Business Owner
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Video Games
Bobby Kotick led Activision and Activision Blizzard as CEO from 1991 to 2023, the longest-serving head of any publicly traded tech company by 2017, until Microsoft acquired the company.
📍 Santa Monica
Business Owner
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Financial Services
Michael Milken built the junk bond market at Drexel Burnham Lambert, pleaded guilty to securities violations in 1990 and was pardoned in 2020, and now funds medical research through the Milken Institute.
📍 Santa Monica
Business Owner
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Internet & Consumer Tech
Evan Spiegel turned a Stanford class project on ephemeral messaging into Snapchat, reaching a million daily users in 2012 and becoming the world's youngest billionaire in 2015.
📍 Santa Monica
