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This is a list of entrepreneurs by century. An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative. [ 1 ] This list includes notable entrepreneurs.
The first centibillionaire on the Forbes Real Time Billionaires Index and the second ever to have eclipsed the feat since Bill Gates in 1999, Bezos was named the "richest man in modern history" after his net worth increased to $150 billion in July 2018. [7] In August 2020, according to Forbes, he had a net worth exceeding $200 billion. On July ...
1989: Entrepreneur of the Decade by Inc. [308] 1991: Howard Vollum Award from Reed College [309] 2004–2010: listed among the Time 100 Most Influential People in the World on five separate occasions [310] 2007: named the most powerful person in business by Fortune magazine [311]
Bill Haber/APJ.K. Rowling was 32 before her first book was published. As I fast approach my 30s, I find myself tabulating what I've accomplished in the 27 years of my life. I'd like to believe ...
With the sales volume growing from $80,000 to $225,000 in three years, Walton drew the attention of the landlord, P. K. Holmes, whose family had a history in retail. [16] Admiring Sam's great success, and desiring to reclaim the store (and franchise rights) for his son, he refused to renew the lease.
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American businessman and philanthropist best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen.
The beverage tycoon’s rise came to embody the can-do spirit of China’s first generation of private entrepreneurs, who helped propel the country’s explosive economic growth in the years after ...
Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age. His first business venture, at the age of 16, was a magazine called Student. In 1970, he set up a mail-order record business. He opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records—later known as Virgin Megastores—in 1972.
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