Curated category
American chief executives in technology
- Elon MuskElon Reeve Musk was born on the 28th of June 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa. His mother Maye was a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada.
- Mark ZuckerbergMark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on the 14th of May 1984, in White Plains, New York. He grew up in a Reform Jewish household with three sisters named Arielle…
- 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…
- Gordon MooreGordon Earle Moore was born on the 3rd of January 1929 in San Mateo County, California. His father Walter Harold Moore served as a county sheriff until 1938…
- 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…