Famous Entrepreneurs

James Dyson

- built industrial cyclone tower- when discovered bag in vacuum kept clogging with dust used this technology to create bagless vacuum- g force - they were sold initially at $2000 a piece in Japan - next developed a machine that collected even finer dust particles - put all money into parenting design 1998 Hoover tried to imitate after 18 months Dyson won and Hoover had to pay for trying to take design Key design points: ABS plastic can be shredded recycled- injection mounded- durable Used different coloured plastics- took inspiration from Ive to make functional aesthetically pleasing See dust collection job satisfaction New tech ups

Elon Musk

CEO of Tesla

David Karp

CEO of Tumblr, microblogging and social networking website

Sean Combs

Chairman and CEO of Combs Enterprises, a diverse portfolio of businesses and investments covering music, fashion, fragrance, beverage, marketing, film, television, and media industries. Forbes puts his net worth at $825 M

Brian Chesky

Co-Founded the Airbnb company

John Zimmer

Co-Founder and president of Lyft

Larry Page

Co-founded Google Inc, current CEO, inventor of page rank, google's best known searching algorithm

Jeff Bezos

Created Amazon online site, originally for selling books

Vince McMahon

professional wrestling promoter and executive, American football executive, and media proprietor currently serving as the chairman and CEO of WWE, and the founder and owner of Alpha Entertainment

Mark Cuban

serial entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks has invested in over 80 companies on ABC's Shark Tank and has a net worth of $4.3 billion.

John D. Rockefeller

Established the Standard Oil Company, the greatest, wisest, and meanest monopoly known in history

Walt Disney

Film maker, cartoonist, visionary. He developed many famous characters as well as amusement theme parks.

Colonel Sanders

Founder of KFC, who came up with the recipe from his grandmother who created it with 11 herbs and spices

Mary Kay Ash

Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, one of the largest beauty products firms in the United States.

Charles Schwab

He became president of Carnegie Steel when he bought half of the company for half a billion dollars. Therefore, he combined Carnegie's company with Federal Steel. After the agreement, Morgan set up the U.S. Steel Corporation. This became the first business to capitalize at more than $1 billion dollars.

Levi Strauss

Immigrant from Germany who produced the first denim pants in San Francisco during the California Gold Rush.

Sara Blakely

Spanx creator, women's slim wear line, which all other competitors strive to compete with

Daniel Ek

Swedish billionaire entrepreneur and technologist. Ek is known for being the co-founder and CEO of music streaming service Spotify.

Henry Ford

1863-1947. American businessman, founder of Ford Motor Company, father of modern assembly lines, and inventor credited with 161 patents.

Thomas Edison

American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb, acoustic recording on wax cylinders, and motion pictures.

Andrew Carnegie

Built a steel mill empire; US STEEL

Jay-Z

The rapper-mogul has founded or owned, among other ventures, a clothing company, a restaurant chain, a sports management firm, two record labels, and the streaming service Tidal

Michael Jordan

businessman and former professional basketball player. He is the principal owner and chairman of the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association and of 23XI Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series

Richard Branson

founded the Virgin Group, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields including Virgin Records, Virgin Air, Virgin Galactic and many more

Sam Walton

the most successful discount retailer and the founder of Wal-Mart