interesting entrepreneur

  • Henry Ford

    Henry Ford
    1. the founder of the Ford Motor Company
    2. sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production
    3. American captain of industry and a business magnate
  • Coco Chanel

    Coco Chanel
    1.a French fashion designer
    2.founder and namesake of the Chanel brand
    3.she was sent to an orphanage in a convent
  • Walt Disney

    Walt Disney
    1.He once played Peter Pan in a school play
    2.He was a high school drop out
    3.He didn't draw Mickey Mouse
  • Oprah Winfrey

    Oprah Winfrey
    1.Oprah Winfrey is the first black woman billionaire and the richest African-American woman.
    2.Referred to by many as the most influential woman in the world.
    3.In 2013, Winfrey was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (the nation's highest civilian honor) by President Barack Obama.
  • Steve Case

    Steve Case
    1.businessman best known as the former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online
    2. he was hired as a marketing consultant for Control Video
    3.He became CEO in 1991
  • Linda Bennett

    Linda Bennett
    1. English-Icelandic clothing designer
    2. founding the fashion retailer L.K.Bennett 3.she went to University of Reading
  • Jeff Benzos

    Jeff Benzos
    1. American technology entrepreneur 2.investor, and philanthropist
    2. founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon, the world's largest online shopping retailer
  • Simon Nixon

    Simon Nixon
    1. English billionaire businessman
    2. co-founder of and former deputy chairman of Moneysupermarket.com
  • William Gates

    William Gates
    1.He co-founded one of the most successful tech companies of all time in Microsoft
    2.He's the richest man in America
    3.He's an extremely generous philanthropist through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation