Business Tycoons & Entrepreneurs
17 entries in the Business Tycoons & Entrepreneurs compendium.
Trip HawkinsTrip Hawkins is credited with helping shift the video game industry from simple one-person projects to…Vagit AlekperovPresident of Lukoil from 1993 to 2022, Russian oligarch of Azerbaijani origin.Vijay MallyaOnce called the 'King of Good Times', now a fugitive from Indian justice.Whitney Wolfe HerdFounder of Bumble and co-founder of Tinder.Will Keith KelloggIndustrialist who founded Kellogg Company and Kellogg Foundation.William C. DurantCarriage maker turned auto pioneer who founded General Motors and co-founded Chevrolet.William E. BoeingAmerican aviation pioneer who founded the Boeing Company.William FargoWilliam George Fargo (May 20, 1818 – August 3, 1881) was an American businessman and politician. He and Henry…William Henry VanderbiltEldest son of Cornelius Vanderbilt; railroad magnate and richest American.William Lever, 1st Viscount LeverhulmeEnglish industrialist who built a soap empire and founded Port Sunlight.William Procter (industrialist)English-born candlemaker who co-founded Procter & Gamble.William S. KnudsenDanish-American automotive executive who led U.S. war production in World War II.William S. PaleyThe executive who turned CBS from a small radio chain into a broadcasting giant.Wolfgang PuckAustrian-born chef who made Spago a global icon.Zhang YimingFounder of ByteDance and creator of TikTok.Vidal SassoonBritish hairstylist who repopularised geometric cuts and built a global salon chain.Vanderbilt familyAmerican family that rose to prominence during the Gilded Age.
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