Woody Johnson, a Johnson & Johnson heir, bought the New York Jets for $635 million in 2000 and served as US ambassador to the UK from 2017 to 2021.
Kenneth Chenault spent 37 years at American Express, leading it as chairman and CEO from 2001 to 2018, and now chairs the venture firm General Catalyst.
Larry Fink co-founded BlackRock, now the world's largest money manager with more than $10 trillion in assets under management, after starting as a mortgage-backed securities trader at First Boston.
Sallie Krawcheck rose from Sanford C. Bernstein analyst to head of Bank of America's wealth division, then founded Ellevest, an investing platform for women, in 2016.
Emily Weiss started the beauty blog Into the Gloss between 4 and 8 a.m. before her Vogue day job, then founded the cosmetics company Glossier.
Tommy Hilfiger co-founded a chain of jeans stores, launched his own preppy menswear line in the 1980s, took the company public in 1992 and sold it for $1.6 billion in 2006.
Calvin Klein grew up in the Bronx, apprenticed at a cloak-and-suit manufacturer in 1962 and launched the company that became Calvin Klein in 1968.
Lloyd Blankfein led Goldman Sachs as chairman and CEO from 2006 to 2018, guiding it through the 2008 financial crisis, and has been senior chairman since 2019.
Marcus Goldman, a Bavarian schoolteacher who emigrated in 1848, founded what became Goldman Sachs, one of the world's largest investment banks.
John Jacob Astor built an American fur trade monopoly, exported opium to China and invested in New York real estate, becoming the first multi-millionaire in the United States.
Jimmy Wales, a former options trader, launched Wikipedia on January 15, 2001 with Larry Sanger and co-founded the wiki host Fandom.
William Colgate apprenticed with a New York soap-boiler, then in 1806 set up a starch, soap and candle business on Dutch Street that became Colgate-Palmolive.
