Jobs attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, but dropped out after only one semester. He continued going to classes, even though he wasn’t technically a student. He is quoted as saying: “If I had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.”

In 1976, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, with later funding from a then-semi-retired Intel product-marketing manager and engineer A.C. “Mike” Markkula Jr., founded Apple. Some years later Jobs would be removed from the head of the Macintosh division. He would go on to form NeXT Computer. Much like the Apple Lisa, the NeXT workstation was quite advanced, but generally wrote off for it’s cost.

In 1986 Jobs bought “The Graphics Group”, today they’re known as Pixar, from Lucasfilms for $10 million. After a couple of years of unprofitability selling the Pixar Image Computer, they were contracted to Disny to produce a number of computer-animated films.

In 1996 Apple announcd that it would buy NeXT for $429 million, which brought Jobs back to the company he had co-founded. Shortly after the acqusition, Jobs was CEO again.

Motwani graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1988 with a Ph.D in Computer Science.

At Stanford Motwani served as a professor and director of graduate studies for the database group/infolab, and Foundations Group.

Some of his research interests include…

Databases, data mining, information retrieval, and web searching. Privacy and security, particularly in the context of databases and information retrieval. Optimization and scheduling problems, particularly for applications in computer systems, compilers, and databases. Computational and combinatorial geometry with applications to robotics and vision. Computational biology and automated drug design. Design and analysis of algorithms with emphasis on approximations, online computations, and randomized algorithms, as well as related complexity theory.

Before he founded Shopping.com Sharfman toiled away at National Semiconductor. He held a Ph.D. in High Energy Nuclear Physics from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. and M.S. in Physics from the Israel Institute of Technology.

Silver had a very diverse career, some of his work consisted of Timecop, Mr. Saturday Night, Ali, and the recurring role as political adviser Bruno Gianelli on The West Wing.

Though he was a democrat, Silver was an avid supporter of George W. Bush. He was even asked to speak at the 2004 Republican National Convention. President Bush appointed Silver to the Board of Directors of the United States Institute of Peace.

He also worked as a gossip reporter for The Washington Times and even ran for congress in the late 80’s.

Back in 2007 Keil wrote a column that broke the news about Bon Jovi’s new swanky NYC “trophy penthouse”. The thing that was surprising about it was he knew about the deal even before the broker did. Keil was able to find out everything about the deal without any help.

Some of Inter/Media group’s clients included Sanyo, Discover Card, Clorox Brands, Black & Decker, Glad and numerous other companies.

Yallen’s company is credited with being at the forefront of the direct-response advertising industry.

After ClickZ was acquired by INT Media Group in Septemeber 2000, Bourland launched his own blog, Bourland.com which covered and discussed new business models.

During the later stages of his illness his blog became a place for daily/weekly updates, below is an excerpt of when Bourland was discussing his illness…

“Nevertheless, I’m very weak, have very little strength, can’t walk a full city block, haven’t been able to work in many months, and have great difficulty eating more than a very small portion of food at any given time without getting very full.

I’m prepared for the worst but hoping for the best.

Should my time be short, I’m at peace with that too. I’ve lived a great life, have had many wonderful blessings, have been able to touch many lives and have no lingering regrets or unfinished business.

If it’s my time to go, I go in peace.

If you happen to know someone who knows me, I hope you will feel free to send them a link to this article to update them on my health and my future.”