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People Whose Apprenticeships Shaped an Unusual Career
People Whose Apprenticeships Shaped an Unusual Career
by curious_compiler  • 
2 in common: Josiah Wedgwood and Henry Royce
Apprenticeship rarely gets the credit that a university degree does, yet many remarkable careers started with years of hands-on training in a workshop, kitchen, print shop or tailor's. This list...
People
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Entrepreneurs Who Turned Trade Skills into Businesses
Entrepreneurs Who Turned Trade Skills into Businesses
by curious_compiler  • 
2 in common: Thierry Hermès and Josiah Wedgwood
Before the company names came work with tools, materials and customers. These biographies connect practical trades with businesses: plumbing, shoemaking, baking, pottery, metalwork, hairdressing...
Business
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs Who Built Lasting Companies
Immigrant Entrepreneurs Who Built Lasting Companies
by list_wrangler  • 
In common: Henry E. Steinway
From a French gunpowder maker on the Brandywine to a Kurdish cheesemaker in upstate New York, these are founders who moved countries and built companies that are still trading. Each entry sets out...
Business
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Founders Who Stayed Close to Product Design
Founders Who Stayed Close to Product Design
by curious_compiler  • 
2 in common: Henry Royce and Yvon Chouinard
Plenty of founders are credited with designing everything their company sold. Fewer actually sat at the drawing board, the workbench or the cutting table once the business was large. This list...
Business
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Businesspeople Who Built Enduring Companies from Modest Beginnings
Businesspeople Who Built Enduring Companies from Modest Beginnings
by curious_compiler  • 
2 in common: Ole Kirk Christiansen and Yvon Chouinard
A small first shop, workshop or product range can be the beginning of a company that lasts for decades. Here, modest describes the opening operation, not a claim that every person grew up in...
Business
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Business Biographies That Reveal How Ownership Works
Business Biographies That Reveal How Ownership Works
by list_wrangler  • 
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Who owns a company and who controls it are often different questions. These businesspeople's careers show the machinery in action: shares with ten votes, family trusts with an expiry date, holding...
Business
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Socialist Thinkers Beyond the Most Familiar Names
Socialist Thinkers Beyond the Most Familiar Names
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: William Morris
Socialism is often reduced to Marx and Lenin, but its arguments were shaped by people who disagreed sharply with each other: cooperative builders and anarchists, revolutionaries and gradualists...
Politics
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Businesspeople Who Built Trusted Household Brands
Businesspeople Who Built Trusted Household Brands
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Ole Kirk Christiansen
A brand earns a place in the kitchen cupboard or bathroom cabinet by being the same every time, being easy to find and keeping its promises when things go wrong. This list is about the people who...
Business
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Entrepreneurs Who Started Their Defining Business After Forty
Entrepreneurs Who Started Their Defining Business After Forty
by list_wrangler  • 
In common: Henry Royce
The founders here were at least forty when they started the business they are remembered for, and every age is checked against a documented founding date rather than a legend. Most had spent...
Business
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Entrepreneurs Who Made Repair and Reuse Commercially Viable
Entrepreneurs Who Made Repair and Reuse Commercially Viable
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Yvon Chouinard
Fixing things and passing them on sounds virtuous, but it only lasts when somebody makes it pay. This list is about the founders who did: chains that mend shoes and cars, marketplaces that keep...
Business
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People Who Transferred Company Ownership to Foundations
People Who Transferred Company Ownership to Foundations
by list_wrangler  • 
In common: Yvon Chouinard
Some of the world's best-known companies, Bosch, Rolex, Carlsberg, IKEA and Patagonia among them, are owned not by shareholders but by foundations their founders set up. This list explains, for...
Business
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Wealthy People Who Changed How They Planned Their Legacy
Wealthy People Who Changed How They Planned Their Legacy
by list_wrangler  • 
In common: Yvon Chouinard
Big fortunes rarely end up where their owners first said they would. This list follows people who publicly and verifiably changed their plans: rewriting a will after reading a premature obituary...
Business
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People Whose Lives Make a Good Starting Point for Biography Readers
People Whose Lives Make a Good Starting Point for Biography Readers
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Josiah Wedgwood
A good first biography gives you a person to follow and a wider world to explore. These lives offer routes into science, art, public life and business through specific, researched books. The...
People
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Business Leaders with Contrasting Approaches to Growth
Business Leaders with Contrasting Approaches to Growth
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Yvon Chouinard
Buying competitors, opening shops, developing new products and deciding to slow down are very different ways to build a company. These leaders make the differences concrete. Start with Buffett...
Business
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People Who Built Fortunes from Everyday Consumer Goods
People Who Built Fortunes from Everyday Consumer Goods
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Yvon Chouinard
From cereal and bottled drinks to pens, cosmetics and clothing, these businesspeople built valuable ownership interests around familiar purchases. The selection moves through food and drink...
Business
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Founders Who Built Companies Without Venture Capital
Founders Who Built Companies Without Venture Capital
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Yvon Chouinard
For a small-business owner, the useful question is how the work was financed. These founders built the named companies without institutional venture funding before a public listing, a control sale...
Business
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Entrepreneurs Who Prioritised Profit Before Rapid Expansion
Entrepreneurs Who Prioritised Profit Before Rapid Expansion
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Yvon Chouinard
For a small-business owner, these are useful cases of making growth answer to a viable operation. Some founders established profits early; others changed course after spending or expansion created...
Business
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People Who Turned Specialist Trade into a Global Business
People Who Turned Specialist Trade into a Global Business
by list_wrangler  • 
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Some of the world's largest and least visible businesses grew out of narrow trades: tea, grain, diamonds, oil, metals, old masters, postage stamps. What let a single merchant or dealer go global...
Business
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Stars Who Turned a Signature Hairstyle into an Icon
Stars Who Turned a Signature Hairstyle into an Icon
by list_wrangler  • 
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A bob, a beehive or a mohawk can define a career as much as any role. These are the stars whose hair became shorthand for an era or a screen persona, from the silent-film bob to the asymmetric...
Celebrities
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