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            •  Bill  Gates turned  his fortune from                He remains an Alphabet board member,                               Zuckerberg          attended         Harvard           Together with Larry Page, he co-founded

                software firm  Microsoft  into  a                  employee,  and  controlling  shareholder.                          University, where he launched  Face-                   Google.  Brin  was  the  president  of
                diversified  fortune; his  focus  has              •  He       co-founded        Google        in                     book  from  his  dormitory  room  in                   Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc.,
                shifted    to   zero-carbon      energy                1998      with      fellow      Stanford                       February  2004  with  his  roommates                   until  stepping  down  from  the  role  on
                                                                                                                                      Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum,
                                                                                                                                                                                             December 3, 2019. He and Page remain
                investing       and        philanthropy.               Ph.D.     student       Sergey       Brin.                     Dustin Moskovitz, and  Chris Hughes.                   at  Alphabet  as  co-founders,  controlling
            •  On May 3, 2021, Bill and Melinda each               •  With       Brin,      Page       invented                       Originally  launched  to  select  college              shareholders,  board  members,  and
                announced  on  Twitter  they  were                     Google’s      PageRank        algorithm,                       campuses, the site expanded rapidly and                employees. As of January 2022, Brin is
                ending their marriage after 27 years.                  which  powers the  search  engine.                             eventually beyond colleges, reaching one               the 7th-richest person in the world, with

                They will still co-chair the foundation.           •  Page  was  CEO  until 2001,  when                               billion users by 2012. Zuckerberg took                 an  estimated  net  worth  of  $124  billion
            •  Gates, who co-founded Microsoft with                    Eric   Schmidt      took     over,   and                       the  company  public  in  May  2012  with
                Paul Allen (d. 2018) in 1975, has trans-               then from 2011  until  2015,  when                             majority shares. In 2007, at age 23, he                •  Sergey Brin stepped  down as  pres-
                                                                                                                                      became the world’s youngest self-made
                ferred  at least $5.7  billion worth of                he  became  CEO  of  Google’s                                  billionaire. As of January 2022, Zucker-                   ident of  Alphabet,  parent company

                shares in public companies to Melinda.                 new  parent  company  Alphabet.                                berg’s net worth was $128 billion,making                   of  Google,  in December  2019
            •  As of March 2020, when Gates stepped                •  He is  a founding investor in space                             him the 6th-richest person in the world.                   but  remains  a  controller  share-
                                                                                                                                                                                                 holder
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       board
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 member.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                   a
                                                                                                                                                                                                           and
                down from the Microsoft board, he                      exploration     company        Planetary                                                                              •  He co-founded Google with Larry Page
                owned  about 1%  of the  software                      Resources and is also funding “flying                          •  Facebook, the social network Zuck-                      in 1998 after the two met at Stanford
                and  computing  company’s  shares.                     car” startups Kitty Hawk and Opener.                               erberg  runs,  has  been  an  infor-                   University while studying for advanced
            •  He has invested in dozens of companies               6) Mark Zuckerberg                                                    mation hub during  the  pandemic,                      degrees      in   computer       science.
                including  Canadian  National  Railway                                                                                    but  has  come  under  scrutiny for                •  Google  went  public  in  2004  and
                                                                                                                                          spreading vaccine misinformation.
                and  AutoNation,  and  is  one  of  the                                                                               •  In  June  2021,  a  judge  dismissed                    began  trading  as  Alphabet,  a  newly
                largest owners of farmland in the U.S.                                                                                    antitrust cases  brought by states                     created  parent  company,  in  2015.
            •  To     date,    Gates     has    donated                                                                                   and  the  federal  government,  which              •  Brin     was    absent     from     public
                $35.8  billion worth of Microsoft                                                                                         could  have  forced  Facebook  to                      Alphabet  events  for  much  of
                                                                                                                                                                                                 2019;  he  spent his  time on Alpha-
                stock to the Gates Foundation.                                                                                            sell  off Instagram and  WhatsApp.
                                                                                                                                      •  Zuckerberg           started        Face-               bet’s moonshot research lab  X.

             5)  Larry Page                                                                                                               book  at  Harvard  in  2004  at  the                8) Steve Ballmer
            Lawrence Edward Page (born March 26,                                                                                          age  of  19  for  students  to  match
                                                                                                                                          names  with  photos  of  classmates.
            1973)  is  an  American  computer  scien-                                                                                 •  He     took     Facebook       public    in
            tist  and  Internet  entrepreneur.  He  is                                                                                    May 2012; he  now  owns  about
            best  known  as  one  of  the  co-founders                                                                                    12%    of    the    company’s      stock.
            of Google, along with Sergey Brin. Larry                                                                                  •  In  December  2015,  Zuckerberg

            Page  was  the  chief  executive officer               Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American                                  and  his  wife,  Priscilla  Chan,  pledged
            of Google from 1997 until August 2001                  media magnate, internet entrepre-                                      to  give  away  99%  of  their  Face-
            (stepping down in favor of Eric Schmidt)               neur, and philanthropist. He is known for                              book  stake  over  their  lifetimes.
            then from April 2011 until July 2015 when              co-founding the social  media website                               7) Sergey Brin

            he moved to become CEO of Alphabet                     Facebook  and  its  parent  company
            Inc. (created to deliver “major advance-               Meta  (formerly,  Facebook,  Inc.),  of                            Sergey  Mikhaylovich  Brin    is  an  Amer-
            ments”  as  Google’s  parent  company),a               which  he  is  the  chairman,  chief  execu-                       ican    business     magnate,      computer
            post  he  held  until  December  4,  2019.             tive officer, and controlling shareholder.                         scientist,  and  Internet  entrepreneur.



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