At 25 Here is What These 7 Successful Entrepreneurs Were Up To

BANGALORE: Nowadays every student step out of college with an intention of making it big as an entrepreneur. Creative ideas and enthusiasm to achieve heights are the positive points of current generation. But there are some businessmen who have worked as an inspiration for the new generation entrepreneurs. Thus let us take a look at some of the best inventors and entrepreneurs where up to when they were as young as 25 according to Business Insider.

Elon Musk

The Canadian- American business magnate, Elon Musk is known as the founder of SpaceX and a co-founder of Zip2, PayPal, and Tesla Motors. He started his entrepreneurship ventures at a very young age. In 1995 at the age of 24 Musk and his brother Kimbal started Zip2, a web software company. The company developed and marketed an Internet "city guide" for the newspaper publishing industry.

In 1999 he sold the company to Compaq for a whooping $307 million. In the same year he co-founded X.com, an online financial services and e-mail payment company. With $100 million of his early fortune, Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies or SpaceX in June 2002.

Eric Schmidt

Eric Schmidt is an American software engineer who is known as the executive chairman of Alphabet Inc. he has also served as the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011. In 1979 from the University of California, Berkeley, Schmidt earned an M.S. degree for designing and implementing a network linking the campus computer center with the CS and EECS departments. 

He also earned a Ph.D. degree from the same University in 1982 in EECS at the age of 27.While he was at Berkeley, in his summer holidays he worked as an intern at Bell Labs; where he did a complete re-write of Lex, a program to generate lexical analyzers for the UNIX computer operating system. This is also an important tool for computer construction.

Jeff Bezos

The American technology entrepreneur and investor Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of the e-commerce giants Amazon.com. The platform is an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products. Amazon.com became the largest retailer on the World Wide Web and a model for Internet sales.

Soon after graduation he worked on the Wall Street in the computer science field. Later he joined Fitel and worked on building an internet trade for the company. By the age of 24 he moved in to Bankers Trust and developed revolutionary software for banking institution. He also became the youngest vice president of the company within a 2 years span.

Larry Eliison

Larry Ellison is an American entrepreneur who founded the global computer technology corporation Oracle. He was the CEO of the company until 2014 and currently he serves as the chairman and chief technology officer of the company.

In 1966 at the age of 22 he moved to Northern California after the death of his adoptive mother. He had attended University of Chicago for a single term and came across the computer design. Thus the self taught computer programmer spent almost eight years in technical jobs in companies such as Fireman’s Fund, Wells Fargo and AMPEX.  

Mark Zuckerberg

The American computer programmer and entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg is widely known as the co-founder and CEO of social networking site Facebook. At the age of 23 he became the youngest self made billionaire in the world with the success of Facebook.

Together with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, he launched Facebook from Harvard University's dormitory rooms.  The number of Facebook users worldwide reached a total of one billion in 2012.

Richard Branson

Richard Branson, the English businessman and investor is the founder of Virgin Group which comprises more than 400 companies. His entrepreneurship ventures started at the age of 16, when he started a magazine called Student. He started a mail-order record business in 1970 at the age of 20.

Within two years in 1972 he opened a chain of record stores named Virgin records. Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s, as he set up Virgin Atlantic and expanded the Virgin Records music label.

Steve Jobs

The American businessman Steve Jobs was known as the co-founder and CEO of the multinational technology company Apple Inc. He was also the largest shareholder of Pixar Animation Studios, a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar and founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT Inc.

After dropping out from college in 1972, Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. He gained fame and wealth a year later for the Apple II, one of the first highly successful mass-produced personal computers.

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