People whose cited article describes them chiefly as an investor, financier, banker, stockbroker or venture capitalist, whose business role is placing or managing capital rather than running an operating company. A person belongs here when the article names investing or finance as the main role. It excludes founders and executives whose article stresses the company they built or led. Bankers of the Gilded Age, value investors, fund managers and venture capitalists all sit here, along with people the article describes as financiers convicted of fraud.
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Wikipedia, J.P. Morgan
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John Pierpont Morgan Sr. (April 17, 1837, March 31, 1913) was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
Wikipedia, Warren Buffett
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Warren Edward Buffett ( BUFF-it; born August 30, 1930) is an American investor and philanthropist who is the chairman emeritus and former CEO of the conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway.
Isabel dos Santos - Wikipedia
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As early as 2013 Forbes described how dos Santos acquired her wealth by taking stakes in companies doing business in Angola, suggesting that her wealth came almost entirely from her family's power and connections.
Bernie Madoff - Wikipedia
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Bernard Lawrence Madoff (; April 29, 1938, April 14, 2021) was an American financier, con artist, and stock broker who was the admitted mastermind of the largest-known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion.
Wikipedia, John C. Bogle
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John Clifton "Jack" Bogle (May 8, 1929, January 16, 2019) was an American investor, business magnate and philanthropist who was the founder of The Vanguard Group and is credited with popularizing the index fund.
Wikipedia: Vinod Khosla
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Vinod Khosla (born 28 January 1955) is an Indian-American billionaire, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist.
Wikipedia: Hermann Hauser
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Hermann Maria Hauser KBE (born 1948) is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and inventor who is primarily associated with the Cambridge technology community in England.
Wikipedia: Irving Gould
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To pay off the bridge loan, Gould purchased 17% of Commodore's stock in 1966 for $400,000.
Wikipedia: Thomas Richardson (businessman)
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Thomas Richardson (1771-1853) was a shareholder and director of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, a partner in Robert Stephenson & Co. and a founding member of the Owners of the Middlesbrough Estate.
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