There are lot of people who get into entrepreneurship or any other business so as to work independently.And only few with utter dedication and determination turn their business into a huge one,not only earning their income,but also employing thousands of people,Their success story are truly inspirational.
A list of the famous entrepreneurs.People who created and build successful business.
Bill Gates:
William Henry “Bill” Gates III was born on October 28,1955 in Seattle,Washington.
The co-founder of Microsoft,,Bill Gates is one of the most influential and richest people on the planet.
He is an American businessman,programmer ,entrepreneur,philanthropist and investor.
He co-founded the world’s largest pc software company Microsoft in 1975.
He is recognised as one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the personal computer evolution.
One of the most recognized brands in the computer industry,nearly every computer has at least one Microsoft product installed.Due to the hard work,he has achieved not only the prosperity of the compney but also the title of one of the richest people on Earth.
Bill Gates has been no.1 for many years on the Bloomberg List,but Carlos Slim Helu took no.1 spot in 2010.And in may 2013,with a fortune of $72 billion Bill Gates became the richest man on the planet again.Recent estimates of his wealth put it US$84.2 billion(jan 2017);this is the equivalent of the combined GDP of several African economies.In recent years he has retired from working full time at Microsoft,and has instead concentrated on working with his charitable foundation “The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation”.
From 2008 Gates has worked full time on his philanthropic interest.It is estimated Gates and his wife Melinda have given away $28 billion via their charitable foundation-including $8 billion to improve global health.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph,Gates states:
“I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes,”he says,redundantly.”Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.It’s utility is entirly in building an organisation and getting resources out to the poorest in the world.”
Steve Jobs:
Steven Paul Jobs was an American entrepreneur,businessman,inventor and industrial designer.He was the co-founder chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple lnc;
Steven Jobs was born February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California, and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs.
In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Wozniak started Apple Computer. The duo started in the Jobs family garage, funding their entrepreneurial venture by Jobs selling his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak selling his beloved scientific calculator.
Jobs and Wozniak are credited with revolutionizing the computer industry by democratizing the technology and making machines smaller, cheaper, intuitive and accessible to everyday consumers. Wozniak conceived of a series of user-friendly personal computers, and—with Jobs in charge of marketing—Apple initially marketed the computers for $666.66 each. The Apple I earned the corporation around $774,000. Three years after the release of Apple’s second model, the Apple II, the company’s sales increased by 700 percent to $139 million. In 1980, Apple Computer became a publicly traded company, with a market value of $1.2 billion by the end of its very first day of trading. Jobs looked to marketing expert John Sculley of Pepsi-Cola to take over the role of CEO for Apple.
Pancreatic Cancer
In 2003, Jobs discovered that he had a neuroendocrine tumor, a rare but operable form of pancreatic cancer. Instead of immediately opting for surgery, Jobs chose to alter his pesco-vegetarian diet while weighing Eastern treatment options. For nine months, Jobs postponed surgery, making Apple’s board of directors nervous. Executives feared that shareholders would pull their stock if word got out that their CEO was ill. But in the end, Jobs’ confidentiality took precedence over shareholder disclosure. In 2004, he had a successful surgery to remove the pancreatic tumor. True to form, in subsequent years Jobs disclosed little about his health.
Later Innovations
Apple introduced such revolutionary products as the Macbook Air, iPod and iPhone, all of which have dictated the evolution of modern technology. Almost immediately after Apple releases a new product, competitors scramble to produce comparable technologies. Apple’s quarterly reports improved significantly in 2007: Stocks were worth $199.99 a share—a record-breaking number at that time—and the company boasted a staggering $1.58 billion profit, an $18 billion surplus in the bank and zero debt.
In 2008, iTunes became the second-biggest music retailer in America—second only to Walmart, fueled by iTunes and iPod sales. Apple has also been ranked No. 1 on Fortune magazine’s list of “America’s Most Admired Companies,” as well as No. 1 among Fortune 500 companies for returns
Death
On October 5, 2011, Apple Inc. announced that its co-founder had passed away. After battling pancreatic cancer for nearly a decade, Steve Jobs died in Palo Alto. He was 56 years old.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur.Mark Zuckerberg is co-founder and CEO of the social-networking website Facebook, as well as one of the world’s youngest billionaires.
And currently operates as its chairman and chief executive officer. His net worth is estimated to be US$63.3 billion as of May 2017, and he is ranked by Forbes as the fifth richest person in the world.
Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard University dormitory room on February 4, 2004.
Education
Mark juckerberg was an instant success.He pursed his education rom the ‘Ardsley High School’,New York and later the ‘phillips Exeter Academy’ in new hampshire where he exhibited flair for astronomy,mathmatics,physics,foreign languages.
While in middle school,Mark was taught ‘Atari BASIC Programming’ by his father in the 1990’s .Eventually software programmer David Newman began teaching the young boy everything about programming.
In high school when he enrolled with ‘Mercy College,to persue a course in software programming.During this time,he developed a software called ‘ZuckNet’ to create a communication network between the computers in his father’s dental office and those at home.Around the same time,he made a music player a listener’s music choices.The programme,name ‘Synapse Media Player’,was built under the banner of a company called “Intelligent Media Group, and was posted to a news website ‘Slashdot.
Career
During collage days at the university,he build programmes tittled ‘CourseNatch’ and
‘Facemash’.While ‘CourseMatch helped students selsect their courses and decide on study groups.’Facemash’ was meant for fun,allowing students to choose the best face among a selection of photos.
In 2004, Mark lauched a new website called ‘Thefacebook.com’.He created the social networkng site that along with friends.The social project started gaining momentum really fast and zuckerberg decided to drop out of college and dedicate his time entirely to the site
By 2005 “TheFacebook” was known just Facebook.The site opened up to anyone over age 13 in 2006.By 2007 the site had over 100,000 businesses listing their companies on Facebk and cresting pages. BY 2011 it became the largest digital photography host and had over 350 million accessing the site over mobile phones.
Zuckerberg introduced a new project in 2013.titled ‘Internet.org’, in collaboration with cell phone firms like ‘Qualcomm’ ‘Samsung’,Opera Software’, Ericsson’,Microsoft’,MediaTek’,and ‘Reliance’.The aim of the project was to enable widespred use of Internet in developing countries.
The same year,Mark become the CEO and Chairman of the company ‘Facebook,lnc’.
Awards and Achievements
Facebook founder,Mark Zuckerberg was named to the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world list put out by Time magazine in 2010.
In 2010,Forbes magazine admitted Mark Zuckerberg as the youngest as the youngest billionaire in its list to the state of $40.3 billion.
Larry Page:
Internet entrepreneur and American computer scientist Larry Paje,who co-founded Google , was born on March 26 in 1973
Larry Page’s parents were both computer experts.His childhod home was full of computers and science magazines,and that increased his fasination for technology at an early age.He was also interested in business and innovation and by the age of 12 he realized that he wanted to start a compney.
Education
He graduated from East Lansing High School in 1991 and pursued a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan.Later,he enrolled for his Master of Science from Stanford University.While studying at Stanford University,Page was introduced to Sergey Brin.In 1996 they had build a search engine-initially called ‘BackRub’.It was operated on Stanford servers for many months.
Page and Brin decided to incorporate their project as a compney.Sun Microsystem co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim played a major role in financing the company as he wrote a check for $100,000 to the entity that had not even into existence as yet.
Beginning of The Google
In 1997 Larry Paje and Sergey Brin decide that the BackRub search engine needs a new name.After some brainstorming,they go with Google-a play on the word “googol”,a mathmatical term for the number represented by the numeral i followed by 100 zero.The use of the term reflects their mission to organize a seemingly amount of information on the web.
In September 1998 the project,now renamed as ‘Google’was officially incorporated as a company.Eric Schmidt was appointed as the CEO in 2001 while Page and Brin became the presidents of products and Technology.
In 2004,Google launched Orkut,a social networking site,and introduced Google held its Initial Public Offering(IPO) which made Page and Brin millionaires.The philanthropic wing of Google,Google.org was formed to contribute towards social issues and causes.
In 2011,Larry Page was made the CEO.
Awards and Achievements
In 2002,Page and Brin were named in the MIT Technology Rview TR100 for being among the top 100 innovators in the world under the age 35.
The World Economic Foru named Page as a Global Leader for Tomorrow in 2002.
Page and Brin received the prestigious Marconi Foundation Prize(2004) which is given to honour significant contributions in science and technology.
In September 2013,Page was ranked no. 13 on the “Forbes 400” list of the richest people in America.The October,he was ranked no. 17 on Forbes 2013 “Most Powerful People” list.
On August 10,2015,Page and Brin announced the creation of a new parent company called Alphabet to oversee Google and other subsidiaries.Page and Brin were set to serve as the new company’s CEO and president,respectively,with Sunder Pichai stepping in as Google’s top executive.
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