The Esquire Register: 37 People Under 35 Who Are Reshaping the World

He started Reddit with a friend nine years ago, and now it's the dominant media hub for anyone under thirty (fifty-six billion page views last year). And he's become one of our most outspoken champions of free speech: "My entire career has been built on the understanding that I am not the smartest person in the room," he says.

Founder—at age fifteen—and current editor of the online magazine Rookie, a virtual campfire around which her fellow digital-native teen women can ask their elders (see the "Ask a Grown Man" videos) and peers how to flirt, cry, look, crush on, fart, ignore, grow older, and, maybe most important, question. Also: a damn good young actor acclaimed for her performances in last year's Enough Said and in the current revival of This Is Our Youth on Broadway.

Sure, he's known for being a bit of a douche. But if you were largely responsible for toppling the music industry (Napster), forever changing how we interact with the Internet and fellow humans (Facebook), and legitimizing Justin Timberlake's acting career (The Social Network), you might be a little bit of a douche yourself. His influence has yet to show any signs of slowing—when he served as managing partner of the Founders Fund, he also got involved with companies like SpaceX, Oculus VR, Airbnb, and Lyft.

Former NSA contractor. Leaker of classified documents. Activist who dropped one of the biggest rocks into the twenty-first-century pond. Now living in exile in Russia, but still game for an impromptu party chat.

An avatar of the digital age. Did she knowingly harness the power of narcissism and celebrity obsession through social media and reality TV? Was it the master plan of her mother, Kris Jenner? Whatever it was, this year Kim married Kanye and six million people watched a Keeping Up With the Kardashians wedding special; she posted the most Instagrammed photo of all time; she started her mobile app, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, which is expected to make $200 million; and she broke the Internet. Go ahead—say she's famous for no reason.

More than a seventh of the earth's population is on Facebook, driving profits from $53 million in 2012 to $1.5 billion last year—and Zuckerberg's personal wealth to more than $30 billion.

Came to the United States from Mexico with a pregnant girlfriend and, while waiting for his green card, hacked a Wii remote into a drone and a toaster into a microchip-to-circuit-board oven in his garage, thereby precipitating his cofounding of what is now the biggest commercial drone manufacturer in North America, 3D Robotics, at the age of 23.

By creating Dropbox—a free idiotproof Web-based filesharing service used by more than three hundred million people—they granted even the most hopeless technophobes access to the Cloud. By developing paid Dropbox applications for four million businesses, they landed in a position to make billions on the inevitable IPO.

She's the highest-paid black musician of all time, selling 75 million albums and winning seventeen Grammys. But she's also become a feminist icon by convincing everyone not that the sexes are equal but that everyone is equally inferior to Beyoncé.

The bond trader turned photographer behind the wildly popular Humans of New York, a blog containing more than seven thousand street photos of New Yorkers with funny, random, and/or poignant quotes from the subjects, effectively slowed down the ever-accelerating Web, forcing readers to pause, just for a moment, to contemplate our shared humanity. Last year, he turned it into a hugely best-selling book. This year, the UN sent him on a "world tour" to accomplish the same thing with the rest of the planet.

An art-school student who cofounded Airbnb six years ago and in so doing became one of the high priests of the so-called sharing economy, spreading throughout the land his gospel of "Fuck hotels." Which he seems to be doing. Airbnb has far more rooms for rent—more than 800,000 in 190 countries— than any hotel chain has had in history.

Many religions oppose the things that millennials value— like equal rights, contraception, and iPhone use during ceremonial gatherings. But Lentz, the tatted-up Bieber-baptizing pastor of Hillsong NYC, a megachurch that attracts around 6,000 young New Yorkers every week, has become the hipster Joel Osteen by embracing the culture war instead of fighting it: "What in God's name is so insecure that you can't handle someone else's view of your establishment?" he says.

Actor. Leading man. Like Steve McQueen, only nice. And looks good dressed in a suit while holding a dog.

He became the new boy-king of the recorded-music industry as the cofounder of Spotify, the streaming-music service that houses more than 20 million songs and, since March 2013, has seen its user total (now 40 million) increase by 15 million— ten times the number of physical albums sold in all of 2013.

Cofounders of Warby Parker, the fast-growing (mostly) online purveyor of stylish glasses that cost about a third of what the competition charges. Represents the characteristic millennial thirst for guilt-free capitalism by donating one pair for every pair sold.

From his first days blogging about politics as a teenager, Klein went on to launch and run Wonkblog at The Washington Post, which made him a star. But then, taking a gamble that his personal brand was more valuable than his ties to a giant legacy media outlet, he quit to start his own richly funded explanatory news site, Vox.com, earlier this year.

She broke through with Winter's Bone, really broke through with The Hunger Games, and won an Oscar for her performance in Silver Linings Playbook. She also reminded us that even in an age of toxic celebrity coverage, it's still possible for a major star to be a human being without getting hounded out of town.

She started out, as you'd expect, bullied, growing up transgendered in Mobile, Alabama. Attempted suicide at eleven. Got into performance after that to help her cope. Moved to New York. Picked up stray roles. Played a prostitute seven times. Appeared on I Want to Work for Diddy in 2008, which made her the first trans woman on an American reality TV show. Broke through playing Sophia Burset on Orange Is the New Black, which made her the first trans woman to be nominated for an acting Emmy and then the first to get the cover of Time magazine. She is both of the times and dragging them doggedly forward, heartened by the progress and still pissed by how far there is to go. *Cox's age is a closely guarded secret, with estimates ranging from somewhere in her early 30s to around 40.

He tapped into every Clevelander's fear that everyone, in the end, will leave Cleveland. And then he made everyone feel better by coming back humbled, to make things right.

She made her first film, Tiny Furniture, in 2010; got her own show, the beloved/ maligned Girls, in 2012; and received a $3.7 million advance for her memoir. She has no pedestal, no filter, no restraint, often no pants, and has done more than most to normalize the absurdity of the human organism.