What 12 Now-Famous Tech Executives Looked Like When They Were Young

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What did today's most famous people in tech look like when they were young?

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We dug up some old photos.

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Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman, then:

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YouTube via Meg2010Campaign

Meg Whitman now:

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Youtube and Linkedin
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Steve Jobs, then (age 10 on the left, high school graduation on the right):

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Edible Apple

Steve Jobs, more recently:

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Former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, then:

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Startup Book

Carol Bartz now:

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in the '80s:

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Microscope

Steve Ballmer now:

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AP
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Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, then:

Eric Schmidt, then
Switched

Eric Schmidt now:

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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, then:

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Open Source PR Guru

Larry Ellison, now:

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Microsoft's Bill Gates, then:

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ScrapeTV

Bill Gates now:

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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, then:

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Blogspot

Marissa Mayer now:

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Huffington Post co-founder Arianna (Stassinopoulos) Huffington, then:

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Tinybanquet via Flickr

Arianna Huffington now:

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Flickr via Tinybanquet
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Square CEO and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, then:

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@jack

Jack Dorsey now:

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Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley, then:

Dennis Crowley, then

Dennis Crowley now:

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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg then:

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60 Minutes

Sheryl Sandberg now:

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Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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