Top Ten Entrepreneurs That Changed Our World for the Better

Entrepreneurship is key to creating value to the world. Lets debate and create a Top 10 list for: Entrepreneurs That Have Changed Our World For The Better.
The Top Ten
1 Steve Jobs Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur and business magnate. He was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and a co-founder of Apple Inc., chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar, a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar, and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. Jobs is widely recognized as... read more
2 Elon Musk Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and engineer who is best known for being the CEO of companies such as Tesla, SpaceX, PayPal, and X (formerly known as Twitter).
3 Richard Branson
4 Bill Gates William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of Microsoft, along with his late childhood friend Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual... read more

I grew up with Xbox and he made it

5 Jeff Bezos Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, computer engineer, and commercial astronaut who is best known for being the founder and executive chairman and former president and CEO of Amazon.
6 Sergey Brin Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is a Soviet-born American computer scientist, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist.
7 Larry Page
8 Walt Disney Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film producer, he holds the record for most Academy Awards earned and nominations by an individual, having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations. He was presented with... read more
9 Mark Zuckerberg Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding and leading Facebook as its chairman and chief executive officer.
10 Thomas Edison Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor.
The Contenders
11 Henry Ford Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.
12 Andrew Carnegie
13 John D. Rockefeller
14 Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system, X rays, Radio, Remote Control, Laser, and Electric motors. Tesla developed and used fluorescent bulbs in his lab some 40 years before industry “invented” them. Nikola Tesla had... read more

Created / Invented ac power generation and distibution, electric motors, radio, tesla coils and may other things.

15 Karl Benz

He invented cars and cars are literally the most important thing in the world today as they are everywhere

16 Michael S. Dell
17 Alfred Nobel Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. He held 355 different patents, dynamite being the most famous. He owned Bofors, which he redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments.
18 Oprah Winfrey Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.
19 Werner von Siemens
20 Artur Fischer
21 Gottlieb Daimler
22 Margarete Steiff
23 John Deere
24 Heinrich Lanz
25 Reinhold Würth
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