Founders, CEOs, and entrepreneurs.
Cameron Winklevoss, an Olympic rower with twin brother Tyler, co-founded ConnectU, sued Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook in 2004 and went on to co-found the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange.
Jack Welch ran GE from 1981 to 2001, growing its market value from $14 billion to $600 billion, though his financial-services strategy drew later scrutiny.
Carl Icahn made his name as a 1980s corporate raider through TWA and pioneered shareholder activism as a mainstream hedge-fund strategy.
Ray Dalio traded commodities from a converted Connecticut barn after Harvard and built Bridgewater into one of the world's largest hedge funds, then wrote Principles.
Bill Marriott pushed his father's restaurant company into hotels, led Marriott as CEO from 1972 to 2012 and introduced revenue management to the hotel industry.
Herb Kelleher, a Texas lawyer, co-founded Southwest Airlines with Rollin King and fought four years of legal challenges, winning at the US Supreme Court in 1970, to launch low-cost service across the Texas Triangle.
Indra Nooyi moved from Chennai to Yale in 1978 and led PepsiCo as chairman and CEO from 2006 to 2018, ranking repeatedly among the world's most powerful women.
Ginni Rometty joined IBM as a systems engineer in 1981 and became its first female CEO in 2012, steering the company toward analytics, cloud and cognitive computing.
Mary Barra started at GM as an 18-year-old co-op student checking fender panels and became CEO in 2014, the first woman to lead a Big Three automaker.
Sundar Pichai joined Google in 2004, led Chrome, ChromeOS and Google Drive, became Google's CEO in 2015 and Alphabet's CEO in 2019.
Satya Nadella joined Microsoft in 1992, led its shift to cloud computing and succeeded Steve Ballmer as CEO in 2014 and John Thompson as chairman in 2021.
Lisa Su has led AMD since 2014, growing its market value from roughly $3 billion to more than $700 billion and overtaking Intel in market capitalization for the first time.
