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Elon Reeve Musk (/ ˈ iː l ɒ n m ʌ s k /; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and U.S. special government employee, best known for his key roles in Tesla, Inc., SpaceX, and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and his ownership of Twitter.
Kenneth Alan Howery (/ ˈ h aʊər i /; born November 4, 1975) is an American entrepreneur and diplomat.He is a co-founder of PayPal [1] and Founders Fund. [2] He served as the U.S. ambassador to Sweden from 2019 to 2021 under President Donald Trump.
Henry Dunant, co-founder of the Red Cross. An organizational founder is a person who has undertaken some or all of the formational work needed to create a new organization, whether it is a business, a charitable organization, a governing body, a school, a group of entertainers, or any other type of organization.
John Sevier, cofounder of the Watauga Association, Revolutionary War soldier, called the Founding Father of Tennessee [122] Arthur St. Clair, major general, president of the Confederation Congress, and later first governor of the Northwest Territory; Thomas Sumter, South Carolina military leader, and member of both houses of Congress [78]
Peter Andreas Thiel (/ t iː l /; born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. [1] [2] [3] A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook.
James Verlin Kimsey (September 15, 1939 – March 1, 2016) was the co-founder of AOL.He was the first chairman of the company and its CEO until 1995. [1] Although Kimsey is best known for having helped to create AOL, he also spearheaded many other business, military and philanthropic endeavors.
In 2005, Wales described himself simply as the founder of Wikipedia; [234] however, according to Brian Bergstein of the Associated Press, "Sanger has long been cited as a co-founder." [229] Sanger and Wales were referred to as co-founders in various press releases, interviews, and news reports from 2001 [238] and 2002. [239]
In December 2020, he called for the U.S. federal government to create institutes for clean energy research, analogous to the National Institutes of Health. [109] Gates has also urged rich nations to shift to 100% synthetic beef industries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from food production.