If you can get under the hoodie of an Internet baron, beyond the daylight-deficient, I’ve-got-to-stop-eating-the-free-snacks physique, and truly scratch their psyche, you will learn one thing: they all see themselves as James Bond—a dashing and dangerous rogue whose razor wit, superior intellect, and steel-eyed determination alone can save the world.

For the rest of us, however, this self-image raises the specter of a Bond villain—a man with outlandish plans, unlimited finances, and the unquenchable ambition to remake the world according to his vision. As a screenwriter who has been lucky enough to create an actual Bond villain, what follows is a dossier on the tech moguls who might be the next Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

Tim Cook, C.E.O., Apple

Major Bond-villain attribute: Forcing people to “upgrade” every two years.

Lair: The new Norman Foster–designed Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California.

Fiendishly clever genius assistant: Jony Ive.

Henchmen: Bespectacled Genius Bar workers, backed by millions of Apple fanboys.

Secret weapon: Siri.

Thorns in his side: Microsoft Windows, Google Android, Apple Watch skeptics, Taylor Swift, and Brussels-based European anti-trust regulators.

Grand scheme: To brick all the world’s electronics that operate outside the Apple ecosystem.

Third-act moment of confrontation: “Just one more thing: with a simple swipe of my finger, we will teach the world to ‘think different.’ Now tell me, Siri, how shall we dispose of Mr. Bond?”

Elon Musk, C.E.O., Tesla, SpaceX; Chairman, SolarCity

Photo-Illustration by Ben Park; By Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images.

Major Bond-villain attributes: Born in South Africa. Harnesses the sun. Plans to colonize Mars.

Lair: His ocean-based landing platform for reusable SpaceX rockets.

Henchmen: Hordes of fanatical Tesla owners.

Secret weapon: The 700 m.p.h. Hyperloop ground-based transportation system/getaway platform.

Thorns in his side: Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origins space program; automobile dealerships and state attorneys general fighting against direct-to-buyer car sales.

Character-revealing quote: “It’s remarkable how many things you can explode. I’m lucky I have all my fingers.”

Grand scheme: Creating the future.

Third-act moment of confrontation: “Your Aston Martin is no match for a Tesla, Mr. Bond—no more than your federally funded space programs are a match for SpaceX. Believe me when I tell you, Mr. Bond, I will own Mars.”

Travis Kalanick, C.E.O., Uber

Photo-Illustration by Ben Park; By Steve Jennings/Getty Images.

Major Bond-villain attribute: After dropping out of U.C.L.A., he spent a year in Thailand “finding” himself after his file-sharing service Scour declared bankruptcy in the face of massive copyright-infringement lawsuits from the Motion Picture Association of America (M.P.A.A.) and the Recording Industry Association of America (R.I.A.A.).

Lair: The cool, calm, leather-wrapped back seat of an UberX Mercedes-Benz S550.

Secret weapon: Surge pricing.

Henchmen: 100,000-plus so-called “private contractors.”

Thorns in his side: French taxicab drivers; the California judicial system.

Grand scheme: Disrupting personal transportation the world over.

Third-act moment of confrontation: “Do you really expect me to share a ride with you, Mr. Bond, in a car with an ejector seat? Don’t be ridiculous. I’ve taken the liberty of booking one of my UberX vehicles. It’s black. It’ll be here in six minutes. Alas—it’s a hearse.”

Mark Zuckerberg, C.E.O., Facebook

Photo-Illustration by Ben Park; By Steve Jennings/Getty Images.

Major Bond-villain attribute: Disrupting the lives of 1.4 billion people who can’t live without checking their Facebook page, multiple times daily.

Lair: “Zee Town,” a proposed company town for employees, near his new Frank Gehry–designed headquarters.

Secret weapon: The News Feed app.

Henchman: Sheryl Sandberg, who would never fall for Bond’s charm.

Thorns in his side: Privacy advocates.

Grand scheme: To move fast and break everything.