The Global Startup Guys: Who Are They?


Jack Dorsey:

Jack Dorsey is not new among web designers and startup companies as he has been a leader in these domains for quite a while now. He is an American Web developer and businessman and widely known being the co-creator and co-founder of the second largest social networking site Twitter.

He is currently focused on his startup company Square Inc which is a mobile payment platform that reads cards like debit and credit cards. His Square Inc Company is valued at over $3.2 billion. Dorsey’s personal wealth is valued at $2.2 billion as of March 2014.

Marc Andreessen:

He is an American entrepreneur, Investor and software engineer. He is best known as the coauthor of Mosaic, the web browser. Andreessen is the cofounder of two companies Netscape Communications Corporation and Andreessen Horowitz, which is a Silicon Valley capital venture firm. He founded Opsware, which is a software company and later sold it to HP.

Apart from having cofounded or founded companies he is on the board of directors for Facebook, HP and eBay. He is one of the only six people inducted into the World Wide Web hall of fame. His vibrant activism in investing into startups has placed him prominent among global startup people who are highly looked up to.

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