Founders, CEOs, and entrepreneurs.
Bob Parsons founded GoDaddy in 1997, sold about 70 percent to a private equity consortium in 2011 and now runs YAM Worldwide across power sports, golf, real estate and marketing.
Brian Roberts became Comcast's president at 31 in 1990 and CEO in 2002, growing revenue from $657 million to $122 billion by 2024.
Andy Grove fled Hungary in 1956, joined Intel as its third employee and, as CEO, turned it into the world's largest semiconductor company.
Robert Noyce, the 'Mayor of Silicon Valley', co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel and is credited with the first silicon monolithic integrated circuit.
Gordon Moore, a Caltech chemistry PhD, co-founded Intel and proposed Moore's law, that the number of transistors on a chip doubles about every two years.
Harold Hamm, the 13th child of Oklahoma cotton sharecroppers, became a wildcatter, founded Continental Resources in 1967 and pioneered development of the Bakken oil field.
Sheldon Adelson founded Las Vegas Sands, builder of The Venetian and Marina Bay Sands, and was among the largest Republican donors in US history.
Forrest Mars founded a rival Mars company in Slough, England, created the Mars bar and Maltesers, launched M&M's in 1941 and Uncle Ben's Rice, and took control of his father's company in 1964.
Rob Walton, Sam Walton's eldest son, chaired Walmart from 1992 to 2015 and is the principal owner of the Denver Broncos, with an estimated net worth of $145.1 billion.
Ross Perot left IBM to found Electronic Data Systems in 1962, sold a controlling stake to GM for $2.4 billion in 1984 and ran independent campaigns for president in 1992 and 1996.
David Filo and Jerry Yang started 'Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web' in February 1994, which they renamed Yahoo! and turned into one of the internet's pioneering companies.
Michael Milken built the junk bond market at Drexel Burnham Lambert, pleaded guilty to securities violations in 1990 and was pardoned in 2020, and now funds medical research through the Milken Institute.
