- Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8% of the common stock. "Forbes" magazine's list of The World's Billionaires has ranked him as the richest person in the world since 1995, … - Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki , who was Apple's software evangelist, is passionate about the idea that products and services reach critical mass 'because mere mortals spread the word for you.' He also has noted that the people who developed the original Macintosh didn't really have any idea of what people would do with the machine-and thus how its users would influence its development. We're wired to create patterns, but that doesn't mean the first patterns are necessarily useful. - Paul Allen
Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953 in Seattle, Washington) is an American entrepreneur. With Bill Gates, he formed Microsoft. Allen regularly appears on lists of the richest people in the world; as of 2007 "Forbes" ranks him the fifth richest American, worth an estimated $18.0 billion. He is the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc. (his private asset management company)and chairman of Charter Communications. - Michael Arrington
I am the editor of TechCrunch and owner of the TechCrunch Network of blog and podcasting sites. - Warren Buffet
Warren Edward Buffett (b. August 30 1930, Omaha, Nebraska) is an American investor, businessperson and philanthropist. Buffett has amassed an enormous fortune from astute investments managed through the holding company Berkshire Hathaway, of which he is the largest shareholder and CEO. With an estimated current net worth of around US$52 billion, he was ranked by "Forbes" as the third-richest person in the world as of April 2007, … - Joel Spolsky
Joel Spolsky started his web log, www.joelonsoftware.com, in March 2000 in order to offer his insights, based on years of experience, on how to improve the world of programming. His extraordinary writing skills, technical knowledge, and caustic wit have made him a programming guru. This log, now legend in the programming world, is linked to more than 600 other websites and translated into more than 30 languages! - Martin Varsavsky
Martin Varsavsky is an Argentinian/Spanish telecommunications and new media entrepreneur. Born in Buenos Aires on April 26, 1960, to Carlos Varsavsky and Silvia Waisman, Varsavsky attended primary school at the New Model School and the Colegio Nicolás Avellaneda high school. At the age of 16, he moved with his family to the United States as a refugee, following the forced disappearance of his cousin, David Horacio Varsavsky. - Muhammad Yunus
Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and founder of Grameen Bank, has shown himself to be a leader who can translate his vision into powerful reality for the benefit of millions. The Nobel Peace Prize was bestowed upon him for his entrepreneurial efforts and innovative thinking as he single handedly revolutionized economic and social development worldwide. - Charles Simonyi
Charles Simonyi is a computer software executive who, as head of Microsoft's application software group, oversaw the creation of Microsoft's flagship office applications. He now heads his own company, "Intentional Software", with the aim of developing and marketing his concept of Intentional programming. In 2007, he became the fifth space tourist and the second Hungarian in space. His estimated net worth is $1 billion. - Shai Agassi
Shai Agassi used to be the CEO of SAP. Today he is planning to rebuild the automobile industry from the ground up. With Better Place , he has a business model that may make electric cars real, tomorrow. He began when he was asked a simple question at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland: How do you make the world a better place by 2020? Being an engineer, he took that question seriously and began thinking about moving transportation off oil, completely. - Larry Ellison
Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major database software company. - Cameron Reilly
Cameron Reilly (born October 10, 1970) of Yarraville in Melbourne, Australia is a blogger, podcaster and entrepreneur best known for his co-founding of The Podcast Network, a podcasting business with programming from around the world. Married to wife Belinda, they have twin sons Hunter (named after WWE Wrestler Triple_H i.e. Hunter Hearst Helmsley) and Taylor (named after Roger Taylor from Duran Duran). - Reed Hastings
Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings, Jr.) is the founder of Netflix. He is currently Netflix's chief executive officer, president and chairman of the board, and was the founder of Pure Software. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Microsoft Corp. His father was a lawyer who once served in the Nixon administration, serving as general counsel in the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. - Nathan Myhrvold
Nathan Myhrvold is chief executive officer and founder of Intellectual Ventures, a private firm focused on the funding, creation and commercialization of inventions. Before Intellectual Ventures, Myhrvold spent 14 years at Microsoft Corporation where he retired in May 2000 from his position as chief technology officer. - Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg , the CEO of Facebook , is a Web developer and entrepreneur. He created Facebook with the help of fellow Harvard student Andrew McCollum. Mark initially launched Facebook on February 4th, 2004, and since then has become a very popular social networking site for all people. Mark now stands as the CEO of Facebook, and runs the site with the help of the Facebook team. Mark was raised in New York in a Jewish family, and began programming at 6th grade. - Peter H. Diamandis
Dr. Diamandis is the Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation ( www.xprize.org ), which awarded the $10,000,000 Ansari X PRIZE ( www.xprize.org ) for private spaceflight. Diamandis is now focused on building the X PRIZE Foundation into a world-class prize institute whose mission is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. The X PRIZE is now developing X PRIZEs in fields such as Genomics, Automotive, Education, Medicine, Energy, and Social arenas. - Terry Semel
Terry Semel was born on February 24, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.. His father was a women's coat designer and his mother was a bus company executive. Terry was raised in Bay Terrace, a community in Bayside, Queens. He was the middle child and has two sisters. At the age of 23, he graduated from Long Island University in Brooklyn with a B.S. degree in accounting. - Mitchell Baker
Winifred Mitchell Baker, better known simply as Mitchell Baker, is Chief Executive Officer of the Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates development of the open source Mozilla Internet applications, including the Mozilla Firefox web browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. - Gary Kildall
Gary Arlen Kildall (May 19, 1942 - July 11, 1994) was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur who created the CP/M operating system and founded Digital Research, Inc.(DRI). Kildall was one of the first people to see microprocessors as fully capable computers rather than equipment controllers and to organize a company around this concept. He also co-hosted the PBS TV show "The Computer Chronicles". - Nat Friedman
Nathaniel Dourif Friedman (born August 6 1977), known as "Nat", is a programmer who co-founded Ximian along with Miguel de Icaza in 1999, a company that was later bought by Novell in 2003. Nat held the post of CEO of Ximian from 1999 to 2001 when Ximian brought in David Patrick as an external CEO after the company raised fifteen million dollars of venture capital. Before Ximian, Friedman worked on the GNU ROPE project, and interned at Silicon Graphics and Microsoft. - Hiroshi Yamauchi
(born November 7, 1927) is a Japanese businessman. He was the third president of Nintendo Co., Ltd. beginning in 1949 until stepping down on May 31, 2002. Yamauchi is credited with transforming Nintendo from a small hanafuda card making company in Japan to the multi-billion dollar video game company that it is today. Yamauchi was succeeded at Nintendo by Satoru Iwata. Yamauchi also became the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners baseball team in 1992, … - Michael Ovitz
Michael S. Ovitz (b. December 14 1946, Los Angeles, California) is a former talent agent and Hollywood powerhouse who served as the head of the Creative Artists Agency from 1975 to 1995. After graduating from UCLA with a degree in theater, film and television, Ovitz began his career at the William Morris Agency, but left with four other agents in 1975 to found Creative Artists Agency. While at CAA, he was responsible for pioneering the practice of "packaging" writers, … - Sabeer Bhatia
Sabeer Bhatia is a co-founder of Hotmail and an entrepreneur. - Steve Wood
Steve Wood (born 1952) is an American technology-industry programmer, manager, and investor best known as an early Microsoft employee. Wood graduated with a BS from Case Western Reserve University and an MSEE from Stanford. He was Employee No. 6 at Microsoft, but in 1980 one of the first original employees to leave, after his wife Marla Wood, then a bookkeeper, organized the non-exempt employees and filed an overtime pay dispute (later settled) against the company. - Eric Sink
Eric Sink is a software developer and writer. He is the author of "Eric Sink on the Business of Software" (2006), a collection of essays from his blog and the "Business of Software" column for the Microsoft Developer Network. He founded SourceGear, which sells version control software for Microsoft Windows and started the AbiWord project. Before that, he led the browser team at Spyglass. - David Bunnell
David Bunnell is a media entrepreneur and technology pioneer who was involved in the earliest days of personal computing revolution and industry. In 1973, he got a job as a technical writer at a small electronics company called MITS in Albuquerque, New Mexico, paying US$110 a week. In 1975, he was vice president of marketing, when they introduced the Altair 8800. While at MITS, Bunnell worked closely with Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen, … - Steve Perlman
Steve Perlman is an entrepreneur and inventor with over 70 patents in an array of multimedia and communications technologies. Perlman initially attracted notice as a principal scientist of Apple Computer, Inc., where he led the development efforts for much of the underlying multimedia technology incorporated into the color Macintosh, including the underpinnings of QuickTime technology. Perlman left Apple with other employees to join General Magic, … - Jack Smith
Jack Smith, along with Sabeer Bhatia, founded the web-based free e-mail service Hotmail, in 1995. Before founding Hotmail, where his role was Chief Technology Officer, he worked at FirePower Systems Inc., where he designed integrated circuits for use in high performance PowerPC workstations, and at Apple Computer, where he worked on several of Apple's early PowerBook Computers. Hotmail was sold to Microsoft in 1998 for a reported $400 million. - Jay Bhatti
Jay Bhatti trabajó en Microsoft en la gestión de productos. Jay obtuvo su MBA de la Wharton School, y realizó sus estudios en Ingeniería de Sistemas de la Universidad de Rutgers. - Bill Gates
"Swiftwater" Bill Gates was an American frontiersman and fortune hunter, and a fixture in stories of the Klondike Gold Rush. He made and lost several fortunes, and died in Seattle in 1935. Despite the similarity in name and geography, there is no apparent family relationship between "Swiftwater Bill" and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. - Rickard Falkvinge
Rickard "Rick" Falkvinge, alias Rick Falconwing (a direct translation of his name), is a Swedish IT entrepreneur, known as the leader and founder of the Swedish Pirate Party. Falkvinge graduated from Göteborgs Högre Samskola, where he studied natural science, in 1991. During his studies he was active in the Moderate Youth League, the youth wing of the Swedish Moderate Party. He started his first company in 1988, at the age of 16. - Mike Harrington
Mike Harrington was the co-founder and programmer of the computer game development company, Valve Software. Harrington, a former Microsoft employee, founded Valve in 1996 with Gabe Newell, another former Microsoft employee. He and Newell used their money to fund Valve through the development of "Half-Life". On January 15 2000, Harrington dissolved his partnership with Newell and left Valve to take an extended vacation with his wife, Monica, … - Richard D. Titus
Richard is CEO of AND (www.AND.co.uk) where he oversees a portfolio of digital businesses which includes Jobsite, Primelocation, Findaproperty, Motors.co.uk, the Allegran family. As P&L owner he drives strategy to expand into new and existing markets and grow their services both domestically and internationally. Previously, Richard was Controller, Future Media at the BBC, overseeing mobile, WWW, iTV & iPlayer. Richard co-founded top 10 interactive agency Schematic acquired by WPP in 2007. - Jonathan I. Schwartz
Jonathan Ian Schwartz (born October 20, 1965) is the current President and CEO of Sun Microsystems. Schwartz attended Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, Maryland, and graduated in 1983. He spent freshman year of college at Carnegie Mellon University in 1983-1984, and then transferred to Wesleyan University, where he studied economics and mathematics. Schwartz started his career in 1987 at McKinsey & Company in New York City. - Jeff V. Merkey
Jeff Vernon Merkey is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. After working as chief scientist for Novell, Merkey left to create his own company, Wolf Mountain Group, to develop a set of clustering technologies. Later renamed Timpanogas Research Group (or simply TRG), Merkey and his company were sued by Novell, alleging misappropriation of trade secrets. When the legal battle with Novell ended, TRG announced its intention to develop an open source, … - Bob Davoli
Bob joined Sigma in 1995. He has 20 years of experience in the high technology industry. Most recently he was President and CEO of Epoch Systems, the leading vendor of client-server data management software products. He sold the firm in 1993 to EMC for $141 million. Previously, he was the Founder, President and CEO of SQL Solutions, a leading purveyor of services and tools for the relational database market. - Dominique Trempont
Dominique Trempont is an American corporate executive and board member in large multinational high tech companies and start-ups. His experience spans a globally-run material science corporation to enterprise and consumer focused software and services. He spent the first 14 years of his career as a key executive at Raychem with worldwide responsibilities and a focus on large scale turnarounds in the United States, China, India, Japan, Latin America and Europe. - Idit Harel Caperton
Idit Harel Caperton, Ph.D. (born September 18 1958 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an educational psychologist and epistemologist specializing in the study of the impact of computer-based new media technology on the social and academic development of children. Her research, along with that of Seymour Papert, has contributed to the development of constructionist learning theory, a hands-on approach to the use of technology as a tool in juvenile education and acculturation. - Buz Sawyer
Buz Sawyer is an American advertising executive. He started his career with NW Ayer and BBDO in NYC. At BBDO he was a Senior Vice President and the International Account Director on the Pepsi-Cola account. He also served as General Manager of BBDO Latin America and as the Director of International Operations of BBDO International. Sawyer joined Weiden and Kennedy in 1990, an agency well-known for its creativeness and work with Nike. - Meng Weng Wong
Meng Weng Wong 黃銘榮 is a serial entrepreneur. In 1994 he founded pobox.com, an email services company. In 2003 he led the group who designed the Sender Policy Framework standard (RFC4408) which was later embraced and extended by Microsoft. In 2005 he co-founded Karmasphere, a reputation services venture.
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