WordPress was created by none other than Matthew Mullenweg. He dropped out of the University of Houston and went to work for CNET Networks but later moved on to found Automattic.  The base of his code was b2. Soon Michel Valdrighi joined Mullenweg on his journey. The first form of WordPress was a GMPG microformat. Stayhorn was created in 2004 and had over 900,000 downloads. Mullenweg came to hire Yahoo executive and made the Polaris Venture Partners which created 29.5 million dollars for Automattic. In 2011 Mullenwe received the #3 spot on Business Insiders’ 30 founders under 30 list. Also he was named one of the top 10 most influential peple online for changing the face of the internet by Business Insider.

John Zimmer is the co founder of the ride sharing service Lyft. Zimmer started his company on his university campus at Cornell. He soon had 20% of the student population signed up and promoted it with guerilla marketing while wearing frog and beaver suits handing out flyers. Zimmer did not take a salary in the first 3 years of Lyft’s operation after quitting his job on Wall Street at Lehman Brothers. In 2014, Zimmer was recognized by Forbes as 30 under 30: Technology. He found his inspiration from a problem that he saw when he was driving home to upstate New York on his breaks from school. He wondered why there were empty seats around him! He then took that inspiration and blew it up and is now available to 95% of the American population.

Ryan Chesky is a millennial billionaire entrepreneur. He got his start when he and his roommates decided to rent their apartment because they did not have enough money for rent. Chesky was interested in design from a young age and received a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in industrial design in 2004. He is the third founder of Airbnb and has joined the likes of Warren Buffet and Bill Gates in the ‘Giving Pledge’ and has agreed to give away most of his wealth to help kids make their dreams and ideas come to life. He has helped thousands to make dreams come to life. He was listed on Forbes list of richest entrepreneurs under 40 along with many other accolades.

Adam D’Angelo is the real deal. At the young age of 34 his net worth is valued at around $600 million dollars. D’Angelo got his career moving with Facebook and was their head software engineer until 2008 when he started Quora. Quora is a site where users can ask questions and receive answered and edited. Founded in June 2009, it began its initial start – up. Becoming open to the public in 2010 users began to be attracted to its helpful incite. In 2018 it has expanded to 300 million users EVERY MONTH.

Sean Belnick is quite the story. At the age of just 14, he started the likes of an internet company that sells furniture. The company started in 2001 with just 500$. BizChair specializes in restaurant, office, and retail furniture. In just a few short years it had acquired a 40,000 square foot warehouse space in Georgia where it began to explode in popularity. A 100,000 sq. foot warehouse shortly followed within 2 years. BizChair in 2009 has opened up a division of their corporation that specializes in school and church furniture. In 2009 Belnick graduated high school and took a full-time role at BizChair as the CEO. Belnick also has won numerous awards for reduction of energy and environmental awareness. In 2007 it was ranked No. 32 on Internet Retailers’s list of Fastest Growing E-Retailers as well.