Sharon Stone worked as a model before launching into film, landing roles in features like Irreconcilable Differences and Total Recall. She created major buzz with her scintillating lead part in Basic Instinct, with later roles in Sliver, Gloria and If These Walls Could Talk 2. She was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe for Casino.

PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel became a venture capitalist and early investor in Facebook.

He also cofounded CIA-backed big data startup Palantir, recently valued at around $20 billion.

Thiel, the first big investor in Facebook, has sold most of his stake in the social network but still sits on the company's board.

His Thiel Foundation gives a small number of young entrepreneurs $100,000 over two years to skip college and pursue their business dreams.

Thiel moved to Los Angeles from San Francisco in early 2018 after calling Silicon Valley a "one-party state."

Robert A. Heinlein, in full Robert Anson Heinlein, (born July 7, 1907, Butler, Missouri, U.S.—died May 8, 1988, Carmel, California), prolific American writer considered to be one of the most literary and sophisticated of science-fiction writers. He did much to develop the genre.

Al Gore served in both the House and Senate. He lost his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination to Michael Dukakis in 1988, before becoming President Bill Clinton's successful running mate in 1992 and again in 1996. Gore won the popular vote in his 2000 presidential campaign but eventually conceded defeat to Republican George W. Bush. Gore later devoted himself to environmental causes, winning a Nobel Prize for his efforts in 2007.

Larry Page is an internet entrepreneur and computer scientist who teamed up with grad school buddy Sergey Brin to launch the search engine Google in 1998.

Who Is Larry Page?

Born in Michigan in 1973, Larry Page's parents were both computer experts. Following in their footsteps, he studied computer engineering at Stanford University, where he met Sergey Brin. The duo developed a search engine that listed results according to the popularity of the pages and, with Page as CEO, Google became the world's most popular search engine after launching in 1998. Page and Brin later took charge of Google's new parent company, Alphabet, until stepping down from their everyday roles in late 2019.

Reed Hastings, in full Wilmot Reed Hastings, Jr., (born October 8, 1960, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.), American entrepreneur who was cofounder (1997) and CEO (1998– ) of Netflix, a media-streaming and video-rental company.

World-renowned for his work on marital stability and divorce prediction, John Gottman has conducted 40 years of breakthrough research with thousands of couples. His work on marriage and parenting has earned him numerous major awards, including:

Four National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Awards

The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Distinguished Research Scientist Award

The American Family Therapy Academy Award for Most Distinguished Contributor to Family Systems Research

The American Psychological Association Division of Family Psychology, Presidential Citation for Outstanding Lifetime Research Contribution

The National Council of Family Relations, 1994 Burgess Award for Outstanding Career in Theory and Research.

DAVID STEINDL-RAST was born Franz Kuno Steindl-Rast on July 12, 1926, in Vienna, Austria, and spent his early years there and in a small village in the Alps. He spent all of his teen years under the Nazi occupation, was drafted into the army, but never went to the front lines. He eventually escaped and was hidden by his mother until the occupation ended.

Sergey Brin is a computer scientist and entrepreneur. He met Larry Page at Stanford University, and the two created a search engine that would sort web pages based on popularity. Google became the most popular search engine in the world after launching in 1998, its overwhelming success turning the co-founders into billionaires. Brin and Page later became president and CEO of Google's parent company, Alphabet, before they stepped down from their roles in December 2019.

Elon Musk is a South African-born American entrepreneur and businessman who founded X.com in 1999 (which later became PayPal), SpaceX in 2002 and Tesla Motors in 2003. Musk became a multimillionaire in his late 20s when he sold his start-up company, Zip2, to a division of Compaq Computers.