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American businesspeople in the computer industry

  • MC HammerStanley Kirk Burrell grew up in a three-bedroom housing project apartment in East Oakland, California. He was born on the 30th of March 1962, into a family…
  • Bill GatesIn 1970, a group of students at Lakeside School in Seattle gathered around a Teletype Model 33 ASR terminal. Bill Gates was one of them.
  • Eric SchmidtEric Emerson Schmidt was born on the 27th of April 1955 in Falls Church, Virginia. He spent part of his childhood in Italy while his father worked for the…
  • Sam Bankman-FriedSamuel Benjamin Bankman-Fried was born on the 5th of March 1992, in Stanford, California. His parents were Barbara Fried and Joseph Bankman, both professors…
  • Russell SimmonsRussell Wendell Simmons was born in the Hollis neighborhood of Queens on the 4th of October 1957. His father worked as a public school administrator while…
  • Andrew NgAndrew Ng was born in London on the 18th of April 1976. His parents were immigrants from Hong Kong who worked as a hematologist and an arts administrator.
  • Jensen HuangJensen Huang arrived in Oneida, Kentucky, as a ten-year-old boy with long hair and heavily accented English. He was an undersized Asian immigrant who…