Founders, CEOs, and entrepreneurs.
Tony Hawk landed the first documented 900 in 1999, licensed the Tony Hawk's video game series and owns the skateboard company Birdhouse.
Tom Steyer founded the hedge fund Farallon Capital in 1986, left in 2012 for climate advocacy, and spent over $253 million on his 2020 presidential run.
Rick Caruso, son of the Dollar Rent-A-Car founder, founded the real estate company Caruso in 1987, chaired USC's board of trustees and ran for Los Angeles mayor in 2022.
Laurene Powell Jobs co-founded the natural foods company Terravera, then founded Emerson Collective, became lead investor and chair of The Atlantic and co-founded XQ Institute.
Alice Walton, the world's richest woman as of July 2025 at $116 billion, founded the investment bank Llama Company in 1988 and helped develop the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport.
Jim Walton, the youngest son of Sam Walton, joined Walmart in 1972, ran Walton Enterprises from 1975 and joined Walmart's board in 2005; Forbes estimates his net worth at $142.4 billion.
Baiju Bhatt co-founded zero-commission trading platform Robinhood in 2013 with Vlad Tenev, led its product and design, and later founded Cowboy Space Corporation.
Paula Deen built a Savannah restaurant, The Lady & Sons, with her sons, wrote fifteen cookbooks and became a Southern-cooking television personality.
Jim Sinegal started as a FedMart grocery bagger in 1955, co-founded Costco and led it as CEO from 1983 to 2011, prioritizing employees and customers over shareholder short-termism.
Vlad Tenev moved from Bulgaria at five, met Baiju Bhatt at Stanford and co-founded Robinhood, which became a publicly traded multibillion-dollar fintech company.
Aaron Patzer founded Mint.com, sold to Intuit in 2009, then Fountain.com, sold to Porch.com in 2015, and the health app Vital.
Alexis Ohanian co-founded Reddit with Steve Huffman and Aaron Swartz, then co-founded the venture firm Initialized Capital and worked as a Y Combinator partner.
