Post 71: Success Stories of Billionaires - The Most Influential People in The IT World

This book will bring you the insights of each successful person and their IT companies. It uncovers the history and stories from the most influential IT companies in the world. Their stories have inspired a lot of people to believe success in not merely a dream, but achievable through hard work and passion.

You will be enjoyed the journey of below individuals towards their success:


1. Jack Ma - Alibaba Group
2. Jeffrey Bezos - www.amazon.com
3. Jerry Sanders - Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)
4. Steve Case - America Online(AOL)
5. Steve Jobs - Apple Inc.
6. Robin Li Yanhon - Baidu.com
7. Charles Wang - Computer Associates
8. Michael Dell - Dell Inc.
9. Pierre Omidyar - www.ebay.com
10. Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook.com
11. Blake Ross - Firefox.com
12. Steward Butterfield - Flickr.com
13. Sergey Brin - www.google.com
14. Larry Page - www.google.com
15. Eric Schmidt - Google Incorporation
16. William R. Hewlet - Hewlett Packard
17. David Packard - Hewlett Packard
18. Thomas John. Watson, Sr - IBM
19. Gordon Earle Moore - Intel Corporation
20. Robert Noyce - Intel Corporation
21. Paul Allen - Microsoft Corporation
22. Steve Ballmer - Microsoft Corporation
23. Chris DeWolfe & Tom Anderson - Myspace.com
24. Reed Hastings - Netflix
25. Larry Ellison - Oracle Corporation
26. Max Levchin - www.paypal.com
27. Evan Williams - Twitter.com / Blogger.com
28. Azmi Premji - Wipro Technologies
29. Jerry Yang & David Filo - Yahoo!
30. Chad Hurley & Steve Chen - www.youtube.com


FUN FACT - Do You Know That . . . ?

* Most of the IT giants are found and based in Silicon Valley, California

* One of the most expensive item auctioned in Ebay is a F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet priced at USD $9,000.000. !

* Blogger, Paypal, and Youtube are subsidiaries of Google

* The revenue of Microsoft for the year 2008 is an astonishing USD $60,420 billion

* Facebook founder is an ordinary undergraduate from Harvard University

* Alibaba.com is a China based company

* The name "Twitter" derived from the word "twitch"

* IBM stands for "International Business Machines Corporation"



Rating: 4/5


5 = Excellent !
4 = Great ! Enjoy reading
3 = Okay
2 = Almost losing my grip
1 = zzzZZz Fall asleep. Good night