Founders, CEOs, and entrepreneurs.
Jack Bogle founded Vanguard and popularized the low-cost index fund, preaching long-term investing and minimal fees.
Jerry Yang arrived in San Jose from Taiwan at ten knowing one English word, met David Filo at Stanford and co-founded Yahoo!, later serving as its CEO.
Steve Case ran America Online as CEO from 1991, orchestrated the 2000 AOL Time Warner merger and later founded the venture firm Revolution LLC.
Charles Schwab pioneered discount stock brokerage in 1975 and built the largest discount securities dealer in the United States.
W. K. Kellogg began by selling brooms in Battle Creek, helped manage his brother's sanitarium and founded the Kellogg Company, then endowed the Kellogg Foundation with $66 million in 1934.
Ruth Handler invented the Barbie doll in 1959 and co-founded Mattel, serving as president until 1975, when she and her husband resigned after an SEC investigation.
Dean Kamen earned $60,000 a year building light and sound systems as a teenager, invented the Segway and the iBOT, holds over 1,000 patents and co-founded the robotics non-profit FIRST.
Nolan Bushnell founded Atari and the Chuck E. Cheese chain, started more than 20 companies and is called one of the founding fathers of the video game industry.
Bernard Marcus, a pharmacist's son from a Newark tenement who couldn't afford Harvard Medical School, co-founded Home Depot in 1978 and led it as CEO and chairman until 2002.
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson turned WWF stardom into a film career grossing over $11.4 billion and is now co-founder of Seven Bucks Productions, co-owner of the United Football League and a TKO board member.
Dana White brought the Fertittas to buy the UFC for $2 million in 2001, then led it to a $4 billion sale in 2016 and became CEO in 2023. He also founded Power Slap and co-founded Zuffa Boxing.
Steven Spielberg is the highest-grossing film director of all time and a co-founder of DreamWorks SKG and Amblin Entertainment, with a net worth of at least $5.3 billion.
