Alumni event, University of Illinois annual Silicon Valley dinner.
Someone who had a big hand in developing FarmVille.
Alumnus Tom Siebel - co-founded Siebel Systems in 1993.
Jerry Sanders, worked at Fairchild and then co-founded AMD.
Larry Ellison, left Illinois after two years, and became one of the world's richest men.
Maybe two years is the way to go? Seibel put in 4 years, and then even went on to get an MBA and a Master's at Urbana-Champaign.....but Larry Ellison got the company .
Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, is now a big time venture guy and king maker who serves on the boards of HP, Facebook, and eBay.
Prith Banerjee, directs HP Labs.
Martin Eberhard, co-founded Tesla.
Jeremy Karim and Jawed Karim are founders of Yelp.
Max Levchin co-founded PayPal.
Alan Braverman co-founded Geni.
Steve Chen and Jawed Karim co-founded Youtube.
Mike Cassidy of San Jose Mercury News
Reference: "Top Techies Show Value of a College Education" article in San Jose Mercury News, by Mike Cassidy
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