Business and Tech Leaders

Hotmail was founded in 1996 by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith. It was one of the first webmail services and was later acquired by Microsoft. Bhatia is the most prominently known founder.

Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg along with Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes while they were students at Harvard. Zuckerberg is the primary founder and CEO who led the company's growth.

Cisco was founded in 1984 by Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, who were married at the time. They developed the first multi-protocol router while at Stanford University. Both are equally important as co-founders.

Zoo Zoo was Vodafone's advertising character representing their voice and data services. The cute alien-like characters were used to promote Vodafone's mobile services including both voice calling and data/internet plans. Telephone and cellular phone are too generic, while 'You and I' is unrelated.

Google was founded by Larry Page (Lawrence E. Page) and Sergey Brin in 1998 while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. They developed the PageRank algorithm and initially called their search engine 'BackRub' before incorporating as Google. Jerry Yang and David Filo founded Yahoo, not Google.

Infosys was founded in 1981 by seven engineers: N.R. Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N.S. Raghavan, Kris Gopalakrishnan, S.D. Shibulal, K. Dinesh, and S. Gopalakrishnan (with Ashok Arora who left early). The question correctly lists four of the founders - Murthy, Nilekani, Raghavan, and Kris Gopalakrishnan.

Julian Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006 as a platform for publishing classified documents from anonymous sources. He is an Australian publisher and activist who became internationally known for releasing secret government information.

Steve Jobs co-founded Apple Computer in 1976 along with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. While Wozniak was the technical genius behind early Apple products, Jobs was the visionary face of the company who revolutionized multiple industries.

Vinod Khosla was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Scott McNealy, Bill Joy, and Andy Bechtolsheim. Khosla is an Indian-American billionaire entrepreneur and venture capitalist.

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 while he was a student at Harvard University. He launched the social network platform originally limited to Harvard students before expanding globally.

Jack Dorsey founded Twitter in 2006 along with Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass. Dorsey is also known as the founder of Square and has served as Twitter's CEO multiple times.

Linus Torvalds created the Linux kernel in 1991 while he was a student at the University of Helsinki. He is a Finnish-American software engineer who open-sourced the operating system kernel that powers millions of servers worldwide.

Thomas Bata built the Bata Shoe Organization, which became the world's largest shoe manufacturer. Known as the 'Henry Ford of Eastern Europe' for his mass production approach, Bata shoes have been a household brand in India since 1931.