8 Stanford Students who changed the World

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.

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as a high-flying

entrepreneur in the

making?

The world’s #1 for

graduate employability is

Stanford University.

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entrepreneur in the

making?

Here are eight Stanford

students who went on to

change the world

in their field!

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entrepreneur in the

making?

1. Rachel

Maddow

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A California local, Rachel Maddow graduated from

Stanford University in 1994.

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She received a Rhodes Scholarship and went on to

study at Lincoln College, at the University of Oxford.

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She was the first openly gay or lesbian American to win a

Rhodes Scholarship.

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A keen political commentator, she now hosts The Rachel Maddow Show nightly on

MSNBC.

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2. Jerry Yang

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Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Jerry Yang moved with his mother to San Jose, California, in 1978.

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He earned two degrees from Stanford University in just four

years.

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While studying at Stanford, he and David Filo co-founded ‘Jerry and David’s Guide to the World

Wide Web’.

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They later renamed their young company ‘Yahoo! Inc.’ – and

the rest is history!

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3. Evan

Spiegel

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Born in 1990, Spiegel is the youngest person on our list, and represents the next generation

of techpreneurs.

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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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By 2016, the app had reached 10 billion video views per day.

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4. Eileen

Collins

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Born in 1956, Eileen Collins graduated from Stanford in

1986, with a Master of Science in operations research.

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She was the first female pilot and first female commander of

the Space Shuttle.

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After retiring in 2006, she is now an active board member of the

USAA.

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5. Azim

Premji

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Azim Premji is widely known as the ‘Czar’ of the Indian IT

industry.

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He has twice been listed in TIME Magazine’s ranking of the

world’s 100 most-influential people.

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Premji studied at Stanford in the 1960s.

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6. Marissa

Mayer

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Marissa Mayer is currently the CEO of Yahoo!

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She entered this role in 2012, having previously served as an

executive and usability leader at Google.

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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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7. Vint

Cerf

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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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After graduating from Stanford with a Bachelor of Science in mathematics, Cerf’s first job

was at IBM.

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8. Steve

Ballmer

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Steve Ballmer is an American businessman who served as CEOof Microsoft from 2000 to 2014.

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He attended Stanford University, but never completed his degree.

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Ballmer dropped out of university to join Microsoft,

becoming the company’s 30th

employee.

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It now has 114,000+ employees worldwide.

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