Jensen Huang
Taiwanese-American engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded NVIDIA with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem in 1993.
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Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-American industrialist who built Carnegie Steel into a major steel producer and later became a prominent philanthropist.
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Indian entrepreneur who founded Biocon in 1978 as an industrial enzymes company; it later expanded into biopharmaceuticals.
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American entrepreneur and philanthropist who built a hair-care business serving Black women and became one of the best-known self-made businesswomen of her era.
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Indian entrepreneur who founded the business that became Reliance Industries. The company traces its origins to his yarn-trading venture in 1957.
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American media executive and philanthropist who founded Harpo Productions and built a major television and media business around her work as a broadcaster.
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Indian software entrepreneur who co-founded Infosys in 1981 with six other engineers.
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Chinese technology entrepreneur who founded ByteDance in 2012. The company developed products including Toutiao and TikTok.
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