Grant Achatz is a preeminent American restaurateur and chef. He is often recognized for his contributions to progressive cuisine or molecular gastronomy. Grant’s Chicago restaurant Alinea has won various accolades. Furthermore, he himself has earned awards from prominent culinary institutions and publications. This includes 2003 Who’s Who Inductee from the James Beard Foundation, Best Chef in the United States for 1998, Rising Star Chef of the Year Award for 1999, and the Food and Wine’s best new chefs award in 1998.
Sal Khan (Full Name: Salman Amin Khan) is an American educator and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Khan Academy, a free online non-profit educational platform and organization. Also, he is the founder of Khan Lab School, in Mountain View, California. He was among the 100 most influential people in the world in 2021 on Times annual list. In addition, the Khan Academy channel on YouTube has 7.33 million subscribers as of July 2022.
Reed Hastings (Full Name: Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr) is a popular American billionaire businessman who currently works as the co-founder, chairman, and co-chief executive officer (CEO) of Netflix. He also sits on a number of boards and non-profit organizations. Before, Reed was a member of the California State Board of Education and is an advocate for education reform through charter schools.
Jawed Karim is a renowned American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of YouTube and was the first person to upload a video to the site. On April 23, 2005, he uploaded his inaugural video, Me at The Zoo which has over 240 million times, as of August 11, 2022. Karim met Chad Hurley and Steve Chen while working at PayPal in 2002. They later founded a video-sharing website YouTube in 2005 and uploaded his first video.
Bobby Murphy is a Filipino-American Internet entrepreneur and software engineer. He serves as the co-founder and the CTO of the American multinational technology and social media company Snap Inc., which he created with Evan Spiegel and Reggie Brown while they were students at Stanford University.
Evan Spiegel is an American businessman. He is the co-founder and CEO of the American social media company Snap Inc., which he created with Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown while they were students at Stanford University. Evan was the youngest billionaire in the world in 2015.
Lew Schneider is an American television producer, writer, director, actor, and comedian. He is known for Everybody Loves Raymond (1996), The Goldbergs (2013), and Men of a Certain Age (2009). Lew landed his first regular TV job as the host of the Nickelodeon game show, Make the Grade in the fall of 1989. He hosted the show until 1990.
Susan Wojcicki is a well-known Polish-American business executive who is the CEO of YouTube. She worked as the CEO of YouTube from 2014 until February 2023 when she resigned. For over 20 years she has been in the tech industry. In 1999 she was Google’s first marketing manager after she was involved in the founding of Google.
Satya Nadella is an Indian-American business executive. He serves as the executive chairman and CEO of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014 as CEO and John W. Thompson in 2021 as chairman. Prior to becoming CEO, Satya was the executive vice president of Microsoft’s cloud and enterprise group, responsible for building and running the company’s computing platforms.
Mark Zuckerberg is an American internet entrepreneur, media magnate, and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding the social media website Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms, of which he is the chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder. In 2007, at age 23, Mark became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire.
