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Founders and company builders
People who started a company from nothing and grew it. How they began, what almost broke them, and what they did next.
74 of 232 masters
Elon Musk
CEO of SpaceX and Tesla
577 records
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Jensen Huang
Co-founder and CEO of Nvidia
419 records
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Bill Gates
Co-founder of Microsoft, philanthropist
378 records
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Mark Zuckerberg
Co-founder and CEO of Meta (Facebook)
669 records
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Jeff Bezos
Founder and executive chairman of Amazon
513 records
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Jack Ma
Co-founder of Alibaba
72 records
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Walt Disney
Co-founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901-1966)
204 records
AskPhoto Boy Scouts of America · Public domain
Masayoshi Son
Founder, chairman and CEO of SoftBank
50 records
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Bernard Arnault
Chairman and CEO of LVMH
109 records
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Chung Ju-yung
Founder of Hyundai (1915-2001)
25 records
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Coco Chanel
Fashion designer, founder of Chanel (1883-1971)
75 records
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Lee Byung-chul
Founder of Samsung (1910-1987)
22 records
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Richard Branson
Co-founder of the Virgin Group
75 records
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Paul Graham
Co-founder of Y Combinator, essayist
1,564 records
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Phil Knight
Co-founder of Nike, author of Shoe Dog
128 records
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Morris Chang
Founder of TSMC
127 records
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Kazuo Inamori
Founder of Kyocera and KDDI (1932-2022)
314 records
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Alex Karp
Co-founder and CEO of Palantir
26 records
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Howard Schultz
Former chairman and CEO of Starbucks
135 records
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Henry Ford
Founder of Ford Motor Company (1863-1947)
511 records
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John D. Rockefeller
Co-founder of Standard Oil (1839-1937)
392 records
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Reed Hastings
Co-founder and former CEO of Netflix
124 records
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Reid Hoffman
Co-founder of LinkedIn, venture investor
3,609 records
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Jack Dorsey
Co-founder of Twitter and Block
47 records
AskPhoto Mark Warner · CC BY 2.0
Konosuke Matsushita
Founder of Panasonic (1894-1989)
41 records
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Sam Walton
Founder of Walmart (1918-1992)
90 records
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Ray Kroc
Built McDonald's into a global chain (1902-1984)
25 records
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Ratan Tata
Former chairman of the Tata Group (1937-2024)
29 records
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Brian Chesky
Co-founder and CEO of Airbnb
56 records
AskPhoto Celeste Sloman · CC BY-SA 4.0
Estée Lauder
Co-founder of the Estée Lauder Companies (1908-2004)
26 records
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Andrew Carnegie
Steel industrialist and philanthropist (1835-1919)
1,019 records
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Akio Morita
Co-founder of Sony (1921-1999)
90 records
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Ren Zhengfei
Founder and CEO of Huawei
43 records
AskPhoto Georges Boulougouris / European Union · CC BY 4.0
Ingvar Kamprad
Founder of IKEA (1926-2018)
103 records
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Patrick Collison
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe
345 records
AskPhoto JD Lasica · CC BY 2.0
Yvon Chouinard
Founder of Patagonia
13 records
AskPhoto Tom Frost · CC BY-SA 3.0
Soichiro Honda
Founder of Honda (1906-1991)
41 records
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Narayana Murthy
Co-founder of Infosys
24 records
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Tobi Lütke
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify
97 records
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Marc Randolph
Co-founder and first CEO of Netflix
72 records
AskPhoto Gage Skidmore · CC BY-SA 3.0
Steve Blank
Creator of customer development, startup educator
920 records
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Brian Armstrong
Co-founder and CEO of Coinbase
68 records
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Anita Roddick
Founder of The Body Shop (1942-2007)
13 records
AskMadam C. J. Walker
Hair care entrepreneur, self-made millionaire (1867-1919)
32 records
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Brunello Cucinelli
Founder of the Italian cashmere brand bearing his name
17 records
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Jessica Livingston
Co-founder of Y Combinator
70 records
AskPhoto TechCrunch · CC BY 2.0
Steve Jobs
Co-founder of Apple (1955-2011)
343 records
AskPhoto Matthew Yohe · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sam Altman
CEO of OpenAI, former president of Y Combinator
1,218 records
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