Brent Rambo is most known for the GIF of himself browsing the internet for an Apple computer II commercial that was shot in the 1990's. He's also an incredibly successful serial tech entrepreneur. ^[2]

Brent attended Las Positas College and earned a degree in Computer Science. He also has a degree in Electrical Engineering from Diablo Valley College. Rambo is an autodidact and holds several certifications including Cisco CCNA and CCNP, Novell CNA, Juniper NP for Juniper Networks, LT Internetworking and LT Telecom from Learning Tree International. ^[8]

Brent worked as a mainframe engineer and electrical engineer for Kenetech WindPower in Livermore, California. In 1996, he went on to become a senior systems engineer/project manager where he deployed large-scale enterprise networks, data centers, and call centers for major corporations like Ford Motor Company, Microsoft, and Wells Fargo. He went on to become the vice president of network engineering at Globix Corporation. ^[8]

In 2001, Rambo began working at Sun Microsystems as the director of network engineering. In his time there he developed a dynamic, scalable network infrastructure like Amazon Web Services, which didn't come into existence until 2006. His next gig was as director of business development/senior engineer at U4EA Technologies, a company which was acquired by Sony-Ericsson partly due to Brent's efforts.

Rambo went on to be a platinum engineer for data center operations at Savvis Communications. He worked with clients like Akamai Technologies, eBay, and Visa to solve network and security issues when they would arise. Brent then joined Barracuda Networks as an early employee and was fast-tracked through a series of promotions, from lead architect to product manager to VP of engineering and operations. After leaving the company, Brent stayed on as a consultant for a short period of time and his work helped lay the foundation for a successful $1.8B IPO in 2014.

In 2006, Brent was hired by Selling Source to establish a private data center facility, which he later called MarquisNet.

As the founder and CEO of MarquisNet, Rambo helped the company achieve profitibility in less than fourteen months and even managed to sell it to a major telecommunication company within four years.

Brent then moved over to Sony Online Entertainment where he was promoted from executive director of technology operations to vice president of technology. He oversaw seven divisions in his post—networking, security, operations, desktop support, database, production systems, and internal/external infrastructure. He also greatly improved efficiency throughout the company, cutting costs 54% and increasing productivity 31%. Rambo went on to become the CTO, founder, and president of Molio Inc, a company that was acquired pre-launch by one of the largest media companies in the world.

In 2015, Brent started working at Intuit as the director of fraud prevention. He implemented the first real-time anti-fraud engine and reduced tax fraud by nearly 70% in two years, saving close to $3.85 billion dollars.

Young Brent Rambo appeared in an Apple Inc. promotional video for their Macintosh and Apple II products. He was shown nodding in approval while narrating a letter to Apple CEO John Sculley. The letter read: ^[9]

In 2013, a Redditor named ToadLicker93 posted the GIF of Brent Rambo in the /r/funny subreddit and within a few months it gained over 13,000 upvotes and 130 comments. From there it began to spread slowly. A few days later, a person named DapperJules used the GIF in a post titled "MRW I see boobs on the front page" to the /r/reactiongifs subreddit and it garnered thousands of upvotes. On May 1st 2013, a Redditor named HotelWomb memed the GIF into Rambo watching a video of a woman eating cereal out of a milk filled bathtub and posted it to the /r/gifs subreddit. It exploded in popularity and that same day the /r/BrentRamboApproves channel was born and the GIF became the universal internet symbol of approval. ^[1]

The real story behind the GIF is that Brent Rambo was some kind of wunderkind who won a contest for building on Apple's platform.

He told Adweek: ^[11]

In 2017, Brent Rambo recreated the famous meme in a Twitch.tv show called Command Center that focuses on the the first person shooter game PlanetSide 2, a game that Rambo helped develop. He told fans via reddit that he was still very much into Apple products: ^[9]