Jerry Yang (entrepreneur)

; simplified Chinese: ; pinyin: Yng Zhyu n; born November 6, Jerry Yang (traditional Chinese: 1968 in Taipei, Republic of China) is the co-founder, former CEO, and "Chief Yahoo" of Yahoo! Inc. Early life Born in Taipei, Taiwan on November 6, 1968, Yang moved to San Jose, California at the age of ten with his mother and younger brother. His father died when Yang was two. He claimed that despite his mother being an English teacher, he only knew one English word (shoe) on his arrival. Becoming fluent in three years, he was placed into an AP English class.[4] Yang graduated from Sierramont Middle School, and Piedmont Hills High School, then went on to receive his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. Career While he studied in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, he co-created in April 1994 with David Filo an Internet website called "Jerry and Dave's Guide to the World Wide Web" consisting of a directory of other websites. It was renamed "Yahoo!" (an exclamation). Yahoo! became very popular, and Yang and Filo realized the business potential and co-founded Yahoo! Inc. in April 1995.[5] They took leaves of absence and postponed their doctoral programs indefinitely. Yahoo! started off as a web portal with a web directory providing an extensive range of products and services for online activities. It is now one of the leading internet brands and, due to partnerships with telecommunications firms, has the most trafficked network on the internet.[citation needed] David Filo

David Filo (born April 20, 1966) is an American businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang. Until the company decided to switch to PHP, his Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side scripting software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server Pages, on visits to the Yahoo! web site. Personal life and education Filo was born in Wisconsin. At age 6, he moved to Moss Bluff, Louisiana, a suburb of Lake Charles, Louisiana. He graduated from Sam Houston High School and then earned a BS in Computer Engineering from Tulane University (through the Dean's Honor Scholarship) and an MS from Stanford University. In 2006, Filo was estimated to be worth $2.9 billion, ranking him the 240th richest person in the world. As a philanthropist, in 2005 he donated $30 million to his alma mater, Tulane University, for use in its School of Engineering. Filo is married to photographer and teacher Angela Buenning.[3] Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales ( / do n l we lz/; born August 7, 1966)[3] is an American Internet entrepreneur and a co-founder and promoter of Wikipedia.[4][5] Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama in the United States. He attended Randolph School, a universitypreparatory school, then earned bachelor's and master's degrees in finance. While in graduate school, he taught at two universities, but left before completing a Ph.D. in order to take a job in finance and later worked as the research director of a Chicago futures and options firm. In 1996, he and two partners founded Bomis, a maleoriented web portal featuring entertainment and adult content. The company would provide the initial funding for the peer-reviewed free encyclopedia Nupedia (20002003) and its successor, Wikipedia. In 2001, together with Larry Sanger and others, Wales helped launch Wikipedia, a free, open content encyclopedia that enjoyed rapid growth and popularity, and as Wikipedia's public profile grew, he became the project's promoter and spokesman. He is historically cited as a co-founder of Wikipedia, though he has disputed the "co-" designation, declaring himself the sole founder.[6][7] Wales serves on the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit charitable organization he helped establish to operate Wikipedia, holding its board-appointed "community founder" seat. In 2004, he co-founded Wikia, a for-profit wiki-hosting service. Ajit Balakrishnan

Ajit Balakrishnan is the Founder, Chairman & CEO of Rediff.com , an internet company listed on the New York NASDAQ market (REDF). He is a graduate of IIM Calcutta where he also now serves as Chairman of the Board of Governors. He has taken Bachelors degree in Physics from Kerala University. He is currently Chairman of the Govt of India, Ministry of IT Committee on Internet Governance and Proliferation and chaired a recent Committee appointed by India's Ministry of Human Resource Development on 'Research and Faculty Enhancement at the 7 IIMs'. His blog is at blogs.rediff.com/ajitb.

William Reddington Hewlett

William Reddington Hewlett (May 20, 1913 January 12, 2001) was an engineer and the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan but moved to Oak Brook, Illinois, when he was two. Less than one year later, he moved to San Francisco at the age of 3 years. He attended Lowell High School and was accepted at Stanford University as a favor to his late father, Albion Walter Hewlett, a former faculty member at the Stanford Medical School who had died of a brain tumor in 1925.[1] Hewlett received his Bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1934, an MS degree in electrical engineering from MIT in 1936, and the degree of Electrical Engineer from Stanford in 1939. He was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity during his time at Stanford and MIT. Hewlett attended classes taught by Fred Terman at Stanford and became acquainted with David Packard during his undergraduate work at Stanford. He and Packard began discussing forming a company in August 1937, and founded Hewlett-Packard Company as a partnership on January 1, 1939. A flip of a coin decided the ordering of their names.[2] The company incorporated in 1947 and tendered an initial public offering in 1957.[1] Also in 1939 he married Flora Lamson, and the couple eventually had five children: Eleanor, Walter, James, William and Mary. There are 12 grandchildren.

David Packard
David Packard (September 7, 1912 March 26, 1996) was a co-founder of Hewlett-Packard (1939), serving as president (19471964), CEO (19641968), and Chairman of the Board (19641968, 19721993). He served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense from 19691971 during the Nixon administration. Packard was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988 and is noted for many technological innovations and philanthropic endeavors.

Personal
David Packard was born in Pueblo, Colorado, and attended Centennial High School, where early on he showed an interest in science, engineering, sports, and leadership.[1] He earned his B.A. from Stanford University in 1934, where he earned letters in football and basketball and attained membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Society.[2] Stanford is where he met two people who were important to his life: Lucile Salter and William R. "Bill" Hewlett.[3] Packard then briefly attended the University of Colorado before he left to work for the General Electric Company in Schenectady, New York. In 1938, he returned to Stanford from New York, where he earned a master's degree in Electrical Engineering in 1938.[3] In the same year, he married Lucile Salter, with whom he had four children: David, Nancy, Susan, and Julie. Lucile Packard died in 1987.

Hewlett-Packard
In 1939, Packard and Hewlett established Hewlett-Packard (HP) in Packard's garage with an initial capital investment of $538.[1][3] Packard mentions in his book The HP Way that the name Hewlett-Packard was determined by the flip of a coin: HP, rather than PH.[3][4] Their first product was a sound oscillator sold to Walt Disney Studios for use on the soundtrack of Fantasia.[3] The HP Way describes HPs' management philosophy, which encourages creativity and shuns traditional business hierarchy and formality.[5] During World War II HP produced radio, sonar, radar, nautical, and aviation devices.[5]

The company, where Packard proved to be an expert administrator and Hewlett provided many technical innovations,[3] grew into the world's largest producer of electronic testing and measurement devices. It also became a major producer of calculators, computers, and laser and ink jet printers. HP incorporated in 1947, with Packard becoming its first president, serving in that role until 1964; he was then elected Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, holding these positions through 1968.[6] He left HP in 1969 to serve in the Nixon administration until 1971, at which time he returned to HP and was re-elected Chairman of the Board, serving from 1972 to 1993. In 1991, Packard oversaw a major reorganization at HP.[5] He retired from HP in 1993. At the time of his death in 1996, Packard's stake in the company was worth more than $1 billion.

Rod Canion

Joseph Rodney "Rod" Canion (born January 19, 1945) is an American computer scientist and businessman. Canion is a co-founder and was a CEO of Compaq Computer Corporation.[1] A native of Houston, Canion graduated from the University of Houston in 1966 and 1968 with Bachelor's and Master's degrees in electrical engineering with an emphasis on computer science.[2] Before co-founding Compaq Canion worked at Texas Instruments.[3] During Canion's tenure as Compaq's CEO, the company set records for the largest first-year sales in the history of American business and reached the Fortune 500 and the $1 billion revenue mark faster than any other company in history.[4] In 1991, Canion was dismissed by Compaq's chairman, Benjamin M. Rosen.[5] In 1992, Canion founded Insource Technology Group with Ronald L. Fischer and served as its chairman until September 2006.[6] In 1999, he led the initial investment round for Questia Media, Inc., which provides an online research library.[7] He became chairman of the board and later helped the company raise $150 million.[8] He is a member of the Board of Directors of AMVESCAP, BlueArc, and Young Life Metro, and HealthLink, is Director Emeritus of the Houston Technology Center, and is a member of the Board of Advisors for Sternhill Partners.[9] [10] [11]

Thomas J. Watson
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Thomas John Watson, Sr.

Thomas J. Watson, Sr., circa 1920s

February 17, 1874 Born Campbell, New York, U.S.

June 19, 1956 (aged 82) Died New York City, New York, U.S.

Occupation Business

Spouse

Jeanette M. Kittredge (m. April 17, 1913)

Thomas Watson, Jr. Jane Watson Children Helen Watson Arthur K. Watson

Thomas Watson and Jane Fulton Whyte or Parents George Marshall Watson and Mary Keller Watson

Thomas John Watson, Sr. (February 17, 1874 June 19, 1956) was president of International Business Machines (IBM),[1] who oversaw that company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. Watson developed IBM's distinctive management style and corporate culture, and turned the company into a highlyeffective selling organization, based largely around punched card tabulating machines. A leading self-made industrialist,[2] he was one of the richest men of his time and was called the world's greatest salesman when he died in 1956.[3]

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Thomas Watson was the only son of Thomas and Jane Fulton White Watson. His four older siblings, (Jennie, Effie, Loua and Emma), were girls. His father farmed and owned a modest lumber business located near Painted Post, a few miles west of Elmira, NY, in south central New York State. [4] Thomas worked on the family farm in East Campbell, New York and attended the District School Number Five in the late 1870s.[5] As Watson entered his teen years he attended Addison Academy In Addison, NY.[4] Having given up his first job teaching after just one day, Watson took a year's course in accounting and business at the Miller School of Commerce in Elmira. He left the school in 1891, taking a job at $6 a week as bookkeeper for Clarence Risley's Market in Painted Post. One year later he joined a traveling salesman, George Cornwell, peddling organs and pianos around the farms, for the local hardware store (William Bronsons), Watson's first salesman job. When Cornwell left, he continued alone, earning the sum of $10 per week. It was only after two years of this life that he realized he would be earning $70 per week if he were on a commission. The impact of his indignation on making this discovery was such that he quit and moved from his familiar surroundings to the relative metropolis of Buffalo.[4] Watson then spent a very brief period selling sewing machines for Wheeler and Wilcox. According to Tom Watson Jr., in his autobiography:

Stan Shih
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Not to be confused with Zhengrong Shi, the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Suntech Power. This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please improve this article by introducing more precise citations where appropriate.
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Stan Shih This is a Chinese name; the family name is Sh ( ).

Stan Shih (Traditional Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Sh Zhnrng, b. December 8, 1944 in Lukang Township, Changhua County, Taiwan) is a retired Taiwanese business tycoon. After receiving the Bachelor's degree and Master's degree degrees in Electronics Engineering from the National Chiao Tung University, Shih founded Acer (originally named as Multitech, but later changed to Acer in 1987) in 1976 along with his wife Carolyn Yeh and a group of five. Shih chaired Acer until his retirement late in 2004, seeing Acer growing from a tiny start-up to a billion-dollar worldwide brand. After retirement Shih is still active in local charity works, and was even appointed as the Special Representative of President Chen Shui-bian to the APEC Australia 2007.

Steve Jobs
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Steve Jobs

Jobs holding a white iPhone 4 at Worldwide Developers Conference 2010

Steven Paul Jobs Born February 24, 1955 (age 56)[1] San Francisco, California, U.S.[1]

Residence

Palo Alto, California, U.S.[2]

Nationality

American

Reed College (dropped out in Alma mater 1972)

Occupation

Chairman and CEO, Apple Inc.[3]

Salary

$1[4][5][6][7]

Net worth

$8.3 billion (2011)[8]

Board member of

The Walt Disney Company[9]

Religion

Buddhism[10]

Spouse

Laurene Powell (1991 present)

Children

Signature

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is an American business magnate and inventor. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was credited in the 1995 movie Toy Story as an executive producer.[11] In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula,[12] and others, designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of the mouse-driven graphical user interface which led to the creation of the Macintosh.[13][14] After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1984,[15][16] Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher education and business markets. Apple's subsequent 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he has served as its CEO since 1997. In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd which was spun off as Pixar Animation Studios.[17] He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1% until its acquisition by The Walt Disney company in 2006.[3] Consequently Jobs became Disney's largest individual shareholder at 7% and a member of Disney's Board of Directors.[18][19][20][21] Jobs' history in business has contributed much to the symbolic image of the idiosyncratic, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, emphasizing the importance of design and understanding the crucial role aesthetics play in public appeal. His work driving forward the development of products that are both functional and elegant has earned him a devoted following.[22]

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