Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer
programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one
of five co-founders of the social networking website Facebook.
Zuckerberg is the chairman and chief executive of Facebook, Inc. His personal wealth, as of October 2015, is
estimated to be $44.6 billion. Zuckerberg receives a one-dollar
salary as CEOof Facebook.
Together
with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz,
and Chris Hughes,
he launched Facebook from Harvard
University's dormitory rooms. The group then introduced Facebook onto
other campuses nationwide and moved to Palo Alto, California shortly afterwards. In 2007, at the
age of 23, Zuckerberg became a billionaire as a result of Facebook's success.
The number of Facebook users worldwide reached a total of one billion in 2012.
Zuckerberg was involved in various legal disputes that were initiated by others
in the group, who claimed a share of the company based upon their involvement
during the development phase of Facebook.
Since
2010, Time magazine has named Zuckerberg among
the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world as a part of its Person of the Year distinction. In 2011, Zuckerberg ranked first on the
list of the "Most Influential Jews in the World" by The Jerusalem Post. Zuckerberg was played by actor Jesse Eisenberg in the 2010 film The Social Network, in which the rise of
Facebook is portrayed.[11]
Lawrence "Larry" Page (born March 26, 1973) is an American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who co-foundedGoogle Inc. with Sergey Brin, and is the CEO of Google's parent
company, Alphabet Inc. Page is the inventor of PageRank, Google's best-known search ranking algorithm.
Page is
a board member of the X Prize Foundation (XPRIZE) and was elected to the National
Academy of Engineering in
2004.Page received the Marconi Prize in 2004.
Steven Paul "Steve"
Jobs February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman. He was
best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc.;
CEO and largest shareholder of Pixar Animation Studios a
member of The Walt Disney Company's board of
directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and founder, chairman, and CEO ofNeXT Inc. Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer
of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s, along with Apple
co-founder Steve Wozniak.
Shortly after his death, Jobs's official biographer, Walter Isaacson,
described him as the "creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection
and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated
movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing."
Adopted
at birth in San Francisco, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960s, Jobs's countercultural lifestyle was a product of his time. As a senior
at Homestead High School, in Cupertino, California, his two closest friends
were the older engineering student (and Homestead High alumnus) Wozniak and his
countercultural girlfriend, the artistically inclined Homestead High junior Chrisann Brennan.
Jobs briefly attended Reed College in 1972 before dropping out, deciding to
travel through India in
1974 and study Buddhism.
Jobs
co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. The duo gained fame
and wealth a year later for theApple II, one of the first highly successful mass-produced
personal computers. In 1979, after a tour of Xerox PARC,
Jobs saw the commercial potential of the Xerox Alto,
which was mouse-driven
and had a graphical user interface (GUI). This led to development of the
failed Apple Lisa in 1983, followed by the successful Macintosh in 1984. In addition to being the
first mass-produced computer with a GUI, the Macintosh instigated the sudden
rise of the desktop publishing industry in 1985 with the addition of
the AppleLaserWriter,
the first laser printer to feature vector graphics.
Following a long power struggle, Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985.
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