8 young men who changed the world
1. Mark Zuckerberg (now 25 years old / from the U.S.)
When creating a social networking site Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg was just 19 years old. He made up for Facebook to help build a social network for teenagers in the campus at the time, Harvard University, United States.
Now, Facebook is a social networking site after MySpace's second largest. Under the leadership of the founder, the site continues to grow day by day. Millions of new users continue to register every month!
2. Steve Shih Chen (31 years / Taiwan-USA), Jawed Karim (30 years / Germany-USA), Chad Hurley (32 years / USA)
Both are the creators of the site "online video sharing", YouTube. They founded YouTube in 2005. At that time, 28-year-old Chad and Steve's 27 years old.
In October 2006, YouTube was acquired (taken over ownership) by Google. Value: U.S. $ 1.65 billion (Rp16, 9 trillion).
3. Jerry Yang (40 Years / Taiwan-USA) and David Filo (42 years / USA)
In 1995, two men were found Yahoo!, The site's second-largest search engine after Google. At that time, 26-year-old Jerry and Filo 28 years.
Last year, the giant company Microsoft had wanted to buy Yahoo!. Discussed the value of bids: 44.6 billion dollars (Rp458, 8 trillion). This plan was canceled. After that, Microsoft and Yahoo! not dismiss the possibility of cooperation in the future.
4. Matt Mullenweg (25 years / USA)
Matt Mullenweg is the creator of free blog provider site: WordPress. He started just 19 years old when he began creating bakalnya embryo.
WordPress into fame in a short time. The reason, this site easy to use and always updated. Until the year 2008, there were recorded 230 million The access remains with WordPress 6.5 billion pages that can be seen. Then, there are 35 million additional new post with an average of four million posts per month.
Matt, who had come to Jakarta in January 2009 it said, he would not sell to big companies WordPress price 'exorbitant'. He also said, do not seek profit from WordPress. The advantage he had got from some companies, they have.
5. Tom Anderson (38 years / United States)
MySpace Tom Anderson released in August 2003. There kesimpang siuran data on age at the time, but various sources say Tom was less than 30 years old when creating MySpace.
Currently, MySpace is one social networking site in the world at large, which compete closely with Facebook. MySpace has been used for more than 100 million people, with the largest user comes from the United States region.
MySpace excess lies in the field of music. When the new music facilities (ie "streaming audio" for free) was launched on September 25, 2008, just in a few days, there are billions of songs are heard by its users. This excess makes many people think that MySpace could affect the music industry on the Internet.
6. Blake Aaron Ross (23 years / USA)
Blake Ross is a young genius who created Mozilla, internet explorer facility. Mozilla released to the public in November 2004. At that time, the new Blake age 19 years!
Quickly accepted the Mozilla Firefox Internet users in the world. He, among others, considered more secure and easy to use (compared to its competitors). He is also considered to capture a majority market internet explorer facility, which has been dominated by Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Many people praised the success of Blake Ross. Engineering director of the Mozilla Foundation, Chris Hoffman, said, "In the world of 'Open Source', the position of a person depends on his skills. And Blake Ross has all the expertise needed."
7. Pierre Omidyar (41 years / France-USA)
Pierre Omidyar eBay released on September 4, 1995. At that time, he was 28 years old.
eBay is the online auction site. At first, Pierre makes eBay to help a close friend who wanted to sell a product. However, soon afterwards, a thriving eBay business area is very prospective. Now, eBay is the largest online auction site in the world.
According to Pierre, in an interview, the success of eBay is not free from two things. First, the strength of the seller and buyer community, which amounted to hundreds of millions of people. Second, the values of both dianutnya. In business, eBay believes that every human being is basically good and every person has an advantage that can be given to someone else. In addition, eBay believes that honesty and openness can bring goodness in human beings. Thus, the rule "gold" eBay is to recognize and respect everyone as a unique individual. eBay also hope the members could follow the examples given.
8. Larry Page (36 years / USA) and Sergey Brin (35 years / USA)
Both Google released on September 4, 1998. At that time, their 25-year-old and 24 years. "Office" is their first garage.
Google, the search engine that can display all types of information, like many people - especially the students. Thus, within only a few years time, Google could be developing very rapidly and profit billions of dollars. Now, Google could be described as the number one search engine in the world.
Success stories Larry Page and Sergey Brin in creating and developing Google has become the inspiration for many young people in this world, especially the information technology enthusiasts. They hope to create new programs which are beneficial to the community of the world and benefit from financial terms.
I am really inspired by them. I hope you are all so, so that our nation's economy could be added forward.