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Founders Who Built Companies Without Venture Capital
Founders Who Built Companies Without Venture Capital
by curious_compiler  • 
11 in common: Giacomo Guilizzoni, Sridhar Vembu and 9 more
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...
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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  • 
4 in common: Joel Gascoigne, Aytekin Tank and 2 more
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...
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Entrepreneurs Who Built Business Partnerships That Lasted Decades
Entrepreneurs Who Built Business Partnerships That Lasted Decades
by curious_compiler  • 
3 in common: David Packard, Mike Cannon-Brookes and 1 more
Long-running business partnerships are easier to understand when you look at the work each person did. These founders worked together for at least two decades, sometimes as joint executives...
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Business Leaders with Contrasting Approaches to Growth
Business Leaders with Contrasting Approaches to Growth
by curious_compiler  • 
2 in common: Yvon Chouinard and Warren Buffett
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...
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Businesspeople Who Built Fortunes in Retail
Businesspeople Who Built Fortunes in Retail
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Radhakishan Damani
For readers interested in the business behind familiar shops, these people show how retail ownership can become personal wealth. The selection moves from discount and warehouse formats to...
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Entrepreneurs Who Built Companies with Their Siblings
Entrepreneurs Who Built Companies with Their Siblings
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Nithin Kamath
A shared surname tells you little about who did the work. These sibling partnerships make more sense when you separate creative decisions, financing, product development and the daily business of...
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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: Mike Cannon-Brookes
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...
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Businesspeople Who Funded Long-Term Scientific Research
Businesspeople Who Funded Long-Term Scientific Research
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: David Packard
Scientific research needs more than a launch announcement. These 25 businesspeople helped finance institutes, endowments and recurring programmes that gave researchers time, facilities or...
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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...
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People Who Made Fortunes by Selling Businesses
People Who Made Fortunes by Selling Businesses
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Ben Chestnut
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...
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Businesspeople Who Built Enduring Companies from Modest Beginnings
Businesspeople Who Built Enduring Companies from Modest Beginnings
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: 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...
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Businesspeople Whose Fortunes Span Several Industries
Businesspeople Whose Fortunes Span Several Industries
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Warren Buffett
Some business fortunes are tied to one product; others developed through a network of companies with very different customers and economics. These 25 cases trace expansion into distinct...
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Wealthy People Who Made Public Giving Commitments
Wealthy People Who Made Public Giving Commitments
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Warren Buffett
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...
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The Wealthiest People Beyond Technology: A March 2026 Snapshot
The Wealthiest People Beyond Technology: A March 2026 Snapshot
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Warren Buffett
Thirty individual fortunes ranked by Forbes’s 2026 annual estimates, valued on 1 March in US dollars; bn means billion. Selection starts with the publisher’s primary industry classification and...
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The World's Richest Individuals: A March 2026 Snapshot
The World's Richest Individuals: A March 2026 Snapshot
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Warren Buffett
A fixed-date comparison using Forbes's annual World's Billionaires ranking, published on 10 March 2026 with stock prices and exchange rates from 1 March. Values below are estimated net worth in US...
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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  • 
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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...
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People Who Changed How We Measure the World
People Who Changed How We Measure the World
by curious_compiler  • 
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A measurement becomes useful when other people can compare it, repeat it or understand its uncertainty. These are my choices across observation, practical standards and statistics: people who...
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People Whose Correspondence Reveals an Extraordinary Mind
People Whose Correspondence Reveals an Extraordinary Mind
by curious_compiler  • 
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For a biography reader, letters can reveal how an idea is tested, explained or turned into a piece of work. These are my choices across science, literature, art, philosophy and public life, using...
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Entrepreneurs Who Turned Trade Skills into Businesses
Entrepreneurs Who Turned Trade Skills into Businesses
by curious_compiler  • 
Trending in Business
Before the company names came work with tools, materials and customers. These biographies connect practical trades with businesses: plumbing, shoemaking, baking, pottery, metalwork, hairdressing...
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