image credit: Mrgadget3000/Wikimedia CommonsMarissa Mayer was born on May 30, 1975 in Wausau, Wisconsin. Mayer is the Vice President of Search Product and User Experience for Google. She received her B.S. in Symbolic systems and M.S. in Computer Science at Stanford University. She was the first female engineer hired at Google. Mayer can be considered significantly responsible for the success of Google Search and Gmail UIs.
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Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New York. He attended Harvard University where he along with his roommates Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz started Facebook. Facebook is one of the most successful social networking sites to date.
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Matthew Mullenweg born on January 11, 1984 in Houston, Texas. Matt is the founder of Automattic and open-source blogging software WordPress (WordPress.org) and WordPress.com.
image credit: Morgan Sherwood/Wikimedia CommonsMax Levchin was born on July 11, 1975 in Kyiv, Ukraine, Soviet Union. He co-founded PayPal along with Peter Theil. Ebay later acquired Paypal in 2001 for $1.5 billion. Levchin is also the founder of Slide.
image credit: Henrik Moltke/Flickr Maxwell Salzberg is one of the co-founders of Diaspora, an open-source personal web server. Grippi developed Diaspora with co-founders Daniel Grippi, Raphael Sofaer, and Ilya Zhitomirskiy. All students at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. The aim of Diaspora is to be a decentralized social network. Unlike Facebook, users set up their own server or "seed" to host content and seeds can then interact to share social data. The group received donations of over $200,000 via Kickstarter, an online threshold pledge funding system for funding creative projects. One of the contributers was from Mark Zuckerberg founder and CEO of Facebook.
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