Ned Scott valuation $270M
Today, Ned Scott, CEO and co-founder of Steemit, huge name in the world of cryptoeconomy, the man behind the platform that pays you to provide content.
Ned also has a background as a Business operations and financial analyst and propelled this social platform to a new level.
It’s an interesting story, how did Ned Scott inspire to create Steemit?
As reported by Coinreport.net, Ned Scott elaborates what prompted Dan and him to create Steemit?
“Dan and I are similar in that we are motivated by the idea that we can improve the way of life for others. The state of Internet communities is imperfect – among the sometimes great content, there are also trolls, less than helpful comments and poor dialogue – so there was definitely a problem to solve there in the context of social media.
Bill Gates - Valuation $86.7 Billion
Source: Sucessstory
The first ever code that Bill Gates wrote was on a General Electric Computer and he was only a young teenager. Once his school realised he could write codes, they asked him to write codes for the school for scheduling students' in classes. And fast forward a few years, he started Microsoft in 1975. Although he resigned as the head of Microsoft back in 2014, he still remains on the advisory board of the company that he founded.
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Source: Leparisien
Bernard Arnault is the CEO of LVMH, a luxury good conglomerate owning the likes of Louis Vitton, Bulgari & Tag Heuer. A vivid art collector, Bernard owns pieces of Picasso & Andy Warhol. Earning an Engineering degree from Ecole Polytechnique in France, Bernard is an engineer by definition, but a businessman by trade.
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Source: Successstory
Sachin and Binny Bansal both graduated from IIT, Delhi, after completing their Computer Science course. They left their well-paying jobs and started their own firm from an apartment in Bangalore using Rs. 4,00,000 and called it Flipkart. Back in 2007, Sachin and Binny would hop on to their scooters and deliver the products to their customers themselves.
- Mark Zuckerberg - Valuation $59.5 Billion
Source: Telegraph
Zuckerberg left Harvard at the age of 19 to kickstart the global giant now known as Facebook. Synapse, a software that could learn users' music listening habit was created by him when he was in high school and during that time, AOL & Microsoft even tried to recruit him.
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Source: Businessinsider
Larry Page & Sergey Brin together founded the search engine Google, back in 1998 and have never looked back since. Apart from making the Internet what it is today, Google is also investing in creating driverless cars. Larry Page completed his Master's Degree in Computer Science, while Sergey Brin has Degrees in Mathematics & Computer Science.
- Jeff Bezos - Valuation $75.2 Billion
Source: Fifocapital
The founder & CEO of the largest E-comm platform has an Electrical & Computer Science Engineering degree. In 1994, he quit his rather lucrative Hedge Fund career in New York 'coz he wanted to sell books on the Internet. Apart from just selling books, Bezos also loves the idea of space travel and even funded an Aerospace company, Blue Origin, to develop a reusable rocket.
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