Rupert Murdoch
Murdoch didn’t build a media empire — he hacked national media regulations, one citizenship and one tabloid at a time.
The United States
A country that argues with its own founding documents in public.
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Dominion Energy
A utility built on 18th-century river trusts now profits from gas pipelines and LNG terminals — but its 2022 power mix still runs on coal and gas.
Southern Company
A regulated utility isn’t a tech platform — it’s a 120,000-square-mile, ratepayer-funded machine for moving electrons and gas.
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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.
Ray Kroc
Ray Kroc was the American businessman who bought McDonald's in 1961 and helped turn it into a worldwide franchise chain.
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.