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People Who Built Businesses Around Open-Source Software
People Who Built Businesses Around Open-Source Software
by gadget_bench  • 
In common: Michael Tiemann
Open-source code can be copied, changed and redistributed by anyone, which makes selling it an odd business. The people on this list found ways anyway: support contracts, subscriptions to tested...
Technology
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Engineers Who Helped Make Computing Personal
Engineers Who Helped Make Computing Personal
by gadget_bench  • 
In common: Gary Kildall
The personal computer was built by teams, not lone geniuses. This list credits the engineers and programmers behind its key pieces: the mouse and windows, the microprocessor, the operating system...
Technology
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Founders Who Built Companies Without Venture Capital
Founders Who Built Companies Without Venture Capital
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Philippe Kahn
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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Founders Who Turned Side Projects into Their Main Businesses
Founders Who Turned Side Projects into Their Main Businesses
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: David Heinemeier Hansson
A side project becomes a business when somebody has to make room for it: leaving a job, reducing freelance work, stepping away from studies or changing a company's direction. These founders offer...
Business
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Technology Founders Who Built for Small Businesses
Technology Founders Who Built for Small Businesses
by gadget_bench  • 
In common: David Heinemeier Hansson
These founders built software and payment tools for the corner shop, the freelancer and the ten-person firm rather than the global corporation: accounting, email marketing, card readers, websites...
Technology
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Businesspeople Who Funded Long-Term Scientific Research
Businesspeople Who Funded Long-Term Scientific Research
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Paul Allen
Scientific research needs more than a launch announcement. These 25 businesspeople helped finance institutes, endowments and recurring programmes that gave researchers time, facilities or...
Business
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Wealthy People Who Made Public Giving Commitments
Wealthy People Who Made Public Giving Commitments
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Paul Allen
Public promises say different things about wealth, timing and control. This historical reference list examines dated commitments, separating intentions from completed transfers and crediting joint...
Business
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People Who Made the Internet Work at Scale
People Who Made the Internet Work at Scale
by gadget_bench  • 
More from gadget_bench
Nobody invented the internet. It works because hundreds of people solved specific problems and agreed to share the answers as open standards. This list credits some of the most important: packet...
Technology
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Inventors Who Made Everyday Devices More Practical
Inventors Who Made Everyday Devices More Practical
by gadget_bench  • 
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Few everyday objects had a single inventor. This list picks out the people whose specific improvement made something reliable, cheap or easy enough for ordinary use: the trap under the sink, the...
Technology
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