See how different Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and other tech CEOs looked when they first started their companies

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See how different Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and other tech CEOs looked when they first started their companies

It wasn’t always like this — many Big Tech CEOs have shed more nerdy personas from their startup days.

Here’s a look at tech’s most influential executives then and now.

Mark Zuckerberg isn’t the only

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over the years.

Other Big Tech leaders have significantly changed up their looks since starting their companies; some are nearly unrecognizable (remember the

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Here’s a look at the style transformations of some of tech’s biggest names:

Jeff Bezos

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has come a long way from just selling books, and its founder, Jeff Bezos, is also very different today.Getty Images

Bezos founded

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from his garage in Bellevue, Washington, in 1994. Decades later, gone are the photoshoots where he’s posing with a softcover while looking bookish.

Now, he’s gained pounds of muscle and changed his clothing style. He attributes his new look partly to

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and changing his diet.

Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg is currently in the T shirt-and-chain era of his fashion evolution.Rick Friedman / Mark Zuckerberg on

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Meta CEO

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at Harvard in 2004.

Zuck, who famously wore the same thing every day to save brainpower for more important decisions, has said goodbye to that era. Instead,

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Like Bezos, he’s also gotten more fit. Part of

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stems from hobbies like Brazilian jiu-jitsu and MMA fighting.

Michael Dell

Dell founded his company, initially called PC’s Limited, in 1984 while still a student at the University of Texas in Austin.Dell / Errich Petersen/SXSW Conference & Festivals via Getty Images

Dell is another member of the college dropouts-turned-tech founders club. He started his company while still enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin.

While you probably won’t catch him rocking a t-shirt to a professional event, he’s appeared to prefer to drop the glasses since then.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded

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in 1998.Kim Kulish/Corbis via Getty Images / Getty

Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded

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in 1998. They met as students at Stanford and built

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from a garage they rented from the

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, who was later

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’s CEO.

Elon Musk

Elon Musk today runs several more companies than he did in 1999, when the photo on the left was taken.AP / Richard Bord/WireImage via Getty Images

The photo at left shows Musk in 1999, around the time the

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was formed.

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and “almost never” works out, though he’s credited fasting and the weight loss ***** Wegovy with his appearance today.

Bill Gates

Fun fact: The photo on the left is actually Gates’ mugshot from when he got a speeding ticket without his license in 1977.Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Department/Getty Images / CHRIS JACKSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

Gates and the late Paul Allen cofounded

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from a garage in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1975.

Gates left

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’s board in 2020 and today spends more of his time focused on the philanthropic foundation he started with his now-ex-wife, Melinda French Gates.

Half a century later, he’s still rocking glasses — with some different frames.

Jack Dorsey

Dorsey has been sporting a beard in the years since he stepped down as CEO of

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in 2021.Kara Andrade/AFP via Getty Images / Joe Raedle/Getty

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was founded in 2006. Cofounder Jack Dorsey has been seen with a full beard pretty regularly since departing as CEO and focusing his efforts more on cryptocurrency at Block, formerly Square.

Richard Branson

At left is Richard Branson in 1969, one year before he started the ******* brand.PA Images via Getty Images / Brendon Thorne/Getty Images

Richard Branson started the ******* brand in 1970 with a mail-order record business.

At 73 years old today,

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still features plenty of exercise, from tennis and cycling to kite-surfing. As such, he’s usually sporting a tan.

Jack Ma

New photos of Ma are scarce as he’s been out of the limelight in recent years.Liang Zhen/WireImage / Liu Yang/VCG via Getty Images

Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma disappeared from public view in 2020 after criticizing China’s financial regulation system.

He

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and has been

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Anne Wojcicki

Anne Wojcicki is the CEO of DNA testing company 23andMe and the younger sister of former

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CEO Susan Wojcicki.Donald Bowers/Getty Images for The Weinstein Company / ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty Images

Anne Wojcicki cofounded

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in 2006. She is the younger sister of late former

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CEO Susan Wojcicki.

Whitney Wolfe Herd

Whitney Wolfe Herd became the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire after taking Bumble public.Kate Warren for The Washington Post via Getty Images / Dipasupil/Getty Images

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co-founded Tinder before founding Bumble in 2014. She stepped down as CEO of the dating app last year.

Herd became the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world on the heels of Bumble’s IPO.

The entrepreneur currently serves as executive chairman on Bumble’s board of directors.

Evan Spiegel

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel was the world’s youngest billionaire in the year 2015, when he was 25 years old.J. Emilio Flores/Corbis via Getty Images / Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Evan Spiegel co-founded Snap, which owns services like Snapchat, in 2011. The company’s success made him the world’s youngest billionaire in 2015, when he was 25.

While he’ll often suit up or don a tux when attending a more formal event with his wife, Miranda Kerr, he’s often seen in a white or ****** t-shirt and jeans.

Reed Hastings

Reed Hastings cofounded

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in 1997 with Marc Randolph.Paul Sakuma/AP Images / Ore Huiying / Getty

Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph cofounded

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in 1997 as a DVD-by-mail service provider before it would become the streaming giant it is today.

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in January 2023, though he still serves as board chairman.

More recently, you can catch him in snowboarding attire after he

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in Utah.

Sam Altman

Altman’s first startup was Loopt. Today, he leads OpenAI.Jason Kempin/FilmMagic / Stefano Guidi/Getty Images

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is best known as the CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, but his first startup was Loopt, a mobile service that allowed for real-time location sharing with friends.

The picture at left shows him in those days, circa 2006. In 2008, he was sporting

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on stage at Apple’s WWDC conference. 15 years later, however, he’s worn a

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while continuing to keep it casual during interviews with more casual looks too.

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