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Here is a list of the most famous entrepreneurs in the world.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Facebook, one of the most popular social networking sites in the world. In 2004, he founded Facebook with his Harvard College roommates Eduardo Saverin and Dustin Moskovitz. Today, it has more than 2 billion users across the globe.
Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984 in White Plains New York to Edward Zuckerberg & Karen Kempner who are both dentist in Dobbs Ferry NY.
In 2007 he married Priscilla Chan whom he met at Harvard where she studied molecular biology before becoming a pediatrician. They have three children together; Maxima born in 2015, August born 2017 and September born 2018. Their daughter Maxima (born 2015) attended her first day at school this week while her sister August is set to start kindergarten next year while their youngest child September will start preschool during 2020-2021 academic year according to reports from NBC News which were confirmed by multiple sources close to them including one belonging directly inside their house who spoke under condition of anonymity because they were not authorized by their superiors nor themselves personally choose release this information publicly yet so we’ll just wait till then I guess?
Henry Ford
You’ve probably heard of Henry Ford, who was an American industrialist and the founder of the Ford Motor Company. He’s best known for using assembly line production to produce inexpensive cars that were accessible to middle class Americans.
He was also an engineer who invented many useful machines, including a flivver (a small, lightweight vehicle), a gasoline-powered stationary engine, and even a quadricycle (or four-wheeled car) made entirely out of aluminum!
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, which was named after the world’s largest river. He also owns a private spaceflight company called Blue Origin and is the wealthiest man in the world with a net worth of $105 billion.
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
Born: February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California. Died October 5, 2011 (aged 56), Palo Alto, California.
Steve Jobs was the co-founder and chairman of Apple Inc., and chief executive officer from 1997 to 2011. He dropped out of Reed College before his first semester because he couldn’t afford it after dropping out from Reed he joined a commune where he met Steve Wozniak who helped him build the first Apple computer prototype that would later be branded as the Apple 1.
He became one of the youngest CEOs to ever head a Fortune 500 company at age 24 when he took over as CEO of Pixar Animation Studios in 1999 after Disney purchased it for $7 million dollars
Elon Musk
Elon Musk is a South African-born Canadian-American business magnate, investor, engineer and inventor. He is the founder, CEO and CTO of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO and product architect of Tesla Inc.; co-founder and chairman of SolarCity; co-founder of Zip2; and co-founder of PayPal. In addition to being active in these various fields, Musk has also envisioned a high speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop.
In 1999 he founded X.com which later became PayPal with his brother Kimbal Musk (briefly its CEO). He was ousted from PayPal in October 2000 shortly after its acquisition by eBay for $1.5 billion in stock.
Bill Gates
Bill Gates is perhaps the most famous entrepreneur in the world. He founded Microsoft, which quickly became one of the most successful companies in history. Today, he’s worth $92.5 billion and holds a spot at number one on Forbes’ list of the richest people in the world; he also ranks second on Forbes’ list of most philanthropic people and third on Forbes’ list of most powerful people in the world.
Before starting Microsoft, Gates attended Harvard University where he studied computer science and math. During his time there, he wrote an influential paper about how microprocessors could be used for personal computers; this eventually led him to found his company with partner Paul Allen in 1975 at age 19!
Howard Schultz
Howard Schultz is the founder and chairman of Starbucks. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in the Canarsie neighborhood of New York City. Schultz graduated from Northern Michigan University with a degree in communications.
Schultz began his career as a salesman for Xerox Corporation where he sold copiers to businesses. He left Xerox to start his own business, a chain of coffee shops called Il Giornale Coffee Company. The first store was opened on March 31, 1985 at Seattle’s Pike Place Market place where fair trade coffee beans were served along with espresso drinks made from Italian equipment that Schultz had brought back from Italy after visiting friends there in 1977 (Schultz is a billionaire).
In 1987 he purchased Starbucks for $4 million and turned it into one of the most successful companies in America today by introducing gourmet coffee drinks such as mochas, cappuccinos and lattes which have become very popular among customers around the world since then (he also owns NBA team Seattle Supersonics).
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor and talk show host. She is the richest black female in the world, with a net worth of $3 billion.
In 1986, she became the first African-American woman to become a billionaire, and remains the only one to do so.
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi but rose to become a media mogul thanks to her syndicated talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show which ran from 1986 until 2011. She also co-founded O: The Oprah Magazine, has written several books and launched her own network OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network in 2009.
Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison is the founder and CEO of Oracle, one of the most successful companies in the world. He is also a philanthropist who has donated millions to various charities over his lifetime. Aside from his fortune and business acumen, Ellison is also well known for being an author and computer programmer.
Michael Dell
Michael Dell is one of the most famous entrepreneurs in the world, and for good reason. He founded Dell Technologies, a company that has become a household name with its Dell computer products. The success of his business ventures have made him a billionaire and placed him on Forbes’ list of richest people in America—as well as third-richest person in the world.
Dell’s other accomplishments include being named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young in 1999, earning an honorary doctorate from Princeton University, and founding the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation (MSDF). The foundation aims to improve education opportunities for children who are underprivileged or at risk.
Jamie Dimon
One of the most famous entrepreneurs in history is Jamie Dimon. He is the CEO of JPMorgan Chase and has a net worth $1.1 billion. He was named on Forbes 400 in 2008 and also made it onto their list of World’s Billionaires that same year.
Dimon was born in New York City to Greek immigrants and raised in Athens, Greece before returning to the United States at age 16 to attend Tufts University where he graduated with an economics degree. After graduating, he worked at American Express for 18 years before being hired by Citigroup as its chief operating officer in 1998 where he remained until 2006 when Bank One merged with J P Morgan Chase and became JP Morgan Chase& Co., Inc.
Dimon currently serves as chairman of the board at J P Morgan Chase & Co., Inc., which includes being responsible for overseeing all major decisions within this company including financing capital projects such as building new branches or buying out other companies through mergers and acquisitions
Warren Buffett
- Warren Buffett is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is known as the most successful investor of the 20th century.
- Buffett is the chairman, CEO, and largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway. With a net worth of $66 billion as of March 2019 (for perspective, that’s about $7 billion more than Bezos’ net worth), he’s also one of only three people in history to have a net worth exceeding $100 billion (the other two being Gates and Rockefeller).
Steve Ballmer
Steve Ballmer is one of the most famous entrepreneurs in the world. He was Microsoft’s CEO from 2000 until 2014, and he also owned the Los Angeles Clippers before selling it to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. In addition to being a businessman and philanthropist, Steve Ballmer is also a billionaire—meaning that he has more than $1 billion in assets.
Jack Ma
Jack Ma is the founder of Alibaba, China’s biggest e-commerce company. He is also the richest man in China, with a net worth of $23.0 billion as of 2018.
Jack Ma has been ranked number eight on the Forbes list of billionaires for four consecutive years from 2015 to 2017. In 2018, he was ranked number 20th on the same list with a net worth of $29.9 billion.
Ma is currently Asia’s richest person and ranks as one of the wealthiest people in the world who are not American citizens (he became an American citizen in 2018).
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg is one of the most famous entrepreneurs in the world. He has a net worth of $47.9 billion, making him the 11th richest person in America. Born in Boston, Massachusetts on February 14th 1942, Michael Bloomberg is an American politician and entrepreneur who served as mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013.
Michael Bloomberg founded Bloomberg L.P., which is a financial services company that provides data terminals and software for financial professionals as well as news coverage about markets and politics – thereby providing information for traders around the globe to make informed decisions about their investments based on real-time facts instead of rumors or forecasts from experts with vested interests in particular stocks being either over or undervalued at any given time (which are often biased towards companies that pay them higher commissions).
Currently run by his daughter Georgina “Gina” Rubenstein (who oversees operations), it was founded back when internet usage was relatively limited among consumers – but now that mobile phones have become widespread across all income levels worldwide thanks in part due to lower costs thanks to technological advancement such as smartphones being equipped with near-universal access through 3G networks (instead having cables plugging directly into your computer’s USB port) along with high speed fiber optic cables enabling faster transfers between servers when accessing data online versus dialing up speeds via modems; there has been increasing demand among business users everywhere wanting more reliable ways than traditional methods available today where they can keep track on markets’ fluctuations without relying solely upon hearsay evidence like 24 hour news channels do during live broadcasts done by talking heads who don’t necessarily know what they’re talking about anyway…
These are the most famous entrepreneurs in the world.
I’m sure you’ve heard of these entrepreneurs before. You know, like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates? They’re both on this list. However, there are some other famous entrepreneurs who aren’t as well known, but they are just as important to the world. The 20 people on this list have all had an impact on our lives through business ventures or innovations that changed the way we live and interact with each other and our environment.
There was no criteria for what makes someone a “famous entrepreneur” except for influence and success—the two things that make anyone noteworthy in my opinion: influence because it shows how far one can go without compromising their values; success because it demonstrates how well one understands their value proposition (what they offer) and its importance to others (customers).
Conclusion
We have seen that there are many entrepreneurs who are not just successful but also famous. They have influenced people with their names and their work. They have earned their fame from their actions and hard work which reflects in the success stories of these entrepreneurs.
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