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Technology Entrepreneurs Who Built Developer Tools
Technology Entrepreneurs Who Built Developer Tools
by gadget_bench  • 
In common: Michael Tiemann
Compilers, databases, frameworks, version control and question-and-answer sites shape how programmers spend their days far more than any app they ship. This list follows the people who built and...
Technology
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Founders Who Made Complex Technology Easier to Use
Founders Who Made Complex Technology Easier to Use
by gadget_bench  • 
In common: Matt Mullenweg
Most people never touch the hard parts of computing: memory management, networking protocols, video codecs, print layout. They use products built by people who hid that complexity behind something...
Technology
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Founders Who Built Companies Without Venture Capital
Founders Who Built Companies Without Venture Capital
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Mark Shuttleworth
For a small-business owner, the useful question is how the work was financed. These founders built the named companies without institutional venture funding before a public listing, a control sale...
Business
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Founders Who Built Technology Companies Outside Major Hubs
Founders Who Built Technology Companies Outside Major Hubs
by gadget_bench  • 
In common: Mark Shuttleworth
For most of the past fifty years, technology capital and talent clustered in a few places: Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston, New York and, later, London, Beijing and Shenzhen. The founders on this...
Technology
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Entrepreneurs Who Turned Research into Useful Technology
Entrepreneurs Who Turned Research into Useful Technology
by gadget_bench  • 
In common: Michael Stonebraker
Each of these people took an idea out of a laboratory or a thesis and turned it into something people use: the chip, the network cable, the database, the camera sensor, the search engine and the...
Technology
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Technology Founders Who Built for Small Businesses
Technology Founders Who Built for Small Businesses
by gadget_bench  • 
In common: Matt Mullenweg
These founders built software and payment tools for the corner shop, the freelancer and the ten-person firm rather than the global corporation: accounting, email marketing, card readers, websites...
Technology
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People Who Made the Internet Work at Scale
People Who Made the Internet Work at Scale
by gadget_bench  • 
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Nobody invented the internet. It works because hundreds of people solved specific problems and agreed to share the answers as open standards. This list credits some of the most important: packet...
Technology
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Engineers Who Helped Make Computing Personal
Engineers Who Helped Make Computing Personal
by gadget_bench  • 
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The personal computer was built by teams, not lone geniuses. This list credits the engineers and programmers behind its key pieces: the mouse and windows, the microprocessor, the operating system...
Technology
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Inventors Who Made Everyday Devices More Practical
Inventors Who Made Everyday Devices More Practical
by gadget_bench  • 
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Few everyday objects had a single inventor. This list picks out the people whose specific improvement made something reliable, cheap or easy enough for ordinary use: the trap under the sink, the...
Technology
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