Jawed Karim | YouTube

image credit: Robin Brown/Flickr Jawed Karim was born in 1979 in Merseburg, East Germany. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign earning a Bachelor degree in Computer Science in 2004. He is the co-founder of YouTube along with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen also fellow PayPal employees. Karim has launched a venture fund called Youniversity Ventures with the goal of helping university students and former students to develop and launch there business ideas. On Saturday, April 23, 2005 at 8:27PM Jawed uploaded YouTube's first video entitled "Me at the zoo".

Jeff Bezos | Amazon

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Jeff Bezos was born on January 12, 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He attended Princeton University. Bezos is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Amazon.com. Amazon is one of the first and biggest online retailers in the world.

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Jeff Moss | DEFCON

image credit: Blog Story/FlickrJeff Moss (alias Dark Tangent) founded the Black Hat and DEFCON Computer Hacker conferences. Moss is currently a part of the Homeland Security Advisory Council of the Obama Administration.

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Jerry Yang | Yahoo

image source: Peter Kaminski/Flickr Jerry Yang was born on November 6, 1968. He attended Stanford University. Yang co-founded the web portal Yahoo with David Filo in April 1995.

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Jimmy Wales | Wikipedia

image source: Joi/Flickr Jimmy Wales was born on August 7, 1966. He is most known for being the face of Wikipedia - a free online, open content encyclopedia that is edited by public contributors. Wales is the cofounder of Wikipedia, president of Wikia, Inc., and chairman of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia is one of the most heavily trafficked sites in the world.

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