ENTREPRENEURSHIP- Famous people 15/04/16

BILL GATES.

Computer and entrepeneur, founder of Microsoft. The fortuner of this programmer, who did not finish his studies and at age 31th was allready a billonaire, comes from the overwhelming success of his operating system, MS-DOS, wich would evolve into the popular Windows 3.1. The invention of the microprocessor allowed the huge computers to be made smaller and cheaper.

JEFFREY PRESTON BEZOS.

He is the founder and CEO of Amazon.com. He is currently the fifth richest man in the world since 2015. He studied EECS at Princeton University, where he graduated in 1986. He worked for a company fiber optic and then on Wall Street. From the beginning, Jeff Bezos had managed to have the vision of what the Internet would become in a few years, betting on the massification of the network, which would soon have presence in all markets. Therefore, it seemed a brilliant idea to offer a catalog of books online on which they were compiled various publications publishers, and through which the public could search the available books in a stock, to finally order them directly via Internet.

STEVE JOBS.

A Visionary, inspirational and brilliant person. One of the most important aspects that influenced this business man was his opinion about the focus groups and the marketing investigations, concepts that he considered as "limits of innovation" Another important skill he had was the hability to follow his intuition, a tool he used to detect emergent technologies and define apples future.

WALTER ELIAS DISNEY.

Was a producer, director, screenwriter and animadorestadounidense. Figure capital of film history children's entertainment, is considered an international icon thanks to his important contributions to the entertainment industry for much of the twentieth century, famous for characters like Donald Duck or Mickey Mouse. He founded with his brother Roy O. Disney Company Walt Disney Productions and later the theme parks disneyland, who years later became the most famous producer of the field of animation and today is the largest company in media and entertainment world.

Throughout his career as a film producer, Walt Disney received a total of 26 Oscars, including 4 fueronhonoríficos. 12 of those prizes were awarded to animated short films category as Disney productions practically clean sweep during the 1930s.

SAM WALTON.

Was an American businessman best known for founding the retail chain Wal-Mart, which grew to be the world’s largest corporation. He was born on March 29, 1918, in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. Walton opened the first Wal-Mart in 1962, after years in the retail management business. The discount chain expanded internationally over the next 30 years, growing into the world’s largest company by 2010. Walton stepped down as CEO in 1988, at the age of 70, but remained active in the company until his death in 1992. Walton was responsible for a lot of the success. His vision of a discount retail store in rural areas was accompanied by the founder’s hard-charging, demanding style. Walton, who often began his work days at 4:30 in the morning, expected results from those beneath him, and wasn’t afraid to change course or reshuffle his personnel if he didn’t like the numbers that came back to him.

MARK ZUCKERBERG.

Programmer and entrepreneur. He is the creator of Facebook, that is a technological way to develop and improve relations between people. He is currently the youngest character who appears in the list of billionaires Forbes magazine thanks to his agreements with Microsoft that have facilitated the valorization of this application.