With the Wall Street dream looking increasingly grim thanks to smaller bonuses and massive layoffs, maybe it's time for a career change.

The Huffington Post is out with a piece explaining that a growing number of finance professionals are being lured toward tech start-ups.

That got us wondering who would do such a thing, so we've compiled a list of 20 ex-Wall Streeters who left the high-flying world of finance for high-tech startups.

Jeff Bezos

Wall Street Job(s): Bankers Trust (vice president), D.E. Shaw (computer science)

Tech Job: Founder, president and CEO of online retail giant Amazon.com, which he started in 1994.

Fun Fact: He was Time magazine's "Person of the Year" in 1999 and holds an honorary doctorate in computer science from Carnegie Mellon.

Marc Pincus

Wall Street Job(s): Stock analyst, private equity

Tech Job: Social-gaming startup Zynga, which develops games such as FarmVille and Texas HoldEm Poker.

Fun Fact: Zynga recently sold shares during its initial public offering at a $7 billion valuation.

Source: Huffington Post

Allen "A.J." Steigman and Shane Robinson

Wall Street Job(s):  Merrill Lynch

Tech Job:  A sneakerhead and streetwear platform called Soletron, which is a social networking and e-commerce marketplace where designers, retailers and collectors can buy, sell and discuss with one another.

Fun Fact: The duo used a comic book strip to market their business.

Source: Huffington Post

Source: Business Insider

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