Gallery: Famous Tech CEOs With Their Mentors

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History’s greatest minds have all been under the tutelage of a wiser and influential figure. The credo couldn’t be truer than in the tech industry. Everyone from Steve Jobs to Mark Zuckerberg has taken on one or more mentors, while reciprocating the favor amongst the latest class of up-and-coming tech entrepreneurs. Little do we ever hear tales about the teacher/apprentice relationships that evolve between this generation’s biggest tech visionaries, but it’s become an even rarer occasion when the elite powers are seen together and photographed in public. We rummaged through the Net and put together a gallery of rare shots featuring the game's most famous tech CEOs and their mentors.

Steve Jobs (Apple)

Mentor: Andy Grove (Co-founder of Intel)

Bill Hewlett and David Packard (HP)

Mentor: Frederick Terman (Father of Silicon Valley)

Dennis Crowley (Foursquare)

Mentor: Ken Allard (former boss at Jupiter Communications)

Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)

Mentor: Don Graham (CEO of Washington Post)

Bill Gates (Microsoft)

Mentor: Warren Buffett (CEO of Berkshire Hathaway)

Larry Page (Google)

Mentor: Michael Bloomberg (Founder of Bloomberg L.P.)

Drew Houston & Arash Ferdowski (Dropbox)

Mentor: Ali and Hadi Partovi (iLike founders)

Marissa Mayer (Yahoo)

Mentor: Larry Page (CEO of Google)

Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)

Mentor: Sean Parker (Board of Directors at Spotify & Co-Founder of Napster)

Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn)

Mentor: Mark Zuckerberg (CEO of Facebook)

Marc Benioff (Salesforce.com)

Mentor: Steve Jobs (former CEO of Apple)

Larry Page (Google)

Mentor: Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO and Apple Board of Directors member)

Paul Allen (Vulcan Inc., Chairman)

Mentor: Ed Roberts (Known as the "father of the personal computer")