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Mark Zuckerberg

On a recent survey on highest rated CEOs conducted by Glassdoor, Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and CEO of the social-networking website Facebook, comes first with the best employee approval rating score of 99.3 percent. On the basis of employee feedback score one can argue that Facebook is the best company to work with. It seems employees love him the way he is, casually dressed up, working in the open along with other employees and taking lunch in the common cafeteria. Last year he wasn’t even among top 25.

Time magazine enlisted him among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world and Person of the Year in 2010. He ranked at #35 on Forbes “400″ list. By August 2012, Facebook reached 1 billion active users worldwide users.

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Bill McDermott & Jim Hagemann Snabe

Jim Hagemann Snabe, who joined SAP back in 1990, is co-CEOs of SAP along with Bill McDermott from February 2010. Jim Hagemann Snabe and Bill McDermott are at number two on the best employee approval rating of a CEO according to the recent Glassdoor Company Review Data survey. Better Work life balance, openness, honesty, immense learning culture, and several other activities make the company second best to work with.

SAP AG is a German multinational software corporation that is better known as the technology leader in business management software, solutions, and services.

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Dominic Barton

Dominic Barton is a senior partner and managing director of McKinsey & Company since 2009. According the Glassdoor Company Review Data survey, he is the third highest rated CEO. Employees feel that the company has a refined culture for personal as well as professional growth, an intellectually stimulating and friendly atmosphere, and that the colleagues are quite friendly.

McKinsey & Company, Inc. is an international management consulting firm that provides assistance to businesses, governments, and institutions with better advises. Today, McKinsey consultancy has approximately 9,000 consultants in 97 locations across 55 countries in the world.

Jim Turley

American businessman Jim Turley is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ernst & Young. He joined Ernst & Young back in 1977 after which he has worked in various leadership positions throughout the organization. He ranks at 4th position in Glassdoor Company survey of Highest Rated CEO of 2013. he has worked for several key issues of the company including the quality, integrity and professionalism, better working culture and many.

London based company Ernst & Young is one of the biggest leading professional service providing firms across the world with 167,000 employees in over 140 countries.

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John E. Schlifske

Back in 1987, John E. Schlifske joined Northwestern Mutual as an investment specialist and became CEO and Chairman in 2010 after heading various aspects of investment functions of the company. Besides, he is also a director on the corporate boards of Kohl’s Corporation and Russell Investment Co.

Northwestern Mutual is Milwaukee based company that provides consultation and financial services including life insurance, disability insurance, long-term care insurance, mutual funds, and employee benefit services.

Frank D’Souza

Francisco D’Souza is the President and CEO and the member of the Board of Directors of Cognizant Technology Solutions. He is also known to be one of the youngest Chief Executive Officers in the software services sector. He has played the most significant role for the company’s growth and development. In 2005, D’Souza won The Economic Times Entrepreneur Award, in 2009 he was enlisted among “America’s Best CEOs” by Institutional Investor magazine. Besides, he is an independent Director of General Electric board.

Cognizant Technology Solutions is a leading provider of global consulting, information technology, and outsourcing services.

Joe Tucci

Joe Tucci has been chairman of the Board of Directors and chief executive officer of Hopkinton based EMC Corp since January 2006. Later, he joined the company as president and chief operating officer. In 2007, he became the chairman of the board of directors of VMware Corp.

Hopkinton based American multinational corporation EMC Corporation offers services including data storage, information security, cloud computing products and services that enable businesses to store, protect, manage, and analyze huge amount of data. VMware, Inc. is an American software company that offers cloud and virtualization software and services.

Paul E. Jacobs

Paul E. Jacobs has been the Chief Executive Officer of Qualcomm since 2005 and has been working with the same organization for almost 22 years. He has been primarily responsible for some big and successful initiatives of the company that include making the first smartphone based Palm OS, the Brew system that enables over-the-air downloading of applications, GPS capabilities in mobile phones and Qualcomm’s development of gps One position-location technology, a relatively superior reflective display technology called Mirasol and QChat, a Voice over IP, push-to-talk system.

San Diego based company Qualcomm Incorporated is semiconductor company that manufactures, designs, and markets the digital wireless telecommunications products as well as services.

Richard K. Davis

Richard K. Davis has been with US BanCorp for 18 years – the chairman for 5 years since Dec. 11, 2007, CEO for 6 years since December 2006, and president for 8 years since Oct. 19, 2004. Prior to this company, he has served on the Board of Directors of Visa Inc., as a director of the Clearing House and the American Bankers Association, as a member of the International Monetary Conference, and as representative for the Ninth District of the Federal Reserve, as a member of the Board of Directors of Xcel Energy. He has more than 30 years of experience in the banking industry.

U.S. Bancorp is an American company that offers various financial services. It is the parent company of the fifth largest bank of the United States named U.S. Bank.

Pierre Nanterme

French businessman Pierre Nanterme has been working for Accenture for long 30 years since 1983 and he has been in diverse leadership positions across the company’s key parts. He is the current Chief Executive Officer with the company since January 2011. Before becoming CEO, he was a group chief executive of Accenture’s Financial Services operating group and the member of Accenture’s global leadership team,playing a significant role in the planning and execution of Accenture’s long-term business and global expansion strategy.

Accenture is a Dublin based multinational management consulting, outsourcing and technology services company. The company has more than 257,000 employees across 120 countries in the world.

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Bill Gates
Net worth: $66 billion

Tech billionaire Bill Gates is widely known for co-founding the world’s biggest software company Microsoft. According to Forbes, as of September 2012, he is America’s richest man with $66 billion net worth. Through Microsoft, he has not only played the prime role in the rise of the personal computer by offering an operating system that could run on different machines but also taken Microsoft to the pinnacle of success by extending its reach beyond Operating System including browsers, search, media players, web-based email and variety of software-based applications.

“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.” ~Bill Gates

Larry Ellison
Net worth: $41 billion, September 2012

Larry Ellison is an American business mogul whose fortune comes from his 23.5 percent stake in the world’s largest database company Oracle, 49 percent stake in NetSuite, and interest in educational software maker LeapFrog Enterprises. Oracle is an American multinational computer technology company that he founded in 1977 along with Bob Miner and Ed Oates.

“It’s fascinating as we continue to innovate and lead the way in both the application space and the database space. In the very beginning, people said you couldn’t make relational databases fast enough to be commercially viable. I thought we could, and we were the first to do it. But we took tremendous abuse until IBM said, “Oh yeah, this stuff is good.”~Larry Ellison

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Jeffrey Preston Bezos is the founder, president, and chief executive officer of the American multinational electronic commerce company Amazon.com which is now the world’s leading online retailer that provides services for lower prices, enabling customers to go for their own selection besides offering wealth of information. Since its inception in 1994, Amazon has become the biggest online bookseller with annual sales of over $48 billion and one of the leading providers of cloud computer services. In 2007, Bezos introduced Amazon’s top-selling item the Kindle electronic book reader.

“I think technology advanced faster than anticipated. In that whirlwind, a lot of companies didn’t survive. The reason we have done well is because, even in that whirlwind, we kept heads-down focused on the customers. All the metrics that we can track about customers have improved every year.”~Jeff Bezos

Larry Page
Net Worth: $20.3 billion, September 2012

Computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur Larry Page is widely known for co-founding the search engine Google in 1998 along with Sergey Brin. Google started as a research project while he was still a student at the Stanford University to organize the immense amount of information available on the web and show them to visitors according to their specific search queries. Page along with Brin own approximately 16 percent of the company and he has sold over $3.5 billion worth of Google stock since 2004.

“It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.”~Larry Page

Sergey Brin
Net Worth: $20.3 billion, September 2012

Russian-born American Internet entrepreneur and computer scientist Sergey Brin is the co-founder of search engine Google. Brin was the president of technology until 2011 to take care of company’s special projects and oversee a large investment portfolio. As of September 2012, his personal worth stands at $20.3 billion.

“Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.”~Sergey Brin

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Indian business magnate and philanthropist Azim Premji is the Chairman of one of the largest software companies in India, Wipro Technologies. His largest percentage of fortune comes from Bangalore-based Wipro that he owns about 78 percent of it. Wipro employs over 130,000 people with its presence across 54 countries in the world and has annual revenue of over $7.7 billion. Besides Wipro, Premji has his own private equity fund named PremjiInvest that takes care of his $1 billion personal portfolio.

“We believe this combination of excellence in operations and strong execution of our strategy is critical to achieve our vision. We will continue to focus on both in future as well.”~Azim Premji

Paul Allen: Photo by Paul G Allen Family Foundation

American investor and philanthropist Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft along with Bill Gates in 1975 but left the company in 1983 with his 28 percent stake. He made over $20 billion by selling more than 26 percent of his stake in Microsoft. After leaving Microsoft he founded his Washington based investment company Vulcan in 1986 and the company now has holds in energy, cable, entertainment, technology and real estate.

“In my own work, I’ve tried to anticipate what’s coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people’s lives in a meaningful way.”~ Paul Allen

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American businessman Steve Ballmer became the CEO of Microsoft in January 2000 when Bill Gates stepped down from his position and responsibility of day-to-day management. As of 2012, his personal wealth is approximately $15.9 billion. He has served Microsoft divisions that include operating systems development, and sales and support. He joined Microsoft in 1980, and in July 1998, he became the President and in 2000 the CEO of the company.

“The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.”~Steve Ballmer

Michael Dell
Net Worth: $14.6 billion, September 2012

American business tycoon and author Michael Dell is the founder and chief executive of the world’s third- largest computer hardware manufacturer by revenue Dell. His fortune comes from Dell, 15 percent of the Texas-based company Round Rock and his New York-based investment firm MSD Capital. As of September 2012, his personal worth is approximately $14.6 billion.

“It’s through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we’ve always mapped our path at Dell. There’s always an opportunity to make a difference.” Michael Dell

Mark Zuckerberg
Net Worth: $ 10.0 billion, September 2012

American Internet entrepreneur and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg is known as the co-founder and chief executive officer of the world’s largest social-media platform Facebook. Since the inception of the site, it has grown at faster rate and by August 2012 the site has grabbed over 1 billion monthly users and generated over $3.7 billion in revenue. Despite the company’s downfall (stock prices), as of September 2012 Zuckerberg’s personal worth is about $10 billion. In 2012, The Company has sold shares in an initial public offering which is called to the biggest technology IPO in history.

“The web is at a really important turning point right now. Up until recently, the default on the web has been that most things arent social and most things dont use your real identity. Were building toward a web where the default is social.”~Mark Zuckerberg

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Today, on October 04, Mark Zuckerberg made a much-anticipated announcement, “Facebook has got over one billion people using it actively each month from September 14 at 12.45 PM Pacific time..” Barely 2 years ago, the social networking giant had crossed the 500 million mark and it was speculated that the growth rate would come to a pause once it hits the 800 million users.

Zuckerberg expressed his joy in the company press release by saying, “Thank you for giving me and my little team the honor of serving you. Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.”

The company claimed to have achieved the following milestones ever since it was launched for public on September 26, 2006:

1. 140.3 billion friend connections

2. Over 1.13 trillion likes since this featured was included in February 2009.

3. 219 billion photo uploads

4. 17 billion posts that have locations tagged, it includes check-ins

5. It played 62.6 million songs for about 22 billion times

6. Facebook now has 600 million mobile users

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1. Facebook’s annual revenue for the year 2011 was a staggering $3.7 billion, which was about 88 percent higher than the previous year.


2. The company has over $4 billion in cash.


3. Facebook reportedly has over 850 million users, which account for about 12 percent of the world’s population.


4. Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sanderberg are officially allowed to fly in private jets on company expenses. They are even allowed to take their family members on business trips.


5. Zynga.Com, the social gaming company, accounted for over 12 percent of Facebook’s annual revenue in the year 2011.

6. Mark Zuckerberg has kept 57 percent of the voting rights of Facebook and literally is all in all.


7. In recent IPO, Facebook sold only 5 percent shares; however, the number of people who wanted to read Facebook’s offering documents soared to a height that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission website crashed.


8. 6 years ago, Facebook invited the graffiti artist David Choe to make some paintings on the Facebook office walls. When asked for remuneration, he preferred to be given stock. Today, his Facebook stock values over $200 million. A wise decision!


9. In 2008, Zuckerberg appointed Sheryl Sandberg as Facebook COO and gave her 1,899,986 shares of Facebook common stock as well as 39,321,041 options. By the end of 2011, the net worth of her stock soared to $2 billion, making her one of the wealthiest women on earth.


10. Peter Thiel was one of the early investors of Facebook. His initial $500,000 investment has now become about $2 billion.

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An article published in The New Yorker on 20 September, 2010 described Mark Zuckerberg’s personality as “distant and disorienting, a strange mixture of shy and cocky.” Today, almost a year and a half later, nothing much has changed about his personality and he still receives compliments such as “a robot” and “Overly Programmed”; however, what has changed is the way he is being perceived. Zuckerberg continues to be one of the most talked about entrepreneurs in the business world.

He is the world’s youngest billionaire whose 28% Facebook shares are estimated to be worth $28 billion, making Facebook’s market worth about $100 billion.

Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984 in White Plains of New York to a dentist father, Edward Zuckerberg and a psychiatrist mother, Karen. He was raised in Dobbs Ferry of New York along with his three sisters Randi, Donna and Arielle. He completed his studies from Ardsley High School and Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire. From the early childhood, Zuckerberg was inclined to science and classical studies and won several prizes in math, astronomy and physics. In spare time, he used to learn French, Hebrew, Latin, and ancient Greek.

At the age 6, Zuckerberg was introduced to computer by his father who taught him Atari BASIC Programming. Later, he was taught by a software developer named David Newman who would call him a prodigy. Whilst still at school, Zuckerberg took up a graduate course in computer application at Mercy College and learn computer programming. One of the very first programs he created was “ZuckNet”. The program linked his house to the dental office of her father and they communicated by pinging each other.

During high school years, Zuckerberg built a music player called the Synapse Media Player for Intelligent Media Group. The software used artificial intelligence to comprehend the user’s listening habits. His achievements at an early age got him job offers from Microsoft and AOL but he chose to enroll at Harvard University in September 2002.

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At Harvard, Zuckerberg teamed up with Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes and launched Facebook on February 4, 2004 from his dormitory room. Facebook was initially called a “Harvard thing” but soon Zuckerberg changed his mind and decided to take it to other universities. Initially, they took it to Stanford, Cornell, Penn, Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, New York University, and Yale university.

In the year 2004, on completion of studies, Zuckerberg and his friends moved to Palo Alto, California and lived in a leased house which they used s their initial office. The same year, Facebook was funded by an American business magnate, Peter Andreas Thiel who advised them to take it to common people.

In 2005, Zuckerberg launched the high-school version of Facebook and on September 26, 2006, he made it available for everybody of age 13 and above with an email address.

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On October 24, 2007, Facebook sold its 1.6% shares to Microsoft for $240 million, giving it a total value of around $15 billion.

In 2008, Zuckerberg met Sheryl Sandberg, a top executive from Google, and convinced hir to quit Google and join Facebook as chief operating officer.

On July 21, 2010, Zuckerberg announced that company had reached the 500 million-user mark

As of December 2011, the company reported to have 845 million users worldwide.

As of January 2012, the company has been estimated to be worth $100 billion.

Mark Zuckerberg Quotes

“All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.”

“I’m trying to make the world a more open place.”

“I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.”

“When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.”

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Today, the Internet dominates the world, impacting our daily lives more than anything else. In this article, I am featuring some people who, as many believe, changed the world through Internet.

Tim Berners-Lee (The World Wide Web)

Tim Berners-Lee is the person who invented the World Wide Web and successfully executed the communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server using the Internet. Besides, he is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a senior researcher of the 3Com Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 2011, he was honored with an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Harvard University.

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Larry Page and Sergey Brin

The foundation of Google was laid by Larry Page and Sergey Brin whilst they were student of Stanford. The domain google.com was actually created on September 15, 1998. The name ‘Google’ evolves from a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. Ever since the inception, Google focused on making loyal followers and they successfully did it and the number is still growing.

In 1998, PC Magazine stated that “The 25 million pages currently catalogued seem to be good choices. The site has uncanny knack for returning extremely relevant results. There’s much more to come from Google, but even in its prototype form it’s a great search engine.” Larry Page and Sergey Brin are known to be the most influential Internet as well business personalities who changed the world of computing and Internet. Goggle is accomplishing new milestones almost every day.

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Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, multi-millionaire who is best known as co-author of web-browser Mosaic, co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation and co-founder of social network, Ning. His first modern browser, The Netscape inspired audience across the world to adopt the Internet which he made extremely and universally usable. He is responsible for widening the concept of building the software at the University of Illinois. In 1994, he became one of only six most respected inductees in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame announced at the first international conference on WWW, the World Wide Web.

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David Filo and Jerry Yang

Yahoo! is considered to be the first company that defined the Internet. The acronym of “Yahoo!” is “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle”. David Filo and Jerry Yang worked together to establish Yahoo! Search Engine and the plan started while they were pursuing their Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. They first gave it a name “David and Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web” and indexed pages, later in 1994, they renamed it with Yahoo! It flourished in 90s. The domain yahoo.com was created in 1995. Today, Yahoo! has headquarter in Sunnyale, California, and over 13,000 employees across 25 countries.

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Bill Gates

Bill Gates is an American business magnate, and philanthropist, who revolutionized the use of personal computer and took it to every household. He along with his best friend Paul Allen created many programs including a BASIC program for one of the first P.C.’s, which assisted Bill Gates to start Microsoft in 1976. Today Microsoft is the biggest program writing company that created famous products such as “Windows” Operating Systems, Internet Explorer and MSN Messenger. It has approximately 40,000 employees working across 60 countries, with annual revenues of over 23 billion dollars. He is responsible for modifying the way people live, communicate and entertain.

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Bram Cohen

Bram Cohen, is an American computer programmer, who created BitTorrent protocol. He is the first person who created the file sharing program to use the protocol. By creating the BitTorrent network he revolutionized the peer to peer networking that helps break up large files into several parts and share them with many users for downloading. It also gives distinctive advantage over the traditional p2p network. He launched the program in 2004, after which thousands of websites were created for the purpose of sharing files. Today, BitTorrent protocol is widely used for legal as well as illegal or unethical purposes for Bram has been repeatedly criticized by the government bodies and the advocates of privacy.

Bram has defended by saying, “ I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called ‘vices’, to be free of intruders, and to privacy.”

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Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is widely known for creating social networking site Facebook with his classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while they were still completing their studies at Harvard University. Facebook is definitely not the first and only of its kind social networking website that attracted millions and experts vary in their opinion on what made it the most successful website. However, one can’t deny the fact that Facebook reinvented the way we communicate, and redefined the way we make friends. In 2010, he was the Time Magazine’s ‘Person of The Year’. Today, Facebook has over 850 million registered users worldwide.

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Jack Ma

Jack Ma is the Chinese Internet entrepreneur who founded Alibaba Group, which is considered to be the grandfather of business directory. He is responsible for changing the way people do business. Despite all the success, Jack continues teaching English at Hangzhou Teachers College. In 2001, World Economic Forum honored him as a “Young Global Leader” and in 2004, China Central Television regarded him among the “Top 10 Business Leaders of the Year”. In 2005, Fortune magazine regarded him as one of the “25 Most Powerful Business people in Asia.”

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Craig Newmark

Craig Alexander Newmark, an Internet entrepreneur, who founded Craigslist, a free classified website. Like Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, Craig is a vocal advocate of keeping the Internet free. As of now, Craigslist has its presence in over 550 cities of 55 countries and draws 35 million unique visitors every month. BusinessWeek honored him as one of the 25 Most Influential People on the Web in 2008. In 2009, he was selected as an advisory board member of the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales founded the world’s largest encyclopedia in 282 languages ‘Wikipedia’, which has approximately 3.8 million subject categories and over 20 million articles. He has transformed the way we learn things on the Internet without paying a penny. It allows readers to edit articles by accessing the website, and has got approximately 90,000 active users contributing to it regularly. It has an estimated 365 million readers worldwide and receives around 2.7 billion page views monthly from the United States alone. Jimmy has repeatedly denied the requests of companies and advertisers to use it as an advertising platform.

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Steve Chen and Chad Hurley founded California-based video sharing website YouTube in 2005 and later in November 2006 they sold to Google for $1.65 billion. It has made huge contribution to the viral media, and has provided full time career to hundreds of users to earn through Google AdSense and created many stars including Justin Bieber and Rebecca Black. Chad Hurley has also contributed to eBay’s and PayPal and designed their logo.

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