[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Even in the global world, the brilliant performance of founders and CEOs born in the 60s to 80s is notable, as is the case in Korea. The same goes for the United States, which leads the world's big tech.

Looking at the ages of representative Big Tech CEOs or founders in the US, Elon Musk, the world's richest businessman and a global corporate president pursuing business in all areas of space (heaven), earth, and underground, was born in 1971; Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Group who created a social media sensation with Facebook and Instagram, was born in 1984; and Sam Altman, CEO who brought about the global artificial intelligence (AI) craze, was born in 1985.

The founders or CEOs of Microsoft, Apple, and Google, who led the IT heyday in the early 21st century, were all born in 1955, the year of the sheep.

The invisible 'big hand' of the AI ​​craze: Microsoft founder and former chairman Bill Gates, Apple founder and icon of innovation the late Steve Jobs, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has led the Internet revolution since the early days of the Internet era, and BlackBerry CEO John Chen were all born in 1955.

Following FAANG (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) and BBIGS (Bio, Battery, Internet, Game, Semiconductor) that dominated the US and Korean stock markets until recently, M7, AI5, MnM, and S7 are dominating the US and Japanese stock markets starting in 2023, dominating the red and blue of the stock market.

'FAANG' is a word made up of the initials of the five representative big tech companies in the United States, and was created by Jim Cramer, a popular host on CNBC in 2013. These companies led the rise of the US stock market from 2016 to early 2018. Since then, the Korean stock market has been led by the so-called Bibix, which are companies in bio, battery, internet, game, and semiconductor.

Since 2023, the 'Magnificent 7 (M7)' has been leading the U.S. stock market. The Magnificent 7 refers to the seven technology stocks that led the generative AI craze last year: Nvidia, Meta, Amazon, MS, Google, Apple, and Tesla. M7 is a combination of the first letters of Magnificent, which means 'excellent', and the seven stocks: Google, Apple, Meta (Facebook), Amazon, Nvidia, Tesla, and Microsoft (MS). It was first used by Bank of America analyst Michael Hartnett. 

Let's take a look at the ages of CEOs and founders leading the world, including M7 Corporation.

Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett born in 1930, TSMC founder Zhang Zhongmou (Maurice Chang) born in 1931, Broadcom CEO and Chairman Hock Tan born in 1954, Microsoft founder Bill Gates born in 1955, Apple CEO (co-founder) Steve Jobs born in 1955, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt born in 1955, Blackberry CEO John Chen born in 1955, and TSMC Vice Chairman and CEO Wei Zhejia (CCWei) born in 1958.

Apple CEO Tim Cook born in 1960, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang born in 1963, Amazon founder (chairman) Jeff Bezos born in 1964, MS CEO Satya Nadella born in 1967, AMD CEO and Chairman Lisa Su born in 1969, Tesla CEO Elon Musk born in 1971, Google (Alphabet) CEO Sundar Pichai born in 1972, Google founder Larry Page born in 1973, Google founder Sergey Brin born in 1973, Meta Zuckerberg Meta Chairman (CEO) born in 1984, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman born in 1985.

Big Tech CEOs, IT geniuses (monsters), and IT tycoons were mostly born in the 1950s and 1960s and were in their 20s in 1975-1985, when personal computers were introduced and their potential was beginning to be recognized. They were the leaders of the Silicon Valley Computer Club, which was the heyday of the IT Big Bang in the US. 

There is a joke among American big tech companies, as well as at Stanford and MIT, that "our competitors are in the garage right now." These people have a strong desire to win, and they have even dropped out of school to create their own world based on skills and substance rather than a name.

The leading stock of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Japan is the 'Samurai 7 (S7)'. It consists of automobile companies such as Toyota and Subaru, Mitsubishi Corporation, and semiconductor equipment companies such as Tokyo Electron, Disco, Screen Holdings, and Advantes.

Goldman Sachs has named the 11 leading stocks in the European stock market as 'GRANOLAS'. It is a combination of the first letters of the alphabets of the stocks. It symbolizes the grouping of quality stocks from various industries, like healthy granola.

These stocks include British pharmaceutical company GSK (G), Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche (R), Dutch semiconductor equipment company ASML (A), Swiss food company Nestlé (N), Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis and Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk (NO), French cosmetics company L'Oréal and luxury goods company LVMH (L), British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca (A), German software company SAP and French pharmaceutical company Sanofi (S).