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Jawed Karim was born on October 28, 1979, in Merseburg, East Germany, to a Bangladeshi father and a German mother. [4] His father Naimul Karim (Bengali: নাইমুল করিম) is a Bangladeshi who is a researcher at 3M, and his mother, Christine, is a German biochemistry scientist at the University of Minnesota. [5]
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 ...
Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc. Jobs was also the founder of NeXT and chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar.
Gregory Brockman is an American entrepreneur, investor and software developer who is a co-founder [2] and currently the president of OpenAI. [3] He began his career at Stripe in 2010, upon leaving MIT, and became their CTO [4] in 2013. He left Stripe in 2015 [5] to co-found OpenAI, where he also assumed the role of CTO. [6] [7] [8]
[7] [8] Based in Singapore, [9] he is the co-founder and co-CEO of the venture capital firm B Capital, and has also invested in early-stage startups such as Qwiki [10] and Jumio. [11] Saverin is the wealthiest Brazilian, with an estimated net worth of US$33.9 billion as of 7 January 2025, according to Forbes, and the 51st richest individual in ...
Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976, was ousted in 1985 by its board and CEO John Sculley, and returned in heroic fashion to revitalize the company in 1997.
In 1973, Jobs was working for arcade game company Atari, Inc. in Los Gatos, California. [32] He was assigned to create a circuit board for the arcade video game Breakout. According to Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, Atari offered $100 (equivalent to $686 in 2023) for each chip that was eliminated in the machine. Jobs had little knowledge of ...
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American businessman and philanthropist best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. He later held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president, and chief software architect of the company.