Famous American Internet Entrepreneurs

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Jeff Bezos
(The Founder & Executive Chairman of Amazon)
Jeff Bezos
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Birthdate: January 12, 1964
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

The founder and CEO of the multi-national technology company Amazon, Jeff Bezos is the wealthiest man in the world. Jeff, who left his lucrative job at an investment firm to fulfil his entrepreneurial ambition, also owns the newspaper, The Washington Post, and its affiliate publications along with a spaceflight company, Blue Origin.

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Mark Zuckerberg
(Co-Founder of Facebook)
Mark Zuckerberg
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Birthdate: May 14, 1984
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: White Plains, New York, United States

The co-founder and CEO of the popular social networking website, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is also amongst the richest men in the world. Fascinated by computer since his early life, Zuckerberg co-created TheFacebook while still in college and later even dropped out to devote more time to it. At 23, he became the youngest self-made billionaire in history at that time.

 3 
Alexis Ohanian
(Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of the Social Media Site ‘Reddit’)
Alexis Ohanian
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Birthdate: April 24, 1983
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: New York, New York, United States
Internet entrepreneur and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian is also known as the husband of legendary tennis player Serena Williams. Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 twice, he spoke strongly against the 2011 Stop Online Piracy Act, wrote a bestselling book, and is an advocate for the paternity leave policy.
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 4 
Jack Dorsey
(The Co-Founder & Former CEO of 'Twitter')
Jack Dorsey
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Birthdate: November 19, 1976
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, United States

As the co-founder and CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey continues to influence the lives of millions around the world. Also a well-known philanthropist, Dorsey is credited with funding 600 public school projects in Missouri. A prolific donator, Jack Dorsey has donated $24 million as part of various relief efforts. He also donated $10 million to Boston University.

 5 
Aaron Swartz
(Computer Programmer)
Aaron Swartz
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Birthdate: November 8, 1986
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Chicago
Died: January 11, 2013
Aaron Swartz was an internet hacktivist, best remembered for creating the web feed RSS, Markdown, and Creative Commons. He also worked with Reddit and founded Demand Progress, which supports internet freedom. He was later charged with computer fraud after breaking into a system at MIT and eventually died by suicide.
 6 
Jawed Karim
(Co-Founder of 'YouTube' and the First Person to Upload a Video to the Site)
Jawed Karim
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Birthdate: October 28, 1979
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Merseburg, Germany

Jawed Karim is an American Internet entrepreneur and software engineer. Karim is credited with co-founding one of the most popular online video-sharing platforms, YouTube. He is also credited with uploading the first YouTube video named Me at the zoo. During his time working at PayPal, Jawed Karim had designed many of the company's core components, such as its anti-Internet-fraud system.

 7 
Travis Kalanick
(American Businessman, Co-Founder and Former CEO of ‘Uber’)
Travis Kalanick
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Birthdate: August 6, 1976
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States

Travis Kalanick is an American businessman. He is credited with founding Red Swoosh, a content delivery network, and Uber, a technology company. He resigned as the CEO of Uber in 2017 when the company was criticized for several unethical practices, including sexual harassment.

 8 
Jimmy Wales
(Internet Entrepreneur, Webmaster and Co-Founder of the Online Encyclopedia ‘Wikipedia’)
Jimmy Wales
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Birthdate: August 7, 1966
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Huntsville, Alabama, United States
Internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales is widely known as the co-founder of the not-for-profit online encyclopedia Wikipedia, though he has claimed to be its sole founder. Wikipedia had its roots in Nupedia, a free encyclopedia that was funded by Wales’s portal Bomis. Wales also co-founded Wikia, or Fandom, a web-hosting service.
 9 
Dustin Moskovitz
(Entrepreneur)
Dustin Moskovitz
5
Birthdate: May 22, 1984
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Gainesville, Florida, United States

Dustin Moskovitz is an Internet entrepreneur. He is credited with co-founding the popular social networking service, Facebook. In 2008, he co-founded a web and mobile application called Asana after quitting Facebook. One of the youngest self-made billionaires of all time, Dustin Moskovitz is also renowned for his philanthropic activities; he co-founded a philanthropic organization called Good Ventures in 2011.

 10 
David Baszucki
(Entrepreneur)
David Baszucki
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Birthdate: January 20, 1963
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Canada

David Baszucki is a Canadian-born American entrepreneur and inventor. He is credited with co-founding the Roblox Corporation, for which he also serves as the CEO. He is also credited with co-founding Knowledge Revolution, a company which was obtained by MSC Software in 1998. In 2017 and 2018, Baszucki was named one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs.

 11 
Steve Chen
(One of the Co-Founders of the Video-Sharing Website ‘YouTube’)
Steve Chen
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Birthdate: August 25, 1978
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Taipei City, Taipei, Taiwan
Internet entrepreneur Steve Chen is one of the co-founders of YouTube. He also co-founded AVOS Systems and developed the app MixBit. He later sold YouTube to Google and also joined the investment firm Google Ventures. He was named one of 2011’s "15 Asian Scientists To Watch" by Asian Scientist magazine.
 12 
Sergey Brin
(Co-Founder of 'Google')
Sergey Brin
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Birthdate: August 21, 1973
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Google co-founder Sergey Brin also served as the president of Alphabet Inc. The seventh-richest person in the world as of 2020, Brin earlier dropped his PhD plans at Stanford, following which he and Larry Page launched Google in a garage. He is a devoted philanthropist and a Democratic Party donor.
 13 
Steve Huffman
(Co-Founder and CEO of ‘Reddit’, a Social News and Discussion Website)
Steve Huffman
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Birthdate: November 12, 1983
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Lansing, Michigan, United States
Steve Huffman, the CEO and co-founder of Reddit, is also known as spez, his Reddit username. He is also the co-founder of the now-defunct travel search engine Hipmunk. Named to Fortune’s 40 Under 40 list, Steve supports net neutrality. He has often been accused of promoting racism on Reddit.
 14 
Mike Krieger
(Co-founder of Instagram)
Mike Krieger
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Birthdate: March 4, 1986
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: SĂ£o Paulo, Brazil
Mike Krieger is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer. He co-founded Instagram along with Kevin Systrom. He studied symbolic systems at Stanford University, where he first met Kevin. The two men later sold Instagram to Facebook and began focusing on other projects. Krieger is also a philanthropist and is in a partnership with charity evaluator GiveWell. 
 15 
Brian Acton
(Co-founder of WhatsApp)
Brian Acton
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Birthdate: February 17, 1972
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Michigan
Computer programmer and IT entrepreneur Brian Acton is the executive chairman and co-founder of the encrypted messaging app Signal. He previously worked at Yahoo! He also co-founded WhatsApp with Jan Koum and later sold it to Facebook for $19 billion. Acton also participates in charitable activities through Wildcard Giving
 16 
Justin Kan
(Co-founder of Twitch)
Justin Kan
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Birthdate: July 16, 1983
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Seattle, Washington, United States
Height: 5'11" (180 cm)
 17 
Peter Thiel
(Co-founder of 'PayPal', First outside Investor in 'Facebook')
Peter Thiel
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Birthdate: October 11, 1967
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Frankfurt, Germany

Peter Thiel is a German-American venture capitalist and entrepreneur. As the co-founder of PayPal, Peter Thiel redefined the way online payments and online money transfers work in the United States and most Asian countries. He also played a major role in the development of Facebook as its first outside investor.

 18 
Jerry Yang
(Co-Founder and Former CEO of ‘Yahoo! Inc.’)
Jerry Yang
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Birthdate: November 6, 1968
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Taipei City, Taipei, Taiwan

Jerry Yang is a Taiwanese-American billionaire internet entrepreneur, computer programmer, and venture capitalist. Yang is credited with co-founding Yahoo! Inc. where he also served as the CEO from 2007 to 2009. Jerry Yang is also credited with founding a venture capital firm named AME Cloud Ventures.

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Dan Abrams
(Entrepreneur)
Dan Abrams
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Birthdate: May 20, 1966
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
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Whitney Wolfe Herd
(Businessperson)
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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Birthdate: July 1, 1989
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
 21 
Jonah Peretti
(Businessperson)
Jonah Peretti
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Birthdate: January 1, 1974
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Contra Costa County, California, United States
 22 
Tony Hsieh
(Former Chief Executive Officer of the Shoe-Selling Site Zappos)
Tony Hsieh
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Birthdate: December 12, 1973
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Urbana, Illinois, United States
Died: November 27, 2020

Tony Hsieh showed his entrepreneurial spirit since his Harvard days, when he managed a pizza delivery outlet for his dorm. He later founded the Las Vegas-based online shoe and clothing retailer Zappos. He tragically died from smoke inhalation at a house fire during Thanksgiving, shortly before turning 47.

 23 
Evan Williams
(Co-founder of Blogger & Twitter)
Evan Williams
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Birthdate: March 31, 1972
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Clarks
 24 
Ben Silbermann
(Internet Entrepreneurs)
Ben Silbermann
2
Birthdate: July 14, 1982
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Des Moines, Iowa, United States
 25 
Burnie Burns
(Screenplay Writer, Actor, Entrepreneur, Filmmaker)
Burnie Burns
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Birthdate: January 18, 1973
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Rochester, New York, United States
Height: 6'2" (188 cm)
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Joe Gebbia
(Internet entrepreneur)
Joe Gebbia
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Birthdate: August 21, 1981
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
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Luke Nosek
(Polish-American Entrepreneur and Co-founder of PayPal)
Luke Nosek
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Birthplace: ZgÅ‚obice, Gmina TarnĂ³w, Poland
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Craig Newmark
(Internet Entrepreneur)
Craig Newmark
2
Birthdate: December 6, 1952
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Morristown, New Jersey, United States
 29 
Adam Mosseri
(Head of Instagram)
Adam Mosseri
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Birthdate: January 23, 1983
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: New York, United States
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
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Fahim Saleh
(Businesspeople)
Fahim Saleh
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Birthdate: December 12, 1986
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Died: July 13, 2020
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Nathan Blecharczyk
(Co-founder of Airbnb)
Nathan Blecharczyk
1
Birthdate: 1983 AD
Birthplace: West Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
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David Karp
(Internet Entrepreneurs)
David Karp
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Birthdate: July 6, 1986
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: New York City, New York (state) New York, United States US
 33 
Jeff Weiner
(Businessperson)
Jeff Weiner
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Birthdate: February 21, 1970
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: New York City, New York, United States
 34 
Drew Houston
(Co-Founder and CEO of File Hosting Service 'Dropbox')
Drew Houston
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Birthdate: March 4, 1983
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Acton, Massachusetts, United States

The CEO of Dropbox, a cloud storage company he co-established with his MIT classmate Arash Ferdowsi, Drew Houston was named one of America's Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40 by Forbes in 2016. He later also became part of Facebook’s board of directors. He has worked for immigration and education reform, too.

 35 
Maitland Ward
(Model)
Maitland Ward
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Birthdate: February 3, 1977
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Long Beach, California, USA
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
 36 
Daniel Lewin
(American-Israeli Mathematician and Entrepreneur Who Co-founded Internet Company Akamai Technologies)
Daniel Lewin
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Birthdate: May 14, 1970
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Denver, Colorado, United States
Died: September 11, 2001

Daniel M. Lewin was an American–Israeli entrepreneur and mathematician best remembered for co-founding the popular internet company Akamai Technologies. On September 11, 2001, Lewin became the first victim of the September 11 attacks when he was stabbed to death onboard American Airlines Flight 11 by one of the hijackers.

 37 
Brandon Wade
(Businessman)
Brandon Wade
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Birthdate: July 16, 1970
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Singapore
 38 
Andrew Mason
(Businessman)
Andrew Mason
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Birthdate: 1981 AD
Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
 39 
Olga Kay
(Entrepreneur)
Olga Kay
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Birthdate: November 20, 1982
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Height: 5'1" (155 cm)
 40 
Sam Yagan
(Entrepreneur)
Sam Yagan
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Birthdate: April 10, 1977
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: United States
 41 
Naveen Selvadurai
(Businessperson, Co-founder of Foursquare)
Naveen Selvadurai
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Birthdate: January 27, 1982
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
 42 
Tyler Williams
(American Entrepreneur)
Tyler Williams
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Birthdate: May 30, 1990
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: United States
 43 
Jamie Salvatori
(Founder of Vat19.com)
Jamie Salvatori
1
Birthdate: March 17, 1980
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri
 44 
William von Meister
(Businessperson)
William von Meister
1
Birthdate: February 21, 1942
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: New York City, United States
Died: May 18, 1995
 45 
Patrick Joseph McGovern
(Businessman)
Patrick Joseph McGovern
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Birthdate: August 11, 1937
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Queens, New York, United States
Died: March 19, 2014
 46 
Shaun McKnight
(American YouTube Star and the Man Behind the Famous YouTube Channel ‘Cute Girls Hairstyle')
Shaun McKnight
1
Birthdate: May 5, 1974
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Idaho, United States
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Joy Ajlouny
(Co-Founder of Fetchr)
Joy Ajlouny
1
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Case Kenny
(American Internet Entrepreneur)
Case Kenny
1
Birthdate: April 5, 1988
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Chicago, United States
 49 
Max Beaumont
(Internet Entrepreneur)
Max Beaumont
1
Birthdate: February 8, 1997
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Connecticut
 50 
Justin Siegel
(Entrepreneur)
Justin Siegel
1
Birthdate: August 25, 1981
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Boca Raton, Florida, United States
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)