Monday
Oct192009

Aaron Patzer | Mint.com

image source: philosophygeek/Flickr Aaron Patzer is the founder of Mint.com a free web-based personal financial management service. 

 

     

Monday
Aug162010

Adam D'Angelo | Quora

Adam D'Angelo attended the California Institute of Technology where he majored in computer science. He was the Chief Technology Officer at Facebook before co-founding Quora in June of 2009.

 

Former Facebook CTO on his $25,000 award  Quora's Search Speed    

Thursday
Feb182010

Alexis Ohanian | Reddit

image credit: medigrol/FlickrAlexis Ohanian is a graduate of University of Virginia and along with Steve Huffman, also a University of Virginia grad, he founded Reddit. Reddit is a social news website that allows users to post links to web content.

 

 

 

 

Wednesday
Oct132010

Andrew Sutherland | Quizlet

image credit: AndrewSutherland/QuizletAndrew Sutherland is the creator of Quizlet, an online flashcard/study tools website. Sutherland started Quizlet when he was 15 years old. he is now a student at MIT.

 

Tuesday
May122009

Bill Gates | Microsoft

Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. He attended Harvard University before dropping out in 1975. Gates along with Paul Allen founded Microsoft, one of the most succesful start-ups of the computer age. In 2000 Gates and his wife Melinda created the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest transparently operated charitable foundation in the world.