San Pedro
The leading disciple of Jesus Christ, apostle and missionary of the early Christian Church. According to tradition, the first bishop of Rome. He was an entrepreneur.
For the references in the Gospels knows that his birth name was Simon.
We know that was a fisherman, but what is not known who owned a boat where he employed a group of men and also had a house he rented as lodging.
Michael Dell: Direct customer,
At twelve years working as a waiter at a Chinese restaurant. At sixteen, sold newspapers. With eighteen founded Dell Computers, whose shares are revalued on stock market 36,000% in ten years and whose annual turnover exceeds 20 trillion-and b-dollars. Her parents tried to persuade him to leave “The stupid hobby builds computers.
Netscape
Jim Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape and Healtheon, is the only person in the world has been able to create three companies worth more than one billion dollars. The fourth is just a matter of time.
King C. Gillette: Vision
Born in Wisconsin in 1855, King C. Gillette began working as a “commercial traveler” at 21 years of age. Son of the inventor, from his youth innumerable mechanical devices designed but had no outlet. At 35 years was employed as a clerk in the Baltimore Seal Company, whose president, William Painter .- once gave him advice that eventually became an obsession for Gillette: “If you want to get rich, invent a disposable object that people eat again and again. ” Gillette told himself reciting the alphabet every morning with the hope that the letters gave him the answer to your search. In 1895, forty years, while shaving in the mirror finally had the vision so long desired, “At that moment I imagined the disposable razor with two blades attached to a metal handle.
Ray Kroc was 52 years old and worked as a salesman of appliances for restaurants when he was fascinated by the small burger brothers Maurice and Richard McDonald, and its system of simple food, cheap and fast.
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