Company · Telecommunications · founded 1885

AT&T

Telecommunications company; AT&T Corp. was founded in 1885 as American Bell's long-distance subsidiary, and Bell Labs was founded in 1925 as its research division.

Of the 6 people here linked to AT&T, 0 are founders and 0 are still there. 2 of them also appear at Google. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.

Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.

6 people at AT&T

Executive

Role

Senior Vice President of Applications and Services Infrastructure

Also at

Google

Source · high confidence. The source says she worked three decades at Bell Labs and AT&T and held this title before leaving; it gives no start or end year for the AT&T tenure.

Past

Technology 5 / 8

Marian Croak

VoIP pioneer and inventor; VP of Engineering, Google (Responsible AI)

working-class · some · graduate degree

Executive

Role

Chief financial officer and vice president of consumer services, 2001–2003

Also at

PepsiCo The Coca-Cola Company Qwest CSX United Airlines Salesforce CBRE Group TelevisaUnivision Archer Aviation Fidelity Investments

Source · high confidence

Past

Transportation & Logistics 8 / 6

Oscar Munoz

Former CEO and Chairman, United Airlines

working-class · outsider · graduate degree

Executive

Role

CEO of AT&T Mobility from 2007; president and CEO of AT&T Mobile and Business Solutions from 2014; vice chairman of AT&T Inc. in 2016, 2007–2016

Also at

BellSouth

Source · high confidence. Wikipedia says he retired on December 31, 2016, after a 42-year career counted from BellSouth. His role at Cingular Wireless (COO from 2004) is not recorded as a separate tie.

Past

Telecommunications 8 / 5

Ralph de la Vega

Former President & CEO, AT&T Mobility; former Vice Chairman, AT&T Inc.

unaccompanied minor, no capital · outsider · graduate degree

Employee

Role

Researcher at Bell Labs (reinforcement learning, model selection, feature selection), 1996–1998

Also at

Google Coursera Baidu Amazon

Source · medium confidence. Wikipedia says "AT&T Bell Labs" and gives 1996 to 1998; it does not state a job title.

Past

Artificial Intelligence · Technology · Software 2 / 2

Andrew Ng

Co-founder of Google Brain and Coursera; former Baidu chief scientist; founder of DeepLearning.AI, Landing AI, and AI Fund

professional-class · elite · graduate degree

Employee

Role

High-school summer intern at Bell Labs

Also at

Vista Equity Partners Goldman Sachs

Source · medium confidence. Wikipedia says he got the internship after calling every Monday for five months and built a semiconductor reliability test that summer; no year is given.

Past

Finance 2 / 8

Robert F. Smith

Founder, Chairman and CEO, Vista Equity Partners

professional-class · well-connected · graduate degree

Employee

Role

Economic forecaster at Mountain Bell, an AT&T division, from 1974; state vice president and chief executive of Mountain Bell's New Mexico operations at 32, 1974

Also at

US West Orange Telstra PepsiCo

Source · medium confidence. Wikipedia gives the 1974 start. After the 1984 breakup Mountain Bell became part of US West, so the end of the AT&T tie is not separately dated.

Past

Telecommunications 5 / 4

Solomon Trujillo