I'm new here, so not familiar with the history, but dude: Google grew from the two founders' PhD work in computer science, and Bill Gates is widely known for his technical brilliance and depth of technical knowledge. So unless there is some confusion on the context of your comment, your examples are just incorrect.

sorry had to correct this.

I was replying to this

I'm struggling to give some examples. I don't know if either of lastminute.com's founders were coders.

so google and MS are perfectly valid answers.

Anyway laters folks.