Immigrant Entrepreneur Hall of Fame: Information Technology
Information technology has revolutionized the way business is done around the world. Just as immigrants were an important part of the industrial revolution, they have been crucial to the rise of information technology.
Here we have profiled 21 immigrant entrepreneurs who have had a significant impact on information technology.
Sabeer Bhatia
India
Hotmail founder
Andreas (Andy) von Bechtolsheim and Vinod Khosla
Germany and India
Sun Microsystems, Inc. co-founders
Hernand and Sosthenes Behn
St. Thomas
ITT co-founders
Alexander Graham Bell
Scotland
AT&T, Verizon founder
Sergey Brin
Russia
Google co-founder
Steve Chen
Taiwan
YouTube co-founder
Marcelo Claure
Guatemala
Brightstar Corp. co-founder
Alex D’Arbeloff
France
Teradyne co-founder
Francisco D’Souza
India
Cognizant co-founder
Gururaj Deshpande
India
Sycamore Networks founder
Jen-Hsun Huang
Taiwan
NVIDIA Corporation co-founder
Subrah S. Iyar
India
WebEx Communications, Inc. co-founder
Min H. Kao
Taiwan
Garmin co-founder
Max Rafael Levchin and Elon Musk
Ukraine and South Africa
PayPal, Inc. co-founder
Pierre Omidyar
France
eBay founder
Jean-Luc Vaillant
France
LinkedIn co-founder
Charles Wang
China
CA Technologies co-founder
Jerry Yang
Taiwan
Yahoo! Inc. co-founder
