How to become a successful person? Study the biographies of famous people and see how and what they did! Leading entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley are excellent role models.
Elon Musk (PayPal, Tesla)
The future creator of Tesla and SpaceX ran his first Internet company. At about 24, Elon Musk dropped out of graduate school at Stanford for the sake of the “dot-com boom” and launched the startup Zip2 – a rather primitive mixture of Yelp (an American site for finding local services – for example, hair salons, restaurants, etc. + the ability to view reviews and ratings – approx. ed.) and Google Maps – but at that time this was quite enough. The goal of the project was simple – to interest small companies in the possibilities of promotion via the Internet and make money on it. It turned out really well – in 1999, Compaq bought Musk’s company for $307 million. After that, the entrepreneur created a much more famous company – PayPal.
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Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
At the age of 24, he got a job at Bankers Trust, where he developed revolutionary software for banking institutions. Two years later, Bezos became the youngest vice president in the employer’s history.
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Eric Schmidt (Google, Alphabet)
He studied at Berkeley for six years, defended his Ph.D. thesis there at the age of 27, and then went looking for work. I worked on computer networks and managed software development, and every summer I worked in the Xerox PARC laboratory (famous for the first time it invented a computer in the form that is familiar to all of us today). He clearly acted on the principle of “everything has its time.”
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Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)
By the time of his twenty-fifth birthday, the founder of Facebook worked hard on his brainchild for five years. In 2009, when Mark was celebrating his quarter-century anniversary, Facebook brought in its first profit of $300 million.
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Steve Jobs
In December 1980, Apple, led by Steve, conducted an IPO. By the end of the first day, during which Apple shares were traded on the stock exchange, Apple was already worth $1.2 billion. Jobs admitted to his biographer Walter Isaacson that on that day he swore to himself that money would never be able to ruin his life .
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Larry Ellison (Oracle)
At age 22 he moved to Berkeley. For the next eight years, the young self-taught programmer held technical positions at a variety of companies – Fireman Fund, Wells Fargo, AMPEX – until he settled at Amdahl Corporation, where he worked on the first IBM-compatible computer.
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