Wiki Topic: Founders
Soichiro Honda
Japanese engineer and industrialist who co-founded Honda Motor Co. with Takeo Fujisawa. Honda grew from a motorised-bicycle business into a global mobility manufacturer.
Joe Gebbia
American designer and entrepreneur who co-founded Airbnb with Brian Chesky and Nathan Blecharczyk.
Ritesh Agarwal
Indian entrepreneur who founded OYO, a hospitality company that began by aggregating and standardising budget hotel rooms.
Akio Morita
Japanese entrepreneur who co-founded Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, later Sony Group, with Masaru Ibuka in 1946.
Nathan Blecharczyk
American technology entrepreneur who co-founded Airbnb with Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia and helped build its technology platform.
Gautam Adani
Indian industrialist who founded the Adani Group in 1988, beginning with commodity trading and expanding into infrastructure and energy businesses.
Ingvar Kamprad
Swedish entrepreneur who founded IKEA in 1943. The business began as a mail-order company and later became known internationally for furniture and home furnishings.
Melanie Perkins
Australian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Canva with Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams. Canva launched as an online design platform in 2013.
Shiv Nadar
Indian entrepreneur who founded HCL in 1976 with a group of colleagues, initially focusing on microprocessors and calculators.
Bill Gates
American businessperson and philanthropist who co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975. Microsoft became a major developer of personal-computer software.