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FOUNDER OF INSTAGRAM KEVIN SYSTROM ..

        BY    DIVAKAR KUMAR PANDAY     Kevin Systrom  ( born  December 30, 1983) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. He co‑founded Instagram, the world's largest photo sharing website, along with Mike Krieger. ... Under  Systrom  as CEO, Instagram became a fast growing app, with 800 million monthly users as of September 2017. Kevin Systrom is the co-founder of the latest social networking buzz ‘Instagram’. Like most of the children, he too was much interested in video games and even developed different levels while playing the game ‘Doom 2’. Eventually, he cultivated an affinity towards programming and even as a student, he progressed as a programmer. He was capable enough to be selected for the ‘Mayfield Fellows Program’ and this enhanced his skills related to technology. He did a bachelor’s degree in management science and engineering, and embarked on a career which was to impact the social networkin...

ZHANG YIMING Biography

BY    DIVAKAR KUMAR PANDAY        ABOUT ZHANG YIMING     Chinese businessman who developed the video sharing platform TikTok and the news aggregator Toutiao with his company ByteDance. He became the 9th wealthiest person in China with a net worth of $13 billion as of 2019. The widespread popularity of TikTok has not just created a new generation of social media stars, it's also created a social media billionaire. Zhang Yiming, the 35-year-old software engineer who founded the app's parent company, now has a net worth of $16.2 billion, Forbes     estimates. Despite being the 13th-wealthiest person in China as ranked , Zhang is extremely private and little is known about his personal life. Zhang was born in 1983 in China's Fujian province, according to the Bloom   Billionaires berg    Index. Zhang's parents worked as civil servants,    reported. His name is based on a Chinese proverb...

Henry Ford Biography.

BY  Divakar Kumar Panday.            Henry Ford , (born July 30, 1863, Wayne county,  Michigan , U.S.—died April 7, 1947, Dearborn, Michigan), American industrialist who revolutionized factory production with his assembly-line methods.  Ford spent most of his life making headlines, good, bad, but never indifferent. Celebrated as both a technological genius and a folk hero, Ford was the creative force behind an Industry    of unprecedented size and wealth that in only a few decades permanently changed the economic and social character of the United States. When young Ford left his father’s farm in 1879 for  Detroit   , only two out of eight Americans lived in cities; when he died at age 83, the proportion was five out of eight. Once Ford realized the tremendous part he and his Model T automobile    had played in bringing about this change, he wanted nothing more than to reverse it, or at least to r...

Jeff Bezos Biography.

                     BY  Divakar Kumar Panday.       American entrepreneur Jeff Bezos is the founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com and owner of 'The Washington Post.' His successful business ventures have made him one of the richest people in the world. Who Is Jeff Bezos?  Entrepreneur and e-commerce pioneer Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of the e-commerce company Amazon, owner of  The Washington Post  and founder of the space exploration company Blue Origin. His successful business ventures have made him one of the richest people in the world.  Born in 1964 in New Mexico, Bezos had an early love of computers and studied computer science and electrical engineering at  Princeton University  . After graduation, he worked on Wall Street, and in 1990 he became the youngest senior vice president at the investment firm  D.E Shaw  .  ...

Sundar Pichai: Biography.

                       BY  Divakar Kumar Panday.   SUNDAR PICHAI   , (born July 12, 1972, Madras [now Chennai], Tamil Nadu   , India), Indian-born American computer scientist and executive who was CEO of both Google  .  (2015– ), and its  holding Company   , Alphabet Inc. (2019– ). As a boy growing up in  Madras  , Pichai slept with his brother in the living room of the cramped family home, but his father, an electrical engineer at the British multinational GEC, saw that the boys received a good education. At an early age Pichai displayed an interest in technology and an extraordinary memory, especially for telephone numbers. After earning a degree in metallurgy (B.Tech., 1993) and a silver medal at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, he was awarded a scholarship to study at Stanford University    (M.S. in engineering and  materials scie...

Elon Musk Biography.

                                   BY  Divakar Kumar Panday. Elon Reeve Musk is a South African-born American entrepreneur and businessman who founded X.com in 1999 (which later became PayPal), SpaceX in 2002 and Tesla Motors in 2003. Musk became a multimillionaire in his late 20s when he sold his start-up company, Zip2, to a division of Compaq Computers.  Musk made headlines in May 2012, when SpaceX launched a rocket that would send the first commercial vehicle to the International Space Station. He bolstered his portfolio with the purchase of SolarCity in 2016, and cemented his standing as a leader of industry by taking on an advisory role in the early days of President  Donald Trump's   administration. Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa. As a child, Musk was so lost in his daydreams about inventions that his parents and doctors ordered...

INDIAN BUSINESSMAN ANAND MAHINDRA .

                   BY  Divakar Kumar Panday.           Anand Mahindra   (born 1 May 1955) is the chairman and managing director of Mahindra Group. His grandfather JC Mahindra co-founded the company in Mumbai, India. Founded as a steel trading company, the Group today has a presence in multiple sectors from agribusiness to aerospace. It is considered to be one of the most reputed Indian industrial houses with market leadership in many business verticals including utility vehicles, tractors (world's largest tractor company by volume), after market (India's largest multi-brand pre-owned car company), finance (largest rural NBFC in India), Holidays (India's largest vacation ownership company) and IT (top 5 IT service provider). Hailed as 'The Federator' by Forbes (India) Magazine, Anand Mahindra started his career at Mahindra Group with Mahindra Ugine Steel Company Ltd. as Executive Assistant to t...