Profiles — Business

Business

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

American executive: General Electric CEO

Jack Welch

John "Jack" Francis Welch Jr.

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American banker, philanthropist

Jacob Schiff

Jacob Henry Schiff was a Jewish German-born American banker, businessman, and philanthropist.

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Computer Scientist, UFO researcher

Jacques Vallée

Jacques Fabrice Vallée is a French Internet pioneer, computer scientist, venture capitalist, author, ufologist and astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California and Paris, France.

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American mountain man

James Beckwourth

James Pierson Beckwourth was an American fur trapper, rancher, businessman, explorer, author and scout.

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American musician

James Brown

James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, and record producer.

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American businessman

James Buchanan Duke

James Buchanan Duke was an American tobacco and electric power industrialist best known for the invention of modern cigarette manufacture and marketing techniques, and his involvement with Duke University.

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American business consultant and writer

James C. Collins

James C. Collins is an American researcher, author, speaker and consultant focused on business management and company sustainability and growth.

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American Evangelical Christian psychologist, author, and radio broadcaster

James Dobson

James Clayton Dobson Jr.

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American actor; oil and natural gas business

James Drury

James Child Drury Jr.

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