Marc Benioff
American entrepreneur who co-founded Salesforce in 1999 with Parker Harris, Dave Moellenhoff and Frank Dominguez.
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Sergey Brin
Computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Larry Page after the pair developed a research search engine at Stanford University.
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American businesswoman who co-founded the Estée Lauder cosmetics company with her husband Joseph Lauder. The company began operations in 1946.
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American entrepreneur who co-founded Software Development Laboratories, later Oracle, with Bob Miner and Ed Oates in 1977.
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American technology entrepreneur who co-founded Facebook with fellow Harvard students in 2004. Facebook later became part of Meta Platforms.
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American animator and entrepreneur who co-founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio with Roy O. Disney in 1923.
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American entrepreneur who founded the financial data and media company Bloomberg LP in 1981 after working in financial services.
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American entrepreneur who founded PC’s Limited, later Dell Computer Corporation, while studying at the University of Texas at Austin.
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American industrialist who founded Ford Motor Company in 1903. The company helped popularise large-scale automobile assembly-line production.
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American entrepreneur who co-founded Blue Ribbon Sports with Bill Bowerman; the business later became Nike.
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