People Who Show Entrepreneurship & Engineering Are Linked
Some of the most successful people (and richest) in the world are trained engineers. It shows engineers are leading the charge when it comes to pushing the world towards new opportunities. It’s easy to assume that companies and boardrooms are all filled with corporate types putting money above all else. That’s not always the case, especially in many computing and technology industries. The people at the top often started at the bottom or created something for themselves.
Here are three people in particular that show the link between entrepreneurship and engineering.
Elon Musk
Love him or hate him, Elon Musk is one of the most visionary minds in the world today. While some people know him for Tesla, or his forever changing stance on cryptocurrency that has everyone rushing for the Dogecoin and Ethereum exchange on his word, he’s also a trained engineer.
Musk isn’t just about cars and space travel. His mind seemingly wants to tackle some of the great issues of the day. He’s also been involved in hyperloop and his
His love of technology has seen him found SpaceX – to help the human race travel to space as easily as they’d take a holiday.
Ginni Rometty
Better known as the CEO of IBM, Ginny Rometty holds a degree in Computer Science & Electrical Engineering. She initially joined IBM as an entry-level systems engineer and worked her way through a variety of positions in the company, all the way through to CEO.
She has also successfully shepherded the company away from traditional systems and towards data analytics and cloud services, halting a decline that had lasted 21 quarters.
Jeff Bezos
After studying electrical engineering at Princeton, Bezos began selling books from his garage and built Amazon from the ground up into the largest online retailer in the world.
Bezos recently stepped down from Amazon, preferring to concentrating on his other interests and recently joined the billionaire space race after his successful flight on New Shephard.
Sundar Pichai
As a computer engineer, Pichai has always been known for his innovative ideas. He successfully developed Google toolbars for Firefox and Explorer before developing the Chrome browser, which is not the most used in the world.
Pichai held a number of product positions at Google before being named as CEO in the company’s 2015 restructuring.
Satya Nadella
After studying at Manipal Institute of Technology, Nadella joined Microsoft in 1992. He was one of the leading voices in suggesting that cloud computing was the way forward. He moved up through the company through various R&D roles until he was named Microsoft’s CEO in 2015.
Conclusion
It’s always fascinating to find out what famous people, entrepreneurs and politicians studied at school. Often it will surprise you. However, it does seem that an aptitude for engineering is often a stepping stone to success in business too. The world moves on technological and scientific advancement and those people who combine the knowledge and drive it will find themselves creating some very exiting things indeed.
