维多利亚?兰森姆

年龄：36岁

公司：社交营销公司Wildfire Interactive

创办时间：2008年

????兰森姆的职业生涯始于财富500强公司摩根士丹利（Morgan Stanley）的投资银行部门。随着2001年开始一轮轮裁员，她希望能有一份更好的事业，所以就与合伙人阿兰?查得（也是Wildfire的共同创始人）创办了探险旅行公司Access Trips。但2008年两位合伙人发现在Facebook推广公司抽奖活动很困难，于是意识到社交媒体所呈现的商业机会——Wildfire Interactive因此应运而生。（他们在2010年出售了Access Trips。）

????新西兰人兰森姆在创立Wildfire时刚刚从哈佛商学院（Harvard Business School）毕业——当时经济正在大幅下滑。虽然时局艰难，Wildfire公司仍成功实现了增长。过去4年，该公司已增长至约400名雇员。今年7月，财富500强公司谷歌（Google）收购了Wildfire公司，据报道收购额高达3.50亿美元。

Victoria Ransom

Age: 36

Company: Wildfire Interactive

Founded: 2008

????Ransom's career began at Morgan Stanley (MS, Fortune 500), where she worked in investment banking. As round after round of layoffs began in 2001, she hoped for something better in her career and founded adventure travel company Access Trips with her partner (and Wildfire co-founder) Alain Chuard. But after finding it difficult to market a company sweepstakes on Facebook (FB) in 2008, the two realized the business opportunity social media presented -- and Wildfire Interactive was born. (They sold Access Trips in 2010.)

????New Zealand-native Ransom had just graduated from Harvard Business School at Wildfire's inception -- and the economy was in serious decline. Nevertheless, Wildfire managed to grow despite the challenging times. The firm has grown to about 400 employees over the past four years and in July, Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) purchased Wildfire for a reported $350 million.