3. Facebook is an online social networking service headquartered
in Menlo Park, California. Its name comes from a colloquialism for
the directory given to students at some American universities.
Founded on February 4, 2004 (10 Years Ago)
Key People : Mark Zuckerberg, (Chairman and CEO)
Sheryl Sandberg (COO)
Owns – Instagram, Whatsapp & Oculus VR
900,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
1.28 Billion Active users
Traded as NASDAQ: FB
4. Twitter is an online social networking and micro
blogging service that enables users to send and read short 140-
character text messages, called "tweets".
Founded on March 21, 2006
Key People : Jack Dorsey (Chairman), Dick Costolo (CEO)
Owns Vine (Video Sharing)
310,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
255 million monthly active users
40 Million Users on Vine
Traded as NYSE: TWTR
5. LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking service.
Founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003, it is
mainly used for professional networking.
Key people: Reid Hoffman (Chairman), Jeff Weiner (CEO)
300 Million Users
255,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
Traded as NYSE:LNKD
6. Pinterest is a visual discovery tool that people use to collect
ideas for their different projects and interests.
Launched in March 2010
Founders: Paul Sciarra, Evan Sharp, and Ben Silbermann
250,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
More than 70 Million Users
7. Google+ is a social networking and identity service that is
owned and operated by Google Inc.
Owned by Google
Google+ now has over 1 billion enabled accounts and 359 million
active monthly users
120,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
8. Mark Zuckerburg
Larry Page
Steve Jobs
Matt Mullenweg
Arianna Huffington
Steve Ballmer
Michael Arrington
Jimmy Wales
Gary Vaynerchuk
Guy Kawasaki
Julian Assange
9.
10. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an
American computer programmer, Internet entrepreneur, and
philanthropist.
Owns Facebook.
Estimated Wealth to be $25.3 Billion.
Placement by Time Magazine as 2010’s Person of the Year. In 2011,
Zuckerberg ranked first on the list of the "Most Influential Jews
in the World" by The Jerusalem Post and has since consistently
topped the list every year as of 2013. Zuckerberg was played by
actor Jesse Eisenberg in the 2010 film The Social Network, in
which the rise of Facebook is portrayed.
11.
12. Lawrence "Larry" Page (born March 26, 1973) is an
American business magnate and computer scientist who is the
co-founder of Google, alongside Sergey Brin. On April 4, 2011,
Page succeeded Eric Schmidt as the chief executive officer of
Google. As of 2014, Page's personal wealth is estimated to
be $32.3 billion, ranking him #19 on the Forbes list of billionaires.
Page is the inventor of PageRank, the foundation of Google's
search ranking algorithm, and he and Sergery Brin own
approximately 16 percent of Google's stock.
In 2011, he was ranked 24th on the Forbes list of billionaires and
as the 11th richest person in the United States.
13.
14. Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011)was an
American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the co-founder,
chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc.
Jobs received a number of honors and public recognition for his influence
in the technology and music industries. He has been referred to as
“legendary,” a “futurist” and a “visionary,” and has been described as the
“Father of the Digital Revolution,” a “master of innovation,” “the master
evangelist of the digital age” and a “design perfectionist.”
Although Jobs earned only $1 a year as CEO of Apple, Jobs held 5.426
million Apple shares worth $2.1 billion, as well as 138 million shares in
Disney (which he received in exchange for Disney's acquisition of Pixar)
worth $4.4 billion. Jobs quipped that the $1 per annum he was paid by
Apple was based on attending one meeting for 50 cents while the other 50
cents was based on his performance. Forbes estimated his net wealth at
$8.3 billion in 2010, making him the 42nd-wealthiest American.
15.
16. Matthew Charles "Matt" Mullenweg (born January 11, 1984
in Houston, Texas) is an American online social
media entrepreneur,web developer and musician living in San
Francisco, California.
Best known for developing the free and open source web
softwareWordPress, now managed by The WordPress
Foundation.
Named one of the top 10 most influential people online for
changing the face of the internet, May 2012, Mullenweg was
listed in Forbes's Most Influential Angel Investors on AngelList
and In December 2012, Mullenweg was listed in 2012 Forbes's 30
Under 30 in Media.
17.
18. Steven Anthony "Steve" Ballmer (born March 24, 1956) is an
American businessman who was the CEO of Microsoft from
January 2000 to February 2014.
Personal wealth is estimated at $20.7 billion, ranking
number 32 on the Forbes 400.
His flamboyant stage appearances at Microsoft events are
widely circulated on the Internet as viral videos.
19.
20. Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales is an American Internet
entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and promoter of the
online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the for-profit
Wikia web-hosting company.
His role in creating Wikipedia, which has become the world's
largest encyclopedia, prompted Time magazine to name him in
its 2006 list of "The 100 Most Influential People in the World".
Wales was listed in the "Scientists & Thinkers" section of
the Time 100 in 2006 and number 12 in Forbes "The Web Celebs
25“ and In February 2014, Wales was named one of "25 Web
Superstars" by The Daily Telegraph.