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Great Entrepreneurs At the Start
- 1. What Great Entrepreneurs Looked Like When They Started Their First Company
- 2. Henry Ford (Ford Motor Co.) •Formed Ford & Malcomson in 1902 (age 39). •Fun fact: Ford became an apprentice machinist in Detroit at the age of 16. Photo: “Barney Oldfield & Henry Ford,” The History Channel
- 3. Mary Kay Ash (Mary Kay®) •Opened her first store in 1963 (age 45). •Fun fact: Ash quit her sales job in 1963 after being passed over for a promotion by a man she had trained. Photo: Corbis for Inc. Magazine
- 4. Steve Jobs (Apple) •Founded Apple with Steve Wozniak in 1976 (age 21). •Fun fact: After dropping out of Reed College after one semester, Steve Jobs worked as a technician with Atari. Photo: Silvermac.com
- 5. Debbi Fields (Mrs. Fields®) •Founded Mrs. Fields Cookies in 1977 (age 21). •Fun fact: Fields used money from her childhood job as a “ball girl” for the Oakland Athletics to buy ingredients for baking cookies. Photo: mrsfields.com
- 6. Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield (Ben and Jerry’s®) •Opened their first Ben & Jerry’s ice cream parlor in 1978 in a renovated gas station in Vermont, using $8,000 of their own and $4,000 they borrowed (ages: 27). •Fun fact: Boyhood friends, Cohen and Greenfield wanted to do something that was “fun” and decided to start a food business. After realizing bagel equipment was too expensive, they took a correspondence course in ice- cream making. Source: Star Magazine
- 7. Oprah Winfrey •Launched her own production company, Harpo Studios, in 1988 (age: 34). •Fun fact: Winfrey started out in rural Mississippi, where her grandmother said she used to interview her corncob doll. Source: AP
- 8. Pierre Omidyar (eBay™) •Launched “Auction Web,” now eBay, in 1995 (age:28). •Fun fact: he wrote the basics of eBay over labor day weekend in 1995 to help his fiancée trade PEZ candy dispensers.
- 9. Wendy Kopp (Teach for America) •Kopp founded Teach for America in 1989 (age: 22). •Kopp described her idea of Teach for America in her college undergraduate thesis. Source: Echoing Green
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- Formed Ford & Malcomson in 1902 (age 39); reincorporated into Ford Motor Company in 1903 Fun fact: Ford became an apprentice machinist in Detroit at the age of 16 (source: http://www.entrepreneur.com/greatminds/timeline/index.html)
- Opened her first store in 1963 (age 45) Fun fact: Ash quit her sales job in 1963 after being passed over for a promotion by a man she had trained (source http://www.inc.com/30years/articles/mary-kay-ash.html).
- Founded Apple with Steve Wozniak in 1976 (age 21) Fun fact: After dropping out of Reed College after one semester, Steve Jobs worked as a technician with Atari
- Founded Mrs. Fields Cookies in 1977 (age 21) Fun fact: Fields used money from her childhood job as a “ball girl” for the Oakland Athletics to buy ingredients for baking cookies.
- Opened their first Ben & Jerry’s ice cream parlor in 1978 in a renovated gas station in Vermont, using $8,000 of their own and $4,000 they borrowed (ages: 27). Fun fact: Boyhood friends, Cohen and Greenfield wanted to do something that was “fun” and decided to start a food business. After realizing bagel equipment was too expensive, they took a correspondence course in ice-cream making (source: http://www.entrepreneur.com/growyourbusiness/radicalsandvisionaries/article197626.html).
- Launched her own production company, Harpo Studios, in 1988 (age: 34) Fun fact: Forbes listed Winfrey as the first black woman billionaire in world history. Winfrey started out in rural Mississippi, where her grandmother said she used to interview her corncob doll.
- Launched “Auction Web,” now eBay, in 1995 (age:28). Fun fact: he wrote the basics of eBay over labor day weekend in 1995 to help his fiancée trade PEZ candy dispensers.
- Kopp founded Teach for America in 1989 (age: 22). Kopp described her idea of Teach for America in her college undergraduate thesis.