SOME

GREAT & POPULAR

ICONS
 MICROSOFT

BILL GATES
Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul
Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC
interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to
dominate the personal computer operating
 APPLE

STEVE JOBS
Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald
Wayne in April 1976 to develop and sell Wozniak's Apple
I personal computer. It was incorporated as Apple Computer,
Inc., in January 1977, and sales of its computers, including
the Apple II, grew quickly. Within a few years, Jobs and
Wozniak had hired a staff of computer designers and had a
production line. Apple went public in 1980 to instant financial
 PAYTM

VIJAY SHEKHAR
Paytm was founded in August 2010 with an initial investment of $2 million by its founder Vijay Shekhar
Sharma in NOIDA, a region adjacent to India's capital New Delhi. It started off as a prepaid mobile and
DTH recharge platform, and later added data card, postpaid mobile and landline bill payments in 2013.
By January 2014, the company launched the Paytm Wallet, and the Indian Railways and Uber added it
as a payment option . It launched into E-commerce with online deals and bus ticketing. In 2015, it
unveiled more use-cases like education fees, metro recharges, electricity, gas, and water bill payments. It
also started powering the payment gateway for Indian Railways.
 FACEBOOK

MARK ZUKERBERG
A "facebook" is a student directory featuring photos and basic information. In 2003,
there were no universal online facebooks at Harvard, with only paper sheets
distributed and private online directories. In January 2004, Zuckerberg began writing
code for a new website, known as "TheFacebook", with the inspiration coming from an
editorial in the  Crimson  about Facemash, stating that "It is clear that the technology
needed to create a centralized Website is readily available ... the benefits are many.On
February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "TheFacebook", originally located at the
 AMAZON

JEFF BEZOS
Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon  is an
American electronic commerce and cloud computing company
based in Seattle, Washington, that was founded by Jeff
Bezos on July 5, 1994. The tech giant is the largest Internet
retailer in the world as measured by revenue and market
capitalization,. The Amazon.com website started as an
 INSTAGRAM

KEVIN SYSTROM
A Brief History of Instagram's Fateful First Day. ... On this day in
2010, Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger
unleashed the photo-sharing platform that, though they didn't
know it at the time, would soon become a selfie-filled, multi-billion-
dollar beast used by 500 million people.
 GOOGLE

LARRY PAGE AND

SERGEY BRIN
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Pa g e   a n d  S e r g e y   B r i n   w h e n   t h e y   w e r e   b o t h   P h D   s t u d e n t s   a t  
S t a n f o r d  U n i v e r s i t y   i n   S t a n f o r d ,   C a l i f o r n i a .   . . .  T h e   d o m a i n  
n a m e   f o r  G o o g l e   w a s   r e g i s t e r e d   o n  S e p t e m b e r   15 ,   1 9 9 7 ,   a n d  
t h e   c o m p a n y   w a s   i n c o r p o r a t e d   o n  S e p t e m b e r   4 ,   1 9 9 8 .
 TWITTER

JACK DORSEY
Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz
Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July of that year. The
service rapidly gained worldwide popularity. In 2012, more than 100
million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service
handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day.
 WHATSAPP

JAN KOUM AND

BRIAN ACTON
WhatsApp was founded in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum, both former
employees of Yahoo!. After Koum and Acton left Yahoo! in September
2007, the duo traveled to South America to take a break from work.At
one point, they applied for jobs at Facebook but were rejected. For the
rest of the following years Koum relied on his $400,000 savings from
Yahoo!.
 PAYPAL

PayPal was established in December 1998 as Confinity, a company

that developed security software for handheld devices founded
by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek, and Ken Howery. PayPal
was developed and launched as a money transfer service at
Confinity in 1999, funded by John Malloy from BlueRun Ventures.
In March 2000, Confinity merged with X.com, an online banking
company founded by Elon Musk. Musk was optimistic about the
future success of the money transfer business Confinity was
developing.
 ALIBABA

JACK MA
The company's name came from the character Ali Baba from the Arabian literature One
Thousand and One Nights because of its universal appeal. As Jack Ma, one of the founders,
explained:"Taobao City", the main corporate campus for Alibaba Group at Xixi, Hangzhou.
Alibaba Binjiang Campus in Hangzhou, headquarters for Alibaba's B2B service . One day I 
was in San Francisco in a coffee shop, and I was thinking Alibaba is a good name. And then a 
waitress came, and I said, "Do you know about Alibaba?" And she said yes. I said, "What do 
you know about?", and she said, "Open Sesame". And I said, "Yes, this is the name!" Then I 
went on to the street and found 30 people and asked them, "Do you know Alibaba?" People 
from India, people from Germany, people from Tokyo and China … they all knew about 
Alibaba. Alibaba – open sesame. Alibaba is a kind, smart business person, and he helped the 
village.
 BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY

WARREN BUFFIT