Well, some of them anyway. Each year, Businessweek’s Bloomberg 50 list introduces you to people in business, entertainment, finance, politics, science and technology whose work helped define the year. The 2022 list includes familiar names doing new things (Tom Cruise) and new names doing historic things (Tom Oxley, whose company invented an implant that lets users communicate with brain waves).

Bloomberg 50 editor Bret Begun and a host of reporters join today's episode to share highlights from the list and talk about how the team made their picks.

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