Philippe Kahn

French-American entrepreneur who founded Borland International — the PC software company that competed with Microsoft through Turbo Pascal, dBase, and Lotus 1-2-3 — and who invented the camera phone by connecting his digital camera to a mobile phone at his daughter's birth in 1997.

Built Borland as the scrappy competitor to Microsoft's dominant software — using aggressive pricing (Turbo Pascal at $49 vs competitors at $500) to build user base rapidly — and demonstrated the camera phone concept a decade before smartphones made it ubiquitous.