1. Steve Jobs – Former Chairman, CEO & Co-Founder, Apple

Quote: “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

Background: Steve Jobs was the chairman of Apple Inc and chief executive officer (CEO) and co-founder. Apple was co-founded by Jobs and Wozniak in 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer.

The world's largest technology company by revenue is Apple (totaling $274.5 billion in 2020) and the world's most valuable company since January 2021.

The contributions of Jobs to most of his patents were to "the look and feel of the product." His creative awareness and meticulous eye for detail were clearly a driving force in Apple's success.

Interesting Fact: Jobs's design aesthetic was influenced by philosophies of Zen and Buddhism.

Sources: Steve Jobs – Wikipedia, Apple Inc. – Wikipedia, Idea Drop

2. Bill Gates – Co-Founder, Microsoft Corporation

Quote: "I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world."

Background: Bill Gates co-founded the Microsoft Corporation with his partner Paul Allen in 1975, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Microsoft is the world's largest personal computer software company.

Microsoft reached the trillion-dollar market cap, becoming the third U.S. public company to be valued at over $1 trillion in the year April 2019.

Gates has certainly made plenty of mistakes over the years. From those mistakes, he has learned. Remember Windows Vista?

Interesting Fact: Gates said he personally reviewed and often rewrote every line of code that the company produced in its first five years. As the company grew, he transitioned into a manager role, then an executive.

Sources: Bill Gates – Wikipedia, Microsoft – Wikipedia

3. Jeff Bezos – Founder & CEO, Amazon

Quote: "If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful."

Background: Bezos decided to establish an online bookstore in late 1993. On July 5, 1994, He founded Amazon in his garage.

Amazon is the largest Internet company by revenue in the world, and one of the world's most valuable companies.

He had been able to help his company grow and expand over time. Jeff Bezos is known for planning and delivering results through creativity.

Interesting Fact: While Bezos was in high school, he worked at McDonald's as a short-order line cook during the breakfast shift.

Sources: Jeff Bezos – Wikipedia, Amazon – Wikipedia, Financhill

4. Jack Ma – Co-founder & Former Executive Chair, Alibaba

Quote: "I do everything to make sure my customer is happy, my employee is happy, society is healthy. I would focus on customers; I would focus on not making money, I would focus on making values."

Background: Alibaba Group was established in 1999 by 18 people led by Jack Ma.

Alibaba is one of the world's largest retailers and e-commerce companies. Alibaba became the second Asian company to break the US$500 billion valuation mark in January 2018. Alibaba is one of the top 10 most valuable corporations and is named the 31st-largest public company in the world on the Forbes Global 2000 -2020 list.

Ma always works hard, which always inspired his employees. Therefore, He gained a loyal and hardworking group of executives, managers, and employees.

Interesting Fact: For nine years, Ma would ride 27 km on his bicycle to give tourists tours of the area to practice his English.

Sources: Alibaba Group – Wikipedia, Alibaba Group, UK Essays

5. Elon Musk – Co-Founder & CEO, Tesla & SpaceX

Quote: "I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?"

Background: An aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company named SpaceX founded by Musk in 2002, Musk is CEO and CTO. He joined electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors, Inc in 2004. (now Tesla, Inc.) as chairman and product architect, And become CEO in 2008.

Tesla's market capitalization crossed $800 billion, fortifying its position as Wall Street's fifth most valuable company, above Facebook Inc.

Elon Musk is an innovator and dares to dream big dreams.

Interesting Fact: Musk was raised in Pretoria, South Africa.

Sources: Elon Musk – Wikipedia, The Economic Times

6. Satya Nadella – CEO, Microsoft

Quote: "Our industry does not respect tradition. What it respects is innovation."

Background: Nadella was announced as the new CEO of Microsoft on February 4, 2014. Nadella has led major projects that included the company's move to cloud computing and the development of one of the largest cloud infrastructures in the world.

Microsoft reached the trillion-dollar market cap, becoming the third U.S. public company valued at over $1 trillion in April 2019.

Satya is known for embodying the growth mindset — the idea that challenges are opportunities and people can grow, change, and develop new skills.

Interesting Fact: Nadella is an avid reader of American and Indian poetry. He also nurses a passion for cricket, having played on his school team.

Sources: Satya Nadella – Wikipedia, Microsoft - Wikipedia, Medium

7. Reed Hastings – Co-founder & CEO, NETFLIX

Quote: "Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use."

Background: In 1997, Hastings and Marc Randolph co-founded Netflix. Netflix launched a service in 2007 to stream movies and television shows to computers.

Netflix had 208 million subscribers, including 74 million in the United States and Canada. On July 10, 2020, Netflix became the largest entertainment/media company by market capitalization.

Hastings empowers his workforce, believes they are sophisticated enough to manage an autonomous-driven work environment, and will ultimately do what is right for Netflix, themselves as employees, and their families.

Interesting Fact: Hastings went to teach math at a high school of around 800 students in rural northwest Swaziland, Africa from 1983 to 1985 after college.

Sources: Reed Hastings – Wikipedia, Netflix – Wikipedia, Penn State

8. Mark Zuckerberg – Co-founder, Chairman & CEO, Facebook

Quote: "The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

Background: Facebook was launched by Zuckerberg from his Harvard dormitory room on February 4, 2004. It is one of the world's most valuable companies. Facebook has a market cap of $993.80 Billion as of July 2021. The world's 6th most valuable company by market cap.

Zuckerberg was a talented coder, but his vision differentiated him from others with the same skill set. With his programming skills as the basis, he built an online platform for people to connect.

Interesting Fact: Mark became the world's youngest self-made billionaire at the age of 23 in 2007.

Sources: Companies Market Cap, geeknack

9. Sundar Pichai – CEO, Google & Alphabet Inc.

Quote: "We try to work on things which billions of people will use every day."

Background: It was in 2004 that Pichai joined Google. He even played a crucial role in the development of Google Maps and Gmail. Pichai was selected to become the next CEO of Google on August 10, 2015. Pichai also became the CEO of Alphabet on December 3, 2019.

Google.com is the most visited website worldwide. Alphabet (Google) has a market cap of $1.719 Trillion as of July 2021. This makes Alphabet (Google) the world's 5th most valuable company by market cap.

He is known as a leader to avoids conflicts and confrontation. He always emphasizes cooperation. Sundar Pichai is known to tune his communication based on the audience he is speaking to.

Interesting Fact: Pichai began his career as a materials engineer.

Sources: Sundar Pichai – Wikipedia, Google - Wikipedia

10. Narayana Murthy – Co-founder, Infosys

Quote: "Organisations with decision-making speed & imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity."

Background: Infosys was started in 1981 by Murthy and was the CEO from 1981 to 2002 and the chairman from 2002 to 2011.

The company was founded in Pune and is headquartered in Bangalore. Infosys is the second-largest Indian IT company after Tata Consultancy Services by 2020 revenue figures. On December 31, 2020, its market capitalization was $71.92 billion.

Murthy had clear-cut goals for himself and his company, and he never shied away from learning something new.

Interesting Fact: Before starting Infosys, Murthy worked at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad as the chief systems programmer.

Sources: N.R. Narayana Murthy - Wikipedia, Infosys – Wikipedia, Stumagz

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