Profiles — Business
American founders, executives and investors, and the companies they built and led.
American businessman
Elon Reeve Musk is a businessman, industrialist and former public official who is the chief executive officer and largest shareholder of Tesla and SpaceX. Musk has been the wealthiest person in the world since 2025, and briefly became the only trillionaire…
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Emile Berliner was a German-American inventor and businessman who invented the lateral-cut flat disc record, also known as a "gramophone record," used with a gramophone.
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Eric Ries is an American entrepreneur, blogger, and author of The Lean Startup, a book on the lean startup movement.
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Eric S Yuan is a Chinese-American billionaire businessman, engineer, and the chief executive officer and founder of Zoom Communications, of which he owns 22%.
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Eric Emerson Schmidt is an American businessman and former computer engineer who was the chief executive officer of Google from 2001 to 2011 and the company's executive chairman from 2011 to 2015.
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Eric Frederick Trump is an American businessman, political activist, and former reality television presenter.
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Erich Seligmann Fromm was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist.
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Erik Dean Prince is an American businessman, who is the founder of private military contractor Blackwater.
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Erika Lane Kirk is an American businesswoman, nonprofit executive, and podcaster.
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