Martha Lane Fox

Online travel in Britain. Lane Fox co-founded lastminute.com in 1998 with Brent Hoberman, selling unsold flights, hotel rooms and theatre seats at short notice, which matched airlines' need to fill empty capacity with customers' wish for bargains. Its 2000 listing at the peak of the dot-com boom made it a symbol of British internet business. She later founded the think tank Doteveryone and sits in the House of Lords.