Companies spent an estimated $4 in 2016.
With that kind of money, the business technology market has created some of the most powerful people in tech this year. That's not just business power, either: Some of the market's biggest millionaires and billionaires also took up political causes this year, fighting the establishment in their own ways.
Meet the 32 people who left the biggest mark in
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