7. In 1963, Harvey Ross Ball,
an American graphic artist and ad
man was employed by State Mutual Life
Assurance Company of Worcester,
Massachusetts to create a happy face
to raise the morale of the employees.
Ball created the design in ten minutes
and was paid $45 (equivalent to US$330
in 2012 currency).
8.
9. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry
Page and Sergey Brin while they were
Ph.D. students at Stanford University,
California. Together, they own about
14 percent of its shares and control
56 percent of the stockholder voting
power through supervoting stock.
13. Uber was founded in 2009 as UberCab
by Garrett Camp, the co-founder of
StumbleUpon, and Travis Kalanick, who
had sold his Red Swoosh startup for
$19 million in 2007
14.
15. Walter Elias Disney ( December 5, 1901 –
December 15, 1966) was an American
entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film
producer. A pioneer of the American animation
industry, he introduced several developments
in the production of cartoons.
16.
17. Martin "Marty" Cooper (born December
26, 1928) was an American engineer. He
was a pioneer in the wireless
communications industry, especially in
radio spectrum management, with eleven
patents in the field. While
at Motorola in the 1970s, Cooper
invented the first handheld cellular
mobile phone.
18.
19. Elon Reeve Musk is a business magnate,
investor and engineer. He is the founder,
CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX; co-
founder, CEO, and product architect of
Tesla, Inc.; co-founder and CEO of
Neuralink; and co-founder of PayPal.
20.
21. The US Department of Defense awarded
contracts as early as the 1960s, including
for the development of the ARPANET project,
directed by Robert Taylorand managed
by Lawrence Roberts. The first message was
sent over the ARPANET in 1969 from computer
science Professor Leonard Kleinrock's
laboratory at University of California, Los
Angeles (UCLA) to the second network node
at Stanford Research Institute (SRI)
22.
23. The Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) was
developed by Robert E. Kahn and Vint Cerf in
the 1970s and became the standard networking
protocol on the ARPANET
24.
25. In 1884 Hilaire de Chardonnet started the
first artificial fiber plant based on
regenerated cellulose, or viscose rayon, as
a substitute for silk, but it was very
flammable.
In 1907 Leo Baekeland invented the first
synthetic polymer, a thermosetting phenol-
formaldehyde resin called Bakelite
26.
27. WhatsApp was founded in 2009 by Brian
Acton and Jan Koum, both former employees of
Yahoo. After Koum and Acton left Yahoo! in
September 2007, the duo traveled to South
America to take a break from work
28.
29. Founder of Wikipedia. Founder of Wikipedia
may refer to: Jimmy Wales (born in 1966),
American internet entrepreneur, co-founder
of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger (born in 1968),
American internet project developer, co-
founder of Wikipedia
30. “The key is not to worry about being successful but to instead work toward
being significant.” —Oprah Winfrey, media mogul. (Net worth: $3 billion).
31. I’m not really interested in making money. That’s always come as the result of
success, but it’s not been my goal. I’ve always had a tough time proving that to
people.” —Steven Spielberg, filmmaker. (Net worth: $3.6 billion)
32. “Success is how well you do what you do when no one is looking.” —John
Paul DeJoria, co-founder of Paul Mitchell and The Patron Spirits
Company (Net worth: $3.3 billion)
33. “The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing sounds horrible to me. I would go
bonkers. I like high intensity.” —Elon Musk, business magnate. (Net worth: $20
billion).
34. “To me, the definition of success is waking up in the morning with a smile
on your face, knowing it’s going to be a great day. I mean, I was happy and
felt like I was successful when I was poor, living six guys in a three-
bedroom apartment and sleeping on the floor. I was going to work hard to
get somewhere, but I was having fun.” —Mark Cuban, entrepreneur (Net
worth: 3.4 billion)
35. “My definition of failure became not trying.” —Sara Blakely, founder of
Spanx. (Net worth: $1.1 billion)
36. “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they
can’t lose.” —Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft. (Net worth: $93.4 billion).
37. “You are only as successful as the people who work for you want you to
be.” —Leonard Lauder, former chief executive of The Estee Lauder Companies,
Inc. (Net worth: $14.4 billion)
38. “My definition of success? The more you’re actively and practically
engaged [in your business], the more successful you will feel.” —
Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group. (Net worth: $5 billion)
39. “I’ve never run into a guy who couldn’t win at the top level and didn’t
have the right attitude, didn’t give it everything he had.” —Ted Turner,
media mogul. (Net worth: $2.2 billion)
