Stories of successful American immigrants

Jerry Yang
Yahoo’s founder Jerry Yang was born in Taiwan in 1968. Yang moved to California when he
was eight years old, knowing one word of English, “shoe”. Yang went on to excel in school,
graduating from Stanford in 1990. Yang started Yahoo in 1995 and stepped down from the
multinational in 2012, having accumulated a net worth of $1.15billion.

Andy Grove
Intel Corporation’s co-founder Andy Grove was born in Hungary in 1936. Grove was sent to
the U.S. during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Grove worked as a busboy whilst studying
chemistry in New York. Grove moved to California and co-founded Intel Corporation in
1968. Gove died in 2016 after helping Intel become a multi-billion-dollar organization.

Indra Nooyi
PepsiCo’s CEO, Indra Nooyi, was born in Madras, India in 1955. Nooyi moved to the U.S. to
study at Yale University. A true ‘rags to riches’ story, Nooyi went from being a night
receptionist to joining PepsiCo in 1994, and was promoted to the company’s CEO in 2001,
where she enjoyed an annual salary of almost $30m.

Read the text and write the answers- provide full answers.
1. Where was Jerry Yang born?
2. How old was Jerry when he moved to the USA?
3. Where did Andy Grove work while he was studying?
4. What big American company did Andy work for later?
5. What job did Indra have before she joined Pepsi?
6. How much money did Indra make annually (in one year) in Pepsi?