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Reed Hastings
American entrepreneur who co-founded Netflix with Marc Randolph in 1997. The company began as a DVD rental service and later became a global streaming business.
Sara Blakely
American entrepreneur who founded Spanx, an apparel company known for shapewear and related clothing products.
Oprah Winfrey
American media executive and philanthropist who founded Harpo Productions and built a major television and media business around her work as a broadcaster.
Madam C. J. Walker
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.
Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-American industrialist who built Carnegie Steel into a major steel producer and later became a prominent philanthropist.
Henry Ford
American industrialist who founded Ford Motor Company in 1903. The company helped popularise large-scale automobile assembly-line production.
Walt Disney
American animator and entrepreneur who co-founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio with Roy O. Disney in 1923.
Estée Lauder
American businesswoman who co-founded the Estée Lauder cosmetics company with her husband Joseph Lauder. The company began operations in 1946.
Coco Chanel
French fashion designer and entrepreneur who established the Chanel fashion house. Her designs became influential in twentieth-century fashion.
Amancio Ortega
Spanish entrepreneur who co-founded the clothing company that became Inditex and launched the first Zara store with Rosalía Mera in 1975.