Ray Kroc
Ray Kroc was the American businessman who bought McDonald's in 1961 and helped turn it into a worldwide franchise chain.
Management
The discipline of getting work out of other people, invented surprisingly recently.
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Lean manufacturing
Lean manufacturing is not about cutting waste — it’s about who gets to define what waste is.
Reed Hastings
Netflix didn’t sell content — it sold culture as a hiring interface.
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BHP
BHP is an Australian mining company, founded at Broken Hill in 1885, that today mines iron ore, copper and coal.
Gabe Newell
Gabe Newell left Microsoft in 1996 to found Valve, the game company whose Steam service came to carry most of its revenue.
Jumbo
Jumbo is a Dutch supermarket chain, owned by the Van Eerd Group, that grew from one store in a former church in Tilburg into the second largest in the Netherlands.
Carlos Slim
Carlos Slim is the Mexican businessman who built Grupo Carso, a conglomerate whose fortune rests mainly on telecommunications.