MARK ZUCKERBERG

                               Mark Zuckerberg co-founder of FACEBOOK

• Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. 
• He is a co-founder of Facebook, and currently operates as its chairman and chief executive officer.

                                                                              Career

• Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Hasvard University dormitory room on February 4, 2004. He was assisted by his college roommates and fellow Harvard students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.
• It published its own student directory, "The Photo Address Book", which students referred to as "The Facebook".
• The group then introduced Facebook to other college campuses. Facebook expanded rapidly, reaching one billion users by 2012. 
• Zuckerberg was the keynote speaker at the 2014 Mobile World Congress (MWC), held in Barcelona, Spain, in March 2014, which was attended by 75,000 delegates. 
• In a public Facebook post, Zuckerberg launched the Internet.org project in late August 2013. Zuckerberg explained that the primary aim of the initiative is to provide Internet access to the 5 billion people who are not connected as of the launch date. 

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
award.

In December 2016, Zuckerberg was ranked 10th on Forbes list of the World's Most Powerful People.


"The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks." Mark Zuckerberg

BILL GATES

                                                        Bill Gates founder of Microsoft

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is the co-founder of Microsoft and is an American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist. His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way.
When he was in the eighth grade, the Mothers Club at the school used proceeds from Lakeside School's rummage sale to buy a Teletype Model 33 ASR terminal and a block of computer time on a General Electric (GE) computer for the school's students. Gates took an interest in programming the GE system in BASIC, and was excused from math classes to pursue his interest. 
Career
In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014.
Microsoft launched its first retail version of Microsoft Windows on November 20, 1985, and in August, the company struck a deal with IBM to develop a separate operating system called OS/2. Although the two companies successfully developed the first version of the new system, mounting creative differences caused the partnership to deteriorate .
Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the
 personal computer revolution.
Later in his career, Gates pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.
Since 1987, Gates has been included in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people. As of May 2017, Gates is the richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$88.5 billion. In 2009, Gates and Warren Buffett founded The Giving Pledge, whereby they and other billionaires pledge to give at least half of their wealth to philanthropy. 
In 2013, Gates became a Linkedln Influencer .

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"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good." Bill Gates

STEVE JOBS

                                                        Steve Jobs Co-Founder of Apple.inc

Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur, businessman, inventor, and industrial designer. He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer  (CEO) of Apple.inc.; CEO and majority shareholder of Pixar; a member of Thwe Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXt.

Jobs and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak are widely recognized as pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.

Background

• Jobs was born in San Francisco to parents who had to put him up for adoption at birth; he was raised in the San francisco Bay Area during the 1960s.
• In addition, as there was a strong stigma against bearing a child out of wedlock and raising it as a single mother, and as abortions were illegal and dangerous, adoption was the only option women had in the United States in 1954 .
• Jobs briefly attended Reed College in 1972 before dropping out.
•  He then decided to travel through india in 1974 seeking enlightenment and studying zen Buddhism .
• Jobs "was often bullied" and gave his parents an ultimatum: they had to either take him out of Crittenden or he would drop out of school.

Career 

• When he was 13 in 1968, Jobs was given a summer job by Bill hewlett(of Hewlett-Packard) after Jobs cold-called him to ask for parts for an electronics project .
• Jobs and Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. The visionaries gained fame and wealth a year later for the Apple II, one of the first highly successful mass-produced personal computers.
•  In addition to being the first mass-produced computer with a GUI, the Macintosh introduced the sudden rise of the desktop publishing industry in 1985 with the addition of the Apple LaserWriter, the first laser printer to feature vector graphics.
• Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985.
• After leaving Apple, Jobs took a few of its members with him to found NeXT, a computer platform development company that specialized in state-of-the-art computers for higher-education and business markets. 
• In addition, Jobs helped to initiate the development of the visual effects industry when he funded the spinout of the computer graphics division of George Lucas's Lucasfilm in 1986.
• In 1997, Apple merged with NeXT.

Within a few months of the merger, Jobs became CEO of his former company; he revived Apple at the verge of bankruptcy.

Beginning in 1997 with the "Think different" advertising campaign, Jobs worked closely with designer Jonathan Lve to develop a line of products that would have larger cultural ramifications: the iMac, iTunes and iTunes Store, Apple Store, iPod, iPhone, App Store, and the iPad.

In 2001, the original Mac OS was replaced with a completely new Mac OS X, based on NeXT's NeXTSTEP platform, giving the OS a modern Unix-based foundation for the first time .

Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor in 2003 and died on October 5, 2011, of respiratory arrest related to the tumor.

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." Steve Jobs

JACK MA

                                                          Jack Ma (Founder of ALIBABA)

Ma Yun born in September 10, 1964 known professionally as Jack Ma  is a Chinese business magnate who is the founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group, a family of Internet-based businesses.

Ma started to study English at a young age and practiced English daily by conversing with English-speakers at Hangzhou international hotel, a 40 minute bike ride from his home. He would give them tours around the city for free to improve his English.He did this for nine years. He became pen pals with one of those foreigners, who nicknamed him "Jack" because he found it hard to pronounce his Chinese name.

Career                                                             Jack Ma applied for 30 different jobs and got rejected by all. "I went for a job with the police; they said, 'you're no good,'" Ma told interviewer Charlie Rose. "I even went to KFC when it came to my city. Twenty-four people went for the job. Twenty-three were accepted. I was the only guy...".^[In addition he applied 10 times for Harvard and got rejected.     In 1994, Ma heard about the Internet . In early 1995, he went to the US and with his friends' help he got introduced to the Internet. 

Ma began building websites for Chinese companies with the help of friends in the US. He has said that "the day we got connected to the Web, I invited friends and TV people over to my house," and on a very slow dial-up connection, "we waited three and a half hours and got half a page.... We drank, watched TV and played cards, waiting. But I was so proud.                                                Now ,                                                                   He is currently the richest person in Asia and the 14th richest in the world, with a net worth of US$41.8 billion, as of June 2017. He has become a global icon in business and entrepreneurship, one of the world's most influential businessmen, and a philanthropist known for expounding his philosophy of business.  He was ranked 2nd in Fortune's 2017 "World's 50 Greatest Leaders" list .

"Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine." Jack Ma