Profiles — Business

Business

American founders, executives and investors, and the companies they built and led.

Businessman and founder of Scouting in America

William D. Boyce

William Dickson Boyce was an American newspaper man, entrepreneur, magazine publisher, and explorer.

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American computer scientist

William Daniel Hillis

William Daniel Hillis is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and computer scientist, who pioneered parallel computers and their use in artificial intelligence.

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Secretary of the Treasury, businessman

William E. Simon

William Edward Simon was an American businessman and philanthropist who served as the 63rd United States Secretary of the Treasury.

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American businessman and former mayor

William Fargo

William George Fargo was an American businessman and politician who, along with Henry Wells, co-founded Wells Fargo.

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Hungarian-American film producer

William Fox

Vilmos Fried, known professionally as William Fox, was a Hungarian-American film industry executive who founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 and the Fox West Coast Theatres chain in the 1920s.

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American industrialist, and first president of Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society

William Henry Conley

, was a Pittsburgh philanthropist and industrialist.

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American businessman and philanthropist

William Henry Vanderbilt

William Henry Vanderbilt was an American businessman and railroad magnate.

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American lawyer and former banker

William M. Daley

William Michael Daley is an American lawyer and banker.

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American mathematician and businessman, former Secretary of Defense

William Perry

William James Perry is an American mathematician, engineer, businessman, and civil servant who was the United States Secretary of Defense from February 3, 1994, to January 23, 1997, under President Bill Clinton.

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