private cars for commercial purposes, leave it to the inevitable backlash to eventually get those minimum standards raised.  </p>
<p>Rather than locking horns with the rideshare companies, the taxi industry should work on joining them in allowing customers to hail their cares with apps and smartphones. Would the taxis be able to compete if given similar tools? Maybe not in terms of price, but they have other advantages. The regulatory corner cutting of the ridesharing companies has no doubt already given many riders pause amid increasing stories of incidents in their cars including <a href="" http:="" valleywag.gawker.com="" the-357-uber-ride-1485175707="">wild surge pricing</a>, drivers <a href="" http:="" valleywag.gawker.com="" facebook-iming-while-driving-is-not-a-good-look-for-ube-1561753736="">using Facebook chat while on the go</a>, and even <a href="" http:="" www.thedailybeast.com="" articles="" uber-s-biggest-problem-isn-t-surge-pricing-what-if-it-s-sexual-harassment-by-drivers.html="">alleged sexual harassment</a> by unlicensed Uber drivers. The better trained, more experienced, and yes, more regulated drivers make a better option for the rider choosing based on quality and safety rather than simply the lowest price.  </p>
<p>Some readers may recall my column last month where I criticized Tesla for not respecting existing regulations in its attempts to sell cars directly to consumers without using franchise dealers. So, why am I encouraging the taxi companies to adapt to a new model rather than fight to the finish to defend existing regulations? In Tesla's case, they want rules changed in a way that could eliminate dealers, who lawmakers decided offer consumers added value by helping to enforce warranty agreements and spread competitive pricing. In this case, the taxi companies are the ones who have been targeted by the "disruptors. Just as with Tesla, I'm not suggesting taxi owners ignore laws or the courts, but they also shouldn't ignore the innovations of their competitors.  </p>
<p>Sadly, I don't see the licensed cab companies adopting this approach. The battle lines are drawn too starkly and both the cab industry and its regulators seem perfectly happy with the status quo.  Medallion prices are at record levels and regulators are being leaned on pretty hard to, well, regulate.      </p>
<p>I say sadly because I have friends in the taxi business.  They supported me in a big way when I was running for various offices and I have advised them for money from time to time since I left Congress. Although there are some true innovators in the yellow cab world, given how many lawsuits are pending around the country right now as part of this debate, I doubt I will keep many friends in the industry after this column. However, in spite of the seemingly entrenched opposition, I'm certain the industry is missing a big opportunity here.  </p>
<p>This is where Steve Jobs and Rahm Emanuel come in.   </p>
<p>It was Apple, a third party, who eventually figured out how to help the music business live with - and even love - the MP3. Just as Apple dragged the record labels into a profitable, digital future with iTunes and paved the way for other services like Rhapsody, Pandora and Spotify, I think it's going to need to be a third party that steps in and shows the taxi industry how to work with new technology rather than against it.  </p>
<p>Someone is going to be the Steve Jobs of this Uber / Taxi battle and I think Emanuel's the guy.</p>
<p>The grand bargain is there for the making and the Mayor of Chicago is probably smart enough to realize it.  (And I'm not just saying that because I have a soft spot for overbearing big city politicians with Clinton ties.) ?</p>
<p>The deal would look like this: leave the rideshares largely alone.  Maybe insist on some insurance minimum and some baseline requirements of the drivers and cars, but let them be.  Don't treat them like full-fledged taxis like most medallion owners are clamoring for. If these startups want to continue to subsidize fares or experiment with pricing models, more power to them.  </p>
<p>But here's the Steve Jobs part. Cities should be the ones who create the taxi world's version of iTunes. Municipal governments can create and require a single city branded medallion taxi e-hail app.  Since the tracking technology is already a part of most big city cab fleets and most cities already require credit card readers, the technological backbone is already in the cars for cities to get into the rideshare app business.  Taxi's are essentially extensions of the mass transit in a city like so why shouldn't they create easy ways to access, track and pay for that infrastructure?   </p>
<p>It also would be a boon to the city as it would let them collect travel data and help improve access to service in neighborhoods that have been underserved by encouraging drivers to make more far flung trips by giving them more confidence they could find return fares from places with less busy street traffic. Of course, an app could also be an excellent revenue source for a city who wants to sell advertising or use the tracking data and rider smartphone feedback to improve enforcement.</p>
<p>The rideshare companies benefit here too. Not only do they get to keep their cars on the road, but they could bid for the contracts to build and run the apps for the cities that have them. Of course, most importantly, consumers win here because they get to hail the entire universe of cabs from both medallion and startup fleets right on their phones.</p>
<p>?There is nothing special about Chicago. This city branded taxi app could work in Boston, San Francisco, New York or really anywhere that has a regulated fleet. However, Chicago is currently examining the issue of rideshare regulations and no one could ever accuse Emanuel of lacking the elbows necessary to push through legislation over the objections of an entrenched interest. The question is whether Emanuel has the vision of a Jobs and is willing to make peace between the warring cab factions by giving the taxi world and all of us its version of iTunes.</p>

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