Entrepreneurship

The platform business model involves generating profits by facilitating interactions between two or more distinct groups of users.

Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( BAY-zohss; né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman, and the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company.

Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people, typically via the internet.

As a result of numerous influential tech companies and tech startups opening offices in proximity to one another, a number of technology districts have developed in various areas across the globe.

Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 - April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist and business magnate. As the founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited as a pioneer in making automobiles affordable for middle-class Americans through the system that came to be known as Fordism.

Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870. He ran it until 1897 and remained its largest shareholder.

was a Danish shipping magnate and businessman who was the founder of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group in 1904.

Walter Percy Chrysler (April 2, 1875 - August 18, 1940) was an American industrial pioneer in the automotive industry, automotive industry executive, and the founder and namesake of American Chrysler Corporation.

Lars Magnus Ericsson (Swedish pronunciation: [lɑːʂ ˈmǎŋːnɵs ˈêːrɪkˌsɔn] ; 5 May 1846 - 17 December 1926) was a Swedish inventor, entrepreneur and founder of telephone equipment manufacturer Ericsson (incorporated as Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson).

Valentin Kipyatkov (born June 5, 1976) is a Russian billionaire. He made his fortune from the software firm JetBrains, co-founded with Sergey Dmitriev.

Jay Van Andel (June 3, 1924 - December 7, 2004) was an American billionaire businessman, best known as co-founder of the Amway Corporation, along with Richard DeVos.

Richard Marvin DeVos Sr. (March 4, 1926 - September 6, 2018) was an American billionaire businessman, co-founder of Amway with Jay Van Andel (company restructured as Alticor in 2000), and owner of the Orlando Magic basketball team.

is an American businesswoman convicted of fraud in connection with her health technology company Theranos. Holmes founded Theranos in 2003, and its valuation soared in the early 2010s after it claimed to have revolutionized blood testing by developing methods that needed only very small volumes of blood, such as from a fingerprick.

He is most famous for co-founding the computer technology company Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Andy Bechtolsheim.

He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, and Andy Bechtolsheim, and served as Chief Scientist and CTO at the company until 2003.

Kenneth Harry Olsen (February 20, 1926, February 6, 2011) was an American engineer who co-founded Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1957 with colleague Harlan Anderson and his brother Stan Olsen.

Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925, October 5, 1996) was an American electrical engineer, computer scientist, mathematician, and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research, which built many of these machines.

"Theo" Gray is a co-founder of Wolfram Research, science author, and co-founder of app developer Touch Press.

Jack Tramiel (, trə-MEL; born Idek Trzmiel, Polish pronunciation: [ˈidɛk ˈtʂmjɛl]; December 13, 1928, April 8, 2012) was a Polish-American businessman and Holocaust survivor, best known for founding Commodore International.

As a businessman, Wolfram is the founder and CEO of the software company Wolfram Research

is a British-Polish computer technologist and entrepreneur

was an American-Israeli mathematician and entrepreneur who co-founded Akamai Technologies

was an American businessman who founded the Victoria's Secret lingerie retail store in California in 1977

founder of one of the world's top fashion houses, Christian Dior SE

joined his brothers in their fledgling film business

He founded the dyestuff factory Friedrich Bayer along with Johann Friedrich Weskott in 1863

In 1928, Bloch founded the aircraft company Société des Avions Marcel Bloch

South African diamond and gold mining entrepreneur

was a German-American timber mogul and founder of the Weyerhaeuser Company

The founder and namesake of the Chanel brand

was a German cobbler, inventor, and businessman who founded the sportswear company Adidas.

co-founded the largest shopping mall company in the United States, Simon Property Group, with his younger brother, Herb Simon

He is the founder of HealthSouth Corporation, a global healthcare company based in Birmingham, Alabama.

was a German steel manufacturer and founder of the Krupp family commercial empire that is now subsumed into ThyssenKrupp

best known for co-founding Adobe Systems Inc.

He was one of the founders of SAP SE in 1972

In 1949, he founded the Otto Group

In 1847 Halske founded the Siemens & Halske Telegraph Construction Company together with Werner von Siemens.

In 1922 he established the Heinkel-Flugzeugwerke company at Warnem

In 1973, Dieter Schwarz opened his first discount store in Ludwigshafen am Rhein on Mundenheimer Stra

technical automobile designer and automaker-entrepreneur

is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist

billionaire internet entrepreneur

In music, he co-founded Asylum Records with Elliot Roberts in 1971 before founding Geffen Records in 1980

is an American digital librarian, computer engineer, and internet entrepreneur

is an English chef who founded the restaurant St. John on St John Street in London

was an American commercial aviation pioneer, entrepreneur and the founder of Pan American World Airways

was a German businessman who founded the fashion house Hugo Boss

founded the luxury fashion and perfume house of Givenchy in 1952

He is the founder and president of international investment group System Capital Management (SCM)

is an English sports gambler, entrepreneur, and poker player

he founded the film and television production company Skydance Media in 2006

He was the founder of Sun Hung Kai Properties

was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, founder of the modern microfilm industry

Pappalardo co-founded Meditech in 1969

software engineer and internet entrepreneur

a major German merchant, mining entrepreneur, and banker

co-founder of Netscape

He founded the Miller Brewing Company at the Plank Road Brewery, purchased in 1855.

Jim and Janice Dougherty incorporated their company in August 1986, using $1 million in start-up investment

Wayne Huizenga was one of the best-known entrepreneurs in the United States

is a Bulgarian-American entrepreneur

is an Indian American billionaire entrepreneur

was founded in September 2002 as 9 Story Entertainment by Vince Commisso

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founded Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

the founder of O'Reilly Media

Harper formed publishing company J. & J. Harper

is the founder of RealNetworks

entrepreneur

in 1991 he set up the subsidiary PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (PFE)

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Internet entrepreneur and political activist

As the founder and co-chairman of Triple Canopy and Constellis

Triple Canopy was founded in Chicago, Illinois in September 2003 by Thomas Katis and Matthew Mann.

the three of them decided to create their own Studio : Fortiche Production

He launched Fortiche Production in 2009 together with Arnaud Delord and Jérôme Combe.

Fortiche was founded in Paris in 2009 by Jérôme Combe, Pascal Charrue, and Arnaud Delord.

Perry Brink launched the firm bearing his name

In 1965, Walter Evans founded a mail-order veterinary supplies business called UPCO in San Diego, California.

was an American drug store magnate who founded L.K. Liggett Drug Company

He ventured into many businesses

was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist

Khadija did not travel with her trade caravans; instead, she employed others to trade on her behalf for a commission.

In 1989, with Gary Burrell, Kao co-founded Garmin, a company best known for manufacturing devices that use the Global Positioning System.

Along with partner Min Kao, Burrell founded Garmin in 1989 to make navigation devices for aviation and boating using the Global Positioning System.

founded his own machine factory, focusing on locomotives

De Benedetti founded the telecommunications companies Omnitel and Infostrada

together with two other Mauser engineers Theodor Koch and Alex Seidel, he founded Heckler & Koch

Karl Wlaschek opened a perfumery in the Margareten district of Vienna

He co-founded the Gap Inc. clothing stores with his wife Doris F. Fisher.

Lerner co-founded Cisco Systems with her then-partner and now-former husband Len Bosack.

founder and controlling shareholder of Thyssen & Co that became ThyssenKrupp

is a Brazilian entrepreneur who is the founder of Embraer.

was a German Entrepreneur and politician

was a French entrepreneur and chairman and CEO of the liquor and wine group Pernod Ricard

co-founder of Hispano-Suiza in 1904

In 1907 he founded the company Röhm & Haas together with the businessman Otto Haas in Esslingen, Germany.

was a German pharmacist and entrepreneur

is a German entrepreneur

He was a prominent entrepreneur in Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japan

He co-founded JetSuiteX

Both Harvard University (1981) and Stanford University (1980) recognized him with their Entrepreneur of the Year awards.

is a Japanese entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist

is an American tech entrepreneur and businessman

is an American businessman who is the co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc.

In 1987, he founded TSMC

Ma Huateng went on to co-found Tencent in 1998

Gou founded Hon Hai Plastics Corporation

Eric Ries (born September 22, 1978) is an American entrepreneur, blogger, and author of The Lean Startup, a book on the lean startup movement

Walter Herschel Beech (January 30, 1891, November 29, 1950) was an American aviator and early aviation entrepreneur who co-founded the Beech Aircraft Company (now called Beechcraft) in 1932 with his wife, Olive Ann Beech, and a team of three others.

Clyde Vernon Cessna (; December 5, 1879, November 20, 1954) was an American aircraft designer, aviator, and early aviation entrepreneur.

Roos (April 26, 1888, October 6, 1964) was an American entrepreneur and the founder or co-founder of several early aircraft companies.

The Klapmeier brothers, Alan Lee Klapmeier (born October 6, 1958) and Dale Edward Klapmeier (born July 2, 1961), are American retired aircraft designers and aviation entrepreneurs who together founded Cirrus Aircraft (as Cirrus Design Company) in 1984.

Yoshisuke Aikawa (or Gisuke Ayukawa) (鮎川 義介, Aikawa Yoshisuke; 6 November 1880-13 February 1967) was a Japanese entrepreneur, businessman, and politician, noteworthy as the founder and first president of the Nissan zaibatsu, one of Japan's most powerful business conglomerates around the time of the Second World War.

Clarence Gilbert Taylor (September 8, 1898, March 29, 1988) was an early American aviation entrepreneur and co-founder of the Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corporation (later named the Piper Aircraft Corporation) in Rochester, New York.

Entrepreneur, aeronautical engineer

Eric Li Shufu (simplified Chinese: 李书福; traditional Chinese: 李書福; pinyin: Lǐ Shūfú; born 25 June 1963) is a Chinese billionaire entrepreneur.

Gary Arlen Kildall (; May 19, 1942, July 11, 1994) was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur.

Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940-16 September 2021) was an English entrepreneur and inventor, best known for being a pioneer in the computing industry and also as the founder of several companies that developed consumer electronics in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Doug Fregin is a Canadian entrepreneur and engineer.

From his father, Camillo Olivetti received the entrepreneurial style and a love for progress, while from his mother a love for languages (Elvira spoke four languages).

Hallett, Anthony and Diane Hallett Entrepreneur magazine encyclopedia of entrepreneurs (Wiley.

Henry Edward Roberts (September 13, 1941, April 1, 2010) was an American engineer, entrepreneur and medical doctor who invented the first commercially successful microcomputer in 1974.

Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African and British entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Canonical, the company behind the Linux operating system variant Ubuntu.

That same year he was named one of America's 25 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs by Inc.

The company focuses on innovation, growth, and expansion and prizes innovation and entrepreneurship, and has been named as one of the Fortune "100 Best Companies to Work For" for fourteen consecutive years (2000-2013).

William Daniel Hillis (born September 25, 1956) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and computer scientist, who pioneered parallel computers and their use in artificial intelligence.

Alan Michael Sugar, Baron Sugar (born 24 March 1947) is a British businessman, entrepreneur and television personality.

Komisar has written a number of books about entrepreneurialism and venture capital:

Teunis Steven Schuurman (born September 1975) is a Dutch technology and media entrepreneur, best known for co-founding and being the first CEO of Elastic, a data search and analytics company listed at the NYSE (ESTC).

Marc Porat (born 1947) is an American technology entrepreneur, executive, and investor.

is an American engineer and entrepreneur .

Chris Rowen is an American entrepreneur and technologist.

Federico Faggin (Italian pronunciation: [fedeˈriːko fadˈdʒin], Venetian: [faˈdʒiŋ]; born 1 December 1941) is an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur.

Ralph Kelley Ungermann (January 20, 1942, June 2, 2015) was an American engineer and entrepreneur.

Andi (Andrei) Gutmans is an Israeli programmer and entrepreneur.

Ashwin Navin (born c.1977) is an American entrepreneur who is the CEO and co-founder of Samba TV, a data and analytics service that measures television viewership using opt-in data from Internet-connected devices and set-top boxes.

Entrepreneur Walk of Fame (2011)

Entrepreneur Walk of Fame (2011)

== Entrepreneurship ==

Russell Noftsker is an American entrepreneur who founded Symbolics, a computer company, and was its first chairman and president.

(October 12, 1860, June 16, 1930) was an American inventor and entrepreneur, most famous for construction, two years after Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe, of the gyrocompass and as founder of the Sperry Gyroscope Company.

Adriano Olivetti (11 April 1901-27 February 1960) was an Italian engineer, entrepreneur, politician, and industrialist.

Iann Marchant Barron (16 June 1936-16 May 2022) was a British computer engineer and entrepreneur.

Vinod Khosla (born 28 January 1955) is an Indian-American billionaire, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist.

Anderson (October 15, 1929, January 30, 2019) was an American engineer and entrepreneur, best known for co-founding, together with Ken Olsen, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), which later became the second-largest computer company in the world.

Hermann Maria Hauser KBE (born 1948) is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and inventor who is primarily associated with the Cambridge technology community in England.

Frankenberg is an American computer engineer, technology executive, entrepreneur, venture investor, and business strategist.

Andreas Maria Maximilian Freiherr von Mauchenheim genannt Bechtolsheim (born 30 September 1955) is a German electrical engineer, entrepreneur and investor.