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The CEO and co-founder of Spotify was also CEO of uTorrent
FedEx's current CEO and founder Frederick W. Smith didn't have enough money to keep the company afloat, he took the remaining 5k and brought it to Vegas and by Monday morning they had 32k, enough to fuel their planes and stay in business long enough for another round of funding.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 50 of the best facts about Founder Ceo I managed to collect.
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Travis Kalanick, the CEO and co-founder of Uber, has the 2nd highest Wii Tennis ranking in the world
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In 2006, CNN included Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on their "10 People Who Don't Matter" list.
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The founder and CEO of a Greek yogurt company (Chobani) was a Turkish immigrant who came to the U.S. with only $3,000 and bought an abandoned factory, and started producing yogurt. Now, his company generates over a billion dollars in revenue.
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The founder of ValueJet, whose company was shut down over fatal accidents, is now the CEO of Allegiant Air.
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The co-founder of Southwest Airlines arm wrestled another CEO for rights to the slogan "Just Plane Smart"
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Frederick W. Smith, the CEO, founder and chairman of FedEx, has separately killed two people in motor vehicle accidents: one in a hit and run (for which he was released on $250 bond), and another where he lost control, causing the vehicle to flip, killing the passenger.
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Southwest Airlines Founder & former CEO Herb Kelleher arm wrestled another airline CEO for the rights to the slogan "Plane Smart"
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Phil Knight, founder and CEO of Nike, got the idea of selling running shoes after writing a paper called "Can Japanese Sports Shoes Do to German Sports Shoes What Japanese Cameras Did to German Cameras?"
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CEO and founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, has maintain a salary of less than $82,000 a year. Though, he has an estimated net worth around $30 billion.
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Donald Young, founder & former CEO of the MLM Young Living essential oils, was convicted of practicing medicine without a license for offering to treat cancer in '82. He was sued for causing renal failure in a "patient," & lost a child to drowning during a bathtub delivery at his "health club."
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The founder of L'Oreal was a fascist who backed an organization which helped the Nazis find and kill French Jews. Its executives and the US CEO after the war had been members of this group.
Tim Sweeney founder and CEO of Epic has bought and donated for preservation 40,000 acres of forest land since 2008 including 1,500 acres for a state park. - source
Tesla's Founder was Martin Eberhard, that he was ousted as CEO in 2007, and he subsequently sued Tesla and Musk in 2009 for libel, slander and breach of contract
Joe Francis, founder and CEO of Girls Gone Wild, filed bankruptcy and fled the US to Mexico in order to avoid paying an outstanding gambling debt to Steve Wynn and the subsequent arrest warrant for failure to pay. He has yet to return. - source
The former CEO of Google, and current Chairman, wasn't even told when the founders made acquisitions of other companies.
The founder & CEO of Little Caesar's Pizza payed Rosa Park's rent so that she could live in a better part of Detroit until her death.
The founders of OkCupid (and the current CEO of match.com) also founded SparkNotes during college.
Ray Kroc, former CEO of McDonald's (also regarded as its "founder"), lied about his age and became a Red Cross ambulance driver at 15 during the First World War.
One of the co-founders of Blizzard Entertainment (and CEO of Blizzard) - Mike Morhaime... Is worth $1.8 Billion. That's more than all the Top Hollywood executives combined.
In 2006 Business 2.0 put Mark Zuckerberg and Reed Hastings (Netflix founder & current CEO) on their list of "10 People who don't matter." Zuckerberg for turning down a $750 million buyout offer and Hastings for falling behind "online rivals such as iTunes and MovieLink."
