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David Cheriton: Tech Angel Investor

September 26, 2014

David Cheriton was born on March 29, 1951 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He earned a bachelor’s degree in 1973 from the University of British Columbia. Continuing with his studies David obtained his Masters and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Waterloo in 1974 and 1978, respectively. He was an Assistant Professor […]

John Doerr: Venture Capitalist

September 23, 2014

John Doerr was born on June 29, 1951. He obtained B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. John began his technology career in 1974 at Intel, just as the company was inventing the groundbreaking 8080 microprocessor. During his Intel years, he held various positions in […]

Andreas von Bechtolsheim: Future Investor

July 25, 2013

Andreas von Bechtolsheim is not a household name. Yet he was deeply involved in a now very popular company, Google. Andrea wrote the first major check to fund Google. In fact he wrote the check to “Google Inc.” even before the company was founded. Google was something very new but he was confident of its […]

Google Employee No. 18

August 24, 2012

Not many have heard of Susan Wojcicki. She was one of Google’s early employees being employee no. 18. Today she is Senior Vice President of Ads. Susan was previously Vice President of Product Management handling AdWords and AdSense. These are the two main advertising products for Google which are also responsible for the majority of […]

The Geek Running Yahoo!

August 7, 2012

The images of geeks have changed considerably over the years; the person with the thick glasses working in the lab and a bit of a social misfit. Perhaps Silicon Valley had a lot to do with it. This is the place known for its technological innovations and successful companies. Since it involves technologies there has […]

From Russia to Google: Sergey Brin’s Journey to Success

November 12, 2011

Trim and boyishly handsome, Sergey Brin doesn’t appear like a successful entrepreneur, more so not a co-founder of a billion dollar company. To those who don’t know him, Brin is the co-founder of Google, one of the largest internet companies of today. He met business partner Larry Page in Stanford as a graduate student, and […]