Business and Tech Leaders

Darcy DiNucci first used the term 'Web 2.0' in a 1999 article, though Tim O'Reilly later popularized it through his Web 2.0 Conference. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, and Paul Graham is a programmer/investor unrelated to Web 2.0 terminology.

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989 at CERN. He developed the first web browser, web server, and the fundamental protocols (HTTP, HTML) that power the internet today. Steve Jobs founded Apple, Narayan Murthy co-founded Infosys, and Marc Andersen co-founded Netscape - none invented the WWW.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in 1998 while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. They developed the PageRank algorithm that became the foundation of Google's search engine. Microsoft, Yahoo, and Amazon were founded by different people.

Jack Smith co-founded Hotmail along with Sabeer Bhatia in 1996. Hotmail was one of the first web-based email services and was later acquired by Microsoft. Bill Gates (Microsoft), Steve Jobs (Apple), and Ajay Bhat are not associated with Hotmail's founding.

Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, was so impressed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin's Google demo that he wrote a $100,000 check to 'Google Inc.' before the company had even been legally incorporated. The founders had to formally incorporate Google later that year in order to cash the check.

Paul S. Otellini served as CEO of Intel Corporation from 2005 to 2013, leading the company during the transition to mobile computing. He joined Intel in 1974 and worked his way up through operational roles before becoming the fifth CEO in Intel's history.

Zig Ziglar wrote 'Over the Top', a motivational book about achieving success. Shiv Khera is known for 'You Can Win', Robin Sharma for 'The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari', and Isaac Asimov was a science fiction writer.

Perl was created by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language for text processing and system administration. The name Perl is an acronym for "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language." Wall designed it to combine features from C, sed, awk, and shell scripting.

Bill Gates wrote 'Business @ the Speed of Thought' (1999), which explains how businesses can use technology to gain competitive advantage. Gates co-founded Microsoft and was the world's richest person for many years. Jack Welch led GE, Michael Dell founded Dell Computers, and JRD Tata was an Indian industrialist.

Sam Walton founded Walmart in 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas, and built it into the world's largest retailer. Mike Duke was a later CEO, James McLamore founded Burger King, Richard Branson founded Virgin Group, and Allan Dawson is not a famous retail founder.

Sabeer Bhatia co-founded Hotmail in 1996 and sold it to Microsoft for approximately $400 million in 1997, making this a landmark tech acquisition. The other options are different tech entrepreneurs.

Alan Pinkerton was a cooper (barrel maker) in Glasgow, Scotland before emigrating to America and founding the famous Pinkerton National Detective Agency in 1850.

The Pinkerton Detective Agency's most profitable and extensive clients were the railway companies. In the late 19th century, Pinkerton agents were hired extensively to protect railway property, investigate train robberies, and track down outlaws targeting the railroads. This was far more lucrative than work for other industries.

John Chambers served as CEO of Cisco Systems from 1995 to 2015, leading the company through its period of massive growth in networking equipment. He was succeeded by Chuck Robbins. Larry Ellison is associated with Oracle, Sam Palmisano with IBM, and Sylvester Stallone is an actor.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) was founded in 1939 by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in a garage in Palo Alto, California. The company started with an audio oscillator and grew to become one of the world's largest technology companies. The garage is now considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley.