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There's a misconception that Silicon Valley is all about creating frivolous apps and getting paid buckets of money to do it while working in a frat house. Some of the brogrammer culture does exist in pockets, but it doesn't define the cradle of innovation where thousands work and create in Silicon Valley. Instead, after months of research and debate, Business Insider is proud to present the Silicon Valley 100, our annual list of the people who matter most and define what it means to be in Silicon Valley. This isn't another who's who list based on long-standing reputation; rather it is a look at who made a difference in the past year. These are the star executives breaking new ground at companies, the venture capitalists who did more than make big bets on the future, and the companies that want to change industries and your life. Did we miss anyone?

Let us know in the comments below, because we love telling stories about amazing people. Additional reporting by Kaitlyn Yarborough, Tanza Loudenback, and Alexa Pipia. Edited by Alex Morrell and Matt Rosoff.

Steve Jennings/Getty Images Tech investor and NBA player Iguodala plays for the Golden State Warriors, the NBA team owned by a spate of VCs, including Chamath Palihapitiya of Social Capital and Joe Lacob of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Ben Horowitz, whom Iguodala describes as a 'total brainiac,' has taken the NBA free agent under his wing, teaching him about portfolio management.

Iguodala has invested in the stocks of Facebook, Twitter, and Tesla, and he appeared at Tech Crunch Disrupt in September. Cofounder and CEO, In March, the food-delivery startup DoorDash — but it did so in a down round, meaning the company raised money at a lower valuation than it previously held. The investment exemplifies the difficulty DoorDash and comparable startups in Silicon Valley are facing to secure funding as investors have grown wary of on-demand businesses. But Xu, holding on to the declaration that DoorDash is in good shape.

The three-year-old startup is operating in 25 cities, has deals with major chains like Taco Bell, and recently expanded into alcohol delivery. The company also has another edge in the food-delivery space, though: Unlike other meal-delivery services, DoorDash provides its own drivers, which makes it possible to order from on places like GrubHub, giving users more variety. Cloudera CEO, Cloudera, a software company launched in 2008 that aims to help businesses —, in fact — make sense of huge data sets, has raised. Investors include Intel, Google Ventures, and MSD Capital.

The company has been considering an initial public offering for more than a year to maintain its dominance in the market, but Reilly that Cloudera would enter the public market only 'when we've reached the right scale, when the business is more predictable, when there's greater visibility.' They may have good reason to wait a while longer: Fidelity, another investor in the company, marked down the value of in March.

Not Pictured: Holloway. Anthony Harvey/Getty Images Cofounders, CloudFlare handles 10% of the internet's traffic, giving it a lot of quiet control over the web.

In April, to widely activate a technology that lets webpages and apps load as much as 15% faster, potentially shaving precious seconds off of your search time. It will take a year for the speed boost to come to full fruition, but it could usher in a new class of web applications when it does. The company's internet dominance has attracted the eyes of investors.

In September in a round led by Fidelity and joined by Google Capital, Microsoft, Baidu, and Qualcomm Ventures. Wikimedia Commons Founder, Niel, the French billionaire, in the heart of Silicon Valley with a $100 million fund. In the next five years, the school, called 42, is expected to have 10,000 students. Niel started the program as a tuition-free college alternative primarily focused on teaching coding and entrepreneurial thinking. A high-school dropout, Niel founded the first 42 school in Paris in 2013. The US version has garnered support from Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel, Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey, and Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield.

Steve Jennings/Getty Images Founder, When investors want to find the next big thing to sweep Silicon Valley, they turn to Product Hunt, a community review website where users can upvote and downvote new tech products and companies. A feature on the site can, and as the, Hoover holds the power to determine what is and is not cool. That power turned Product Hunt into a hot startup itself, and the tech darling has in funding to date. In the past year the company also to make it even easier to monitor and browse the site, and it launched, which allows people congregate online and learn about the tech world straight from startup founders. Wikimedia Commons Corporate VP of Outlook, Soltero has accomplished a lot in a very short time: His startup Acompli was purchased by Microsoft in late 2014.

By January 2015, Acompli had been rebranded Outlook Mobile, and it went on to win acclaim as one of the best ways to handle your email and calendars on iPhone and Android devices. With that success under his belt, Soltero was named corporate vice president of Microsoft Outlook less than a year later, guiding development of the ubiquitous productivity software across PCs, tablets, phones, and beyond. Nest CEO, Fawaz joined Nest, which is part of Google's parent company, Alphabet, after CEO Tony Fadell stepped down in June. As the new face of Nest, Fawaz is tasked with turning the company around after its tumultuous year, which included product issues and complaints about Fadell's management. Previously, Fawaz repositioned the Motorola Home business as its president, streamlining products and services and leading the transaction process to sell the business unit to Arris for $2.35 billion in 2013. Thumbtack Inc Cofounder and CEO, In September, Zappacosta's startup Thumbtack, a platform that matches professionals like personal trainers or electricians with potential customers, raised $125 million, pushing its valuation to $1.3 billion and giving the startup unicorn status. As a competitor to Angie's List or Yelp, Thumbtack is a startup that is helping usher in the era of freelance work.

Jeb Bush last July during his presidential run to take a look at the sharing economy while making his rounds in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jess Lee / Polyvore Cofounder and CEO, Yahoo bought the social shopping site Polyvore last July reportedly for a price of about $200 million, saying the company's expertise in community-driven experiences and retailer-supported commerce paired with Yahoo's premium content showed 'amazing potential.' Lee said Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer had a part in shaping her career when she interviewed Lee for Google's elite associate product manager program back in the early 2000s. Since it joined the Yahoo family, Polyvore, an area that Pinterest is also aggressively going after. Talia Jane/Twitter Ex-employee, Jane, a former Yelp employee, sparked conversations in Silicon Valley when she wrote an to Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman claiming that some of his employees just couldn't make ends meet; hours later,. Her missive noted that she made only $8. Architectural Graphic Standards 4.0 Cd-Rom Torrent. 15 an hour after taxes, claiming she couldn't afford groceries and that 'bread is a luxury' to her. Her letter not only went viral, but it also made tech companies confront whether they were paying a living wage in light of San Francisco's dizzying rent prices. Brian Ach/Getty Images CEO, Described as the ',' Github's rapidly growing software development network is made up of. With more than 38 million projects available on the site, Github has become one of the largest communities of software developers on the web.

Last summer, Github raised, bringing total funding to $350 million and raising its. As for the future? Wanstrath in October that he wanted to make it easier for anyone to become a developer, and to do that he wants to focus on improving Github's service. Noah Berger/Reuters, Robert Galbraith/Reuters, and Justin Sullivan/Getty CEO (Hurd and Catz), CTO and founder (Ellison), In the first year since Ellison, the Oracle founder and chairman, stepped down as CEO — he moved to the role of chief technology officer and was succeeded by co-CEOs Hurd and Catz — the company has set off on a startup-buying spree. In its fifth and most recent acquisition of 2016, Oracle, a cloud-based energy-management company used by more than half of the world's largest utility companies, for $532 million.

Before that it, Textura, for $663 million, expanding its offerings in the construction industry. Though Oracle's cloud business is still just a fraction of the company's overall revenue, it could lead Oracle to become the first cloud-computing business to reach $10 billion in revenue. In 2015, earning nearly $57 million.

Marketo CEO, Marketo had been public for three years, but that never stopped the speculation that it was a ripe target for M&A. The rumors were finally put to an end in May after the private-equity firm Vista Equity Partners bought Marketo's remaining shares of common stock for $1.79 billion. Fernandez said the all-cash deal would 'allow Marketo to continue to focus on customer success and to remain the independent category leader.' Before Marketo, Fernandez was an executive at Epiphany and Red Brick Systems and helped launch a few successful initial public offerings. Sherpa Capital Cofounder and managing director, Pishevar was the person who persuaded Elon Musk to release his plans for the Hyperloop super-fast transportation system to the public back in 2013, and he is now the chairman of Hyperloop One, a startup that is trying to make Musk's vision real. Pishevar is best known for his early investment in Uber back when everyone thought the ride-hailing company was overhyped, and, well, we all know how that turned out.

Between his investments as a VC and his personal angel investments, he has had a stake in a huge list of other startups, including Klout, Parse, TaskRabbit, Tumblr, Warby Parker, and Washio.