Business and Tech Leaders

Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in 1994 while they were graduate students at Stanford. They created it as a directory of websites before it evolved into a major web portal.

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook (originally 'TheFacebook') in 2004 while he was a student at Harvard University. The other names listed are fictional and not associated with Facebook's founding.

Jeff Taylor founded Monster.com in 1994, which became one of the first and largest job search websites. The other names listed are fictional.

Ajit Balakrishnan founded Rediff.com in 1996, which became one of India's earliest web portals and email services. Rediffmail is part of the Rediff.com platform.

Pierre Omidyar founded eBay (originally called AuctionWeb) in 1995. He wrote the code for the site as a hobby and it grew into one of the world's largest e-commerce platforms.

James Gosling developed Java at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. Java was designed as a general-purpose, object-oriented language that could run on any platform through its 'write once, run anywhere' philosophy using the Java Virtual Machine.

James Gosling developed Java at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. Java was designed as a general-purpose, object-oriented language that could run on any platform through its 'write once, run anywhere' philosophy using the Java Virtual Machine.

Alan Cooper is considered the founder of Visual Basic. He created the original visual programming concept that later became Visual Basic at Microsoft. Visual Basic revolutionized Windows application development by making it accessible to non-programmers through its drag-and-drop interface.

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 is widely recognized as one of the most influential CEOs in the tech industry during that era.

Steve Jobs was the iconic CEO of Apple who co-founded the company and led it through the launch of revolutionary products like the iPod, iPhone, and iPad during his second tenure from 1997 until his death in 2011. Note that option C 'Steven Jobs' refers to the same person but 'Steve Jobs' is the more common spelling.