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Techno czars who rule the world

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Techno-czars have redefined life on the planet. Constantly innovating and reinventing themselves, they have added a new dimension to our vision, life and lifestyle. News Mobile identifies the Top 10 innovators who have enriched our lives.

Mark Zuckerberg

The Facebook founder has been making large scale acquisitions in the last few months as he looks to diversify his company. Zuckerberg came up with the idea of a generation with Facebook and became the youngest self-made billionaire in history at the age of 23. Facebook now has over 1.23 billion monthly active users and has become the exciting startup to come out of Silicon Valley since Google.

Larry Page

Larry Page changed the way we search for information on the internet forever. Google is now a verb, not just a company. His company is now coming up with inventions and research that would have seemed unrealistic even for science fiction. From driver-less cars to robots performing menial tasks at home, Google is the pioneer in new and upcoming technology.

Sergey Brin

The other half of Google’s dream team, Brin founded Google with Page from their dorm at Stanford. In the face of upcoming competition from Bing and the success of Facebook, Google has had to constantly evolve and improve. As Google’s head of technology, Brin has overseen the company diversify in to dozens of fields, from smartphones to video sharing, and Google is showing no signs of stopping.

Elon Musk

When Elon Musk founded PayPal in 1999, he had already made it big and sold one internet business. When PayPal was sold for $180 million to eBay, not many would have faulted Musk for becoming a venture capitalist like most inventors who have made it big. However, Musk risked everything he had by founding SpaceX and Tesla Motors. Tesla Motors is perhaps the first company to make fully electric cars viable and SpaceX has helped reduced costs of a mission to the International Space Station from $1 billion to $60 million, all because of Musk’s leap of faith.

Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos revolutionised the world of retail with his website Amazon. While already making a comfortable living by working for investment firm D E Shaw, Bezos quit his job in 1994 to enter the promising world of e-commerce. The gamble paid off and Amazon is today the world’s largest online retailer. Bezos continues to make bold decisions while running his company, with the acquisition of the Washington Post and forays into drone technology. Only time will tell whether this could be yet another masterstroke.

Larry Ellison

As founder and chairman of software giant Oracle, Ellison helped create the first commercial database to use SQL (Structured Query Language). Today Oracle is the largest supplier of proprietary information management software and was also among the first businesses to make its applications available through the internet.

Jack Dorsey

Jack Dorsey founded Twitter in 2006 along with Evan Williams and Christopher Isaac Stone in 2006. Twitter has changed the landscape of social media forever. From regular, ordinary people to world leaders and celebrities, twitter has become the preferred medium for expressing one’s views.  With over 255 million monthly active users, Twitter is growing rapidly and playing a larger role in our day-to-day life.

Bill Gates

The man who changed it all and made computers a staple of every home rather than an expensive toy for prominent scientists, Bill Gates is still the benchmark all technology czars are measured by. His domination of the software market was so powerful; years were spent denying antitrust allegations. Despite the recent rise of Apple and the shift towards mobile technology, Microsoft Windows remains the preferred operating system on millions of computers across the world.

Steve Wozniak

Wozniak founded Apple with Steve Jobs in a garage with just $1,300 in his pocket. Today Apple is the most valuable company on the planet and Wozniak played an instrumental role in helping the company get here. After a personal computer design was rejected by HP, Wozniak teamed up with Jobs to come up with Apple II, one of the first mass-produced computers that included a keyboard and colour monitor. Wozniak left Apple in 1985 and after spending 2 decades as a philanthropist, joined Fusion-io, a computer hardware and software firm in Utah.

Tim Berners-Lee

You wouldn’t even be reading this article were it not for Tim Berners-Lee. The father of the World Wide Web, Lee began designing the first ever web browser in the early 90s. He would go on to found the World Wide Web (W3) Consortium at MIT, an organisation based on providing web for everyone and focusing on providing it via multiple platforms. Lee revolutionised the way humanity collected and collated information and changed the world forever.

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