Information Technology

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  • Nigeria
    Calendly

    Awotona is one of two Black tech billionaires in the United States.

  • Germany
    Sun Microsystems, Inc.

    Andy Bechtolsheim created his first high-tech product when he was 16.

  • Scotland
    AT&T and Verizon
    Ranked 13 and 23 in the 2022 Fortune 500

    Alexander Graham Bell is recognized as the inventor of the telephone and the man responsible for spawning a global telecommunications industry.

  • India
    Hotmail

    Hotmail was started with $300,000 and sold to Microsoft 18 months later for $400 million

  • Russia
    Alphabet (Google)
    Ranked 8 in the 2022 Fortune 500

    In 2018, Forbes named Sergey Brin the 35th most powerful person in the world.

  • Taiwan
    YouTube

    Steve Chen quit college to work for PayPal and then Facebook before founding YouTube.

  • Bolivia
    Brightstar Corp.

    Marcelo Claure co-founded Brightstar, the largest company of its kind in the world, spanning 54 countries on six continents.

     

  • France
    Teradyne

    Alex D’Arbeloff was fired three times in the first ten years of his career.

     

  • India
    Sycamore Networks

    Gururaj Deshpande founded and took public several billion-dollar companies.

  • India
    Cognizant
    Ranked 194 in the 2022 Fortune 500

    Francisco D’Souza studied in seven schools around the world in Panama, Zaire, New Delhi, New York, Trinidad, Hong Kong and Pittsburgh.

  • Taiwan
    NVIDIA Corporation
    Ranked 134 in the 2022 Fortune 500

    Huang started out cleaning toilets in the dorm of his school for “difficult children.”

  • India
    WebEx Communications, Inc.

    According to a loyal customer, Iyar is “energetic, sincere and charming, and he doesn’t quit.”

     

  • Taiwan
    Garmin

    Kao’s work has been used by the United States Army, NASA and now by smartphone users around the world.

     

  • India
    Sun Microsystems, Inc.

    Vinod Khosla came from a middle-class background in India and obtained three university degrees.

  • Ukraine
    PayPal
    Ranked 143 in the 2022 Fortune 500

    Levchin sought asylum in the United States from the Soviet-controlled Ukraine.

  • France
    eBay
    Ranked 301 in the 2022 Fortune 500

    The first item sold on eBay was Omidyar’s broken laser pointer.

  • France
    LinkedIn

    Vaillant came to the United States on a work visa after being interviewed and hired over the phone.

  • China
    CA Technologies

    Wang was once the highest-paid CEO in the United States.

  • Taiwan
    Yahoo! Inc.

    The only English Yang knew when he came to the United States was the word “shoe.”