businessbriefs

Founders

217
founders
255
briefs
3
most briefed
NameBriefsTime
Abdul Aziz ibn SaudSaudi Aramco 11:2811:28
Adam NeumannWeWork 11:54Adam Neumann 9:5221:46
Adolf DasslerAdolf Dassler 10:03Adidas 10:5620:59
Akio Morita & Masaru IbukaSony 9:599:59
Alain BouchardAlimentation Couche-Tard 10:1010:10
Albert BoehringerBoehringer Ingelheim 11:4911:49
Albert PlesmanKLM 10:5710:57
Albert StanleyBritish Airways 9:469:46
Allen ZhangWeChat 12:1112:11
Amancio OrtegaAmancio Ortega 10:14Zara (retailer) 9:4720:01
André MichelinMichelin 9:599:59
André-Gustave CitroënCitroën 11:4711:47
Anil AgarwalVedanta Limited 11:0311:03
Ardeshir GodrejGodrej & Boyce 10:5810:58
Armand PeugeotPeugeot 10:1210:12
Asa Griggs CandlerThe Coca-Cola Company 11:0111:01
Assar GabrielssonVolvo 10:4510:45
Associated DairiesAsda 10:2810:28
Bear Stearns Companies Inc.Bear Stearns 10:0410:04
Benjamin HoltCaterpillar Inc. 10:0610:06
Bernard ArnaultBernard Arnault 12:12LVMH 10:1022:22
BertelsmannRTL Group 10:2310:23
Bill GatesBill Gates 10:57Microsoft 10:2221:19
Brian CheskyAirbnb 11:08Brian Chesky 9:3020:38
Brijmohan Lall MunjalHero MotoCorp 12:5612:56
Caleb BradhamPepsiCo 10:2810:28
Carl LaemmleUniversal Pictures 13:0713:07
Cecil RhodesDe Beers 10:5110:51
Cesar MilsteinBiogen 11:3511:35
Charles Du CaneRio Tinto (corporation) 10:4610:46
Charles Eugene Lancelot BrownABB 10:5610:56
Charles PfizerPfizer 8:488:48
Cheng WeiDiDi 10:4410:44
Chey Jong-hyonSK Group 11:1811:18
Chobei TakedaTakeda 9:489:48
Chris XuShein 11:0411:04
Christian HansenVestas 10:5210:52
Chung Ju-yungHyundai Motor Company 10:5010:50
Daniel Ek & Martin LorentzonSpotify 10:2110:21
Dario Amodei & Daniela AmodeiAnthropic 10:5510:55
David CookBlockbuster (retailer) 9:169:16
David Crane & othersActivision 11:4211:42
David RosenSega 10:2010:20
David RubensteinThe Carlyle Group 10:4610:46
Dee HockVisa Inc. 10:4910:49
Demis HassabisGoogle DeepMind 12:42Demis Hassabis 8:3221:14
Dieter SchwarzKaufland 12:3912:39
Dietmar HoppSAP 10:1610:16
Don Fisher and Doris FisherGap Inc. 8:298:29
eBay Inc.PayPal 9:159:15
Édouard LeclercE.Leclerc 9:329:32
Eli LillyEli Lilly and Company 12:0512:05
Elizabeth HolmesElizabeth Holmes 10:50Theranos 10:1521:05
Elon MuskElon Musk 12:48SpaceX 13:23Tesla, Inc. 11:3237:43
Enzo FerrariFerrari 11:18Enzo Ferrari 10:5422:12
Erling PerssonH&M 10:5210:52
Ethan BrownBeyond Meat 10:4210:42
Eugène SchuellerL'Oréal 11:3311:33
Eugenio Garza SadaFEMSA 10:4110:41
Ferdinand PorscheFerdinand Porsche 9:11Porsche 10:55Volkswagen 10:1630:22
Ferruccio LamborghiniLamborghini 11:5211:52
Fredrik IdestamNokia 11:4011:40
Friedrich BayerBayer 11:1511:15
Fusajiro YamauchiNintendo 10:4710:47
Gabe Newell & Mike HarringtonValve Corporation 11:5811:58
General Post OfficeBT Group 11:3411:34
George EastmanKodak 10:5710:57
George MerckMerck & Co. 10:0910:09
George SorosSoros Fund Management 11:4611:46
George WestonGeorge Weston Limited 11:1211:12
George YancopoulosRegeneron Pharmaceuticals 9:289:28
Giovanni AgnelliFiat 11:1311:13
Gottlieb DaimlerDaimler Company 10:3310:33
Gottlieb DuttweilerMigros 9:149:14
Hans SustaOMV 10:3710:37
Hans WilsdorfRolex 11:0111:01
Harold McMasterFirst Solar 10:1610:16
HemköpHemköp 9:039:03
Henri NestléNestlé 11:0111:01
Henry BirksBirks Group 12:0112:01
Henry FordHenry Ford 10:22Ford Motor Company 11:0821:30
Henry KravisKKR & Co. 11:4911:49
Henry LehmanLehman Brothers 9:539:53
Henry RoyceRolls-Royce Limited 9:359:35
Henry S. Morgan & Harold StanleyMorgan Stanley 11:0111:01
Henry WellcomeGSK plc 11:2711:27
Hong Kong interestHusky Energy 10:4410:44
Howard SchultzHoward Schultz 10:19Starbucks 10:2920:48
Hudson FyshQantas 10:4010:40
Ichiro UemuraKobe Steel 9:069:06
Ingvar KampradIKEA 10:38Ingvar Kamprad 9:4120:19
Isaac CarassoDanone 9:569:56
J. Erik CarlsonSaab AB 10:0910:09
J.P. MorganJPMorgan Chase 12:3412:34
Jack and Gus MackMack Trucks 11:2811:28
Jack CohenTesco 9:139:13
Jack Conte & Sam YamPatreon 9:349:34
Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone & Evan WilliamsTwitter, Inc. 10:4410:44
Jack MaAlibaba Group 11:24Jack Ma 12:3624:00
Jamnalal BajajBajaj Group 11:5211:52
Jamsetji TataTata Group 10:3210:32
Jan Koum & Brian ActonWhatsApp 9:589:58
Jan van de WinkelGenmab 9:249:24
Jean-Marie MessierVivendi 9:369:36
Jeff BezosJeff Bezos 9:58Amazon (company) 11:5021:48
Jeffrey SprecherIntercontinental Exchange 12:0612:06
Jensen HuangJensen Huang 10:21Nvidia 11:2421:45
Jerónimo MartinsBiedronka 9:309:30
Jerry SandersAMD 9:109:10
Jerry Yang & David FiloYahoo Inc. (2017–present) 10:0210:02
Jim Sinegal & Jeffrey BrotmanCostco 9:599:59
John DeereJohn Deere 9:269:26
John FoleyPeloton Interactive 11:2111:21
John James SainsburySainsbury's 10:1010:10
John MoodyMoody's Ratings 9:149:14
John Warnock & Charles GeschkeAdobe Inc. 9:599:59
Jorge Paulo LemannAmbev 10:2410:24
José Batista SobrinhoJBS S.A. ransomware attack 10:5610:56
Joseph C. WilsonXerox 10:1010:10
K. Anji ReddyDr. Reddy's Laboratories 9:449:44
K.V. KamathICICI Bank 11:2211:22
Karl AlbrechtAldi 10:1810:18
Kenneth Lay & Jeffrey SkillingEnron 9:159:15
Kevin Systrom & Mike KriegerInstagram 9:169:16
Kiichiro ToyodaToyota 11:0711:07
Kim Woo-choongDaewoo 10:5810:58
Kiran Mazumdar-ShawBiocon 10:3310:33
Kohlberg Kravis RobertsRJR Nabisco 10:4610:46
Konosuke MatsushitaPanasonic 11:4711:47
Koo In-hwoiLG Electronics 9:569:56
Kristian BirkelandNorsk Hydro 10:4810:48
Lakshmi MittalArcelorMittal 10:5310:53
Larry EllisonLarry Ellison 9:37Oracle Corporation 10:3920:16
Larry Page & Sergey BrinGoogle 8:288:28
Lee Byung-chulCJ Group 10:41Samsung 9:1019:51
Lei JunXiaomi 10:5310:53
Leo MelamedCME Group 11:1111:11
Leon BlackApollo Global Management 10:5310:53
Leonid MikhelsonNovatek 9:429:42
Li ShufuGeely 11:3111:31
Louis RenaultRenault 10:4410:44
Louis VuittonLouis Vuitton 10:0610:06
Luiz SeabraNatura 9:549:54
Malcolm McLeanIntermodal container 11:0811:08
Marc AndreessenMarc Andreessen 9:309:30
Marc BenioffMarc Benioff 9:29Salesforce 10:4820:17
Marc RichGlencore 9:539:53
Marcel FournierCarrefour 9:489:48
Marcus Goldman & Samuel SachsGoldman Sachs 10:0010:00
Marcus SamuelShell plc 10:1710:17
Mark ZuckerbergFacebook 10:38Mark Zuckerberg 9:58Meta Platforms 10:1830:54
Masayoshi SonMasayoshi Son 9:00SoftBank Group 10:5319:53
Michael Marks and Tom SpencerMarks & Spencer 9:449:44
Mike Lazaridis & Douglas FreginBlackBerry Limited 11:0011:00
Mohammad Al MaktoumEmirates (airline) 10:4610:46
Morris ChangMorris Chang 10:33TSMC 11:1921:52
Namihei OdairaHitachi 11:1011:10
Narayana MurthyInfosys 11:0211:02
NASDNasdaq 10:3610:36
Nicola RomeoAlfa Romeo 9:329:32
Nolan BushnellAtari 10:0810:08
Park Tae-joonPOSCO 10:4810:48
Patrick & John CollisonStripe, Inc. 10:2810:28
Peter MunkBarrick Mining 11:5011:50
Peter Thiel & Max LevchinPayPal 9:369:36
Phil KnightNike, Inc. 12:03Phil Knight 11:0723:10
Pony MaTencent 10:4810:48
Ray KrocRay Kroc 8:14McDonald's 10:4819:02
Reed Hastings & Marc RandolphNetflix, Inc. 9:329:32
Ren ZhengfeiHuawei 11:4211:42
Richard LiuJD.com 10:3810:38
Robert Noyce & Gordon MooreIntel 10:3310:33
Robert Wood JohnsonJohnson & Johnson 10:0110:01
Robin LiBaidu 10:3710:37
Rockefeller Standard OilExxonMobil 12:06Imperial Oil 10:4622:52
Sam Altman & othersOpenAI 9:589:58
Sam WaltonSam Walton 9:34Walmart 10:1419:48
Sergei GalitskiyMagnit 8:428:42
Shawn QuCanadian Solar 12:1112:11
Sheikh Mohamed bin ZayedEtihad Airways 10:2810:28
Shin Kyuk-hoLotte Corporation 12:5212:52
Stephen SchwarzmanBlackstone Inc. 10:4210:42
Steve Chen, Chad Hurley & Jawed KarimYouTube 9:509:50
Steve Huffman & Alexis OhanianReddit 9:089:08
Steve JobsSteve Jobs 10:36Apple Inc. 10:2521:01
Sunil MittalBharti Airtel 12:0912:09
Swiss chemical-agriculturalSyngenta 9:499:49
T.A. PetermanPeterbilt 10:0710:07
Tadashi YanaiTadashi Yanai 9:40Uniqlo 11:4321:23
Tan Chin TuanSingapore Airlines 11:0311:03
Peter Thiel

Co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, early Facebook investor. Zero to One grew out of a Stanford course.

Peter Thiel 10:0210:02
Thierry HermèsHermès 11:4011:40
Thomas EdisonGeneral Electric 10:2310:23
Thomas J. WatsonIBM 12:5412:54
Thomson familyFamily tree of Thomson family 9:589:58
Tim SweeneyEpic Games 10:53Tim Sweeney 8:5319:46
Tobias LütkeTobias Lütke 9:41Shopify 10:5420:35
Tom Anderson & Chris DeWolfeMyspace 9:369:36
Travis KalanickTravis Kalanick 9:40Uber 12:2622:06
Trip HawkinsElectronic Arts 10:4210:42
Vagit AlekperovLukoil 10:5210:52
Vladimir BogdanovSurgutneftegas 11:3411:34
Walt DisneyThe Walt Disney Company 11:2411:24
Wang ChuanfuBYD Company 11:1811:18
Wang XingMeituan 12:5712:57
Warner BrothersWarner Bros. 11:0211:02
Warren BuffettBerkshire Hathaway 12:05Warren Buffett 9:1621:21
Werner von SiemensSiemens 10:4410:44
WeWork Companies Inc.WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn 8:558:55
William C. DurantGeneral Motors 9:579:57
William Cornelius Van HorneCanadian Pacific Railway 11:3611:36
William Knox D'ArcyBP 10:0410:04
William LeverUnilever 13:3213:32
William MorrisonMorrisons 10:2410:24
Xavier NielFree (ISP) 10:5510:55
Yoshida ShojiAll Nippon Airways 9:559:55
Zhang YimingZhang Yiming 9:34ByteDance 12:56TikTok 10:5533:25