The Surprising First Jobs Of The Biggest People In Tech


4. Jeff Bezos

The present CEO of Amazon after spending the summer working at McDonald's as a teen started a summer camp for kids called the DREAM Institute. They charged $600 per child, but only managed to sign up six students.

Even still, it shows that Bezos had the drive to start a business even at a young age. His first job in the professional world after graduating from Princeton with a computer science degree was at an international trade startup called Fitel.

5. Bill Gates

Bill Gates is another dominating name in the ‘Richest People’ list. Bill was a college dropout who initiated his career by selling operating systems to IBM, now possesses wealth more than anyone else in the world. Even the media once called Bill Gates as the Rocky Balboa of the business world.

He is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor. Gates is the former chief executive and Chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen. Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft, but during his senior year of high school he worked as a computer programmer for TRW.