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In the cafe yesterday, there were two tables in front of me. In the table immediately in front of me: two German tourists making travel plans on their computer and checking Facebook. On the table in front of them, a girl’s Mac desktop with this image: http://hipsterhitler.com/heilvetica-poster/.
Jews in IT
After a trip to Israel, where everyone and his falafel has a startup company, I became interested in the impact Jews are making in IT. Despite the success of Israel startups, it is still the American Jew who has most impacted the field. Here’s a list of important American Jews who are making a huge difference in the IT sector:
- Larry Page, CEO of Google (mother’s side)
- Sergey Brin, Co-founder of Google
- Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell
- Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Facebook
- Andy Rubin, founder of Android Inc, now VP Android division at Google
- Max Levchin, co-founder of Paypal
- Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft (mother’s side)
- Larry Ellison, CEO and co-founder of Oracle
Surely there are more–way more–but many are surprised and still hold the stereotype of Jews being successful as doctors, lawyers, the movie industry, etc. Not the case anymore.
If know any other good examples, leave them in the comments.
Estimates vary, but it’s said that Microsoft stands to make almost half a billion dollars next year from Android licensing fees. It now seems certain that this IP licensing strategy is already making more money from Android than Microsoft itself is making from its own Windows Phone 7 platform
If that’s true, my money would be against Windows Phone 7. When Microsoft has a cash cow, they’re not known to innovate.
In an oft-cited letter in 1947 to the mathematician Norbert Weiner, he wrote: “One naturally wonders if the problem of translation could conceivably be treated as a problem in cryptography. When I look at an article in Russian, I say: ‘This is really written in English, but it has been coded in some strange symbols. I will now proceed to decode.’ ”
Outside the box thinking. Like it.
(via Instapaper)
