Steve Jobs of Apple (machinist and accountant parents, neither of whom had a college degree. Dropped out of Reed College). Jan Koum of Whatsapp (Ukrainian imm

Steve Jobs of Apple (machinist and accountant parents, neither of whom had a college degree. Dropped out of Reed College). Jan Koum of Whatsapp (Ukrainian immigrant, came to U.S. with nothing, was on food stamps as a teenager). Brian Chesky of AirBnB (child of social workers, attended RISD). Sergey Brin of Google (parents were professors, but emigrated from the Soviet Union with nothing. Attended University of Maryland). Marc Andreesen of Netscape, Loudcloud, Ning, and a16z (parents worked for Land's End and a seed company, grew up in cornfields of Iowa, attended UIUC).