Wing [Drone Delivery]
Nintendo
Starbucks
George Scangos – Biogen
Tom Rinks – Sun Bum
Joel Clark – Kodiak Cakes
Kristian Tapaninaho – Ooni Pizza Ovens
Darina Garland – Ooni Pizza Ovens
RJ Scaringe – Rivian
Saeju Jeong – Noom
Leah Solivan – TaskRabbit
Jimmy Fallon – The Tonight Show and Electric Hot Dog
John Hendricks – Discovery Channel and Curiosity Stream
Paul English – KAYAK
Philip Krim – Casper
Chieh Huang – Boxed
Marc Merrill – Riot Games
Brandon Beck – Riot Games
Jeremy Stoppelman – Yelp
John Mackey – Whole Food Market
Steve Madden – Steve Madden
Daymond John – FUBU
Jimmy Wales – Wikipedia
Rod Canion – Compaq Computers
Yvon Chouinard – Patagonia
Whitney Wolfe – Bumble
Julia Hartz – Eventbrite
James Park – Fitbit
Pat Brown – Impossible Foods
Danny Meyer – Shake Shack
Jamie Siminoff – Ring
Tope Awotona – Calendly
Sal Khan – Khan Academy
Mark Constantine – Lush Cosmetics
Tim Ferriss – Author and Podcaster
Vlad Tenev – Robinhood
Marc Lore – Diapers.com and Jet.com
Rich Barton – Expedia and Zillow
Bruce Heavin – Lynda.com
Lynda Weinman – Lynda.com
Noubar Afeyan – Moderna
Don Katz – Audible
Pete Warhurst – PODS and Red Rover
Max Levchin – Affirm
Emmett Shear – Twitch
David Baszucki – Roblox
Mike Salguero – ButcherBox
Brian Lam – Wirecutter
Frank Azor – Alienware
Rea Ann Silva – Beautyblender
Tom Campion – Zumiez
Mike Pfotenhauer – Osprey Packs
Michael Kors – Michael Kors –
Ellen Latham – Orangetheory Fitness
George W. Jenkins – Publix – Lakeland, Florida, USA
Edward W. Stack – DICK’S Sporting Goods – Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, USA
Tim O’Reilly – O’Reilly Media – Sebastopol, California, USA
Jerry Sanders – AMD
Andy Grove –
Gordon Moore –
Robert Noyce – Intel and Fairchild Semiconductor
Ben Chestnut – Webdesign Agency and Mailchimp
SendGrid
Hubspot
Randy Parker – Constant Contact
Tim Mott – Xerox Park and Macromedia
Carsten Maschmeyer
Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods
Mike Markkula – Intel and Apple
Founderio
Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen – Google Maps Founder
Jawerd Cathy – Chic File A
Notion –
Phil – Evernote
Blaise Pascal
John von Neuman
John Lasseter
Steve Young
Ed Catmull
Urs Fuchs – Biology Teacher – Bad Wurzach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Carlos Camino – Computer Science Lecturer – Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany – carlos-camino.de
Alvy Ray Smith
IDRA Group
Keydi Skendo – Frittenwerk – Düsseldorf, North Rhine–Westphalia, Germany
Justin Woolverton – Halo Top [Icecream] – Los Angelos, California, USA
John Collison – Stripe – San Francisco, Californian, USA
Patrick Collison – Stripe – San Francisco, Californian, USA – patrickcollison.com
Sebastian Schelper – BMW and bq.life – San Diego, California, USA
Zhou Qunfei – Lens Technology – Changsha, China
Rheng Zhengfei – Huawei – Shenzehn, China
Wang Jianlin – Dalian Wanda Group – Beijing, China
Alexei Leonidowitsch Paschitnow – Tetris and Blue Planet Software – San Francisco, California, USA
Henk Rogers – Bullet-Proof Software, Tetris and Blue Planet Software – Tokyo, Japan, San Francisco, California, USA
Mikkel Svane – Zendesk – Copenhagen, Denmark
Eoghan McCabe – Intercom – San Francisco, California, USA
Daniel Jung – YouTuber – Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Marc Ewing – Red Hat – Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Jeff Lawson – Twilio – San Francisco, California, USA
Gordon Moore – Intel – Santa Clara, California, USA
Tim Reichert – EXCEL Esports – London, United Kingdom
Philipp Künstler – hitcap esports GmbH Berlin, Germany
Jakob Fatih – FitX – Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Leonard Bosack – Cisco Systems – San Francisco, California, USA
Sandy Lerner – Cisco Systems and Urban Decay [Cosmetics] – San Francisco, California, USA
Morris Chang – TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) – Hsinchu, Taiwan
Paul Akers – FastCap – Billingham, Washington, USA
Eduardo Torrealba – Lumafield – Illinois, USA
Peter Wennink – ASML (Advanced Semiconductor Materials Lithography) [Philips Branch-out] – Veldhoven, Netherlands
Yunus Topaloglu – BlackCoco‘s – Aalen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Devin Finzer – OpenSea – New York, USA
Alex Freedland – Mirantis – Campbell, California, USA
Kamel Founadi – Docker – Palo Alto, California, USA
Solomon Hykes – Docker and Dagger – Palo Alto, California, USA
Ole Kirk Christiansen – LEGO [Danish leg godt „play well“] – Billund, Denmark
Keller Rinaudo Cliffton – Zipline International – San Francisco, California, USA
Ruben Rausing – Tetra Pack – Lund, Sweden, and Pully, Switzerland
Johan Henrik Andresen – Elopak [Pure-Pak] – Spikkestad, Norway
Tim Trefren – Mixpanel – San Francisco, USA
David Barrett – Intercom – San Francisco, USA
Aidan Kehoe -Skout Security [Secure Operations Center (SOC) Cyber Security]
David Lieb – Bump and Google Photos – Mountain View, California, USA
Robert Hohman – Glassdoor – Mill Valley, California, USA
Ali Ghodsi – Databricks – San Francisco, California, USA
Thierry Cruanes – Snowflake – Bozeman, Montana, USA
Anthony Casalena – Squarespace – New York, USA
Mies van der Rohe – Architect – Aachen, Germany, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Chat Pipkin – Belkin International and Linksys – Playa Vista, California, USA
Mark Leonard – Constellation Software
Frank Wittle – Jet Engine Inventor
Soichiro Honda – Honda
Dustin Moskovitz – Facebook
Michael Arrington – Crunchbase
Paul Buchheit – Gmail
Peter Freedman – Rode Microphone
Rewe –
Edeka –
Karl Albrecht – Albrecht Discount (Aldi)
Lidl –
dm
Eve Systems
Telegram
(CZ) – Binance
Fielmann
ProtonMail, ProtonVPN, ProtonDrive and ProtonCalendar
Signal
Jason Citron – Discord
Zoom
Wolt
Dean und David
hans im Glück
neue dönastie
Waipu.tv
MotelOne
Udemy
booking.com
Shazam
DocMorris
Shopapotheke
Too Good Too Go
Johannes Nill, Peter Faxel und Ulrich Müller-Albring – AVM
Victor Lugger – Big Mamma and Sunday.com
Adobe
the verge
Texhcrunch
Peter Thiel – PayPal and Palantir
Palmer Lucky – Oculus Rift and Anduril Industries
Marc Zuckerberg – Oculus Rift, Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook and Meta
Florian gsxhwandter – Runtastic
Sergey Brin – Google and Alphabet
David Guetta – DJ and Jack Black
Jeff Lawson – Twilio
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Ryan Serhant – Brocker
Joe Rogan – Podcaster
Tom Sachs – Artist
Craig Frederigi – NeXt and Apple
Tarek Müller – About You
Marco Knauf – true fruits
destinia.com
Justin Kan – Twitch
fabian Mydealz content pepper
riverside.fm
Sam Yam – Patreon
Jack Conte – Patreon
Dieter Rams – Designer Braun
Sandy Munroe – Lean Design and Munro Live
Joe Justice – Agile Development Tesla
Michael Althoff – Yellotools
Hermann Hauser – Acorn [ARM processors]
Franz von Holzhausen – Designer Tesla
Trumpf
Robert Bosch
Würth
Ray Kroc – McDonalds
John Walker – Autodesk and Fourmilabs
Daniel Klein – SumUp
Valentin Stalf – N26
Luis van Ahn – reCAPTCHA and Duolingo
Joe Tanner – Early Winters
barber and butcher
Lori Greiner – For Your Ease Only [Earring organizer], Clever & Unique Creations [Shopping program] and Shark Tank
Rainer Opolka – Ledlenser
Rippling
Instacart
OpenSea
MatterPort
SubStack
Docker
Twitch
Tim Letherman – Leatherman Tool Group
Steven Yang – Anker Innovations
Markus Persson – Minecraft
Guy Raz – How I Built This
Stephen Kaufer – TripAdviser
Matt Mullenweg – Automaticc and WordPress
Perry Chen – Kickstarter
Jake Carpenter – Burton Snowboards
Tony Xu – DoorDash
John Collison – Shripe
Steve Ells – Chipotle
Nolan Bushnell – Atari and Chuck E. Cheese
Michael Dell – Dell Computers
James Dyson – Dyson – https://www.dyson.com/james-dyson/invention-a-life/01
John Zimmer – Lyft
Stewart Butterfield – Slack and Flickr
Chat Pipkin – Belkin International
Jerry Murrell – Five Guys
Sara Blakely – Spanx
Xiaomi
NIO
GlassDoor
Sonos
Beats
Shazam
Siri
Keith Krach – Docusign
Drew Houston – Dropbox
Zscaler
CloudFlare
HelloFresh
MongoDB
Sea
Anthony Wood – Roku
Snap
YouTube
Square
Etsy
Rocket Internet
Robert Gentz – Zalando
Jack Ma – Alibaba Group
Nick Woodman – GoPro
David Karp – Tumblr
Scott Cook – Intuit
Timothy Stokely – OnlyFans
Mike Krieger – Instagram
Kevin Systrom – Instagram
Fred Luddy – ServiceNow
Robert Pera – Ubiqiti Networks
Reid Hoffman – LinkedIn
Tony Hsieh – Zappos – Las Vegas, California, USA
Tom Preston-Werner – GitHub – San Francisco, California, USA
Sid Sijbrandij – GitLab – San Francisco, California, USA
Dylan Field – Figma – San Francisco, California, USA
Brain Armstrong – Coinbase – San Francisco, Californiana, USA
Melanie Perkins – Canva – Sydney, Australia
Michael Seibel – Twitch and Y Combinator – San Francisco and Mountain View, USA
Paul Graham – Y Combinator – Boston and Mountain View, USA – paulgraham.com
Justin Kan – Twitch – San Francisco and Seattle, USA
Andrej Karpathy – Software Engineer Tesla – Palo Alto, USA
Sam Altman – OpenIA – San Francisco, USA
David J. Malan – Professor Harvard CS50 – Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Fred Rogers – Mr Rogers [TV series] – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Mark Andreessen – Mosaik and Andreessen Capital – Menlo Park, USA
Steve Jobs – Apple, NeXT and Pixar – Cupertino, Redwood City and Emeryville, USA – stevejobsarchive.com – allaboutstevejobs.com
Elon Musk – Zip2, X.com, PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, The boring Company, Twitter and Neuralink – San Jose, Hawthorn, Austin, Pflugeville, Texas, San Francisco and Fremont, USA
Jeff Bezos – Amazon – Seattle, USA
Peter Thiel – PayPal and Palantir
Ray and Charles Eames – Eames Design
Marc Benioff – Salesforce – San Francisco, USA
Tarek Müller – About You – Hamburg, Germany
Albert Einstein – Engineer and Scientist – Ulm, Munich, Zurich, Berlin and Princeton, New Jersey, New York, USA
Josef Prusa – Prusa Research – Prague, Czechia
Garry Tan – Initialised Ventures – San Francisco, USA
Casey Neistat – YouTube Creator – New York, USA
Gary Vaynerchuk- Vaynermedia and Veefriends – New York, USA
Sarah Kauss – Swell – New York, USA
Joe Gebbia – Airbnb – San Francisco, USA
Brian Chesky – Airbnb – San Francisco, USA
Walt Disney – The Walt Disney Company – Burbank, Los Angeles, USA
Tobi Lütke – Shopify – Ottawa, Canada
Cliff Fleming – Bundaberg Brewery – Bundaberg, Australia
Mike Cannon-Brookes – New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Scott Farquhar – Atlassian – New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Robert Cade – The Gatorade Company [Softdrink] – Chicago, USA
Stan Lee – Marvel – New York, USA
Henry Ford – Ford – Dearborn, Michigan, USA
Daniel Ek – Spotify – Stockholm, Sweden
Alan Touring – Scientist – Hampton, London, England
Mahadma Ghandi – Design und Philosophy
Reed Hastings – Netflix – Los Gatos, California, USA
Ingvar Kamprad – IKEA – Delft, Netherlands
Isaac Newton – Scientist – Kensington, England
Thomas Alva Edison – Scientist – Menlo Park, New Jersey, USA
James Watt – Scientist – Glasgow, Scotland
Ben Francis – Gymshark – Blythe Valley, England
Tony Fadell – General Magic, Philipps, Apple and Nest – Cupertino, California, USA
Pierre Omidyar – General Magic and eBay –
Conrad Parker – Rippling – San Francisco, Californiana, USA
Pavel Mayer – Art + Com – Berlin, Germany
Le Corbusier – Architect – Paris, France
Jony Ive – Apple Designer and LoveForm – Cupertino, California, USA
Rainer Schaller – McFit – Schlüsselfeld, Bavaria, Germany
Max Schaber – Datagroup IT Services AG -Pliezhausen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Zaha Hadid – Zaha Hadid Architects – London, England
Sam Walmart – Walmart – Bentonvill, Arkansas, USA
Bill Gates – Microsoft – Seattle, Washington, USA
Mark Cuban – MicroSutions, Audionet, Broadcast.com and Shark Tank – Burbank, California, USA
Scooter Braun – SB Projects [Label Justin Bieber] – New York, USA
Jerry Yang – Yahoo – Sunnyvale, California, USA
Dietmar Hopp – SAP (SystemAnalyse und Programmentwicklung) – Walldorf, Germany
Hasso Plattner – SAP (SystemAnalyse und Programmentwicklung) – Walldorf, Germany
Steve Case – AOL (America OnLine) – New York, USA
Tom Anderson – Myspace – Beverly Hills, California, USA
Turnarounds
Steve Jobs – Apple
FedEx
Marvel
Starbucks
Netflix
Whitepages
Elon Musk – Twitter
Elon Musk – Tesla
Elon Musk – SpaceX
Satya Nadella – Microsoft
Patrick Doyle – Domino’s
Delta
Old Spice
J.Crew
CBS
Pabst Blue Ribbon
Nintendo
Converse
Disney Animation Studios
Burberry
LEGO
Target
LaCoste
Fila
Other turnarounds
Lower Manhattan
Bacon
Companies that lost track
Power Computing Corporation [Apple Mac Clones]
Hostess
Rubbermaid
Ziplic
Tupperware
Toys R Us
Kodak [1889 to 2012]
Philips []
Compaq [1982 to 2002]
Tower Records [1960 to 2004]
Pets.com [1998 to 2000]
Blockbuster
Polaroid
Pan American World Airways (Pan Am)
SAP (SystemAnalyse und Programmentwicklung) – Walldorf, Germany
AOL (America OnLine) – New York, USA
Myspace – Beverly Hills, California, USA
Nokia – Tampere, Finland
Volkswagen (VW) – Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany
BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke) – Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Mercedes-Benz – Untertürkheim, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Porsche – Zuffenhausen, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Audi – Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany
Bosch – Gerlingen, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
ZF Friedrichshafen – Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Credit Suisse
Lehman Brothers
Do better
John Scully
Markus Braun – Wirecard
Elizabeth Holmes – Theranos
Donald Trump
Jeffrey Epstein
Ghislaine Maxwell
Kevin Maxwell – Mirasoft – London, England
Robert Maxwell – Mirasoft – London, England
Don Valentine – Sequoia Capital – Menlo Park, California, USA