14 most successful Founders in World of all time

“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to learn from failure.” – Bill Gates

Famous Founders: Jeff Bezos , Richard Branson, Nolan Bushnell, Mark Cuban, Michael Dell,, Larry Ellison, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Carlos Slim, Sam Walton, Oprah Winfrey, Mark Zuckerberg.

Ever wonder who makes the list of the world top successful entrepreneur Founder /s? These are the profiles of the most popular entrepreneurs that are worth emulating according to The Little Entrepreneur. These business leaders are from diverse domains and at top of their fields and are great role models. Who are the most successful businessmen in the world? All of these world famous entrepreneurs are unique in that they believed in themselves mostly since they were kids and worked towards that goal to success and fame. No prejudice. Listed alphabetically.

#1 Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon.com and also the Chairman, President, & CEO (he likes titles) Bezos was born in Albuquerque, NM and went to Princeton Univ in NJ (didnt like the desert) He went to work as a Financial Analyst at an Investment Mgt Co in NYC. Jeff founded Amazon.com in 1994. It started as an online Bookstore, but soon evolved into an eCommerce store where the customer could buy anything. Amazon is now worth $925B and 3rd highest valued co, behind Apple & MicroSoft. He was the richest man in the world as of 10/17 with a net worth of almost $94B, just ahead of Bill Gates at $88B.

#2 Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group, comprising over 400 companies. Sir Richard Branson 67 is an English businessman and investor. He is best known as the founder of Virgin Group, which comprises more than 400 companies. At the age of 16, his first business venture was a magazine called Student. In 1970, he set up a Mail-order record business. In 1972, he opened a chain of Record stores, Virgin Records, later known as Virgin Mega-stores. Branson’s Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s, as he set up Virgin Atlantic and expanded the Virgin Records music label. According to the Forbes 2014 list of billionaires, Branson is the 7th richest citizen of the United Kingdom at $5B, with an estimated net worth of US$4.9 billion. Born in London, he is also a TV & Film Producer.

#3 Sergey Brin, Google co-founder listed as the 21st wealthiest person in the world. Sergey Brin, 44 a native of Moscow, received a bachelor of science degree with honors in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park. He is currently on leave from the Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University, where he received his master’s degree. Sergey is a recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship as well as an honorary MBA from Instituto de Empresa. It was at Stanford where he met Larry Page and worked on the project that became Google. Together they founded Google Inc. in 1998, which is now #3 and Sergey continues to share responsibility for day-to-day operations with Larry Page and Eric Schmidt.

#4 Nolan Bushnell is an American engineer &entrepreneur who is founder of both Atari (games) &Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza & Games Theaters chain. Bushnell 75 has been named “Innovator of the Year” award, and was named one of Newsweek ‘s “50 Men Who Changed America.” With his Incubator, Bushnell has started more than 20 companies. His latest venture is an educational SW company called Brainrush that is using video game technology in education. Born Utah & did his Startups in Silicon Valley.

#5 Mark Cuban, Shark Tank is a Telecommunications & Internet $3.3B who became media figure. He owns NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theatres, &Magnolia Pictures + the chairman of the HDTV cable network AXS TV. In 2011, Cuban 59 wrote an e-book, How to Win at the Sport of Business, in which he chronicles his life experiences in business &sports. Born Pittsburg,

#6 Michael Dell, Founder and CEO of Dell Computers is now worth $24 billion. Dell started putting together PCs when he was in college in 1984 and now at 53, Dell sells $80B / yr which gives them 16% of the market and makes them #3 at 16% behind HP & Lenovo. Born: Houston, Texas

#7 Larry Ellison, Oracle [DataBase] founder in 1977 and CEO worth $56B at 73 and is now a full-time philanthropist. He was CEO from 1977 & 2014. Born in NYC & grew up in Chicago, he went to College there before to Silicon Valley.

#8 Bill Gates, Microsoft founder was once the richest person in the world, now he’s usually #2 with a net worth of over $88B (Jeff Bezos, Amazon #1) – virtually all of which he intends to give away. Bill 62 is now classified as an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, & inventor. Gates originally established his reputation as the co-founder of Microsoft now #4, the world’s largest PC software company, with co-founder Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of Chairman, CEO & CTO and was also the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. He has also authored and co-authored several books. Now he devotes most of his time to his philanthropy – with his wife. Born: Seattle

#9 Steve Jobs Founder & CEO of Apple started in 1976 and has grown the mobile device & computer company to #1 in the world at $1T. Jobs was widely recognized as a charismatic and design-driven pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields, transforming “one industry after another, from computers & smart-phones to music & movies.” Jobs served as CEO of Pixar Animation Studios; later acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2006. Unfortunately, he died at 56 in 2011 where he was born – Silicon Valley

#10 Elon Musk, founded Paypal, SpaceX transportation, Tesla (all electric Cars) & Solar City. Musk is a South African-born, Canadian-American entrepreneur, engineer, inventor & investor. He is building a high-speed under-ground transportation system known as the Hyperloop in LA & will do the same in Chicago.

#11 Carlos Slim is the Investor of a Mexican tele-communicatons giant and is also a philanthropist. From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as the richest person in the world. Known as the “Warren Buffett of Mexico”, Slim 78 derived his fortune from his extensive holdings in a considerable number of Mexican companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso. The conglomerate comprises a diverse portfolio of businesses from a wide array of business industries that include tele-communications, industrial manufacturing, real estate, airlines, media, mining, oil, hospitality, technology, retail, and financial services. Currently, Slim is the chairperson and chief executive of telecommunications companies Telmex and América Movil. Born: Mexico City.

#12 Sam Walton is Walmarts founder and the richest person in America for most of the ’80s. He started the first Walmart in 1962 and it now has > 11,000 stores in 28 countries – which are now worth $270B. Sam was born in 1918 in Oklahoma. His heirs are part of the Walton family – which is one of the richest families in the world. Sam died a $B in 1992, but was known for driving his old Pick-up truck – instead of an expensive car.

#13 Oprah Winfrey is a Media mogul & Syndication pioneer. Oprah 64 is an American media proprietor, famous Talk show host, actress, producer, &philanthropist. Oprah is best know for The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the “Queen of All Media”, she has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and is currently North America’s only black billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world. In 2013, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama and honorary Docturate. Born extremely poor in Mississippi.

#14 Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder is worth over $47 billion, but only takes a salary of one dollar. Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard University’s dormitory room, then introduced Facebook onto other campuses nationwide and later moved to Palo Alto in Silicon Valley. Now 33, Zuck’s Facebook has > 1B visitors and is worth $527B. Zuck was born in NY state before he went to Harvard.

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