Steve Jobs - Apple Inc.
Together with Steve Jobs Woznika founded in the late 70s, the computer company Apple in a garage. Shortly afterwards, the Apple I was at 666, sold 66 USD. In 1984, the Macintosh came to market. Jobs saw back in the early 80s, the great potential of a mouse-driven graphical user interface. After an internal power struggle with the Executive Board Jobs left Apple in 1985. He founded a company NeXT, another computer company. In 1986 he founded with Edwin Catmull, the Pixar computer animation studios. From this come from successes such as Toy Stor, Finding Nemo and "The Incredibles". Pixar was bought by Walt Disney in 2006 and as part of the deal was with 6% Jobs the largest shareholder of Walt Disney.
1996, NeXT was bought by Apple Inc. and Jobs returned as a consultant back in his old company. Later became a member of the Board and then again for managing a symbolic salary of $ 1. Recently, many rumors circulated about the health of the Apple boss, who has retired since last year from the management. As revealed recently in April 2009 he received a liver transplant and will be on the mend.
Jack Dorsey - Twitter
Thomas Anderson - MySpace
do you register with MySpace to you immediately a friend who is short and sweet "Tom" called. Underlying this is one of the co-founder of MySpace - Thomas Anderson. Meanwhile, it brings "Tom" to over 250 million Friends on MySpace and the user numbers are growing steadily. Was developed MySpace 2003 eUniverse within the company. Originally the domain MySpace.com a provider of free data storage was available on the Internet. 2005 MySpace was bought by Rupert Murdoch for 580 million U.S. Doller.
Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield - Flickr
The photo-sharing service was originally a feature of an online game, developed by the Canadian company Ludicorp. This was programmed by Caterina Fake and her husband Stewart Butterfield.
The pictures were for service users so well that the development of the game was stopped and Flickr as independent photo-sharing platform was. Flickr in 2005, including the company was bought by Yahoo Ludicorp.
Jeff Bezos - Amazon
Here is the program name! Amazon refers to the South American power "Amazon." This is to symbolize the supremacy of the company with many partners, a successful Internet business to point to operate. Jeff Bezos (* 12.1.1964) studied at the Princeton University computer science. Bezos subsequently worked for various companies as a consultant. In 1994, he wrote on a trip to New York to Seattle quickly makes the business plan for "Amazon" and realized this quickly. Back in 1995 Amazon.com in the U.S. went online. Since 1998, Amazon is also active in Germany. Headquarters of the German subsidiary of Amazon is Munich, the distribution warehouse is located in Bad Hersfeld and another in Leipzig.
Pierre Omidyar - eBay
Omidyar (* 21.06.1967) wrote the program for the successful Internet marketplace when he was just 28 years old. Previously, he studied computer science and worked for the company Clair, an Apple subsidiary, where he worked on the program MacDraw. He called his auction site "Echo Bay" was also the name of his consulting firm was. Unfortunately, given the domain and therefore it was summarily eBay.com, which went online in 1995.
1996, NeXT was bought by Apple Inc. and Jobs returned as a consultant back in his old company. Later became a member of the Board and then again for managing a symbolic salary of $ 1. Recently, many rumors circulated about the health of the Apple boss, who has retired since last year from the management. As revealed recently in April 2009 he received a liver transplant and will be on the mend.
Jack Dorsey - Twitter
Twitter knows almost everyone, but the name Jack Dorsey (* 19.11.1976) is likely to be familiar with only a few. He is the one software specialist behind the concept of the 140-character micro-blogging service available. Twitter was developed in March 2006 as a project of the San Francisco company Podacasting Odeo and used internally for employee communication. The service was so well received that Evan Williams (former Google employees, bloggers, inventors and co-founder of Odeo) to the project, adopted and money invested to develop this. It was running with Biz Stone (additional Co-developer of Twitter) and Jack Dorsey founded given the Obvious Corporation. Twitter was ausgeliedert 2007 as an independent company. Evan Williams is since 2008 CEO and Dorsey is now a board member and creative director of Stone Twitter.
Thomas Anderson - MySpace
do you register with MySpace to you immediately a friend who is short and sweet "Tom" called. Underlying this is one of the co-founder of MySpace - Thomas Anderson. Meanwhile, it brings "Tom" to over 250 million Friends on MySpace and the user numbers are growing steadily. Was developed MySpace 2003 eUniverse within the company. Originally the domain MySpace.com a provider of free data storage was available on the Internet. 2005 MySpace was bought by Rupert Murdoch for 580 million U.S. Doller.
Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield - Flickr
The photo-sharing service was originally a feature of an online game, developed by the Canadian company Ludicorp. This was programmed by Caterina Fake and her husband Stewart Butterfield.
The pictures were for service users so well that the development of the game was stopped and Flickr as independent photo-sharing platform was. Flickr in 2005, including the company was bought by Yahoo Ludicorp.
Jeff Bezos - Amazon
Here is the program name! Amazon refers to the South American power "Amazon." This is to symbolize the supremacy of the company with many partners, a successful Internet business to point to operate. Jeff Bezos (* 12.1.1964) studied at the Princeton University computer science. Bezos subsequently worked for various companies as a consultant. In 1994, he wrote on a trip to New York to Seattle quickly makes the business plan for "Amazon" and realized this quickly. Back in 1995 Amazon.com in the U.S. went online. Since 1998, Amazon is also active in Germany. Headquarters of the German subsidiary of Amazon is Munich, the distribution warehouse is located in Bad Hersfeld and another in Leipzig.
Pierre Omidyar - eBay
Omidyar (* 21.06.1967) wrote the program for the successful Internet marketplace when he was just 28 years old. Previously, he studied computer science and worked for the company Clair, an Apple subsidiary, where he worked on the program MacDraw. He called his auction site "Echo Bay" was also the name of his consulting firm was. Unfortunately, given the domain and therefore it was summarily eBay.com, which went online in 1995.
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