Tech Titans By Carla Killough Mcclafferty
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Tech Titans written by Carla Killough Mcclafferty.This is about 6 people with technology interests and likes, the first one is Bill Gates. The founder of Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Mark Zuckerberg is the second person he founded and made Facebook. The third person is Steve Jobs created Apple. The fourth person is Sergey Brin, he cofounded Google. The fifth person is Larry Page he is also a cofounder of Google. Finally the last but not least is Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon.com.
The two people that I will be talking about is Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, Bill Gates was born in October, 28, 1955 in Seattle, WA, he was a computer programmer and a businessman and he founded Microsoft, the world’s largest
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