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Introduction
The world did, lately, experienced tremendous mutations. It is more open than ever. It has never been so wealthy. Those last years, the growth has exceeded, worldwide, a pace of 5 %. Despite the hurdles, democracy and freedom are spreading . People, around the world are more and more educated. Of course, it is not yet the best of the possible worlds. But reasons for hope are numerous. The globalization we have been experiencing, those last two decades, has obviously contributed to the advent of this new era of prosperity. The role of a few great entrepreneurs whose vision, dynamism and energy have contributed to shape this new economic landscape must be emphasized. We would like, together with you to identify the existing ones and the new comers who are going to shape the new world towards which we are heading.
Armand Rousso
Founder of My Favorite Entrepreneur ©
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Some of the best entrepreneurs
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Bill Gates is an American entrepreneur,
philanthropist and chairman of Microsoft, the
software company he founded with Paul Allen.
During his career at Microsoft he has held the
positions of CEO, and he remains the largest
individual shareholder with more than 9 percent of
the common stock. Gates is one of the
best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer
revolution. Although he is admired by many, a
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Lary Page is an entrepreneur who co-founded the
Google web search engine, now Google
Inc.. After enrolling for a Ph.D. program in
computer science at Stanford University, Page was
in search for a dissertation theme and decided to
explore the mathematical properties of the World
Wide Web, understanding its link structure as a
huge graph. In his research project,
nicknamed "BackRub," he was soon joined
by Sergey Brin, a fel...
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Jawed Karim is a co-founder of the popular
video sharing website YouTube. Karim was
born in Merseburg, East Germany, in 1979 and moved
to West Germany in 1980. His father, Naimul Karim,
is a Bangladeshi researcher at 3M. His mother,
Christine Karim, is a research assistant professor
of biochemistry at the University of Minnesota.
Karim grew up in Germany, and his family
moved to the United States in 1992. He graduated
from Central...
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Ratan Tata is the present Chairman of the Tata
Group, India's largest conglomerate established by
earlier generations of his family. Ratan
Tata was born into the wealthy and famous Tata
family of Mumbai. He was born to Soonoo &
Naval Hormusji Tata, a Gujarati-speaking Parsi
family. In 1981, Ratan was named Chairman of
Tata Industries, the Group's other holding
company, where he became responsible for
transforming it into the Gr...
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Pierre Omidyar is born in June 1967. He is a
French-born Iranian-American entrepreneur and
philanthropist/economist, and the founder/chairman
of the eBay auction site. Omidyar and his wife Pam
are well-known philanthropists who founded Omidyar
Network in order to expand their efforts beyond
non-profits to include for-profits and public
policy. According to Forbes magazine, as of
February 2008, he is the 43rd richest person
alive. Omidya...
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Jack Ma is founder and chief operating officer
of Alibaba Group. Born in the city of
Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, Ma graduated
from Hangzhou Teacher's Institute in 1988
. He first started building websites for
Chinese companies with the help of friends in the
US. After a stint as head of the China
International Electronic Commerce Center's
Infoshare division, he founded Alibaba.com in
1999, a China-based business to business...
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Michael Saul Dell was born in 1965 in Texas. He
is an American businessman and the founder
and CEO of DELL computers. While at the University
of Texas at Austin, he started a computer company
called PC's Limited. The company became successful
enough that, with the help of an additional loan
from his grandparents, Dell dropped out of college
at the age of 19 to run PC's Limited, which later
became Dell Computer Corporation, then ultimatel...
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Lakshmi Narayan Mittal was born in 1950 in
India. He is a London based Indian billionaire. He
is the richest man in the UK and the fifth richest
person in the world, with a personal fortune of US
$51.0 billion. Lakshmi Mittal began his
career working in the family's steelmaking
business in India, and in 1976 Mittal set out to
establish its international division. In 1994 he
branched out on his own, taking over the
international operatio...
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Chairman and CEO, Apple During the first two
decades of his remarkable 30-year career, the
Apple Inc. founder twice altered the direction of
the computer industry. In 1977 the Apple II kicked
off the PC era, and the graphical user interface
launched by Macintosh in 1984 has been aped by
every other computer since. Along the way Jobs
conceived of "desktop publishing," gave
the world the laser printer, and pioneered
personal computer netw...
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Serial Entrepreneur in call center and BPO
Business. Since 1998 he has been building over 40
call centers around the world specially in
offshore countries like Marocco, Mauritius,
Roumania and India. He is now Chairman of Offshore
Development , a B2B portal based on outousourcing
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Sheldon Gary Adelson was born in 1933. He is an
American billionaire businessman. He is a property
developer and public company CEO based in Las
Vegas, Nevada. He is Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of the Las Vegas Sands Corp., the parent
company of Venetian Macao Limited which operates
The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and the Sands
Expo and Convention Center. Adelson was
born in to a Jewish family in the Dorchester
neighborhood of...
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Bernard Arnault was born in 1949 in Roubaix-
France. He is a French businessman and currently
the 7th richest person in the world with an
estimated net worth of $26 billion US dollars.
After graduating from school, Bernard Arnault was
admitted to the École Polytechnique from
which he graduated with an engineering degree in
1971. After graduation, he joined his father's
company. In 1976, he convinced his father to
liquidate the construct...
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Jorma Jaakko Ollila was born in 1950 in
Seinäjoki, Finland. He is the non executive
chairman of Nokia and Royal Dutch Shell. After
elementary school education he went on to study
for a Master of Political Science (University of
Helsinki), a Master of Science in Economics and a
Master of Science in Engineering Physics.
Prior to joining Nokia in 1985 Jorma Ollila
worked eight years in corporate banking at
Citibank's London and Helsin...
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Niklas Zennström was born 1966 in Sweden.
As a Swedish entrepreneur he gained fame as the
co-founder of the KaZaA peer-to-peer file sharing
network. He has dual degrees in Business
Administration and Engineering Physics. He spent
his final year at University of Michigan, USA.
Zennström started his professional
career at the European telecom operator Tele2. He
went on to serve in various business development
roles including lau...
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Amancio Ortega Gaona was born in 1936 in Spain.
He is a fashion entrepreneur and currently the
richest man in Spain and 8th richest man in the
World in 2007. He is the founder and chairman of
the Inditex Group. Ortega arrived at La
Coruña, Spain, at the age of 14, due to the
job of his father, railway worker. Starting as a
gofer in various shirt stores in La Coruña,
Galicia, in 1963 he founded Confecciones Goa which
made b...
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Jawed Karim
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Ratan Tata
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