Microsoft
Bill Gates
Bill Gates
Bill Gates started a company with Paul Allen because both of them have deep fascination with machine and their ability to execute software code perfectly.The first venture was a traf-o-data programs that reads raw data from roadway traffic counters and create reports for traffic engineers
Bill Gates has been criticized in business due to his business tactics that sometimes was considered anti-competitive with an assessment which has in some cases been upheld by courts.Bill Gates Gradually transferred his duties at Microsoft in order to work full time at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in which he has donated billions of dollars to charitable organizations and scientific research programs.
Oracle
Larry Ellison
Larry Joseph Ellison is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Oracle Corporation, a company that focuses on Enterprise Software such as Enterprise Resource Planning Software, Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain Management and computer hardware systems.
Larry Ellison started the company because he was inspired by the Edgar F. Codd paper on relational database model called “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks” .
Oracle have a longstanding partnership with SAP beginning with the integration of SAP's R/3 enterprise application suite with Oracle's relational database products. Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010 thus owning the JAVA ecosystem and MySQL.
AmazonJeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos is the founder and chief executing officer of Amazon.com..As a child Jeff Bezos showed an early interest in how things work, turning his parents’ garage into a laboratory and rigging electrical contraptions around his house. Bezos pursued his interest in computers at Princeton University, where he graduated summa cum laude in 1986 with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering.
In 1994, when the Internet usage was increasing by 2,300 percent a year, he reviewed the top twenty mail order businesses, and asked himself which could be conducted more efficiently over the Internet than by traditional means. Books were the commodity for which no comprehensive mail order catalogue existed, because any such catalogue would be too big to mail,perfect for the Internet, which could share a vast database with a virtually limitless number of people
.Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. The company also produces consumer electronics notably the Amazon Kindle e-book reader and the Kindle Fire tablet computer and is a major provider of cloud computing services.
GoogleLarry Page
Larry Page is a computer scientist and an internet entrepreneur, with Sergey Brin they co-founded Google.com. Larry Page currently serve as Chief Executive Officer of Google Inc. Google started off as a PHD dissertation in exploring the mathematical graph of links structure of the world wide web that was called ‘Backrub’. Google went on to be the primary search engine of the world wide web and diversify into many branches of technology products.
Larry Page with Sergey Brin started the company because the value of Google which was then called ‘Backrub’ search engine that was far superior to what existed back then (Yahoo, AskJeeves, Excite). Backrub search engine was a hit on Stanford Campus where students used it as a primary search engine because of the remarkable results.
Google acquired Youtube in 2006, making its move into entertainment and media sectors, started Android OS a mobile operating system base on linux dalvik kernel and in 2012 acquired Motorola Mobility Solutions thus sealing its frontier in the mobile smartphones revolution.
DellMichael Dell
Michael Dell is a american businessman famous for founding Dell Computers in 1984. Michael Dell is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Dell Inc, one of world’s leading sellers of personal computers.
Dell, started the company in 1984 as “PC Limited” that operates from his dorm room in University of Texas. Back then manufactured personal computers are expensive. Dell work by putting together kits and upgrades for a personal computer that as an alternative cost a lot of savings from purchasing a manufactured personal computers. In 1995, Dell started to sell personal computers on the world wide web which nett the company a fortune.
In late 2012, it was announced that Michael Dell had bid to take Dell Inc. private for $24.4 billion in the biggest leveraged buyout since the Great Recession.
FacebookMark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is an american programmer and an internet entrepreneur. Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook.com while studying at Stanford University.While attending Harvard College, majoring in computer science and psychology,in his sophomore year, he wrote a notorious application that he called Facemash that allowed students on the college's network to vote on the relative attractiveness of other students. It was shut down within days, and led to disciplinary action
Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook.com to provide college student social experience. With them, students were able to list attributes such as their class years, their friends, and their telephone numbers. Facebook.com was exclusive to students of University and colleges early on and was only open to public in later years where it had grew significantly.
Mark Zuckerberg is renown for dressing casually and famous for wearing adidas flip flops wherever he goes including high profile meetings.Currently Mark Zuckerberg is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Facebook Inc.Since 2010, Mark Zuckerberg has been named among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world by Time magazine's Person of the Year. In 2010 the founding of Facebook was made into a major Hollywood movie, The Social Network.
EbayPierre Omidyar
Pierre Omidyar is an american entrepreneur and a founder of eBay.com. Pierre study computer science at Tufts University.Pierre Omidyar later founded an e commerce webshop named “eShop”.
Pierre Omidyar started writing an application for an online venue to enable the listing of a direct person to person auction for collectible items.The first item sold on the site was a broken laser pointer. Pierre Omidyar initially wanted to name the website echoBay but later renamed the site to eBay because of the former name was taken.
eBay went on to become the largest household name for the online auction application.In 2005, eBay acquired Skype and boolster its consumer base to 400 million users.
WiproAzim Premji
Azim Premji is an indian business tycoon that acted as chairman of Wipro limited. Azim premji is a Stanford alumni, and has been recognised by Business Week as one of the Greatest Entrepreneurs for being responsible for Wipro emerging as one of the world’s fastest growing companies.
When Azim Premji took over as its chairman, Wipro dealt in hydrogenated cooking fats and later diversified to bakery fats, ethnic ingredient based toiletries, hair care soaps, baby toiletries, lighting products, and hydraulic cylinders. Thereafter Premji made a focused shift from soaps to software.In the 80s Wipro diversified into IT.
Jack Ma
Ma was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. Although he failed the entrance exam twice, he eventually attended Hangzhou Teacher's Institute(currently known as Hangzhou Normal University) and graduated in 1988 with a bachelor's degree in English. While at the school, Ma was elected student chairman. He later became a lecturer in English and International Trade at the Hangzhou Dianzi University.
He founded Alibaba.com in 1999, a China-based business-to-business marketplace site which currently serves more than 79 million members from more than 240 countries and territories. Ma now serves as chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group, which is a holding company with six major subsidiaries: Alibaba.com, Taobao Marketplace, Tmall, eTao, Alibaba Cloud Computing and Yahoo! China.Alibaba online transaction volume exceeded one trillion yuan, Ma thus labeled "trillion Hou" in the title.
Intel
Gordon Moore
Gordon Moore
The namesake of Moore's Law, which posits that computing power will double every 18 months (later updated to 2 years), Gordon Moore is a Silicon Valley legend. After co-founding Fairchild Semiconductor, he started chipmaker Intel in 1968, serving as chief executive until 1987 and chairman until 1997. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation was created in 2001 with a donation of his 175 million Intel shares; the foundation now has several billion dollars of assets. It awards approximately $200 million annually to support environmental conservation, fundamental science, patient care, conservation and science and technology museums in the San Francisco Bay Area. The foundation is the largest backer of the Thirty Meter Telescope, world's largest, under construction in Hawaii; it has contributed $50 million for the design and in 2007 pledged $200 million over nine years for the telescope's construction. Moore studied chemistry at U.C. Berkeley and earned a Ph.D. in chemistry and physics from the California Institute of Technology, where he is a life trustee.
