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Top founders of all time: Michael Dell Company: Dell Technologies Industry: Technology Country: United States Entrepreneur and philanthropist Michael Dell has powerful name recognition as the Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Dell Technologies, one of the most wide-ranging technology infrastructure companies in the world. In 2013, he made a bid to own Dell Inc. privately for $24.4 billion, in what became the largest management acquisition since the Great Depression. Though private operations came to fruition in 2013, the company was eventually re-listed in late 2018.
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Too founders of all time: Amancio Ortega-Zara Company: Inditex Industry: Retail Country: Spain Counted among the wealthiest clothing retailers in the world, Spain’s Amancio Ortega-Zara first began his career manufacturing textiles with a small family company in 1963. A true pioneer in the fast-fashion space, he and his ex-wide founded Inditex, known for its Zara fashion chain, in 1975. He owns about 60% of the Madrid-listed Inditex, which has 7,500 stores around the globe as well as eight brands, including Massimo Dutti and Pull&Bear.
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Top 100 founders of all time: Changpeng Zhao Company: Binance Industry: Internet Country: China, Canada Changpeng “CZ” Zhao is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world by volume. Prior to Binance, he developed futures trading software for Bloomberg Tradebook. In 2005, he founded a trading system for brokers known as Fusion Systems, and in 2013 he briefly served as Chief Technology Officer for OKCoin. In 2015 he created BijieTech, which provided cloud-based trading technology to several Asian exchanges; and two years later, when he founded Binance, he filled many of the senior positions with BijieTech senior developers and engineers.
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Mark Zuckerberg Company: Facebook (Meta Platforms) Industry: Internet Country: United States In 2008, Mark Zuckerberg became the world’s youngest billionaire when he was just 24 years old. The American entrepreneur and media magnate is most notable for co-founding the social media website Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.), of which he is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and controlling shareholder. A former Harvard University student majoring in Computer Science, Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his dormitory in 2004. Initially meant only for Harvard students, Zuckerberg eventually allowed Facebook to be used at select college campuses. However, in the following few years, the site experienced exponential growth, and Facebook became the world’s largest social media platform.
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Carlos Slim Company: Grupo Carso Industry: Conglomerate Country: Mexico Mexican entrepreneur Carlos Slim Helú became a wealthiest-person-in-the-world candidate through his extensive holdings in a plethora of Mexican companies via his conglomerate, Grupo Carso, with interests in the fields of insurance, communications, construction, energy, mining, retail, publishing, and finance. He alone accounts for 40% of the listings on the Mexican Stock Exchange, and his impressive net worth is equivalent to approximately 6% of Mexico's gross domestic product. He is also the largest single shareholder of The New York Times Company.
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Mukesh Ambani Company: Reliance Industries Industry: Conglomerate Country: India Indian business magnate Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is the Managing Director and the majority shareholder of Reliance Industries, India's most valuable company by market value. He also owns the Indian Premier League franchise Mumbai Indians and is the founder of the Indian Super League, a football league in India.
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Sergey Brin (tie) Company: Google Industry: Internet Country: United States One of the most influential figures in the Digital Age, Sergey Brin helped revolutionized the world of Internet search engines. Brin, who is the son of a Soviet mathematics professor, is half of the team that founded Google, which began as a research project at Stanford University and launched in 1998. As the President of Technology, Brin supervised Google’s daily operations from 2001 to 2011.
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Larry Page (tie) Company: Google Industry: Internet Country: United States Larry Page is one half of the iconic duo that invented the world's most popular search engine – Google. As the son of computer professionals, Page’s fascination with the digital world began at an early age. Page met Google Co-founder Sergey Brin at Stanford in 1995 while they were both working toward their computer science PhDs. According to a commencement speech Page delivered, the genius idea for the search engine came to him in a dream. After Google launched in 1998, Page became the Chief Executive Officer of the company, a position he kept until 2001, when he switched to President of Products. In 2011, Page became CEO again, keeping the position until the company's restructuring in 2015. From then until 2019, Page served as CEO of Alphabet.
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Top founders of all time: Larry Ellison Company: Oracle Industry: Software Country: United States Yachting aficionado Larry Ellison is Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of software empire Oracle, which he co-founded and owns approximately 35% of. Ellison stepped down from the position of CEO in 2014 after 37 years at the helm. While CEO, he shepherded Oracle’s expansion through steady and well-calculated acquisitions of various software companies, the most significant of which was NetSuite’s $9.3 billion buyout. Two years ago, Ellison made the Hawaiian island of Lanai his permanent residence; he had purchased 97% of its territory for $300 million in 2012. Tesla welcomed him to its board in late 2018, following his purchase of 3 million shares of the company. In 2019, the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC honored Ellison with the inaugural Rebels With A Cause Award, reflecting his generous support through the years.
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Top founders of all time: Warren Buffett Company: Berkshire Hathaway Industry: Conglomerate Country: United States Warren Buffett is the longtime Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., a multinational conglomerate holding company based in Omaha, Nebraska. Berkshire wholly owns companies in a variety of industries from insurance to restaurants, railways, clothing, real estate, and more. It also holds significant minority stakes in food, credit card, banking, and technology companies, among others. In 2021, Berkshire had a revenue of more than $276 billion, and it currently has a market capitalization of more than $706 billion, making it the 7th most valuable company in the world by market cap.
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Top founders of all time: Bill Gates Company: Microsoft Industry: Software Country: United States In 1975, Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard University to start a software company with his childhood friend Paul Allen. They called the company Microsoft – and within years Gates became an internationally known entrepreneur. During his tenure at Microsoft, Gates held several positions, including those of Chairman, CEO, President, and Chief Software Architect – while also being the largest individual shareholder until 2014.
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Top founders of all time: Bernard Arnault Company: LVMH Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton Industry: Luxury Goods Conglomerate Country: France Bernard Arnault got his start as an engineer with his father’s construction company in 1971, working his way up to various executive management positions before becoming Chairman in 1978. Three years into his employment, he convinced his father to shift the focus of the company to real estate and assisted in various acquisitions. In 1984, he seized the opportunity to acquire Christian Dior’s bankrupt parent company, which he reorganized and returned to profitability. Five years later, he became the majority shareholder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of the luxury goods conglomerate LVMH Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton, where he remains to this day.
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Top founders of all time: Jeff Bezos Company: Amazon Industry: Internet, Spaceflight Country: United States Best known for playing a seminal role in the development and growth of e-commerce, Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos is one of the richest men in the world. Bezos started Amazon in his garage in 1993. Since then, the company has become one of the Internet's biggest success stories, ushering in a revolution in online shopping by introducing innovative features like one-click shopping, customer reviews, and e-mail order verification.
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Top founders of 2022 Tim Hwang began his professional career over 13 years ago. Today, he is the Founder and CEO of FiscalNote. FiscalNote is a privately-held company that uses artificial intelligence and big data to deliver immediate predictive analytics of governmental action to pinpoint impact. FiscalNote's flagship platform provides real-time legislative predictive capabilities as well as enterprise collaboration and visualization tools for data on campaign finance, demographics, news, and open data to government relations professionals to help them make faster decisions.
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Top founders of all time: Blackwing 602 Pencil Designed by Eberhard Faber, 1934 With a cult-like following among copy editors and stationery devotees, the Blackwing 602 is known for its motto: “Half the pressure, twice the speed.” The pencil’s original maker, German company Eberhard-Faber, stopped producing the design in 1998, but its legacy is now being continued by California Cedar Products.
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Top founders of all time: Blackwing 602 Pencil Designed by Eberhard Faber, 1934 With a cult-like following among copy editors and stationery devotees, the Blackwing 602 is known for its motto: “Half the pressure, twice the speed.” The pencil’s original maker, German company Eberhard-Faber, stopped producing the design in 1998, but its legacy is now being continued by California Cedar Products.
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Top founders of all time: IBM Mainframe Designed by IBM (Eliot Noyes), 1952 Referred to within IBM as the Defense Calculator, the 701 was the company’s first mainframe—or large-scale computer—and laid the groundwork for Big Blue to become a dominant player in the market. Designed to serve the needs of the U.S. government, defense companies, and researchers, the machine was capable of performing 16,000 addition or subtraction operations a second.
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Top 100 designs of all time: Great Green Wall Designed by Panafrican Agency of the Great Green Wall, 2007 “The epic design endeavor to plant and cultivate a 5,000-mile swath of trees and other plants across the southern edge of the Sahara Desert from Senegal in the West to Djibouti in the East is an inspiring, optimistic, and wildly ambitious attempt to address the damage caused by drought, deforestation, land erosion, the climate emergency, and the social, economic, and political problems they cause in one of the poorest parts of the world.” —Alice Rawsthorn, design critic and author
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Top 100 designs of all time: Telephone Model 302 Designed by Henry Dreyfuss, 1937 As part of the research that went into designing the 302, Dreyfuss masqueraded as repairman to learn more about how people used their phones.
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