10 Well-Known Techies Who Are Now Politicians

Nandan Nilekani:
The former co-chairman of Infosys Technologies, Nandan Nilekani is all set to officially join Congress party shortly. this well known techie is widely tipped to be the Congress candidate to take on BJP General Secretary Ananth Kumar from Bangalore south, where the latter has won five times in a constituency that has shown aversion towards Congress since the 1970s. After demitting office as Infosys CEO in 2007, Nilekani had taken charge as head of the Unique Identification Authority of India, mandated to give a billion Indians an identity card.

Mark Zuckerberg:
Billionaire Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg formed a political action committee in 2013 with an aim to bring changes in the nation’s immigration policy, which according to him was “unfit for today’s world.” He is the name that is synonyms to Facebook and the one who transformed social media into a revolution, a high end business, a hub for entertainment. He is the most successful youngest tech founder on the planet with company valuation of $80 billion. A college dropout from Harvard University went on to create the social networking site, Facebook, along with his friends Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes in the year 2004, which have turned to be a cult today.

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