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Robert Norton Noyce, the "Mayor of Silicon Valley", was an inventor, an entrepreneur, a mentor and an engineer. He co-invented the groundbreaking technology that led to the invention of the integrated circuit, or the microchip, with Jack Kilby. Robert Noyce...

The winning horse of the Chinese internet market and one among the Chinese billionaires, though not started anything unique and innovative but executed them in China like ever before. Ma Huateng nicknamed Pony Ma established a local internet empire Tencent Holdings...

People like Warren Buffett are extremely rare births. The journey for the fifth richest person in the world, from being worth just about $114.75 in 1942 to owning Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A) and being worth a whopping $118 billion today,...

Iqbal Quadir is an entrepreneur who advocates for the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship in bringing prosperity to underdeveloped nations. With the thought that "connectivity is productivity," a visionary started the mobile phone revolution in Bangladesh, one of the...

When Kofi Annan said "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating", we assumed he was referring to Wikipedia. And for all that matters, we wouldn't be wrong to link the two. Just as much a visionary, Jimmy Donal Wales, the co-founder and chairman...

On this day, July 29, 1904, the enterprising legend was born who began working at his uncle Jamsetji Tata's firm as an unpaid intern only to become the founder of several industries under the prestigious Tata Group. Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (JRD...

From hating to memorize formulae and notes, to earning a Stanford master's degree in computer science in 1999, to becoming the first female engineer at Google, to being among the top five on Fortune's 40 Under 40 list of...

From being an IIT engineer to an entrepreneur to an investor to an Indian tech mogul, Vinod Khosla has seen various shades of startup ecosystems. He is the most influential venture capitalist not only in Silicon Valley America but also in...

From “Tic-tac-toe” to “Microsoft”; the path to triumph he foresaw to become a successful entrepreneur transformed him to a billionaire at the age of 31. Bill Gates, a savvy businessman with a passion for coding, co-founded Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:...

Being recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader is not easy. And neither was it building the 'new currency' as admitted by Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal. Managing funds right from $700 million as president of Clarium to...