The Next Establishment

Ten up-and-comers to keep an eye on

MAX CHAFKIN

Jason Blum

AGE: 44

Since 2009's first installment, Blumhouse'sParanormal Activity franchise has grossed more than $700 million worldwide—and Blum also produced The Purge, this summer's surprise hit.

Neil Blumenthal and David Gilbon

AGES: 32, 32

Warby Parker,

co-founded by the Wharton classmates, sells low-cost, highfashion eyeglass frames online and in a fast-expanding chain of retail stores.

Patrick and JohnCollison

AGES: 25, 23

The Irish brothers have created Stripe, a next-generation PayPal that makes it easier for Web sites to accept credit cards.

John Elkann

AGE: 37

Since taking over Exor, the Italian industrial conglomerate, the Agnelli scion has been credited with stoking the turnarounds at Fiat and Chrysler, which he plans to formally merge next year.

Julia and Kevin Hartz

AGES: 33,44

The couple co-founded Eventbrite—an online ticket service, which charges substantially lower fees than Ticketmaster—and have to date raised some $140 million from investors.

Jan Koum

AGE: 37

Koum co-founded WhatsApp, which offers a 99-cent app allowing users to send an unlimited number of text messages for free with a measure of privacy and has more users than Twitter.

Bill Maris

AGE: 38

Maris and his partners at Google Ventures have put the engine's V.C. arm on the map, not least with its recent, jaw-dropping $258 million investment, with TPG, in Uber, the caron-demand service.

Chaitanya Kanojia

AGE: 43

Kanojia's Aereo, which counts Barry Diller as an investor, aims to blow up the network-TV business by plucking broadcast signals out of the airwaves and transmitting them to viewers over the Web for $8 a month.

Nicholas Woodman

AGE: 38

GoPro—the maker of wearable cameras popular with extreme athletes, Hollywood action impresarios, and the military—was founded by Woodman and recently valued at more than $2 billion.

Deena Varshavskaya

AGE: 33

Varshavskaya's "social commerce" site, Wanelo, has a user base that is growing rapidly—10 million users, up from I million last November—and raised $11 million earlier this year in V.C. funding.