The Astonishing First Jobs of the Biggest People in Tech

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By DSIM Team / 19/09/2014

Last updated on October 8th, 2016 at 06:29 pm

Never underestimate yourself and stop you from dreaming big as you and your dreams together can accomplish anything and everything. However always believe in hard work and persistence at the same time as these are the two things that can pave the way for popularity and prosperity in every sphere. Anyway, in this article we are going to talk about those iconic figures of the Silicon Valley who actually started out with small jobs like many of you. So, let’s go ahead and see what these techie biggies started out before they actually tasted the essence of great success.

1. Tim Cook

Current/Last Job: CEO of Apple Inc.
First Job: Delivering newspapers in his Alabama hometown

2. Marissa Mayer

Current/Last Job: CEO of Yahoo
First Job: Computer programming instructor, Stanford University

Jeff Bezos

3

Current/Last Job: CEO of Amazon
First Job: Computer Science Engineer at Fitel, an international trade startup, with only 11 employees at that time

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Bill Gates

4

Current/Last Job: American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor; Co-founder and former chief executive and Chairman of Microsoft of Microsoft
First Job: Computer programmer for TRW

Sheryl Sandberg

5

Current/Last Job: Chief operating officer of Facebook
First Job: Management consultant for McKinsey & Company

Seregy Brin

6

Current/Last Job: Co-founder of Google
First Job: Coder at Wolfram Research

Jeff Weiner

7

Current/Last Job: CEO of LinkedIn
First Job: Executive at Warner Bros

Steve Ballmer

8

Current/Last Job: CEO of Microsoft from January 2000 to February 2014
First Job: Salesman at Proctor & Gamble

Eric Schmidt

9

Current/Last Job: Executive chairman of Google
First Job: Software Engineer at Zilog

Jony Ive

10

Current/Last Job: Senior Vice President of Design at Apple Inc.
First Job: Designer at Tangerine

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