By sending Amazon's stock to all-time highs, Jeff Bezos effectively hushed critics who worried that the company was spending too much on technology and shipping discounts. Now, the company he founded 23 years ago is firmly focused on exactly the kind of new ventures that Jeff Bezos relishes. Whether it's the Kindle e-book or cloud computing services aimed at businesses... read full bio
Larry Ellison is a businessman, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Oracle Systems Corporation, an enterprise software company. He has been listed as one of the wealthiest people in the world. Ellison has made software donations to the federal government. He pledged a large amount of monies to Harvard University. Ellison has also pledged more donations to fortify a... read full bio
Lawrence Joseph Ellison, better known as Larry Ellison, is a renowned American businessman and entrepreneur who is best known as the founder and former CEO of Oracle Corporation, one of the world's leading software companies. Born in 1944 in New York City, Ellison grew up in a modest family and was raised by his adoptive parents in the South Side... read full bio
Considered a programming prodigy from the beginning, Mark Zuckerberg is the CEO of Facebook, and ranked as the 5th richest person in the world. He is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy for the company. He co-founded Facebook with assistance from friends at Harvard including Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Mostkovitz, Chris Hughes, and Andrew McCollum. He now leads... read full bio
David Rockefeller, Jr. is a well-known commercial and philanthropist figure who is noted for his commitment to environmental preservation, the arts, and education. He was born in New York City in 1941, the youngest son of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and grew up surrounded by philanthropy and civic duty in his family. Mr. Rockefeller began his career... read full bio
Bill H. Gates is chairman of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Microsoft had revenues of US$51.12 billion for the fiscal year ending June 2007, and employs more than 78,000 people in 105 countries and regions. As of July 2008, Bill Gates has transitioned out of... read full bio
Richard Branson's journey from a risk-taking 16-year-old entrepreneur to a well-known global personality has been nothing short of amazing. The Virgin Group, an empire with more than 400 firms, was founded by this English businessman, mogul, philanthropist, and investor. Branson's entrepreneurial passion initially surfaced when he was just 16 years old, when his first business venture officially launched. He didn't let... read full bio
Computer programmer and entrepreneur, Jack Dorsey is best known as the creator of Twitter. He grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and was fascinated by the technological challenge of coordinating taxi drivers, delivery vans and other fleets of vehicles that needed to remain in constant, real-time communication with one another. When he was 15, Dorsey wrote dispatch software that is... read full bio
Micheal Dell is the founder and CEO of one of the world's largest tech infrastructure companies in the world, Dell Technologies. Michael first began building computers in his dorm room that he later sold to classmates. At age 19, Micheal withdrew from his university to focus solely on building Dell Technologies. His dedication to computer development and brilliant innovation has... read full bio
Richard Branson is a British industrialist, best known for his Virgin Group of over 360 companies. At age 16, Branson had his first successful business venture, publishing a magazine called Student. In 1972, he opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records, later known as Virgin Megastores. Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s as he set up Virgin... read full bio
Meg Whitman joined eBay as President and CEO and led the company to become the world's online marketplace and the number one consumer e-commerce site. Meg's expertise in brand building, combined with her consumer technology experience, helped eBay evolve into a leading company that is reshaping how commerce takes place around the world. Prior to eBay, Meg was General Manager... read full bio
Marissa Mayer is a female American Business Leader, Engineer and Computer Programmer. She is the former CEO and President of Yahoo! Inc. Before joining Yahoo!, Marissa served a celebrated career at Google. Marissa was a long-time executive and key spokesperson for Google. She was involved in Google’s most successful products including Google Maps, Google Earth, and Gmail. Her work in... read full bio
CEO and co-founder of Box, an enterprise cloud company, Aaron Levie founded the idea for the company in college. Levie left the University of Southern California to start the company after it originated as a college business project. His friend Dylan Smith helped him found the company, and it began as a cloud where users could pay to store their... read full bio
"Tim Cook is a developer, industrial engineer, and business executive who is the CEO of Apple Inc., and he previously served as the COO off the company under Steve Jobs. Tim graduated from Auburn University with a degree in industrial engineering, and he went on to earn an M.B.A at Duke University. He worked hard at various computer technology... read full bio
"Jeff Weiner is a businessman most well-known as the CEO of the business-savvy social network LinkedIn. LinkedIn has changed the face of the business world, and Jeff Weiner has been a catalyst for that change. Weiner knew from a young age that he wanted to be a part of the digital media wave of business. After graduating from The Wharton... read full bio
Indian-American business executive Sahatya Nadella is the chief executive officer of Microsoft. Prior to being the CEO of Miscrosoft, Nadella worked for Sun Microsystems. After that, he moved the Microsoft and worked in the cloud computing development within the company. He moved his way up the ladder within the company, becoming the vice president of Research and Development for the... read full bio
" Marc Benioff is an author, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist, and he is known as the chairman, founder, and CEO of Salesforce. The mission and marketing motto of Salesforce is “The End of Software,” as the business is based on cloud computing. He also is a proponent of using a “platform as a service.” Benioff has authored three books entitled... read full bio
At City Storage Systems, Travis Kalanick serves as CEO. He also served as Uber Technologies Inc.'s co-founder and former CEO. Entrepreneur Travis Kalanick operates in the domains of enterprise content delivery, transportation, and consumer internet. Uber, his most recent venture, is an on-demand black car service that aims to become "Everyone's Private Driver" by addressing issues with urban transportation using revolutionary technology... read full bio
Alan Sugar, also known as Baron Sugar or The Lord Sugar, is a British business magnate, media personality, author, politician and political adviser. He is best known for starting what later became one of the largest business ventures, Amstrad. Sugar was born in Hackney, East London, England, and when he was younger he worked various jobs such as working at... read full bio
Francisco D'Souza is the co-founder of Cognizant Technology Solutions. In 2020, D'Souza became a director of General Electric and also serves on the board of the software company MongoDB. In addition to his corporate responsibilities, D'Souza also serves on the Board of Trustee for Carnegie Mellon University and is Co-chairman of the New York Hall of Science Board of Trustees.... read full bio
