Daphne Koller - Cofounder, Coursera

Online learning, in the form of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, has become a massive business. At the university level, there's EdX, Udacity, and of course, Coursera. One of Coursera's cofounders, Daphne Koller, is a computer scientist at Stanford, who until recently, was best known for her research on artificial intelligence and machine learning. Coursera, however, is about human learning. The platform makes classes at the nation's top universities available online, to anyone, for free. Students can earn certificates, and the company is working toward translating those certificates int…