This document profiles 5 influential people in technology: Bill Gates, Narayana Murthy, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Tim Cook. It provides biographical details and achievements for each person. Bill Gates is described as the co-founder of Microsoft and philanthropist through his foundation. Narayana Murthy is highlighted as the founder of Infosys Technologies. Steve Jobs' role in founding Apple and pioneering the personal computer revolution is noted. Mark Zuckerberg is summarized as the founder and CEO of Facebook. And Tim Cook is identified as the current CEO of Apple.
2. WHO IS BILL GATES
• William Henry “Bill“ Gates III.
• Bill Gates co-founded ‘Microsoft Corporation in 1975 with Paul G. Allen.
• Gates is not only Chairman of Microsoft but is chairman of Corbis and Co-
Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and CEO of Cascade
Investment.
• Gates is one of the well-known entrepreneurs who played the main role in
the evolution of the PC: Personal Computer.
• He is co-founder, chairman of Microsoft Corporation, and one of
the wealthiest people in the world. He was continuously the wealthiest
person from 1995-2007 and in 2009. In the year 2013, he was declared the
richest person in the World
3. BILL GATES AS A PHILANTHROPIST
• Bill Gates also donates heavily to charity. Gates is as famous for his random acts of
kindness to individuals and groups/institutions as he is for his work in the field of
computers. Even though there have been numerous scandals about Gates only donating
to companies that pollute the environment and induce poverty and oppression, these
have been rebuffed by his practicality.
• Gates donates generously to students who work while studying and poverty-stricken
countries. He even lost his status as the richest person in the world on Forbes’s list of
wealthiest people due to donating heavily. Even though Gates donates so freely, he is one
of the most successful young businessmen, innovators, programmers,
and philanthropists. Apart from this, Gates is also the author and co-author of several
books.
• Bill Gates is an idol of inspiration and a metaphor for success for
anyone who wants to excel in any field.
4. NARAYANA MURTHY
• Mr. Narayana Murthy – Is the pioneer of Infosys Technologies Limited, a global consulting and IT services company
based in India. Born on August 20th, 1946, an Electrical Engineer from the National Institute of Engineering, University of
Mysore graduated in 1967, with a master’s degree from IIT Kanpur in the year of 1969.
• Always excelling as a student, he always showed a keen interest in learning new things and had shown an inclination
towards practical application as compared to theoretical knowledge. Mr. Murthy then offered his services at Patni
Computer Systems in Pune, where he met his wife, Sudha Murthy who at the time was an engineer at TELCO.
• Mr. Murthy then founded Infosys with six other software professionals in 1987 and opened its first international office in
the U.S.A. The company started growing rapidly and soon the IPO was also launched. The company expanded its
international operations from 1996 from India to Europe & UK. Also, it is to be noted that Infosys became the first Indian
company to be listed on the NASDAQ, under the leadership of Mr. Murthy.
5. STEVE JOBS
• Steve is best known as co-founder & CEO of Apple and a pioneer in the personal
computer revolution, he has to his credit lot many contributions in the computer and
consumer electronics fields.
• Steve got his first job in 1974 at the then leading Video Game Making firm named Atari, 5
years later in 1979, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne together formed Apple Inc. – The
foundation stone of history was laid.
• People like Intel executive Mike Markkula started investing heavily in Apple and 1977
Apple made a huge success with the west coast computer with their prototype Apple ii. In
1980 Apple Inc. went public which made Steve the owner of millions of dollars over $200
million.
6. WHO IS MARK ZUCKERBERG?
• Mark Elliot Zuckerberg!!”, this name reminds all of us of Facebook.
• Yes, It’s Mark Zuckerberg because of whom we all are having fun on FB..!
• Mark is an American computer programmer, an internet entrepreneur, and a
founder & CEO of the social-networking website Facebook.
7. BIRTH AND EDUCATION OF MARK
ZUCKERBERG
• Mark was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York.
• Zuckerberg excelled in classics at Ardsley High School. Then in his junior year, he
transferred to Phillips Exeter Academy, an exclusive preparatory school in New
Hampshire, where he won prizes in science and classical studies.
• Mark developed an interest in computers at the early age of 12 years.
• During Zuckerberg’s high school years, he built a music player called the Synapse Media
Player under the company name Intelligent Media Group.
• Many companies including Microsoft and AOL, showed an interest in purchasing the
software and hiring the teenager before graduation.
• Zuckerberg enrolled at Harvard University, after graduating from Exeter in 2002.
8. ACHIEVEMENTS
• In 2010, Zuckerberg was named number 1 on the list of the Top 100 “most influential
people of the Information Age” by Vanity Fair magazine.
• In New Statesman’s annual survey of the world’s 50 most influential figures,
Zuckerberg was chosen as number 16 in 2010.
• Also, Zuckerberg was the keynote speaker at the 2014 Mobile World Congress
(MWC), held in Barcelona, Spain in March, which was attended by about 75,000
delegates.
9. WHO IS TIM COOK?
• Timothy Donald Cook or “Tim Cook”.
• We all know Tim Cook as the “CEO of Apple Inc”.
• Tim cook is a business executive of America and is well known as CEO: Chief executive officer of Apple Inc.
10. BIRTH AND EDUCATION OF TIM COOK
• Cook was born on 1st November 1960 in the small town of Robertsdale, a city in the United States.
• Tim Cook graduated from his hometown at Robertsdale High School and got his bachelor’s degree in industrial
engineering in 1982 from Alabama’s Auburn University.
• After that from Fuqua School of Business of Duke University (one of the most prestigious universities in America.)
in North Carolina in 1988 to get a Master’s Degree i.e. a Master of Business Administration (MBA). There, he was
honored as Fuqua Scholar: an honor only given to the top 10% of the class.
11. ACHIEVEMENTS
• According to Forbs, his ranking is 58th among the most powerful people in the world in 2012.
• Cook not only serves on the board of directors at Apple Inc. but also at Nike and NFF: National Football Foundation.
• As in 2012, the world’s highest-paid CEO goes to him with a salary of around $900,000 including compensation,
bonuses, and stock awards.
