Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (Skype)
Skype was an extremely popular software application that allows users to make voice calls over the Internet, as well as instant messaging, file transfer, and video conferencing. ts development in 2002 was financed by the Skype Group, founded by Swedish entrepreneur Niklas Zennström and Dane Janus Friis, who had already..Read More
Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)
In the late evening of 28 October 2003, a sophomore at Harvard named Mark Zuckerberg, disappointed by a girl who had dumped him, was sitting in his room in the dormitory and was trying to think of something to do to get her off his mind. Dormitory facebook was open..Read More
Chad Hurley and Steve Chen (YouTube)
At the beginning of 2005, a dinner party of fellow PayPal (the famous e-commerce Internet site for money transfers and payments) employees happened in San Francisco, California, in the apartment of Steve Chen. Chen was born in August 1978 in Taiwan, his family came to the United States when he..Read More
Jack Dorsey (Twitter)
Jack Dorsey was born on 19 November 1976, in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Tim and Marcia (née Smith) Dorsey. Jack started his occasions with computers early, and at age 14, he created an open-source program for dispatch routing, used for many years. Jack went to high school at..Read More