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Historical Timeline

When each founder lived, in context.

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P.T. Barnum1810–1891

Andrew Carnegie1835–1919

J.P. Morgan1837–1913

John D. Rockefeller1839–1937

Joseph Pulitzer1847–1911

Thomas Edison1847–1931

Henry Ford1863–1947

Coco Chanel1883–1971

Enzo Ferrari1898–1988

Walt Disney1901–1966

Ray Kroc1902–1984

Howard Hughes1905–1976

Soichiro Honda1906–1991

Estée Lauder1908–2004

Edwin Land1909–1991

Kelly Johnson1910–1990

David Ogilvy1911–1999

David Packard1912–1996

Chung Ju-yung1915–2001

Sol Price1916–2009

Sam Walton1918–1992

Akio Morita1921–1999

Charlie Munger1924–2023

Ingvar Kamprad1926–2018

Dee Hock1929–2022

John Bogle1929–2019

Joe Coulombe1930–2020

Warren Buffett1930–

Edward O. Thorp1932–

Leonardo Del Vecchio1935–2022

Jim Sinegal1936–

Jim Simons1938–2024

Phil Knight1938–

Yvon Chouinard1938–

Michael Bloomberg1942–

George Lucas1944–

Larry Ellison1944–

Thomas Peterffy1944–

Ed Catmull1945–

Michael Ovitz1946–

James Dyson1947–

Richard Branson1950–

Brunello Cucinelli1953–

Bill Gates1955–

Steve Jobs1955–2011

Mark Cuban1958–

Jensen Huang1963–

Rick Rubin1963–

Jeff Bezos1964–

Paul Graham1964–

Michael Dell1965–

Ben Horowitz1966–

Jony Ive1967–

Peter Thiel1967–

Christopher Nolan1970–

Elon Musk1971–

Marc Andreessen1971–

Demis Hassabis1976–

Brian Armstrong1983–

Nik Storonsky1984–