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Business and Tech Leaders
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Business and tech leaders covers prominent founders, chief executives, and economists who shaped global industries. This section features questions on leaders of major technology corporations and financial institutions. It is a highly scoring topic in general awareness.
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Business and Tech Leaders Questions
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Jerry Rao
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jayant kulbhushan
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justin graham
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Narayan murthy
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Mphasis was founded by Jerry Rao in 2000. He is a well-known Indian IT entrepreneur and former Citibank executive who established Mphasis, which was later acquired by HP.
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Harish Raman
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Sanjeev Bhikchandani
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Rajesh Singh
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Anshul Rathod
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Sanjeev Bhikchandani founded naukri.com in 1997, making it one of India's first job portals. He is a prominent figure in the Indian internet startup ecosystem.
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Suresh biyani
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Shrikant Kasa
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Shashikant Kakad
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Kishore biyani
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Kishore Biyani (D) founded the Future Group, which operates retail chains like Pantaloons, Big Bazaar, and Food Bazaar. He is known as the father of modern Indian retail.
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Jerry Yang
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Lin KIm
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Paolo Ramos
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Shammi Kapoor
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Yahoo! was co-founded by Jerry Yang (A) and David Filo in 1994. Jerry Yang is a Taiwanese-born American entrepreneur who started Yahoo! while at Stanford. The other options are incorrect.
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Shiv Nadar
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Narayan Murthy
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Azim Premji
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L N MIttal
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HCL Technologies was founded by Shiv Nadar (A) in 1976 as part of the HCL enterprise. He is one of India's most prominent IT entrepreneurs. Narayan Murthy founded Infosys, Azim Premji led Wipro, and L.N. Mittal is in steel.
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AOL (America Online) became the first internet company to be included in the Fortune 500 list in 2002, marking a significant milestone for the dot-com industry. This achievement reflected the growing economic importance of internet-based companies in the early 2000s.
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AOL (America Online) was the first internet-only company to make the Fortune 500 list, achieving this milestone in 2002. This reflected the dot-com boom and the growing economic importance of internet businesses.
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Sameer Gehlot
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Sabeer bhatia
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John Simmons
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A K Ansari
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Sameer Gehlot co-founded Indiabulls along with Rajiv Rattan in 2000, starting with real estate and expanding into financial services. Sabeer Bhatia founded Hotmail, while the other names are not associated with Indiabulls. Indiabulls grew into a major diversified financial services company.
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Bill Gates
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Steve Jobs
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Sergey Brinn
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Mark Zuckerberg
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Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 while he was a student at Harvard University, initially limited to Harvard students before expanding globally. Bill Gates founded Microsoft, Steve Jobs co-founded Apple, and Sergey Brin co-founded Google with Larry Page. Facebook became the world's largest social media platform.
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Steve Dillon
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Steve wozniak
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Steve Smith
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Steve waugh
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Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs in 1976, with Wozniak being the technical genius who designed the Apple I and Apple II computers. The other options are fictional names or not related to Apple's founding. Wozniak's engineering expertise complemented Jobs' business vision.
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fire control system
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electronic voting machine
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laser cutting machine
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rocket inverter battery
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The question appears to refer to the team that designed the electronic voting machine (EVM) used in Indian elections. This is a significant technological achievement in India's democratic process.
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This statistic appears to be from a specific Forbes billionaires list from the early 2010s period. The numbers (1011 total billionaires, 14 women with 7 from China) reflect the demographic composition of that particular year's ranking. China's growing economic prominence was evident even then.
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Nintendo
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Sony
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Attari
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EA Sports
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EA Sports launched the EA Sports Freestyle brand to target casual gamers with more accessible, arcade-style sports games. This was part of their strategy to expand beyond simulation sports titles.
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Vinod Dham
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Sabeer Bhatia
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Rajat Gupta
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Vinod Khosla
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Sabeer Bhatia, along with Jack Smith, created Hotmail in 1996 and sold it to Microsoft for approximately $400 million in 1997. This was one of the early major acquisitions in the internet era.
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Barack Obama
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Hillary Clinton
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Bill Clinton
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Warren Buffet
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In 2019, cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun bid $4.6 million in a charity auction to have lunch with Warren Buffett, making it the most expensive eBay charity auction ever.