Sergey Brin

Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Брин; born August 21, 1973) is a Russian-born American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who, with Larry Page, co-founded Google, one of the largest internet companies.[3][4] As of 2011, his personal wealth is estimated to be $16.7 billion.[1] Brin immigrated to the United States from Soviet Union at the age of six. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Maryland, following in his father's and grandfather's footsteps by studying mathematics, as well as computer science. After graduation, he moved to Stanford to acquire a Ph.D in computer science. There he met Larry...

Tom Fulp

Thomas Michael "Tom" Fulp (born April 30, 1978) is the co-owner of video game company The Behemoth,[1] and the creator and administrator of Newgrounds, a popular website for sharing Flash files.[2] He co-created the Flash game Alien Hominid, which was later ported to consoles, and the console game Castle Crashers.[3] Fulp was born and raised in Perkasie, Pennsylvania, and attended Pennridge High School, where he graduated in 1996. He later attended Drexel University, in Philadelphia, where during his freshman year he got interested in rave parties and became a DJ for a short span of time. source  : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_F...

Markus Frind

Markus Frind is the founder of Plentyoffish.com. He graduated in 1999 from British Columbia Institute of Technology with a diploma in Computer Systems Technology. Over the next few years, he worked for several dot.com companies as the number of them in Vancouver began to wane. Markus ended up working at a company as a website and database administrator where he found and fixed errors. In 2003, Frind had to learn ASP.NET and to better learn the language, he built a dating website. The free dating website quickly grew in Canada and then spread, via word of mouth, to the U.K., Australia, and the United States. To keep the site free, Plentyoffish...

Kevin Rose

Kevin Rose (born Robert Kevin Rose, February 21, 1977) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk. He also served as production assistant and temporary co-host at TechTV's The Screen Savers. Early life Rose was born in Redding, California[1] and lived in Oregon before his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he spent most of his childhood. He became an Eagle Scout with the Boy Scouts of America.[2] Rose transferred to Vo-Tech High School in Las Vegas in 1992. He then attended the University of Nevada Las Vegas, majoring in computer science but dropped out in 1998.[3] He worked for two dot-com startups...

Matt Mullenweg

Matthew Charles Mullenweg (born January 11, 1984 in Houston, Texas) is an online social media entrepreneur, web developer and musician living in San Francisco, California. He is best known for his development of the free and open source web software, WordPress (which is now managed by The WordPress Foundation). He founded Automattic, a company based in California which provides free WordPress blogs. He is also an open source enthusiast, being the lead developer at WordPress Foundation. Graduate from University of Houston More He is the founding developer of the popular open-source blogging software WordPress and writes a popular blog. ma.tt,...

David Hyatt

Dave Hyatt (June 28, 1972) is an American software developer currently employed by Apple Inc. (since July 15, 2002), where he is part of the development team responsible for the Safari web browser and WebKit framework. Hyatt was part of the original team that shipped the beta releases and 1.0 release of Safari. He is currently the Safari and WebKit Architect. Before Apple, Hyatt worked at Netscape Communications from 1997 to 2002 where he contributed to the Mozilla web browser. While at Netscape, he also created Camino (then known as Chimera) and co-created Firefox (originally called Phoenix) with Blake Ross. He is credited with the implementations...

Blake Ross

Blake Aaron Ross (born June 12, 1985) is an American software developer who is known for his work on the Mozilla web browser; in particular, he started the Mozilla Firefox project with Dave Hyatt, as well as the Spread Firefox project with Asa Dotzler while working as a contractor at the Mozilla Foundation. In 2005, he was nominated for Wired magazine's top Rave Award, Renegade of the Year, opposite Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Jon Stewart. He was also a part of Rolling Stone magazine's 2005 hot list.[1]. He currently works for Facebook as Director of Product. Early life and education Born in Miami, Florida, Ross created his first website at...

Chad Hurley

Chad Meredith Hurley (born January 1, 1977) is an American co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0's "50 People Who Matter Now" list. In October 2006 he and Steve Chen sold YouTube for $1.65 billion to Google.[1] Hurley worked in eBay's PayPal division—one of his tasks involved designing the original PayPal logo—[2] before starting YouTube [3] with fellow PayPal colleagues Steve Chen and Jawed Karim.[4] Hurley was primarily responsible for the tagging and video sharing aspects of YouTube.[5] Biography Early years Chad is the middle child of...

Andrew Gower

Andrew Christopher Gower (born 2 December 1978)[1] is a British video game developer and co-founder of Cambridge-based Jagex Games Studio, the company he founded with Paul Gower and Constant Tedder. He wrote the MMORPG RuneScape with the assistance of his brother, Paul Gower.[3] In December 2010 he left the Jagex board of directors.[4] He no longer has holdings in the company.[5] As of November 2011, he is not listed under the credits for RuneScape.[6] Since leaving Jagex, Gower has founded a new gaming development and consulting company, Fen Research, of which he holds 90% of the shares.[5][7] Personal life Andrew Gower was born in Nottingham,...

Mark Zuckerber

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur.[6] He is best known for co-creating the social networking site Facebook, of which he is chief executive and president. It was co-founded as a private company in 2004 by Zuckerberg and classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while they were students at Harvard University.[7][8] In 2010, Zuckerberg was named Time magazine's Person of the Year.[9] As of 2011, his personal wealth was estimated to be $17.5 billion.[5] Personal life Zuckerberg was born in 1984 in White Plains, New York[10] to Karen, a psychiatrist, and Edward...