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The faces of Silicon Valley A who’s-who of the West coast’s destination for innovators in technology.
Larry Page
Larry Page co-founded Google in 1998. Page met fellow Google co-founder Sergey Brin at Stanford in 1995. The two started collaborating on a search engine called BackRub. The service operated on Stanford's servers for more than a year before it started taking up too much of the university's bandwidth. BackRub eventually became Google.
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Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin co-founded Google in 1998. At the time, he and Larry Page had four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world.
Paul Sakuma
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AP
Eric Schmidt
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt joined the company in 2001 and has helped build the search engine into one of the most popular Web sites on the Internet.
Dita Alangkara
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AP
Shantanu Narayen
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen first joined the company in 1998 and helped Adobe acquire Omniture in 2009 and Macromedia in 2005. Before joining Adobe, Narayen was the co-founder of Pictra, which specialized early on in photo file sharing over the Internet.
Paul Sakuma
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AP
Steve Jobs
Apple CEO Steve Jobs co-founded the company in 1978 with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. He was ousted from the company in a power struggle in 1985, but returned by 1997. Following his return, Apple shares immediately started to climb.
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AP
Tim Cook
Tim Cook, Apple's chief operating officer, first joined the firm in 1998. He previously worked for Compaq and IBM.
Paul Sakuma
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AP
Bill Gates
Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard in 1975 to start Microsoft with childhood friend Paul Allen. He left his post as CEO in 2008 and now devotes his time to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Jose Luis Magana
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AP
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Facebook. Zuckerberg launched the social networking platform in his Harvard dorm room in 2004. It has since become the most popular social networking Web site in the world. The film "The Social Network" is based on Zuckerberg’s early days creating Facebook.
Matthew Staver
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Bloomberg
Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook. Sandberg, one of the few high-profile women in Silicon Valley, left her job as a Google vice president in 2008 to join the social media company.
Peter Foley
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Bloomberg
Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake became a major investor in the struggling social network platform MySpace after News Corp. sold the majority of MySpace in June for $35 million. Timberlake, who starred in the film "The Social Network" is said to have an office there now.
Patrik Stollarz
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Mark Hurd and Safra Catz
Oracle co-presidents Mark Hurd, left, and Safra Catz at Oracle World in San Francisco in 2010. Catz first joined the company in 1999 and has been named Fortune Magazine's 11th most powerful businesswoman in 2010. Hurd is the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard.
Paul Sakuma
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AP
Larry Ellison
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison founded the company in 1977. According to CNN Money, Ellison was the highest-paid CEO in 2010, earning over $84.5 million.
Paul Sakuma
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AP
Ashton Kutcher
Actor Ashton Kutcher is a well-established figure in Silicon Valley social media circles. Kutcher invested in the geo-location social networking application Foursquare and the popular iPad application Flipboard. He is said to have recently invested in Airbnb, a Web site that allows travelers to seek out renters with spare rooms. He has also reportedly invested in the highly secretive project "Amen," which is widely rumored to be a social networking venture.
Brendan McDermid
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Reuters
Ann Livermore
Ann Livermore has been Hewlett-Packard’s executive vice president of services since 2004. She has been with the company for more than two decades.
Justin Sullivan
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Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga teamed up with Google's Eric Schmidt to invest in Backplane, a social media Web site that will launch in late August for fans of sports and pop culture. The venture has raised $1 million in funding, according to a July 26 Reuter's report.
Simin Wang
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Pete Cashmore
In 2005, Pete Cashmore founded Mashable, a social media and digital news Web site, as a blog to track the latest trends in technology. He was named among the "TIME 100" by Time magazine in 2010.
Charles Sykes
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AP
Padmasree Warrior
Padmasree Warrior is the chief technology officer at Cisco. She has been with the company since 2007. Prior to Cisco, Warrior was the chief technology officer for Motorola.
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Jack Dorsey
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey also founded Square, an app for iPhones and Androids that lets users swipe credit cards from their smart phones. Dorsey moderated the first presidential Twitter town hall in July at the White House.
Mark Lennihan
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AP
Bono
U2 band frontman Bono (left) is an investor in Elevation Partners, a fund that invests in different media properties and ideas. The publication 24/7 Wall Street named him the "worst investor in America," for Elevation Ventures's holdings in Palm, Forbes and Move.com.
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Evan Williams
Former Twitter co-founder and onetime CEO Evan Williams also co-founded Pyra Labs, which created Blogger, a popular blog platform obtained by Google in 2003. Williams served as the CEO of Twitter from 2008-2010 after helping found the company in 2006.
Paul Sakuma
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AP
Carol Bartz
Carol Bartz became Yahoo's CEO in 2009. The company struggled as it worked to compete with popular Web sites Google and Facebook. On Tuesday, September 6 Yahoo announced that Bartz would no longer serve as the company's CEO. IN a message to staff Bartz wrote, "I am very sad to tell you that I've just been fired over the phone by Yahoo's Chairman of the Board."
Paul Sakuma
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AP
Rep. Anna Eshoo
Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) represents Silicon Valley and recently won a tech leadership post in the House, serving as the ranking member on the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
Charles Dharapak
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AP
Peter Thiel and Elon Musk
PayPal CEO Peter Thiel, left, poses with founder Elon Musk. Thiel sold the online payment service to the online auction site eBay in 2002. He now invests in other companies, including Facebook.
Paul Sakuma
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AP
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