Founders, CEOs, and entrepreneurs.
George Lucas created Star Wars and Indiana Jones, founded Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic and THX, and sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012.
Pierre Omidyar founded eBay and chaired it from 1998 to 2015, then created Omidyar Network, Honolulu Civil Beat and First Look Media.
Jimmy Wales, a former options trader, launched Wikipedia on January 15, 2001 with Larry Sanger and co-founded the wiki host Fandom.
Craig Newmark, a former IBM, Bank of America and Charles Schwab programmer, founded Craigslist and later Craig Newmark Philanthropies.
Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates, later founded Vulcan Inc. and owned the Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers.
Michael Saylor co-founded MicroStrategy, now Strategy Inc., and has led the company to buy over 800,000 bitcoins for its balance sheet.
Marc Andreessen co-authored Mosaic, the first web browser to show inline images, co-founded Netscape and later the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
Harvey Firestone started making rubber carriage tires in 1890 and founded the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in 1900, one of the first global automobile tire makers.
Richard Warren Sears was a Minnesota railroad station agent who, after a refused shipment of gold watches in 1886, went on to co-found Sears, Roebuck with Alvah Roebuck.
Marshall Field rose from dry goods clerk in Pittsfield to Chicago partner in 1862 and founded the department store that carried his name, later funding the Field Museum.
Howard Hughes produced Hell's Angels and Scarface, bought RKO Pictures, founded Hughes Aircraft and built the H-4 Hercules 'Spruce Goose'.
William Boeing founded the Pacific Airplane Company in 1916, renamed Boeing in 1917, now among the world's largest aerospace manufacturers and the biggest US exporter by value.
