• Entrepreneur is an individual who rather than working as an employee runs a small business

• Entrepreneur assumes all the risks & rewards of a given business venture, idea or good or service offered for sale

• Entrepreneur is commonly seen as a business leader & innovator of new ideas & business processes

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• An American business magnate, entrepreneur, philanthropist, investor & computer programmer, Bill Gates is one of the most famous entrepreneurs of our era

• In 1975, Gates & Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft which became the world's largest PC software company

• The richest man in the world, Gates has a net worth estimated to be over $79 billion

• Gates showed an interest in computer programming at a very young age

• He spend all of his free time creating programs on the teletype terminal computer his school had donated

• Gates went on to create Microsoft & develop the Windows operating system which continues to be enormously popular

• Gates was one of the defining figures of the personal computer revolution

BILL GATES

• One of the most influential women at a net worth of $3 billion• Oprah Winfrey’s success is an amazing modern ‘rags to riches’

story • Daughter of an unmarried teen who worked as a housemaid,

Oprah grew up in extreme poverty• Inspite of a rough upbringring, her success story is extremely

impressive• Oprah's first big break was her gig at the local black radio

station • She then worked her way up to bigger radio stations, eventually

resulting in her appearing on television & ultimately starring in the ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’

• Her show created waves among audience around the world • Oprah is the richest African American of the 21st century

OPRAH WINFREY

• Cartoons are a part of every person’s childhood especially the Walt Disney cartoons

• Walt Disney’s hobby of drawing cartoons drove him to become a cartoonist• He tried getting a job as a newspaper cartoonist but was not successful, he

then ended up working in an art studio where he created ads for newspapers & magazines

• In time he grew to work on commercials, became fascinated in animation & ultimately opened his own animation company

• Disney's first original character creation was Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, but it was officially owned by Universal Pictures as he was working under contract at the time

• After getting a pay cut he walked out on Universal Pictures, he wanted to create a replacement which bought Mickey Mouse into being

• This American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon & philanthropist stands with a net worth estimated at $5 billion

WALT DISNEY

• A list of “famous entrepreneurs” is incomplete without mentioning Steve Jobs

• His family couldn’t handle the financial burden of this college so he had to drop out of the college

• He unofficially continued to audit classes, living off free meals from the local Hare Krishna temple & returning Coke bottles for change just to get by

• Jobs eventually formed Apple Computer Company with his childhood friend & electronics expert Steve Wozniak

• Jobs is often referred as “The Grandfather of the Digital Revolution”

• He has forever changed the consumer electronics industry• His net worth was over $8.3 billion at the time of this death• His impact will be felt for many coming digital generations

STEVE JOBS

• J.K. Rowling is a name today everyone knows because of her Harry Potter book series

• She wasn't always gifted with magic• Fact is that Rowling was at her rope's end before her witches &

wizards saved her• She was living a struggling life as a single mother before her

bestseller cast a spell on the readers• Some people believe that Rowling sold her soul to the devil in

exchange for the Harry Potter inspiration? • People think you're making deals with the devil when you're so

successful• It is estimated net worth of Rowling is $1 billion• Rumor is that she's also the president of Gringotts Wizarding

Bank, although it's a bit of a secret among the goblins

J.K. ROWLING

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