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In 2005, at the age of 19, [17] Sam Altman co-founded Loopt, [18] a location-based social networking mobile application. As CEO, he raised more than $30 million in venture capital for the company, including an initial investment of $5 million from Patrick Chung of Xfund and his team at New Enterprise Associates , followed by investments from ...
Jason Citron was born on September 21, 1984, [5] in San Francisco, California, into an Ashkenazi Jewish family with a strong business and technology background. [6] [7] His grandfather played a pivotal role in his early fascination with technology by giving him his first computer. [8]
On March 24, 2014, Mozilla made the decision to appoint Eich as CEO of Mozilla Corporation. [12] [13] [14] The appointment triggered widespread criticism due to Eich's past political donations [18] – specifically, a 2008 donation of $1,000 to California Proposition 8, which called for the banning of same-sex marriage in California, [19] and donations in the amount of $2,100 to Proposition 8 ...
Many lists exist that provide an overview of large software companies, often called "independent software vendors" ("ISVs"), in the world.The lists differ by methodology of composition and consequently show substantial differences in both the listed companies and the ranking of those companies.
Leonard Adleman – co-created RSA algorithm (being the A in that name), coined the term computer virus; Alfred Aho – co-created AWK (being the A in that name), and main author of famous Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (Dragon book) Andrei Alexandrescu – author, expert on languages C++, D
Raised in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, [1] Duffield graduated in 1958 from Ridgewood High School in nearby Ridgewood, where he was co-captain of the baseball team. [2] Duffield received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and an MBA from Cornell University, and is the benefactor behind Cornell's Duffield Hall, [3] a nanoscale science (or nanotechnology) and engineering facility at Cornell.
Charles Simonyi (/ s ɪ ˈ m oʊ n i /; Hungarian: Simonyi Károly, pronounced [ˈʃimoɲi ˈkaːroj]; born September 10, 1948) is a Hungarian-American software architect.. He introduced the graphical user interface to Bill Gates for the first time who later described it as the first of two revolutionary things he felt in his life.
Preston-Werner grew up in Dubuque, Iowa.His father died when he was a child. His mother was a teacher and his stepfather was an engineer. [11]He graduated from high school at Dubuque Senior High School and attended Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California for 2 years before dropping out to pursue other endeavours.