50 Notable Founders
A curated, non-ranked selection of business founders from different countries and industries. Each entry includes a source starting point and an editorial review status.
Akio Morita
Sony
Read profile →Amancio Ortega
Inditex; Zara
Read profile →Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Steel; philanthropy
Read profile →Bhavish Aggarwal
Ola; Ola Electric
Read profile →Bill Gates
Microsoft
Read profile →Brian Chesky
Airbnb
Read profile →Coco Chanel
Chanel
Read profile →Daniel Ek
Spotify
Read profile →Dhirubhai Ambani
Reliance Industries
Read profile →Estée Lauder
Estée Lauder Companies
Read profile →Falguni Nayar
Nykaa
Read profile →Gautam Adani
Adani Group
Read profile →Henry Ford
Ford Motor Company
Read profile →Ingvar Kamprad
IKEA
Read profile →Jack Ma
Alibaba Group
Read profile →James Dyson
Dyson
Read profile →Jeff Bezos
Amazon; Blue Origin
Read profile →Jensen Huang
NVIDIA
Read profile →Joe Gebbia
Airbnb
Read profile →Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Biocon
Read profile →Larry Ellison
Oracle
Read profile →Larry Page
Google; Alphabet
Read profile →Lei Jun
Xiaomi
Read profile →Madam C. J. Walker
Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company
Read profile →Marc Benioff
Salesforce
Read profile →Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook; Meta
Read profile →Masayoshi Son
SoftBank Group
Read profile →Melanie Perkins
Canva
Read profile →Michael Bloomberg
Bloomberg LP
Read profile →Michael Dell
Dell Technologies
Read profile →N. R. Narayana Murthy
Infosys
Read profile →Nathan Blecharczyk
Airbnb
Read profile →Oprah Winfrey
Harpo Productions; OWN
Read profile →Paul Allen
Microsoft; Vulcan
Read profile →Phil Knight
Nike
Read profile →Pierre Omidyar
eBay
Read profile →Pony Ma
Tencent
Read profile →Reed Hastings
Netflix
Read profile →Richard Branson
Virgin Group
Read profile →Ritesh Agarwal
OYO
Read profile →Sara Blakely
Spanx
Read profile →Sergey Brin
Google; Alphabet
Read profile →Shiv Nadar
HCL
Read profile →Soichiro Honda
Honda Motor Co.
Read profile →Steve Jobs
Apple; Pixar
Read profile →Steve Wozniak
Apple
Read profile →Tobias Lütke
Shopify
Read profile →Vijay Shekhar Sharma
One97 Communications; Paytm
Read profile →Walt Disney
The Walt Disney Company
Read profile →Zhang Yiming
ByteDance
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