NAME:Pasamonte, Mark Andrew

GRADE 10-ISAIAH DATE:OCT 28,2021

TASK NO. 2
DIRECTION: Search for successful entrepreneur in the Computer Industry(local or abroad) and
discuss briefly their business/life story.
Name Entrepreneur Their Business Story
1. Steve Paul Jobs Jobs was raised by adoptive parents in
Cupertino, California, located in what is
now known as Silicon Valley. Though he
was interested in engineering, his passions
of youth varied. He dropped out of Reed
College, in Portland, Oregon, took a job at
Atari Corporation as a video game designer
in early 1974, and saved enough money for
a pilgrimage to India to experience
Buddhism.

Back in Silicon Valley in the autumn of

Co-founder of Apple
February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011
1974, Jobs reconnected with Stephen
Wozniak, a former high school friend who
was working for the Hewlett-Packard
Company. When Wozniak told Jobs of his
progress in designing his own computer
logic board, Jobs suggested that they go
into business together, which they did after
Hewlett-Packard formally turned down
Wozniak’s design in 1976. The Apple I, as
they called the logic board, was built in the
Jobses’ family garage with money they
obtained by selling Jobs’s Volkswagen
minibus and Wozniak’s programmable
calculator.

Jobs was one of the first entrepreneurs

to understand that the personal computer
would appeal to a broad audience, at least
if it did not appear to belong in a junior high
school science fair. With Jobs’s
encouragement, Wozniak designed an
improved model, the Apple II, complete with
a keyboard, and they arranged to have a
sleek, molded plastic case manufactured to
enclose the unit.
2. Bill Gates Gates enrolled at Harvard University in the
fall of 1973, originally thinking of a career in
law. Much to his parents' dismay, Gates
dropped out of college in 1975 to pursue
his business, Microsoft, with partner Allen.
 Gates spent more of his time in the
computer lab than in class. He did not really
have a study regimen; he got by on a few
hours of sleep, crammed for a test, and
passed with a reasonable grade.

Gates met Allen, who was two years his

senior, in high school at Lakeside School.
The pair became fast friends, bonding over
their common enthusiasm for computers,
even though they were very different
people. Allen was more reserved and shy.
Gates was feisty and at times
Co-Founder of Microssoft
combative.Allen went to Washington State
Oct 28, 1955 University, while Gates went to Harvard,
though the pair stayed in touch. After
attending college for two years, Allen
dropped out and moved to Boston,
Massachusetts, to work for Honeywell.
Around this time, he showed Gates an
edition of Popular Electronics magazine
featuring an article on the Altair 8800 mini-
computer kit. Both young men were
fascinated with the possibilities of what this
computer could create in the world of
personal computing.Allen remained with
Microsoft until 1983, when he was
diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. Though
his cancer went into remission a year later
with intensive treatment, Allen resigned
from the company. Rumors abound as to
why Allen left Microsoft. Some say Gates
pushed him out, but many say it was a life-
changing experience for Allen and he saw
there were other opportunities that he could
invest his time in.

In 1975, Gates and Allen formed Micro-

Soft, a blend of "micro-computer" and
"software" (they dropped the hyphen within
a year). The company's first product was
BASIC software that ran on the Altair
computer.
3. Sundar Pichai As a boy growing up in Madras, Pichai
slept with his brother in the living room of
 the cramped family home, but his father, an
electrical engineer at the British
multinational GEC, saw that the boys
received a good education. At an early age
Pichai displayed an interest in technology
and an extraordinary memory, especially
for telephone numbers. After earning a
degree in metallurgy (B.Tech., 1993) and a
silver medal at the Indian Institute of
Technology Kharagpur, he was awarded a
scholarship to study at Stanford University
(M.S. in engineering and materials science,
1995). He remained in the United States
thereafter, working briefly for Applied
Materials (a supplier of semiconductor
materials) and then earning an M.B.A.
(2002) from the Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania.

Following a short stint at the

management consulting firm McKinsey &
Co., Pichai joined Google in 2004 as the
head of product management and
CEO of Google Inc development. He initially worked on the
Google Toolbar, which enabled those using
July 12, 1972, the Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla
Firefox Web browsers to easily access the
Google search engine. Over the next few
years, he was directly involved in the
development of Google’s own browser,
Chrome, which was released to the public
in 2008. That same year Pichai was named
vice president of product development, and
he began to take a more-active public role.
By 2012 he was a senior vice president,
and two years later he was made product
chief over both Google and the Android
smartphone operating system.

4. Steve Wozniak February 1981, Wozniak was injured

when the private plane he was piloting
crashed while taking off from the Santa
Cruz Sky Park. His painstaking recovery
lasted two years, as he suffered from a
variety of injuries and amnesia. Following
his accident and subsequent recovery,
Wozniak went on to found numerous

Co Founder of Apple Computer
August 11, 1950
ventures, including CL 9, the company
responsible for the first programmable
universal remote control. Called one of
"Silicon Valley's most creative engineers,"
in 1990, he joined Mitchell Kapor in
establishing the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, an organization that provides
legal aid for computer hackers facing
criminal prosecution. Wozniak also founded
Wheels of Zeus (WoZ) in 2002, a venture
started with the aim of developing wireless
GPS technology. After WoZ closed in 2006,
Wozniak published his autobiography,
iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon:
How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-
Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It. In
2008, he joined the Salt Lake City-based
start-up Fusion-io as its chief scientist.
Critique on 'Jobs' The highly anticipated
biopic Jobs was released in 2013 and
featured actor Ashton Kutcher as Apple co-
founder Jobs and comedic actor Josh Gad
as Wozniak. In addition to the negative
critiques that the film received, Wozniak
himself gave the film a negative review on
the website Gizmodo. In his analysis, he
wrote, "I felt bad for many people I know
well who were portrayed wrongly in their
interactions with Jobs and the company."
He went on to write that the inaccuracies in
the portrayal of Jobs in the film most likely
stemmed from Kutcher's own image of him.
Kutcher responded by claiming that the film
lost the support of Wozniak because he
was already supporting another film that
depicted the life of the technology mogul.
He also said that Wozniak was "extremely
unavailable" during the filmmaking process.
5. Sergey Brin As a research project at Stanford
University, Brin and Page created a search
engine that listed results according to the
popularity of the pages, after concluding
that the most popular result would often be
the most useful. They called the search
engine Google after the mathematical term
"googol," which is a 1 followed by 100
zeros, to reflect their mission to organize
the immense amount of information
available on the internet.

After raising $1 million from family, friends

and other investors, the pair launched the
company in 1998. Headquartered in the
heart of California's Silicon Valley, Google
held its initial public offering in August
Creator Google 2004, making Brin and Page billionaires.
Google has since become the world's most
August 21, 1973 popular search engine, receiving an
average of more than a trillion searches a
day in 2016.

In 2006, Google purchased the most

popular website for user-submitted
streaming videos, YouTube, for $1.65
billion in stock.

In 2012, Google unveiled its futuristic

Google Glass, a type of wearable eyeglass-
computer that featured touchpad and voice
control, an LED illuminated display and a
camera. While touted as the latest “it” in
tech toys, concerns over privacy and safety
and a lack of a clear purpose in everyday
life ultimately stymied its success in the
commercial market. Its technology,
however, has been applied for use in
healthcare, journalism and the military