MARQUES BROWNLEE

Age: 27 • YouTuber

“If you had asked me 10 years ago if I would ever get to 1 million subscribers, I would have said probably not,” Brownlee admits. Today, a mere million seems like nothing. More than 12.8 million fans now subscribe to Brownlee’s gadget reviews and tech-industry analysis on MKBHD, his YouTube channel. “It blows my mind every day how many people are actually interested in tech.” With his videos attracting 700 million views in the past year, Brownlee earned $5 million or so. He’s come far from his first videos, in which he did things like review the 17inch HP Pavilion laptop he purchased in high school. Now he’s center stage, interviewing such luminaries as Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.

JUDGES: Suchit Dash, cofounder, Dubsmash; Rhett McLaughlin and Charles Lincoln Neal III, YouTubers; Turner Novak, general partner, Gelt Venture Capital; Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder, Bumble