Joi Ito
managing partner of Neoteny, co-founder at Digital Garage, PSINet Japan, Infoseek Japan, president of Chiba Institute of Technology, previously chair/CEO of Creative Commons, director of MIT Media Lab from 2011-2019, entrepreneur aka Joi Eto, venture capitalist, crypto investor, co-founder of Safecast after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, director at Sony, NY Times, the Open Source Initiative, author of Freesouls (2008), Whiplash (2016)
Andrew J. McKelvey
chairman & CEO of Monster.com jobsearch website, billionaire philanthropist at the McKelvey Foundation
1934-2008 (74)
Aneel Bhusri living
Brian Acton living
Chamath Palihapitiya
Tech billionaire, founder of Social Capital, former head at Facebook, politician, political activist
Chen Qingzhou living
Cher Wang
Billionaire, co-founder and chairwoman of HTC and VIA Technologies, entrepreneur, philanthropist
Clayton Zekelman
Billionaire, MNSi Telecom, Nexicom, part-owner in Zekelman Industries (JMC Steel Group)
Daniel Zhāng living
CEO of Alibaba Group since 2015, CFO/COO/CEO of Taobao in 2007, president of Tmall, formerly at Barings Bank
1972- (52)
David Filo living
Billionaire, co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang, programmer of Filo Server Program for serving web pages
1966- (58)
David Sun living
Denis O'Brien living
Eric Schmidt living
billionaire tech executive, futurist, pioneer in cloud computing, founder of Innovation Endeavors, Schmidt Foundation, AI enthusiast, former chairman and CEO of Alphabet (Google) from 2001-2015
1955- (69)
x.com
Eva Maria Bucher-Haefner living
Evan Sharp living
Gabe Newell living
Gu Wei living
Hans-Werner Hector living
Billionaire, co-founder of SAP, entrepreneur, software engineer, computer programmer
1940- (84)
Harald Tschira
Billionaire heir, SAP enterprise software, his father Klaus Tschira co-founded SAP AG
Jack Dorsey living
co-founder and CEO of Block Inc, Square payments, billionaire tech executive, serial entrepreneur, computer programmer, software engineer, former chairman and CEO of Twitter (now X with Elon Musk) from 2015-2021
1976- (48)
investors.block.xyz
John Buckman
Chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), free speech and digital privacy activist
John P. Morgridge living
Businessman, billionaire chairman & CEO of Cisco Systems, philanthropist
1933- (91)
John Opel
CEO of IBM, allowed Bill Gates (Microsoft) to create IBM DOS (MS DOS) that later became Microsoft Windows, director at the United Way with Mary Gates (the mother of Bill Gates)
John Tu living
Jon Yarbrough living
Jonathan Lu living
Billionaire, CEO of Alibaba Group from 2013-2015, succeeded by Daniel Zhang, who is the son of Jack Ma and Cathy Zhang
1969- (55)
Joseph C. Tsai living
Billionaire, sports team owner of the Brooklyn Nets via J Tsai Sports, executive vice-chairman of Alibaba Group, businessman, philanthropist
1960- (64)
Kagemasa Kozuki living
Kim Beom-Su living
Larry Ellison
Billionaire entrepreneur, founder of Oracle SQL databases & applications software, political donor, political activist investor, sailing, yacht owner, major property owner of the Lanai island in Hawaii
oracle.com
Liu Qiangdong living
Mark Leonard (software)
Founder of Constellation Software (CSI) in 1995, venture capitalist, he acquires vendor software in niche vertical markets (VMS)
csisoftware.com
Markus Persson living
Martin Lau living
Miguel McKelvey living
chief culture officer, businessman, tech executive, billionaire co-founder of WeWork, Green Desk
1974- (50)
Robert J. Pera
Billionaire, WiFi, sports team owner of the Memphis Grizzlies via Memphis Basketball LLC since 2012
Ryan Smith
Billionaire, co-founder and executive chairman of Qualtrics, sports team owner, part-owner of the Utah Jazz (NBA) via Jazz Basketball and Smith Entertainment Group (SEG Media) Investors since 2021
Steve Jobs
billionaire tech executive, inventor, co-founder of Apple, iPod, iPhone, founder of NeXT computers (the predecessor to macOS), chairman of Disney's Pixar animation studios
1955-2011 (56)
apple.com
Susan Wojcicki
CEO of YouTube from 2014-2023, rented her garage to the Google founders, died of lung cancer, partook in the Stanford marshmallow experiment in MK-Ultra
1968-2024 (56)
Thai Lee living
Billionaire, co-founder and CEO of SHI International
1958- (66)
Udo Tschira
Billionaire heir of roughly 3% of SAP enterprise software, son of SAP co-founder Klaus Tschira
Vivek Ranadivé
Tech executive, former CEO of TIBCO Software, sports team owner of the Sacramento Kings (NBA) since 2013