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- Some of the biggest figures in the tech world had very relatable first jobs.
- Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos got his start flipping burgers at McDonald's, while Apple CEO Tim Cook delivered newspapers.
- Read on to learn about the first jobs of 14 of the biggest names in tech today.
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Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, may be the world's richest man, but he may just have the most relatable first job.
He flipped burgers for McDonald's.
For other tech executives, like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, electronics played a large part in their lives from early on, making their role in some of the most prominent companies a little, well, obvious.
Either way, first jobs tend to always make an impression, good or bad - one that sticks with you as you age, an experience to take along wherever you end up. For example, Bill Gates remembers working 18 hours a day at his first gig as a programmer when he was 16. His coworkers even tried to convince him to "skip undergraduate and go straight to graduate school." As we know now, Gates ended up dropping out just two years into college to start Microsoft and go on to make billions.
For some tech execs, the billions came quickly, but for others, notoriety took some time.
Here are the first jobs held by some of today's biggest names in tech.