In this three part series, we’re featuring the most popular CEO's who started their career as interns and later rose to the apex of corporate pyramid.

1. Famous CEO's Who Started As
Interns - Part 2
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2. In this three part series, we’re featuring some of the most popular CEO's who
started their career as interns. In this, the second part of the series, we are
covering next three successful CEO's who gained valuable experience during
their internship, which later helped them rise to the apex of the corporate
pyramid.
Larry Ellison (Founder, Oracle)
istory: After dropping out from University of Chicago, Ellison got his
rst industry exposure at Amdahl Corporation, an IT company which later got
acquired by Fujitsu. It was during this time he learned his computer and
programming skills. The turning point of his life came when Ellison got a full
time opportunity to work for an electronics company called Ampex, which had a
contract to build a database for the CIA codenamed "Oracle."
Net Worth: 59.6 billion USD (2017)
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3. Juan Koum (Whatsapp CEO)
Internship History: While studying at San Jose University, Koum used an open-
source operating system called FreeBSD. It was one of the main reasons that
landed him a 2 weeks project at Yahoo, because Yahoo was looking for FreeBSD
engineers. After completing this 2 weeks job, he returned to San Jose University.
While still studying there, it was Yahoo Co-founder David Filo who convinced
him more, to drop out of school and join Yahoo as a full-time employee. He
worked there for nine years at rst in Systems Security department and then in
Infrastructure Engineering. It was at Yahoo, where Koum met Brian. In 2007, the
two left the company and in 2009, they launched WhatsApp.
Net Worth: 9.5 billion USD (2017)
Kavin Mittal (Founder and CEO, Hike)

4. Internship History: In 2007, during the second year of his undergraduate course
at Imperial College, London, Kavin Mittal did his summer internship at the
Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, and was impressed with its
informal work culture. And the next year, Mittal interned with Goldman Sachs in
London. It was during this internship at Goldman Sachs, Mittal founded his rst
start-up, AppSpark, along with his classmate Namit Chadha to make apps for the
Apple iPhone. This was way back before Hike even existed.
Today Hike Messenger, with a valuation of $1.4 billion, has over 100 million users
and ranks in the list of top ve apps in the country.
Also read: Famous CEO's Who Started As Interns -Part 1
Note: Part 3 to be published on weekend.
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