CYBER GENIUSES

Now, it’s their time to be recognized!

MARK ZUCKERBERG
American programmer, Internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist.
 Age: 32
 Chairman and CEO of Facebook
 Education: Harvard University
 He launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room on February 4, 2004.
 1.65 billion monthly active users (April 27, 2016)
 “I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first,
then you can actually make a lot of progress.”

KEVIN SYSTROM
American Entrepreneur and Computer
Programmer
JACK DORSEY  Age: 32
American Computer Programmer and  Co-founder and CEO of Instagram.
Entrepreneur
 Instagram was initially released October 6, 2010.
 Age: 39
 400 million active (April 2016)
 Co-founder and CEO of Twitter.
 Education: Stanford University
 Twitter was founded on March 21, 2006.
 “Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well
 332 million active (January 2016)
can get you very far.”
 Education: New York University
 “Success is never accidental.”

JERRY YANG
Taiwanese-American Internet Entrepreneur and Programmer.
 Age: 47 ▪ Co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc.
 Yahoo! Was founded on January 1994
 Yahoo! is the highest-read news and media website, with over 7 billion readers per month.
 Education: Stanford University
 “If you find something that feels right but doesn’t seem to fit into your master plan, take a chance,
and commit to it by working hard. You shouldn’t be afraid to let passion get behind the wheel. You
might really love where you end up.
 BEN SILBERMANN
STEVE PAUL JOBS American Internet Entrepreneur
American Information Technology  Age: 34.
Entrepreneur and Inventor  He is a co-founder and the CEO of Pinterest, a virtual pinboard
 Aged 56. which lets users organize images, links, recipes and other things.
 He was the founder,  He summarized the company as a "catalog of ideas," rather than as
chairman, and CEO of Apple a social network, that inspires users to "go out and do that thing.
Inc.  Founded on March 2010.
 Education: Reed College  As of April 2016, the website had 100 million active users.
 Apple Inc., was founded  Education: Yale University.
April 1, 1976.  “What you collect says so much about who you are.”
 Apple is the world's largest
information technology
company by revenue, the
world's largest technology
company by total assets,
and the world's second-
largest mobile phone
manufacturer.
 “Your time is limited, so
don’t waste it living
someone else’s life.”
CHAD HURLEY
American co-founder and former CEO
of the popular video-sharing website YouTube
and MixBit.

 Age: 39.
 Education: Indiana University of
Pennsylvania
DAVID KARP  Founded on February 14, 2005.
American web developer and  YouTube is a global video-sharing
entrepreneur.
website. The site allows users to upload,
 Age: 29. view, rate, share, and comment on
 He is the founder and CEO of the short-form blogging videos,
platform Tumblr.  YouTube has over a billion users–almost a
 Founded on February 19, 2007. third of all people on the Internet–and
 As of May 1, 2016, Tumblr hosts over 292.7 million every day, people watch hundreds of
blogs. millions of hours of YouTube videos and
 As of January 2016, the website had 555 million
generate billions of views.
monthly visitors.
 “To some extent, being an entrepreneur
 “Keep your friends close, and your laptop charger
is a lonely journey.
closer.”

Cindy M. Bacsain