Famous entrepreneurs

1. Tutoveanu Adelina Georgiana
Bindar Raluca
U.S.A.M.V.
Specializarea I.E.A.
Anul II
Grupa 8204

2. Mark Zuckerberg
If you don’t know who Mark
Zuckerberg is already, you really
must have been living under a rock.
Mark is an American entrepreneur
who co-founded and is currently the
CEO of the social networking
behemoth we know as Facebook.
Hailing from White Plains, New
York, Mark started his programming
at a very early age back in “Middle
School” and it looks like that really
paid off. Currently owning
approximately 24% of Facebook,
Mark is now a Multi-Billionaire, with
a fortune of roughly $6.9bn and
growing. So why is he top of the
list? Well, I can think of a few
reasons, 6.9 billion reasons in fact!

3. Dustin Moskovitz
Now Dustin may be a little less
familiar to you than Mark (above) but
he’s definitely someone who has
struck lucky. In fact Dustin was one of
the co-founders of Facebook along
with Mark. Dustin has since left
Facebook (back in 2008) and has
now set up his own business, Asana
a company that apparently tackles
the problems of workplace
collaborations. Still in it’s early
development stages, Asana is
currently in Beta mode if you are
interested? So how much did he
make? A little over $1.4bn.

4. Andrew Mason
Andrew Mason is the founder and CEO of the
online business Groupon. A site you have all
more than likely heard about or used before.
Andrew Now just 29 years old is worth an
estimated $600 million due to the sites huge
success. Founded in 2008 Groupon has been
steadily increasing it’s traffic and it’s income
for the grateful founder. The aim of the
website is to offer out daily deals to people all
over the world via an online coupon service.
Each and everyday Groupon releases new
“Groupons” to its customers allowing them to
receive discounts on anything from subway
meals to laptops and much more. Andrew
was given $1 million dollars by his previous
employer in order to start this venture which
has now made them both a lot of money in
the 2 short years it has been up and running.
I’m sure we can expect more from them in the
near future

5. Matthew Mullenweg
Its nice to have one of our own on
the list, and I’m pretty sure we all
know who this young chap is.
Matthew Mullenweg is the
founding developer of WordPress,
a resource a lot of us use on a
daily basis. Funnily enough his
background is anything but
technical, he went to a performing
arts school, learned to play the
Jazz Saxophone, and then he
went on to created one of the best
website and blog programs in the
world. In 2005 he started the
company Automatic, which
became the backing force behind
WordPress and Akismet. Well
done Ma.tt – You see what I did
there?

6. Blake Ross
Blake Ross is an American
software developer, known
best for his work with Mozilla
Firefox. That’s right at the age
of 25yrs he has been able to
accumulate a total fortune
worth $150 million. In 2005 he
was nominated for the Wired
Magazines top “Rave Award”
opposite some very popular
names including Larry Page
and Jon Stewart. Blake also
co-founded the company
Parakey which was eventually
bought out by, yes you’ve
guessed it, Facebook.

7. Gurbaksh Chahal
Gurbaksh Chahalis an American author and
entrepreneur that has managed to create,
build and grow two businesses into a
massive empire worth $340 million, and all
that before he is even 30yrs! Born in India,
his family finally settled in California, by the
time he was 16yrs old he had dropped out
of school and decided to embark on a
career in business. Gurbaksh is now the
CEO and founder of gWallet.Inc. What an
awe-inspiring story.

8. Naveen
Selvadurai
You may not have heard about Naveen
but rest assured he is definitely a big
hitter. He made most of his money
through a joint venture that you may
have heard of, Foursquare anyone?
However before co-founding
Foursquare he had worked extensively
with some very well known brands,
Nokia, Sun Microsystems and Sony to
name a few. $80 million, yes please!

9. Angelo Sotira
Angelo, is someone a lot of you graphic
designers, photographers, and web
developers may know very well. He is
the pioneering brain behind DeviantArt,
The website was co-founded back in
2000 with Scott Jarkoff and Matt
Stephens and is bigger than ever today.
It really is the Facebook of the art/digital
art world. The community is very strong
and it’s a really intriguing and
inspirational website. Still $75 million for
creating a website back in 2000, I think I
could wait 10 years for $75mil, how
about you?

10. Nat Turner
Nat Turner is one lucky entrepreneur,
but lets not be harsh on him, he
worked extremely hard in order to get
lucky. What I mean is that he was
lucky enough to build a brilliant
company, Invitemedia, which is a
“universal buying platform” for display
media according to their website.
Where he got “lucky” is when the
global giant that is Google, decided to
buy him and his co-founders (Zach
Weinberg and Scott Becker – both
aged 23yrs) out for a nice round figure
of $70 million. Good job Nat.

11. Peter
Cashmore
Peter Cashmore is is the CEO and
founder of the unique media website
Mashable.com which he started back
in 2005. Pete has been lucky enough
to appear in the Forbes Magazine’s 30
under 30 as well as getting a mention
in the top 25 web-celebrities. There
have been so many great reviews by
so many large publishing brands and
the brand itself seems to just getter
better with time. The site now has over
10 million readers monthly, and is set
to have even more by the end of the
year.

12. Alexander
Levin
Alexander is one of the co-founders of
the very popular image storing website
ImageShack. Racking up a huge $56+
million fortune along the way, Alexander
has done very well indeed. Starting the
website back in 2003 after coming up
with the concept in high-school, it is now
one of the largest image hosting
websites in the world. However
Alexander was not alone in the creation
of ImageShack and if it hadn’t have
been for his older brother Jack, he might
never have gotten the website onto the
server! Well done boy’s, nothing like
brotherly love.

13. David Schottenstein
David is the founder and CEO of Astor
& Black, his main revenue is made
from his 82 independent sales
representatives, from all over America.
Astor & Black is an online business
which sells bespoke, original and very
high quality evening, and business
wear. David has his team of “Clothiers”
who for a fair price, will come to your
home and give you a unique style,
enhancing your wardrobe so you look
fit for the real world. This niche is
obviously for very high end and very
high maintenance type persons, but
nonetheless he has made a large sum
of money for what he does, and he
does it very well.

14. Sean Belnick
Sean Belnick first started his own
business back when he was only
14yrs old, locking himself in his
bedroom for almost three days, he
emerged with what we now know as
Bizchair. He began selling a few
office chairs here and there,
eventually gaining an employee until
he finally got his sales down to a tee.
He currently sells office furniture to
the likes of Google, Microsoft, and
many more. He is now worth an
estimated $50 million. Not bad going,

15. Tim O’ Shaughnessy
Tim O’Shaughnessy is one of the co-
founders of the popular website
Livingsocial.com, they are a social buying
company, specializing in daily deals,
across the western countries. The aim of
the game is to offer as many people
products and promotions for heavily
discounted prices, very similar to the
Group-on company. So far they have
given thousands of deals on a daily basis
to millions of happy customers, lets hope
they can keep up with Groupon.

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