Photo of school days of 13 technology tycoons
Curious about the school-age appearance of leaders, executives and founders of the world's largest technology corporations? Below is a series of photos from the time of schooling of famous technology tycoons who have been summarized by Business Insider.
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1. Former Apple CEO
Steve Jobs attended middle and high schools in Cupertino, California. There he met Steve Wozniak. They both shared a passion for computers, and then founded Apple in 1976 together.
2. Apple co-founder
Steve Wozniak was born in San Jose, California. While working at Hewlett-Packard, Wozniak knew Steve Jobs. At that time, Steve Jobs was still a student and working at HP. After this meeting, technology village history has added an important milestone to the birth of Apple.
3. Microsoft co-founder
Bill Gates grew up in Seattle, Washington state. Bill Gates attended Lakeside School high school, which gave him the first experience of using computers. Later, Bill Gates continued his education at Harvard University. He founded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975.
4. Google CEO
Eric Schmidt grew up in Virginia and studied at Yorktown High School. He received many offers from universities across the United States.
5. Apple CEO
Tim Cook grew up in Mobile, Alabama. In high school, he attended Robertsdale High School. After graduating from Auburn and Duke universities, spent 13 years at IBM, Tim Cook decided to join Apple in 1998.
6. Former Microsoft CEO
Steve Ballmer was born in Detroit and grew up in Michigan. He attended Detroit Country Day High School and achieved a maximum math score in the SAT standardized exam. Recently, Steve Ballmer has taken ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers professional basketball team.
7. Google co-founder
Moscow is home to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. When he was only six years old, he followed his family to immigrate to the United States. He attended the Maryland School and excelled at his mathematical ability. After that, he went on to the University of Maryland and Stanford before he founded Lary Page in 1998.
8. Amazon CEO
Jeff Bezos was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico but he attended high school at Miami Palmetto, Florida. Later, he attended the University of Florida and Princeton. He founded Amazon in 1994.
9. Google co-founder
Larry Page was born in Michigan. Okemos Montessori and East Lansing are the two schools he attended. He went on to study engineering at the University of Michigan and majored in computer science at Stanford University. In 1998 he founded Google with Sergey Brin.
10. Technology billionaire Mark Cuban
Pennsylvania is where billionaire Mark Cuban matures. There, he graduated from Mount Lebanon High School and the University of Pittsburgh. However, after a year at the University of Pittsburgh, he moved to Indiana University and eventually moved to Texas, where he sold his first company for $ 6 million in 1990.
11. Dell founder and CEO
Michael Dell grew up in Houston, Texas. He attended Herod Elementary School and Memorial High School. At the University of Texas, Dell began selling computers due to upgrading itself. He then founded Dell Computer Corporation in 1984.
12. Co-founder of Yahoo
David Filo was born in Wisconsin, grew up in Louisiana and graduated from Sam Houston High School. He majored in computer science at Tulane University and studied graduate programs at Stanford. He became co-founder of Yahoo in 1994.
13. Co-founder, former CEO of Yahoo
Jerry Jang was born in Taiwan but later moved to San Jose, California, when he was 10 years old. Here, he attended Sierramont Middle School and Piedmont Hills High School. While studying at Stanford, he met David Filo and the two formed Yahoo in 1994.
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