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Silicone valley. People who change the world with their technologies

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Silicon Valley is the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, United States. The term originally referred to the region's large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers, but eventually came to refer to all the high-tech businesses in the area; it is now generally used as a metonym for the high-tech sector. Despite the development of other high-tech economic centers throughout the United States, Silicon Valley continues to be the leading high-tech hub because of its large number of cutting-edge entrepreneurs, engineers and venture capitalists.

Stephen Paul Jobs

is an American inventor and entrepreneur. One of the founders of Apple Corporation. He went down in history first as a man who revolutionized desktop computers by coming up with a PC with a graphical interface. Then he turned the music market upside down, came up with an iPod and the iTunes music application. Finally, thanks to the invention of the iPhone and then iPad, Apple has become a leader in the mobile gadget market.

Jobs garage which was the beginning
Jobs garage which was the beginning

Original IPod 2001
Original IPod 2001
First iPhone 2007
First iPhone 2007

Bill Gates

 is an entrepreneur and founder of Microsoft, creator of the MS-DOS operating system of the revolutionary Windows. He headed the ranking of the richest people on the planet 18 times. Most of the income is spent on charity.

Bill gates launched windows
Bill gates launched windows
Bill Gates
Bill Gates

Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk is a Canadian-American entrepreneur, innovator, inventor engineer, investing in grandiose innovative projects.

Elon Musk
Elon Musk

Founder and head of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, co-founder of SolarCity

, this technology session, as it is often called in the press, personally participated in the development of new technologies in alternative energy, the design of environmentally friendly electric vehicles and economical solar power plants. 

Elon Musk presented electro-car Tesla
Elon Musk presented electro-car Tesla
Elon and his team firstly launch their own rocket named Falcon
Elon and his team firstly launch their own rocket named Falcon
SolarCity program
SolarCity program

Mark Zuckerberg

the author and developer of the social network Facebook, became the youngest American billionaire in 2007. Included in the Forbes list of the richest people. Zuckerberg's fortune was estimated at $77 billion

Mark Zuckerberg Facebook CEO
Mark Zuckerberg Facebook CEO
Facebook social media networks
Facebook social media networks

Harvard University student who never graduated from him. Zuckerberg's reputation is ambiguous, but now he is considered one of the most influential people in the field of Internet technologies.

Harvard University
Harvard University

Sergey Brin, Larry Page

Sergey and Larry
Sergey and Larry

In 1995, Larry Page was going to enter the magistracy of Stanford University. Sergei Brin was chosen as the student who was supposed to show Larry University.

According to some reports, on the day of acquaintance they disagreed on almost all issues, but a year later they started working on a joint project - the Backrub search engine.

In just a couple of years, the Google system has attracted the attention not only of the scientific community, but also of Silicon Valley investors. In August 1998, Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolscheim issued Larry and Sergei a check for $100,000. Google Inc. was founded with this money.

Now Google is the most advanced search engine in the world.

Conclusion

Silicon Valley is the most technologically advanced place on earth. It also has many of its own people who have greatly influenced our world from a technological point of view. We need to know the heroes of our time and thank them for everything they have done.

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