Category: Famous Entrepreneurs
John Davison Rockefeller was one of the wealthiest men in the world. John started from scratch as he was born on 8 July 1839, in Richford, NewYork, into a family with modest earnings. He was the second to the eldest child. William Avery Rockefeller, his father, had a farm and used the product for trading. His mother, Eliza Davison, was very strict in terms of raising them up. It is very dissimilar to his happy-go-lucky father. In 1853, his family migrated to Cleveland, Ohio after residing in Oswego, New York for many years. John finished his secondary education in Ohio....
Daymond John is a very famous American entrepreneur, the founder of the popular clothing brand FUBU. He is also an investor and a TV star. Since 2009, he has been participating in the popular reality show ‘Shark Tank’. He is one of the sharks there – 5 famous business managers who decide whether or not to invest money in ideas presented by normal people. History Daymond John was born on the 23rd of February, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York (currently 55). As a child, he lived in the Queens neighborhood of New York with his mom and 7 brothers and...
Why do some people have money, while some others struggle to make enough for a living during their entire life? Why are there wealthy and poor people, and why some people will never get rich? Although there are no easy answers to these questions, there are some major differences between the poor and the riches. The guys from www.business-management-degree.net compiled an interesting infographic on which you can clearly see how differently both of the groups approach some of the most ordinary things in our life, like watching TV. The infographic is based on research made by Thomas Corley, who interviewed...
A Short Biography On May 14th, 1984, Mark Zuckerberg was born in a small White Plains town, in New York. He was the fourth child of Karen Kempner and Edward Zuckerberg, who already had three girls. This was how it all began… Currently, Mark is only 32, and his net worth by the year 2019 was estimated at $64 billion. But the fact that he is one of the youngest billionaires is the less interesting one. The cool stuff here is actually his startup story, telling how a kid became the founder and later the CEO of one of the...
Women entrepreneurs have had to face cultural bias, sexism, and other challenges across the world to seek success. Many have succeeded and become leaders who inspire us. Read how some of the world’s most powerful entrepreneurs – and women – overcame all odds to get where they are today. Oprah Winfrey Born to a single teenage mom and frequently molested between the ages of nine and thirteen by male relatives before running away to strike out on her own, and losing her own baby as a teen, Oprah Winfrey had an emotionally devastating childhood. But she overcame that, with a...
Zynga Inc Zinga (zynga.com) is a games-developing company that was incorporated in April 2007 by Mark Pincus, with its main headquarter based in San Francisco, California. Just a few years after it was started, Zynga began generating billions of dollars in revenue from its social games. Originally, the project was named Presidio Media but the name was changed, in July of 2007, in honor of Mark’s dog – an American bulldog “Zynga”. This is also where the dog on the logo of the company derives from. In its humble beginnings, the entire production team included just nine people to run...
Have you ever had the thought ‘It’s too late for me to start a business’ running through your mind? You might have even believed in it, but here are 12 good examples of why you shouldn’t have. The guys and gals from fundersandfounders.com have made this cool infographic, on which you can see 12 super successful entrepreneurs, who were ‘ordinary people’ working ordinary 9-5 jobs like most people. And they had been doing this till their early 30. Did you know that Harrison Ford was a carpenter until he turned 30? Joanne Rowling, the author of Harry Potter lived on...
Jim (James) Rogers is an author and investor and is a man who really doesn’t think that you can just put economics into a box and call it good. With an around-the-world adventure under his belt, he is the co-founder of the Quantum Fund and an International Commodities Index. He believes that financial sectors are transitory and will shift based on economic needs. That means what might bring tremendous economic wealth for one period will be at a disadvantage for another period. In a recent interview with Forbes, he said that the smartest people in the United States will learn...
The Pursuit of Happiness is one great movie about the life of a man who found himself homeless, broke, without a home, and totally desperate. It’s about his struggle for getting up again and becoming a millionaire. If you like movies about winning the fight with life, this one may be real for you. And the best thing here is that it’s based on a true story, it tracks the early and hard life of Chris Gardner and how he made it from homeless to a millionaire. The Pursuit of Happiness movie is about the success story of Gardner, who...
This is one of the latest millionaire stories, in which a smart techy teenager hits the jackpot by selling his work to a big Internet company. This is the story of Nick D’Aloisio, the British teen who developed the news syndication app for iPhone – Summly. A little about the teenage millionaire When he was just 15, the young entrepreneur had an idea – to simplify the way how information is spread across the web. He wanted to build an application, which could show you news or simply articles from many different sources in a convenient way. So, he sat...
