1. Famous Technology Pioneers & Inventors

2. Paul Allen
Entrepreneur and investor Paul Allen is best known for being the cofounder, with Bill Gates, of Microsoft.
Allen has also taken interest in space time travel and launched Vulcan Aerospace in  
Fighting to end Ebola in Africa
Owns the Seattle Seahawks (NFL) and Portland Trailblazers (NBA)

3. Steve Ballmer Former CEO of Microsoft Owns the LA Clippers (NBA)
Led the development of the .NET Framework.
Expanded Microsoft’s product range to include products such as electronic game console system Xbox and the Zune family of portable media players.

4. Jeff Bezos Founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com
In 2013, he purchased 'The Washington Post.
Founded Blue Origin, a Seattle- based aerospace company that develops technologies to offer space travel to paying customers.

5. Reed Hastings Co-founder CEO of the media rental service Netflix.
From 2000 to 2004 he was president of the California State Board of Education.
Board of Directors for Microsoft and Facebook

6. Mark Zuckerberg
Co-founder and CEO of the social-networking website Facebook
Signed "The Giving Pledge", in which they promised to donate to charity at least half of their wealth over the course of time
Owns WhatsApp, Oculus and Instagram

7. Sergey Brin Co-founder of Google
President of Alphabet – parent company of Google and YouTube
Involved with Google Glass and Waymo, Google’s driverless car programs

8. Larry Page
Internet entrepreneur and computer scientist Larry Page teamed up with grad school buddy Sergey Brin to launch the search engine Google in 1998.
Page is a clean energy advocate, and his Palo Alto houses use fuel cells and geothermal energy.
Page is reportedly personally funding two secretive flying car startups: Zee.Aero and Kitty Hawk.

9. Michael Dell
Michael Dell helped launch the personal computer revolution in the 1980s with the creation of the Dell Computer Corporation, now known as Dell Inc.
Created the concept of purchasing computers over the phone and building them to a customer’s specifications
Merged with the computer storage giant EMC

10. Larry Ellison
Ellison cofounded software firm Oracle in 1977 to tap into the growing need for customer relationship management databases.
He started out building databases for the CIA.
Purchased PeopleSoft (2005), Siebel (2006), BEA (2008), and Sun Microsystems (2010).

11. Meg Whitman
Whitman is CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and chairman of HP Inc.
She's best known for taking eBay from $4 million to $8 billion in sales as CEO from to 2008.
A former Hasbro and Walt Disney executive, she sits on the boards of SurveyMonkey and Procter & Gamble. Former president of Stride Rite.

12. Steve Wozniak
American computer scientist best known as one of the founders of Apple and the inventor of the Apple II computer.
Designed the 3.5” floppy disk drive
Founded the company responsible for the first programmable universal remote control.

13. Jerry Yang Founded Internet search company Yahoo!
Investment in Alibaba, China's e-commerce giant, in 2005

14. Mark Cuban Cuban cofounded video portal Broadcast.com
They sold video portal Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in 1999.
Today he owns NBA team the Dallas Mavericks and has stakes in Landmark Theaters, Magnolia Pictures and AXS TV.
He's appeared as a judge on the popular ABC show "Shark Tank" for 6 of the show's 8 seasons.

15. Elon Musk He made his first fortune as a cofounder of PayPal.
Co-founder – Tesla Motors aiming to bring fully-electric vehicles to the mass market
at SpaceX he launches satellites and is working to send humans to other planets.

16. Richard Branson
Branson owes his fortune to a conglomerate of businesses bearing the "Virgin" brand name, including Virgin Galactic (a space tourism company) and Virgin Atlantic Airlines.
Got his start with a mail-order record business almost 50 years ago.
Formed Virgin Mobile, a wireless phone service

17. Travis Kalanick Founder of Uber ride-sharing service
Founder Red Swoosh file- sharing company
Developing driverless car company with China
Created UberEats food delivery service

18. Jony Ive
British industrial designer and Apple Inc. executive who was responsible for making design as integral to the appeal of a personal computer as its power and speed.
Designed of iMac, iPod, iPad and iPhone

19. Marissa Mayer Software engineer and businesswoman
One of the original employees at Google – contributed to Chrome, Gmail, Maps and Google Earth
CEO of Yahoo!
Sold to Verizon

20. Tim Cook
American technology executive who was chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple
Vice President at Compaq Computers
Replaced Steve Jobs after his death
Purchased Beats Music
Helped develop Apple Watch

21. Sheryl Sandberg
Facebook's chief operating officer since 2008, Sandberg has helped dramatically boost revenues at the social network.
She founded Lean In, a nonprofit named after her bestselling book, to support women's empowerment.
She spent 6 years as a vice president at Google, where she developed its lucrative online advertising programs.

22. Bill Gates Software Engineer – co-founder of Microsoft
Licensed DOS operating system to IBM
Developed Microsoft Office, Windows, Internet Explorer
Purchased Skype
Founder of the world's largest private charity-The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - efforts to eliminate polio, attack malaria and expand childhood vaccinations and working to improve K- 12 education in the U.S

23. Tim Berners-Lee
British computer scientist, credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web
Designed computer systems for CERN
wrote the software for the first Web server (the central storehouse for the files to be shared) and the first Web client, or “browser” (the program to access and display files retrieved from the server)
Created the first web site

24. Nathaniel Borenstein American computer scientist
One of the original designers of the MIME protocol for formatting multimedia Internet electronic mail
Sent the first attachment
Founder of First Virtual Holdings in 1994, called "the first cyberbank" 

25. Marty Cooper
He is a pioneer and visionary in the wireless communications industry
Recognized as an innovator in radio spectrum management.
At Motorola in the 1970s, Cooper invented the first handheld cellular mobile phone 

26. Grace Murray Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral.
In 1944, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer
Invented the first compiler for a computer programming language (COBOL)

27. Robert Noyce
Co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in and Intel Corporation in 1968
He is also credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the creation of the first integrated circuit or microchip that powered the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name

28. Alan Turing English computer scientist and mathematician
Created the concepts of algorithms and computations for machines including his Turing machine – a World War II code breaking machine
Known as the father of artificial intelligence

29. Fusajiro Yamauchi Founder of Nintendo
Revolutionized gaming with Nintendo Gameboy – first portable playing system and Nintendo Wii

30. Kenneth Dunkley President of the Holospace Laboratories Inc.
Inventing Three Dimensional Viewing Glasses (3-DVG) – his patented invention that displays 3-D effects from regular 2-D photos without any type of lenses, mirrors or optical elements.
Leader in the field of holography.

31. Jack Dorsey
Self-taught computer coder, American computer program- mer and internet entrepreneur
Co-founder of Twitter and payments company  Square

32. Steve Jobs Apple cofounder
Changed the computer (Apple II, Mac), music (iTunes, iPod), film (Pixar) and wireless industries (iPhone)
Created new hardware sectors with the iPod, iPhone and iPad
Started as a video game designer with Atari

33. Wondering about the star?
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