He co-founded Apple with his friend Steve Wozniak in 1976. Jobs who made Apple the hottest and most valuable company on the planet, died after a long battle with cancer at the age of 56 on Oct. 5, 2011. Under his leadership Apple signed to participate in Product Red program, a joint venture by various private sectors to spread AIDS awareness and to raise funds to help eliminate the disease in Africa.Reuters
He co-founded Apple with his friend Steve Wozniak in 1976. Jobs who made Apple the hottest and most valuable company on the planet, died after a long battle with cancer at the age of 56 on Oct. 5, 2011. Under his leadership Apple signed to participate in Product Red program, a joint venture by various private sectors to spread AIDS awareness and to raise funds to help eliminate the disease in Africa.ReutersWindows 8 will set the stage for greater things to unfold at Microsoft, company co-founder Bill Gates said on Monday, stressing too that the new multi-platform operating system represents “the big time for us.”REUTERSCompany: FedEx Sales: $39.3 billion Market Value: $30 billion Employees: 255,573 Fred Smith is the chairman and CEO of FedEx Corp since 1975. While studying at Yale university , Smith presented a paper on the need for reliable overnight delivery in a computerized information age. After graduation, Smith joined the Marine Corps and served two tours of duty in Vietnam. While in the military, Smith got an experience on military procurement and delivery procedures and observed them carefully to realize his dream of overnight express delivery company. He later left the service and in 1971 launched the Federal Express Corporation. FedEx is now the world's biggest overnight freight service.ReutersCompany: Amazon Market Value: $84.0 billion Sales: $48.1 billion Employees: 56,200 Bezos, a former Wall Street employee, quit hedge funds company to sell books online from his Seattle garage. Jeff Bezos found Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later. His Kindle revolutionized the publishing industry. Today, Amazon is one of the largest online retailers on the planet.REUTERSCompany: Google Sales: $37.9 billion Market Value: $203.2 billion Employees: 32,500 Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in September 1998 while they were pursuing a Ph.D. at Stanford University. Larry was the first CEO until 2001 helping to grow the company to more than 200 employees and profitability. From 2001 to 2011, Larry was president of products. while Sergey Brin was serving as the president of technology. He is currently directs special projects. The company today has grown to more than 20,000 employees worldwide. Every day people around the world use Google for 2.5 billion searches.ReutersCompany: Starbucks Sales: $11.7 billion Market Value: $40 billion Employees: 149,000 Howard Schultz Joined Starbucks in September 1982 as director for retail operations and marketing. While working for the company he continued to press his ideas about the tremendous potential of expanding the Starbucks enterprise all over America. He also gave ideas to serve fresh brewed coffee, espresso and cappuccino from Starbucks beans in their stores. In 1985, he left Starbucks and started a new company II Giornale and in 1987 the company acquired Starbucks. By 1990, Starbucks gained profits. In 2000, Howard became Starbucks chief global strategist. When Schultz regained his job as CEO in early 2008, Starbucks' profits and revenues were going down due to the economic crisis. Schultz followed his principle of back-to-basics, focus to the company. His second coming saved Starbucks from being just another also-ran.Reuters
Fortune Magazine has come up with a list of greatest business leaders of our time. These leaders with great ideas turned their concepts into companies and changed the face of business.
With their hard work they built their organistions from scratch and turned them into successful businesses. Some founders have also been recognised not just for their companies' success, but for also for their generous heart.
The Fortune list is topped by Steve Jobs for being a model entreprenuer for our generation. He is still considered a great visionary and an inspiring person even after his death in October 2011. Bill Gates, former chairman of Mircosoft is second in the Fortune list. Gates who resined from Microsoft in 2008, is now involved in more philanthropic activities like global health and learning.
Press start to take a look at the seven greatest entreprenuers of our time.
