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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, Jack Dangermond 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...
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  • 
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...
Business
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Founders Who Built Technology Companies Outside Major Hubs
Founders Who Built Technology Companies Outside Major Hubs
by gadget_bench  • 
3 in common: James Goodnight, Mike Cannon-Brookes and 1 more
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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Technology Founders Who Built for Small Businesses
Technology Founders Who Built for Small Businesses
by gadget_bench  • 
3 in common: Jason Fried, Sridhar Vembu and 1 more
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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Wealthy People Who Changed How They Planned Their Legacy
Wealthy People Who Changed How They Planned Their Legacy
by list_wrangler  • 
2 in common: Yvon Chouinard and Warren Buffett
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 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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Indian Business Leaders Beyond the Largest Conglomerates
Indian Business Leaders Beyond the Largest Conglomerates
by curious_compiler  • 
3 in common: Radhakishan Damani, Nithin Kamath and 1 more
India's business story is often told through a few family conglomerates. This list looks past them to founders and managers who built substantial companies with a clear operating edge: a...
Business
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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...
Business
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Software Founders Who Solved Unfashionable Business Problems
Software Founders Who Solved Unfashionable Business Problems
by gadget_bench  • 
2 in common: James Goodnight and Mike Cannon-Brookes
Payroll, bookkeeping, spreadsheets, bug tracking and document formats will never trend, but software that handles them runs most of the working world. This list credits the founders and...
Technology
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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...
Business
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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...
Business
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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...
Business
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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...
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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Business Leaders Known for Unusually Clear Shareholder Letters
Business Leaders Known for Unusually Clear Shareholder Letters
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Warren Buffett
Most annual letters are written by committees to say nothing. The handful here are worth reading because their authors explain how the business makes money, admit mistakes in plain words and say...
Business
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Business Executives Who Challenged Short-Term Incentives
Business Executives Who Challenged Short-Term Incentives
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Warren Buffett
Quarterly targets, share-price bonuses and activist pressure push companies towards whatever looks good by next spring. The executives here made specific decisions against that pull: scrapping...
Business
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Entrepreneurs Who Built Companies Around Craftsmanship
Entrepreneurs Who Built Companies Around Craftsmanship
by list_wrangler  • 
In common: Yvon Chouinard
Craftsmanship is easy to claim and hard to run as a business: skilled work is slow, training takes years, and growth tempts owners to cut corners. This list compares people who built companies on...
Business
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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...
Business
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Business Leaders Who Made Succession Work
Business Leaders Who Made Succession Work
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Warren Buffett
Handing over the top job is where many strong companies stumble. This list covers both sides of successions that held up: leaders who planned their own exit and picked or developed a successor...
Business
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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...
Business
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