{"id":958,"date":"2015-04-27T05:50:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T05:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritzsf.com\/?p=958"},"modified":"2022-09-30T11:11:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T11:11:27","slug":"search-finding-bay-area-tech-innovator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spritzsf.com\/spritzbits\/search-finding-bay-area-tech-innovator\/","title":{"rendered":"The Search: Finding the Next Bay Area Tech Innovator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood and New York have stolen the spotlight from us for far too long. It&#8217;s now our time to shine.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.madametussauds.com\/SanFrancisco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Madame Tussauds San Francisco<\/a> brings back the spotlight to the Bay Area through launching a quest to find the next Tech Innovator to join\u00a0current icons Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs in the World Influencers room of Madame Tussauds San Francisco this fall.<\/p>\n<p>After an outpour of public interest and hundreds of nominations through the open nominations, April 14th\u00a0\u2013 April 23rd, Madame Tussauds has narrowed the contenders to the 10 individuals who received the most nominations.<\/p>\n<p>The top ten\u00a0contenders\u00a0for the coveted figure space:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elon_Musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Elon Musk<\/strong> <\/a>of Tesla and SpaceX,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.exploratorium.edu\/about\/history\/frank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Frank Oppenheimer<\/a> of Exploratorium,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jane_Metcalfe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Jane Metcalfe<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong> of Wired Magazine,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Wozniak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Steve Wozniak<\/a> of Apple,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/fdc\/welcome_mjx.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Marc Benioff<\/a> of Salesforce,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Lucas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">George Lucas<\/a> of Lucasfilm,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/larry-page\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Lawrence \u201cLarry\u201d Page<\/a> of Google,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/sheryl-sandberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Sheryl Sandberg<\/a> of Facebook,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marissa_Mayer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Marissa Mayer<\/a> of Yahoo, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edwin_Catmull\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Edwin Catmull<\/a> of Pixar.<\/p>\n<p>The poll will close\u00a0May 19th, and the winner will be announced\u00a0May 26, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood and New York have stolen the spotlight from us for far too long. 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