3. The Microsoft Eleven

No, the photograph is not of the Mason Family. It's Microsoft in 1978, with its first 11 employees. You may have seen this photo elsewhere on the web, usually with the caption, "Would you have invested?".

Here is an interesting article that explores what became of each of the gang.

Oh and incidentally, Microsoft has only retained one of its original employees. That's him on the bottom left: Billy G.