Meet the other Facebook co-founder

Eduardo Saverin who cofounded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg celebrates his birthday today Although Zuckerberg went on to achieve massive popularity the knowledge of Saverins role in the making of the social media giant remains lesser known Read below to know moreEduardo Saverin worked together with Mark Mark Zuckerberg to launch Facebook in 2004 in order to fill the gap of a dedicated social networking website for Harvard students He held the role of chief financial officer and business managerEduardo SaverinSaverin and Facebook got embroiled in a legal tussle following an exclusive email from Zuckerberg detailing how he cut Saverin from Facebook and diluted his stake which was made public on May 15 2012 by a major business magazine The lawsuit by Facebook and Saverins coutersuit were both settled out of court with the social media company recognising him as cofounder of Facebook Eduardo Saverin signed a nondisclosure contract after the settlementHe courted controversy in September 2011 for renouncing his American citizenship because of his interest in working and living in Singapore where he has been since 2009 The move was seen as a method of tax evasion since he avoided an estimated 700 million in capital gains taxes Saverin has a net worth of 72 billion according to Forbes and owns 53 million Facebook shares as of 2015 He has also invested in earlystage startups such as Qwiki and JumioSaverin wasnt alone A look at two other may be the notsofamous halves whose contribution to the companies they cofounded in unparallelSteve Wozniak Known as The other Steve Stephen Gary Steve Wozniak also known as Woz singlehandedly developed the 1976 Apple I the computer that launched Apple Friend and Apple cofounder Steve Jobs oversaw the development of its unusual case and Rod Holt developed the unique power supply He helped Jobs with creation of a circuit board for the popular arcade video game Breakout in 1973An undated image of Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak PicYouTubeWozniak resigned from his job at HewlettPackard and became the vice president in charge of research and development at Apple after it was founded on April 1 1976 Following the Apple 1 Wozniak also designed the Apple II the first personal computer that had the ability to display color graphics and BASIC programming language builtin It became one of the first highly successful massproduced personal computersSteve Wozniak was severely injured in an airplane crash on February 7 1981 and temporarily left Apple as a means to recover He returned in 1983 but desired to be just an engineer and a motivational factor for the Apple workforce rather than being part of the upper management Wozniak left Apple again in 1985 and sold most of his stock since he felt the company had been going in the wrong direction for the last five yearsPaul Allen The man who cofounded Microsoft along with Bill Gates Allen estimated to be the 45th richest person in the world with an estimated wealth of 177 billion as of March 2016Paul Allen has been instrumental in his and friend Bill Gates financial success when in 1980 he spearheaded a deal for Microsoft to purchase a Quick and Dirty Operating System QDOS which was written by Tim Paterson who at the time was employed at Seattle Computer Products This enabled Microsoft to secure a lucrative contract to supply the DOS that would eventually run on IBMs PC line He also recounted to have conceived the name Microsoft during an 1995 interview to a popular magazineAllen has been successfully treated for Hodgkins lymphoma He had contracted the disease in 1982 Following his return from cancer treatment he began to distance himself from Microsoft and officially resigned from his position on the Microsoft Board of Directors in November 2000 but was asked to consult as a senior strategy advisor to the companys executives and still owns a reported 100 million shares