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Germany
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Andy Bechtolsheim created his first high-tech product when he was 16.
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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.
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Hotmail was started with $300,000 and sold to Microsoft 18 months later for $400 million
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Russia
Alphabet (Google)
Ranked 8 in the 2022 Fortune 500
In 2018, Forbes named Sergey Brin the 35th most powerful person in the world.
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Steve Chen quit college to work for PayPal and then Facebook before founding YouTube.
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Marcelo Claure co-founded Brightstar, the largest company of its kind in the world, spanning 54 countries on six continents.
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Alex D’Arbeloff was fired three times in the first ten years of his career.
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Gururaj Deshpande founded and took public several billion-dollar companies.
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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.
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Taiwan
NVIDIA Corporation
Ranked 134 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Huang started out cleaning toilets in the dorm of his school for “difficult children.”
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India
WebEx Communications, Inc.
According to a loyal customer, Iyar is “energetic, sincere and charming, and he doesn’t quit.”
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Kao’s work has been used by the United States Army, NASA and now by smartphone users around the world.
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India
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Vinod Khosla came from a middle-class background in India and obtained three university degrees.
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Ukraine
PayPal
Ranked 143 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Levchin sought asylum in the United States from the Soviet-controlled Ukraine.
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South Africa
PayPal and Tesla
Ranked 143 and 65 in the 2022 Fortune 500
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France
eBay
Ranked 301 in the 2022 Fortune 500
The first item sold on eBay was Omidyar’s broken laser pointer.
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Vaillant came to the United States on a work visa after being interviewed and hired over the phone.
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Wang was once the highest-paid CEO in the United States.
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The only English Yang knew when he came to the United States was the word “shoe.”