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Do you see yourself
as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
8 STANFORD STUDENTS WHO
CHANGED THE WORLD
Do you see yourself
as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
The QS Graduate
Employability
Rankings 2017 are
out now.
Do you see yourself
as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
The world’s #1 for
graduate employability is
Stanford University.
Do you see yourself
as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
Here are eight Stanford
students who went on to
change the world
in their field!
Do you see yourself
as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
1. Rachel
Maddow
Do you see yourself
as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
A California local, Rachel Maddow graduated from
Stanford University in 1994.
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
She received a Rhodes Scholarship and went on to
study at Lincoln College, at the University of Oxford.
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
She was the first openly gay or lesbian American to win a
Rhodes Scholarship.
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
A keen political commentator, she now hosts The Rachel Maddow Show nightly on
MSNBC.
Do you see yourself
as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
2. Jerry Yang
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entrepreneur in the
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Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Jerry Yang moved with his mother to San Jose, California, in 1978.
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
He earned two degrees from Stanford University in just four
years.
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
While studying at Stanford, he and David Filo co-founded ‘Jerry and David’s Guide to the World
Wide Web’.
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
They later renamed their young company ‘Yahoo! Inc.’ – and
the rest is history!
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
3. Evan
Spiegel
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
Born in 1990, Spiegel is the youngest person on our list, and represents the next generation
of techpreneurs.
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
Spiegel is the co-founder and CEO of instant messaging app Snapchat, which he helped to
create when studying at Stanford.
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
By 2016, the app had reached 10 billion video views per day.
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
4. Eileen
Collins
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
Born in 1956, Eileen Collins graduated from Stanford in
1986, with a Master of Science in operations research.
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
She was the first female pilot and first female commander of
the Space Shuttle.
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
After retiring in 2006, she is now an active board member of the
USAA.
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
5. Azim
Premji
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
Azim Premji is widely known as the ‘Czar’ of the Indian IT
industry.
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
He has twice been listed in TIME Magazine’s ranking of the
world’s 100 most-influential people.
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
Premji studied at Stanford in the 1960s.
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
6. Marissa
Mayer
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
Marissa Mayer is currently the CEO of Yahoo!
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
She entered this role in 2012, having previously served as an
executive and usability leader at Google.
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
After graduating from Stanford in 1997 with a Bachelor of
Science in symbolic systems, she received 14 job offers,
before joining Google in 1999 as their 20th employee.
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
7. Vint
Cerf
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
Credited as one of the ‘Fathers of the Internet’, Vint Cerf has
won various awards for his work on the internet protocol
concept.
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
After graduating from Stanford with a Bachelor of Science in mathematics, Cerf’s first job
was at IBM.
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entrepreneur in the
making?
8. Steve
Ballmer
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entrepreneur in the
making?
Steve Ballmer is an American businessman who served as CEOof Microsoft from 2000 to 2014.
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entrepreneur in the
making?
He attended Stanford University, but never completed his degree.
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entrepreneur in the
making?
Ballmer dropped out of university to join Microsoft,
becoming the company’s 30th
employee.
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
It now has 114,000+ employees worldwide.
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entrepreneur in the
making?
Aim High
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entrepreneur in the
making?
Aim High
Which universities are
excelling in engaging
with employers?
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as a high-flying
entrepreneur in the
making?
Explore the QS Graduate
Employability Rankings
2017 now
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