Founders
Company Founders
114 founder profiles — backgrounds, founding stories, and legacy.
Abraham Anderson
The Campbell's Company
Adrian Dalsey
DHL Group
Alva Kinney
Conagra Brands, Inc.
Amory Houghton Sr.
Corning Incorporated
Antonio Swad
Wingstop Inc.
Arthur J. Schmitt
Amphenol Corporation
Assar Gabrielsson
Volvo Car AB, AB Volvo
Astra AB Consortium
AstraZeneca PLC
Barbara Novick
BlackRock, Inc.
Ben Golub
BlackRock, Inc.
Ben Huston
Carvana Co.
Bill Gates
Microsoft Corporation
Brian Armstrong
Coinbase Global
Brian Chesky
Airbnb, Inc.
Carlyle Fraser
Genuine Parts Company
Charles Le Bègue de Germiny
BNP Paribas SA
Charles R. Lee
Verizon
Charles R. Schwab
The Charles Schwab Corporation
Charlie Morrison
Wingstop Inc.
Chris Malachowsky
NVIDIA Corporation
Clessie Lyle Cummins
Cummins Inc.
Collett Everman Woolman
Delta Air Lines, Inc.
Conrad Nicholson Hilton
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.
Curtis Priem
NVIDIA Corporation
David A. Jones Jr.
Humana Inc.
Debra A. Cafaro
Ventas
Donald Fisher
Gap, Inc.
Doris F. Fisher
Gap, Inc.
Edward Robinson Squibb
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Elon Musk
OpenAI, SpaceX, Tesla, Inc.
Émile Pereire
BNP Paribas SA
Ernest Garcia III
Carvana Co.
Ernest Mercier
TotalEnergies SE
Estée Lauder
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.
Ferruccio Lamborghini
Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A.
FPL Group Corporate Restructuring
NextEra Energy, Inc.
Francisco D'Souza
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation
Francois Pinault
Kering SA
Frank Little
Conagra Brands, Inc.
Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
Chanel S.A.
George Conrad Westervelt
The Boeing Company
George Garvin Brown
Brown-Forman Corporation
George Merck
Merck & Co., Inc.
H.J. Lamb
Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc.
Hartford Investors (Connecticut General Life Insurance Company)
The Cigna Group
Henry S. Terry
MetLife, Inc.
Henry Wells
American Express Company, Wells Fargo
Hospital Corporation of Indiana Organizers
Elevance Health, Inc.
Hugh Frater
BlackRock, Inc.
Ian Wright
Tesla, Inc.
Indiana Hospital Service Directors
Elevance Health, Inc.
Ingvar Kamprad
IKEA Group (INGKA Holding B.V.)
Isaac Pereire
BNP Paribas SA
James Gamble
The Procter & Gamble Company, The Procter & Gamble Company
Jason Citron
Discord Inc.
JB Straubel
Tesla, Inc.
Jean Madar
Interparfums, Inc.
Jensen Huang
NVIDIA Corporation
John C. Bogle
Vanguard
John Fairfield Dryden
Prudential Financial Inc.
John Foley
Peloton Interactive, Inc.
John Freame
Barclays PLC
John Harvey Kellogg
Kellanova
Joseph A. Campbell
The Campbell's Company
Kevin Clark
Aptiv PLC
Kim Chul-ho
Kia Corporation
Kristo Käärmann
Wise plc
Kumar Mahadeva
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation
Lakshmi Narayanan
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation
Larry Fink
BlackRock, Inc.
Larry Page
Alphabet Inc.
Liang Rubo
ByteDance Ltd., TikTok
Lihong Qin
NIO Inc.
Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton Malletier SAS
Luis von Ahn
Duolingo, Inc.
Marc Tarpenning
Tesla, Inc.
Martin Eberhard
Tesla, Inc.
Martin Lorentzon
Spotify Technology S.A.
Masayoshi Son
SoftBank Group Corp.
Max Levchin
Affirm Holdings, Inc., PayPal Holdings, Inc.
Merchants Bank of Halifax Founders
Royal Bank of Canada
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Infosys Limited
Nathan Blecharczyk
Airbnb, Inc.
Patrick E. Haggerty
Texas Instruments Inc.
Philadelphia Merchants (Insurance Company of North America)
The Cigna Group
Pierre Omidyar
eBay Inc.
Pitt Hyde Jr.
AutoZone, Inc.
Prof. Ozlem Tureci, M.D.
BioNTech SE
Prof. Ugur Sahin, M.D.
BioNTech SE
Ralph Lauren
Ralph Lauren Corporation
Ralph Schlosstein
BlackRock, Inc.
Robert D. Walter
Cardinal Health, Inc.
Robert S. Kapito
BlackRock, Inc.
Ryan Cohen
Chewy, Inc.
Ryan Keeton
Carvana Co.
Samuel P. Geisberg
PTC Inc.
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
The Allstate Corporation
Sehat Sutardja
Marvell Technology, Inc.
Sergey Brin
Alphabet Inc.
Stan Vishnevskiy
Discord Inc.
Susan Wagner
BlackRock, Inc.
Taavet Hinrikus
Wise plc
Takemitsu Takizaki
Keyence Corporation
Thierry Hermès
Hermès International
Thomas Gould
Barclays PLC
Weili Dai
Marvell Technology, Inc.
Wendell Cherry
Humana Inc.
Will Keith Kellogg
Kellanova
William E. Boeing
The Boeing Company, United Airlines Holdings, Inc.
William Fargo
American Express Company, Wells Fargo
William Li
NIO Inc.
William Procter
The Procter & Gamble Company, The Procter & Gamble Company
William R. Berkley
W. R. Berkley Corporation
Zhang Yiming
ByteDance Ltd., TikTok