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Founders Who Stayed Close to Product Design
Founders Who Stayed Close to Product Design
by curious_compiler  • 
3 in common: Tony Fadell, Steve Wozniak and 1 more
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...
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Engineers Who Helped Make Computing Personal
Engineers Who Helped Make Computing Personal
by gadget_bench  • 
2 in common: Jef Raskin and Steve Wozniak
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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Entrepreneurs Who Built New Businesses After Corporate Careers
Entrepreneurs Who Built New Businesses After Corporate Careers
by curious_compiler  • 
2 in common: Eric Yuan and Jan Koum
A corporate career can supply more than a reason to leave: skills, colleagues, customers and enough savings to attempt something new. These entrepreneurs built substantial businesses after jobs at...
Business
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs Who Built Lasting Companies
Immigrant Entrepreneurs Who Built Lasting Companies
by list_wrangler  • 
In common: Jan Koum
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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People Who Built Businesses Around Open-Source Software
People Who Built Businesses Around Open-Source Software
by gadget_bench  • 
In common: Matt Mullenweg
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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Inventors Who Made Everyday Devices More Practical
Inventors Who Made Everyday Devices More Practical
by gadget_bench  • 
More from gadget_bench
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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Founders Who Built Technology Companies Outside Major Hubs
Founders Who Built Technology Companies Outside Major Hubs
by gadget_bench  • 
In common: Melanie Perkins
For most of the past fifty years, technology capital and talent clustered in a few places: Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston, New York and, later, London, Beijing and Shenzhen. The founders on this...
Technology
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Women Who Founded Influential Technology Companies
Women Who Founded Influential Technology Companies
by gadget_bench  • 
In common: Melanie Perkins
These are founders whose companies changed a part of technology: software outsourcing, manufacturing systems, hospital records, networking, virtualisation, genetics, online learning and more. Each...
Technology
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Technology Founders Who Built for Small Businesses
Technology Founders Who Built for Small Businesses
by gadget_bench  • 
In common: Matt Mullenweg
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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Founders Who Retained Large Stakes in Their Companies
Founders Who Retained Large Stakes in Their Companies
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Eric Yuan
Going public does not always mean selling away most of a founder's interest. These 25 cases examine substantial retained shareholdings, using company disclosures for dates in 2024 and 2025. The...
Business
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Entrepreneurs Who Turned an Everyday Problem into a Business
Entrepreneurs Who Turned an Everyday Problem into a Business
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Tony Fadell
A clogged vacuum, difficult paperwork or an awkward search for help can reveal a customer need. These historical examples connect a recognisable problem to a specific product or service, then...
Business
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Chief Executives Who Improved a Struggling Business
Chief Executives Who Improved a Struggling Business
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Steve Jobs
Turnarounds make good stories, and the stories usually flatter the person at the top. This list sticks to chief executives who took over companies in clear trouble, losing money, losing customers...
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: Steve Wozniak
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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Business Leaders Who Changed Their Company's Business Model
Business Leaders Who Changed Their Company's Business Model
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Steve Jobs
A business model changes when a company earns its money differently, serves different customers or reorganises how it delivers its work. These leaders helped make such changes through...
Business
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People Who Made Fortunes by Selling Businesses
People Who Made Fortunes by Selling Businesses
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Jan Koum
A company sale can turn years of business ownership into cash, shares in a larger company or a mixture of both. These 25 people illustrate different routes to that outcome, from a small founding...
Business
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Entrepreneurs Who Turned Research into Useful Technology
Entrepreneurs Who Turned Research into Useful Technology
by gadget_bench  • 
More from gadget_bench
Each of these people took an idea out of a laboratory or a thesis and turned it into something people use: the chip, the network cable, the database, the camera sensor, the search engine and the...
Technology
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