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Top founders of all time: Reid Hoffman Company: LinkedIn Industry: Internet Country: United States Reid Hoffman is an accomplished entrepreneur and tech executive, having played an integral role in building some of Silicon Valley's most iconic businesses. In 2002, he co-founded LinkedIn, which he sold in 2016 to Microsoft for a deal worth $26.2 billion in cash and a seat on Microsoft's board. Before LinkedIn, Hoffman was one of PayPal's first employees, first joining the payment company as Chief Operating Officer. There, he was responsible for all external relationships, including payments infrastructure (Visa, MasterCard, ACH, Wells Fargo), business development (eBay, Intuit, and others), government (regulatory, judicial), and legal.
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Top founders of all time: Ronald Burkle Company: The Yucaipa Companies Industry: Investments Country: United States Ronald Burkle is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of The Yucaipa Companies, a private investment firm that backs U.S. companies in the logistics, distribution, food, retail, hospitality, entertainment, sports, and light industrial sectors. Yucaipa has executed grocery-chain M&A deals involving supermarket chains such as Fred Meyer, Ralphs, and Jurgensen's, and once owned stakes in about 35 companies, including the grocery chains A&P and Whole Foods Market.
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Top founders of all time: Ted Turner Company: CNN Industry: Media Country: United States Celebrated firebrand Ted Turner, an eternally famous and somewhat divisive personality, is professionally well known as a television producer, media proprietor, and philanthropist. Turner is often credited with altogether transforming the cable industry, and has been dubbed the “Alexander the Great of broadcasting.” He is the Founder of several television channels, including Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24-hour cable news channel. Turner’s company pioneered operating a new communications satellite to broadcast the station to a widespread cable television network in 1975. Turner also gained fame as Chairman of the United Nations Foundation.
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Top founders of all time: Oprah Winfrey Company: Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) Industry: Media Country: United States After growing up in dire poverty, Oprah Winfrey rose above adversity to become one of the most influential women on the planet. Winfrey, a self-made billionaire, is best known for her talk show "The Oprah Winfrey Show." Her lively, open personality made her talk show the highest-rated television program of its kind; and it was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media," Winfrey rapidly expanded her media empire by launching a magazine, a television channel, a production company, and a radio network. Prior to her status as a media mogul, Winfrey was also an accomplished actress. She appeared in a number of movies and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in "The Color Purple."
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Top founders of all time: Wayne Huizenga Company: AutoNation, Miami Dolphins Industry: Retail, Entertainment Country: United States Harry Wayne Huizenga Sr. was an American businessman and entrepreneur. He originated both AutoNation and Waste Management Inc., and was the Owner of Blockbuster Video and the Co-owner of the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. Huizenga gained notoriety for bringing baseball and ice hockey to the South Florida area as the creator and initial owner of the Florida Marlins and Florida Panthers. He also famously purchased the cable television channel SportsChannel Florida (now Bally Sports Florida) to air his teams' games in the region
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Top founders of all time: John Paul DeJoria Company: John Paul Mitchell Industry: Beauty, Retail Country: United States The Founder of tequila maker Patrón Spirits and Co-founder of hair care company John Paul Mitchell Systems, John Paul DeJoria is the archetypal “bootstrapped” entrepreneur. He went from sleeping in his car while selling shampoo door-to-door to joining forces with Paul Mitchell in 1980, turning a mere $700 into salon heavyweight John Paul Mitchell Systems.
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Top founders of all time: Peter Gilgan Company: Mattamy Homes Industry: Construction Country: Canada As Canada’s largest residential home builder, Peter Gilgan has been building houses for more than 40 years. Gilgan, a former accountant, founded Mattamy Homes, an Ontario-based home builder and real estate company, in 1978. Today, the company is the largest private homebuilder in North America, having constructed more than 100,000 homes in Canada and the U.S. Along the way, Gilgan—who has an estimated net worth of US$4 billion, according to Forbes—has emerged as one of Canada’s most generous philanthropists. In June 2019, he donated $100 million to Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, which is going toward building a new patient care tower — one of many such gifts he’s made.
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Top founders of all time Reed Hastings Company: Netflix Industry: Media, Entertainment Country: United States Reed Hastings, the man behind video streaming titan Netflix, is currently the company’s Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer. Looking to revolutionize home entertainment, Hastings co-founded Netflix in 1995, as he concurrently sold his first company, Pure Software, to Rational Software. Originally functioning as a DVD subscription service, Netflix began transitioning to streaming content in 2007. Hastings maintains a 1% stake in what is now both a streaming service and production company, which currently has 222 million subscribers and went public in 2002.
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Top founders of all time: Howard Schultz Company: Starbucks Industry: Retail Country: United States Starbucks Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz took charge of the company in the 1980s, transforming a then-regional coffee operation into the best-known coffee brand the world over. Now also functioning as a social hub, especially for U.S. customers, Starbucks excelled with Schultz’s leadership, branching out from 11 stores to more than 30,000 globally. In 2018, Schultz stepped down as Executive Chairman and board member of the company, and briefly served as Chairman Emeritus until his return to the helm in 2022.
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Top founders of all time: Fred Smith Company: FedEx Industry: Shipping, Transport, E-commerce Country: United States The Founder of multinational shipping, transport, and e-commerce company FedEx, Fred Smith hatched his billion-dollar idea for the company with an inventive term paper at Yale in 1965. After serving in Vietnam with the Marines, he returned home and followed up on his dream, launching Federal Express Corporation in 1971. Although it was initially rough going, with $29 million in losses over its first two years of operation, Smith kept the business afloat—and the company now generates approximately $84 billion in yearly revenue.
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Top founders of all time: Mark Cuban Company: MicroSolutions Industry: Internet, Entertainment Country: United States Self-made billionaire Mark Cuban has come a long way from his days of selling stamps door-to-door as a kid. In the 1990s, he made his fortune by launching start-ups MicroSolutions and Broadcast. com; the latter he sold for $5.7 billion to Yahoo in 1999. Today, Cuban is better known as the impassioned owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team. He also has appeared on TV shows like "Dancing with the Stars" and is one of the main “shark” investors on "Shark Tank." Meanwhile, considering Cuban's strong entrepreneurial spirit, it is no surprise that over the years he's made investments in businesses ranging from technology-based start-ups to movie distribution. In addition to owning an NBA team, Cuban owns Landmark Theatres, Magnolia Pictures, and the media company 2929 Entertainment.
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Top founders of all time: Richard Branson Company: Virgin Group Industry: Conglomerate Country: United Kingdom Known to dabble in practically every kind of business venture, Richard Branson’s fortune is derived from a conglomerate of businesses bearing the "Virgin" moniker, notably including Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Galactic. Branson started out in earnest with a mail-order record business more than 50 years ago; he now resides on a luxurious British Virgin Islands retreat, Necker Island, which he acquired in 1978 for $180,000. In 2016, Alaska Air acquired his Virgin America airline for a hefty sum, and Branson is now making waves in the cruise business with Virgin Voyages.
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Top founders of all time: Sam Zell Company: Equity Group Investments Industry: Real Estate, Investments Country: United States Industry-diverse entrepreneur and investor Sam Zell is perhaps best known for founding Equity Group Investments in 1968, which today invests in industries such as healthcare, energy, and logistics. Hailed as the forefather of modern real estate investment trusts (REITs), Zell chairs five public companies—including one of the nation's largest residential REITs. He was involved in one of the biggest real estate deals of all time when he sold REIT Equity Office to Blackstone for $39 billion just prior to the market crash of 2007. At the same time, he led an $8.2 billion buyout of newspaper owner Tribune Company.
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Top founders of all time: Melanie Perkins Company: Canva Industry: Internet Country: Australia Melanie Perkins has been launching creative businesses since she was a teenager. At the age of 14, she made and sold scarves to shops in her hometown of Perth, Australia. At 19, Perkins founded Fusion Books, a business that offered online school yearbook design and publishing services. However, Perkins had a grander vision to make graphic design easy and accessible for all. With $3 million in backing, and a former Google executive as a Co-founder, Perkins launched Canva in 2013. With Perkins serving as Chief Executive Officer, the free-to-use, online design platform had more than 75,000 users by the end of its first year.
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Top founders of all time: Ralph Lauren Company: Ralph Lauren Industry: Retail Country: United States An international household name due to his namesake fashion brand, Ralph Lauren created one of the most successful fashion companies in the second half of the 20th century. Lauren’s billion-dollar empire, now best represented by sportswear line Polo Ralph Lauren, was built upon his knack for sculpting the “American look,” which helped make New York a direct competitor with global fashion capitals such as Paris. A key ingredient of his success was becoming the only American designer to manufacture and license his creations.
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Top founders of all time: Jack Dorsey Company: Twitter Industry: Internet Country: United States At a young age, Jack Dorsey showed a flair for computers, writing the dispatch software that is still used by many cab companies when he was just 15 years old. His fascination with computers paid off in 2006, when Dorsey co-founded the microblogging platform Twitter, which became one of the top 10 most widely visited websites in the world with over 217 million monetizable daily active users around the globe. In November 2021, Dorsey relinquished his Chief Executive Officer title at Twitter, leaving the top job with an estimated $11.8 billion fortune.
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Top founders of all time: Rupert Murdoch Company: News Corp Industry: Media, Entertainment Country: United Kingdom/United States Rupert Murdoch is a media tycoon known for controlling an empire that includes hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world. This includes cable channel Fox News, The Times of London, and The Wall Street Journal. A native of Australia, Murdoch inherited a newspaper at the age of 22 after his father – a famous war correspondent and publisher – passed away. By the time Murdoch acquired his first British newspaper in 1969, he had created a proven formula for boosting circulation: an emphasis on crime, sex, scandal, and human-interest stories with boldface headlines.
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Top founders of all time: Jack Ma Company: Alibaba Group Industry: Internet Country: China Once a poor young man who survived by guiding tourists, Jack Ma rose to become one of China's wealthiest people. Ma is mostly known for being the head of the multinational technology conglomerate Alibaba Group, which comprises several of China’s most popular websites, including Alibaba .com. The group had revenues of $105 billion in the year to March 2021. Ma co-founded Alibaba in 1999, and under his stewardship, the company turned into an e-commerce giant that is used by more than 750 million people each year. Ma also has a stake in online payment service Ant Group, and he co-founded Yunfeng Capital, a private equity firm, in 2010.
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Top founders of all time: Phil Knight Company: Nike Industry: Footwear Country: United States Phil Knight retired as Chairman of Nike, which has perhaps the biggest “footprint” in the entire shoe industry, in 2016 after 52 years with the company. He initially conceived of and created the brand with his former track coach, Bill Bowerman, with each putting up $500 to found what was originally known as Blue Ribbon Sports. Nike grew exponentially over the years under his guidance, with its revenue in 2021 totaling around $44.5 billion.
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