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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Forbes listed Elon Musk as 2019’s Most Innovative Leader, TIME named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world and Fortune named him the top business person of 2013.

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

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

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

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