Business and Tech Leaders

Vinod Khosla was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Scott McNealy, Bill Joy, and Andy Bechtolsheim. Khosla is a prominent Indian-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Rajiv Gupta, Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail founder), and Sanjay Tejwrika are not associated with Sun's founding.

Sabeer Bhatia co-founded Hotmail in 1996 along with Jack Smith. Hotmail was one of the first web-based email services and was later acquired by Microsoft. The other names (Rajat Gupta, Rajeev Gupta, Sabeer Gupta) are not associated with Hotmail's founding.

Rajiv Gupta served as General Manager of Hewlett-Packard during his career. He is a notable Indian-American executive in the technology sector. The other options (Sabeer Bhatia, Jeff, Tony Blair) are not associated with HP's GM position.

The Million Dollar Homepage was created by Alex Tew in 2005 and made him a millionaire by selling pixels at \$1 each. This creative marketing concept went viral and earned him over \$1 million. Option C is the correct domain name for this famous website.

Stephen Hester succeeded Sir Fred Goodwin as CEO of RBS in 2008 after Goodwin resigned during the financial crisis. Hester was brought in to lead the bank's restructuring and recovery efforts. He served as CEO until 2013. This was a critical leadership transition during one of the most difficult periods in banking history.

Christian is the ring name of William Jason Reso, known as Jason Reso. The other names belong to different wrestlers: Mark Henry, Perry Satullo (Saturn), and Scott Levy (Raven).

Gary Kildall, creator of the CP/M operating system through Digital Research, was IBM's first choice for the PC operating system. Historical accounts say he missed the pivotal meeting to go flying, though details vary. IBM then approached Microsoft, which acquired QDOS and created MS-DOS.

Nolan Bushnell founded Atari in 1972. Steve Jobs worked there as a technician, bringing in Steve Wozniak to help create the arcade game Breakout. Jobs famously took most of the bonus money for the work, telling Wozniak the payment was much less than it actually was.

Warren Buffett has served as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway since 1970, transforming it from a failing textile business into a massive conglomerate. The company name is consistently spelled 'Berkshire Hathaway' with a 'B'.

Steve Jobs worked at Atari before founding Apple. He was assigned to create a circuit board for the game Breakout, and recruited Steve Wozniak to do the actual engineering work. Jobs received \$5000 for the project but only paid Wozniak \$350, keeping the majority despite Wozniak doing all the work.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs is Steve Jobs' first daughter, born in 1978. Jobs initially denied paternity but later developed a relationship with her. The Apple Lisa computer (a commercial flop) was named after her. Mary, Apple III, and Newton are incorrect - Mary is not related to Jobs' daughter, while Apple III and Newton were Apple products, not people.

Kenneth Chenault served as CEO of American Express from 2001-2018. He was one of the first African American CEOs of a Fortune 500 company and is widely recognized for his leadership during the 2008 financial crisis. NOTE: This information reflects the era when the question was created; the current CEO (2024) is Stephen Squeri.

Eric Schmidt served as CEO of Google from 2001-2015. He was brought in as CEO to provide adult supervision to the young founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. NOTE: This information is now dated; Google has had multiple CEOs since (Sundar Pichai became CEO in 2015).