List of successful founders who didn’t go directly into entrepreneurship. https://t.co/5yjnGhRP0x
List of successful founders who didn’t go directly into entrepreneurship. https://t.co/5yjnGhRP0x
But it was Geoff's introduction to Vinod Khosla, who ultimately funded the company along with Geoff, that really made the difference. Vinod interrupted the demo and said, "Can your technology scale? Can it search a big database?" And we said, "That's an interesting question. Nobody's asked us before." We liked the fact that he d
... See moreJessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Rich Barton is hardly a household name. Perhaps this is because he’s not based here, and makes relatively few investments. However, while there are more visible founders (like Bezos and Zuckerberg) who’ve built bigger businesses, market cap and notoriety aren’t the only measures of a founder. And Barton is a strong contender for the title of best c... See more
kwokchain.com • Making Uncommon Knowledge Common
Other than Google and Oracle, companies like IBM, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Hewlett-Packard, McKinsey, Apple, Bain, Morgan Stanley, and NASA have all produced their fair share of billion-dollar founders.
Ali Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is a British billionaire, entrepreneur, and business magnate. In the 1970s he founded the Virgin Group, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields. Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age.
