Shaheer Ahmed
For tech entrepreneurs or to say tech-nerds it took a few tries to start a company that would make them industry leaders and make them billionaires.
When they were young, the owners of these tech giants had only small wins with their first tech businesses. It took them and others a few tries before they came up with ideas that took off and turned into big names in the tech business. The word “Big Tech” refers to a group of large, powerful, and financially successful tech companies that have ruled the market for years. Let us have a look at the 5 role models for these tech-nerds.
Steve Jobs
Before his death in October 2011, Steve Jobs had cofounded Apple in his parent’s garage in 1976, been fired from the firm in 1985, and returned to save it from the brink of bankruptcy in 1997. Apple is now the most valuable corporation in the world. In the process, he influenced seven different markets, including the computer industry, animation, music, mobile devices, tablets, brick-and-mortar shopping, and electronic publishing. He is rightfully enshrined with the likes of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Walt Disney as one of America’s greatest inventors.
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos is an American business owner, investor, investor in media, and commercial pilot. He started Amazon, which is the biggest e-commerce and cloud computing company in the world. He is the executive chairman of Amazon and used to be the president and CEO of the company.
Mark Zuckerberg
In 2004, when Zuckerberg was a sophomore attending Harvard University, he started Facebook in his dormitory room under the name “Thefacebook.” He decided to withdraw from school later that year in order to focus all of his energy on the establishment of the social network.
Melinda Gates
Melinda French Gates is a prominent philanthropist, successful entrepreneur, and campaigner for gender equality on a worldwide scale. former multimedia product developer and manager at Microsoft, and the ex-wife of its co-founder and billionaire Bill Gates. She works with grantees and collaborators to achieve the foundation’s objective of advancing fairness in the United States and throughout the globe, and as co-chair of the foundation, she helps define and approve the organization’s strategy as well as its general direction. In addition, she assesses the results of the foundation’s work.
Elon Musk
Elon Musk is the co-founder of six businesses, including Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and the tunneling venture Boring Company. He has committed more than half of his Tesla shares as security for loans while owning around 23% of the company through stock and options. After a financing round in May 2022, the company SpaceX, founded in 2002, was valued at $127 billion, quadrupling its value in just three years.
