The World's Richest Person In Tech

Bezos founded Amazon in 1994. He saw the potential that the internet had for commerce and started Amazon out of his garage in Seattle after quitting his job at an investment bank

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Gates has been proficient in tech since childhood, creating his first software program at age 13. Later on in life after creating the BASIC software for microcomputers with his partner Paul G.

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Page went to Stanford's graduate program and created the search engine Google in 1998 from his dorm with fellow student Sergey Brin.

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In 1977, Ellison joined with fellow software developers Bob Miner and Ed Oates to create Software Development Laboratories (SDL).

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Ballmer joined Bill Gates in his ventures with Microsoft as the company's business manager.

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In 2004, Zuckerberg and a small group of fellow Harvard students created Facebook, a popular social network that would later go on to help bring connectivity to the world.

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While attending the University of Texas at Austin in 1984, Dell started a computer business with $1,000 in startup capital.

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In 1998 while working in research and development for China Motion Telecom Development Ltd., Huateng and a group of his friends founded Tencent.

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In 1976, Nadar founded Hindustan Computers Limited (HCL) out of his garage where he originally made calculators and microprocessors.

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