Business Insider (Dec. 1) -- Surrounded by corn and soybean fields, Urbana-Champaign doesn’t strike you at first as a place where future tech leaders would emerge.It's why many people fail to realize that UIUC has bred some of the most remarkable tech visionaries in history. They built companies that essentially changed tech history as we know it. Article includes profiles of Netscape's Marc Andreessen, Oracle's Larry Ellison, Paypal founder Max Levchin, YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, Tesla co-founder Martin Eberhard, Yelp's Jeremy Stoppelman, Siebel Systems founder Thomas Siebel, Mozilla's Brendan Eich, Lotus Notes author and former Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie, and AMD's Jerry Sanders.
UIUC's most famous tech rock stars
12/1/2014