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.