12 Greatest Entrepreneurs

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12 Greatest Entrepreneurs of the world


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Narayana Murthy

Company: Infosys

Sales: $6.0 billion

Market Value: $32 billion

Employees: 145,088 Advice: Sacrifice today, cash in tomorrow

Global rank: 10

He and six other engineers co-founded Infosys in 1981.

Murthy served as CEO from 1981 to 2002. From 2002 to2011, he served as the Chairman. In 2011, he steppeddown from the board and became Chairman Emeritus.


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Murthy's first job position was at IIM Ahmedabad, where he

worked as the chief systems programmer. After IIM

Ahmedabad, he started a company named Softronics in 1976.

When that company failed, he joined Patni Computer Systems

in Pune.


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Steve Jobs

Company: Apple

Sales: $108.2 billion


Employees: 63,300

Advice: Say no to focus groups and market research.

Global rank: 1

Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman,designer and inventor. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of AppleInc.


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Through Apple, he was widely recognised as acharismatic pioneer of the personal computerrevolution and for his influential career in the

computer and consumer electronics fields. Jobs also co-founded and served as chief

executive of Pixar Animation Studios; hebecame a member of the board of directors ofThe Walt Disney Company in 2006, whenDisney acquired Pixar.


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Bill Gates

Company: Microsoft


Market Value: $273.5 billion

Employees: 90,000

Advice: Find very smart people and create small teams.

Global rank: 2

William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American businessmagnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. Gates isthe former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, thesoftware company he founded with Paul Allen.


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He is consistently ranked among the world's

wealthiest people and was the wealthiest

overall from 1995 to 2009, excluding 2008,

when he was ranked third; in 2011 he was thewealthiest American and the second

wealthiest person.


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Fred Smith

Company: FedEx



Employees: 255,573 Advice: Rely on "first-level" managers

Global rank: 3

"When people ask me what principles have guided me

since I started FedEx Corp. years ago," he has said, "myanswer often startles them: It's the leadership tenets that Ilearned in the US Marine Corps during my service inVietnam."


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FedEx Corporation, originally known as FDX

Corporation, is a logistics services company,

based in the United States with headquarters

in Memphis, Tennessee.

The name "FedEx" is a syllabic abbreviation of

the name of the company's original air

division, Federal Express, which was used from1973 until 2000.


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Jeff Bezos

Company: Amazon


MarketValue: $48.1 billion

Employees: 56,200

Advice: Take regular mini-retreats

Global rank: 4

Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezos is the founder,president, chief executive officer, and chairman ofthe board of Amazon.com.


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Bezos often showed intense scientific

interests. He rigged an electric alarm to keep

his younger siblings out of his room. He

converted his parents' garage into a laboratoryfor science projects.


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Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Company: Google


Market Value: $203.2 billion

Employees: 32,500

Advice: Spare no expense on innovation

Globalrank: 5

Lawrence "Larry" Page is an American computerscientist and internet entrepreneur who, with SergeyBrin, is best known as the co-founder of Google.


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Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is an American

computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur

who, with Larry Page, co-founded Google, one

of the most profitable Internet companies.


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Howard Schultz

Company: Starbucks



Employees: 149,000

Advice: Always challenge the old ways

Global rank: 6

Howard Schultz is an American business magnate. He isbest known as the chairman and CEO of Starbucks anda former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics.


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After graduating, he worked as a salespersonfor Xerox Corporation. In 1979 he became ageneral manager for Swedish drip coffee

maker manufacturer, Hammarplast. In 1981, Schultz visited a client of

Hammarplast, a fledgling coffee-bean shopcalled Starbucks Coffee Company in Seattlewhich he joined as the Director of Marketing ayear later.


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Mark Zuckerberg

Company: Facebook


MarketValue: $75 billion-$100 billion

Employees: 3,200

Advice: Embrace paranoia

Globalrank: 7

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computerprogrammer and Internet entrepreneur. He is bestknown for co-creating the social networking siteFacebook, of which he is chief executive.


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It was co-founded as a private company in

2004 by Zuckerberg and classmates Dustin

Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes

while they were students at HarvardUniversity.


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John Mackey

Company: Whole Foods



Employees: 56,200

Advice: Purpose inspires people

Globalrank: 8

John Mackey is an American businessman. He isthe CEO of Whole Foods Market which he had co-founded in 1980.


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Named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the

Year in 2003, Mackey is a strong supporter of

free market economics.

He is one of the most influential advocates in

the movement for organic food.


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Herb Kelleher

Company: Southwest Airlines



Employees: 45,392

Advice: Make your customers No. 1

Globalrank: 9

Herbert "Herb" Dwight Kelleher is the co-founder,Chairman Emeritus, and former CEO ofSouthwest Airlines (based in the United States).


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Kelleher was born in Trenton, New Jersey onMarch 12, 1931 and raised in Audubon, NewJersey, where he graduated from Haddon

Heights High School. He has a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan

University where he was an Olin Scholar andwhere his major was English and his minorPhilosophy, and a Juris Doctor from New YorkUniversity where he was a Root-Tilden Scholar.


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Sam Walton

Company: Wal-Mart Stores



Employees: 2.0 million

Advice: Give the people what they want

Globalrank: 11

Samuel Moore "Sam" Walton was a businessman andentrepreneur born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, bestknown for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam'sClub.


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In 1945, after leaving the military, Walton took

over management of his first variety store at

the age of 26. With the help of a $20,000 loan

from his father-in-law, plus $5,000 he hadsaved from his time in the Army, Walton

purchased a Ben Franklin variety store in

Newport, Arkansas.


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Muhammad Yunus

Company: Grameen Bank

Advice: Small gifts can equal big impacts

Globalrank: 12

Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economistand founder of the Grameen Bank, an institutionthat provides microcredit (small loans to poor

people possessing no collateral) to help its clientsestablish creditworthiness and financial self-sufficiency.


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In 2006 Yunus and Grameen received the

Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts through

microcredit to create economic and social

development from below".

Yunus himself has received several other

national and international honours.

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