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🀫 Gratitude · Top 1024 entrepreneurs

The greatest builders alive.

Gratitude to the founders and entrepreneurs who turn ideas into companies, jobs, and progress for millions. Celebrated from public work, with a cited source on every card.

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32 of 1024 Β· celebrated from public information, cited on every card.

JH

Jensen Huang

Co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, the accelerated-computing company powering the AI era

NVIDIA

semiconductorsai-computegpushardware
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for co-founding NVIDIA in 1993 and betting decades on the GPU, giving the world the compute that made modern AI possible.

NVIDIA β†—Wikipedia β†—
JB

Jeff Bezos

Founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, builder of modern e-commerce and cloud

Amazon / Blue Origin

e-commercecloudspacelogistics
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for starting Amazon from a garage in 1994 and inventing the customer-obsessed, long-term playbook that reshaped how the world shops and builds.

Blue Origin β†—Wikipedia β†—
EM

Elon Musk

Founder and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, driving reusable rockets and electric vehicles

Tesla / SpaceX

spaceelectric-vehiclesenergyai
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for pushing reusable rockets at SpaceX and mass-market electric cars at Tesla, making two things the world called impossible feel inevitable.

SpaceX β†—Wikipedia β†—
RH

Reid Hoffman

Co-founder of LinkedIn, investor and student of how networks scale

LinkedIn

networksventureaicareers
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for co-founding LinkedIn and connecting a billion professionals, then generously teaching a generation of founders how to scale responsibly.

Wikipedia β†—
BC

Brian Chesky

Co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, who turned spare rooms into a global marketplace of belonging

Airbnb

marketplacestraveldesigncommunity
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for co-founding Airbnb from air mattresses in a San Francisco apartment and building a design-led company that let strangers trust each other across the world.

Airbnb β†—Wikipedia β†—
PC

Patrick Collison

Co-founder and CEO of Stripe, building payments infrastructure for the internet economy

Stripe

fintechpaymentsdeveloper-toolsinfrastructure
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for co-founding Stripe with a few lines of code and a huge ambition, making it dramatically easier for anyone to start an internet business.

Stripe β†—Wikipedia β†—
JC

John Collison

Co-founder and President of Stripe, co-architect of internet payments

Stripe

fintechpaymentsdeveloper-toolsinfrastructure
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for co-founding Stripe as a young builder from Limerick and helping raise the ceiling on how ambitious a payments company could be.

Stripe β†—Wikipedia β†—
JD

Jack Dorsey

Co-founder of Twitter and founder of Block (Square), pioneer of simple mobile payments

Block

fintechpaymentssocialbitcoin
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for co-founding Twitter and building Square, letting a tiny business take a card payment on a phone and changing who gets to sell.

Block β†—Wikipedia β†—
DE

Daniel Ek

Co-founder and CEO of Spotify, who made legal, instant streaming the way the world hears music

Spotify

musicstreamingconsumer-techcreators
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for co-founding Spotify in Stockholm and offering a better answer than piracy, putting nearly all recorded music in everyone's pocket.

Spotify β†—Wikipedia β†—
MP

Melanie Perkins

Co-founder and CEO of Canva, who made professional design accessible to everyone

Canva

designsaascreatorsaccessibility
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for co-founding Canva in Perth after teaching students design was too hard, and putting simple, beautiful design tools in hundreds of millions of hands.

Canva β†—Wikipedia β†—
WH

Whitney Wolfe Herd

Founder of Bumble, who built a dating platform where women make the first move

Bumble

consumersocialdatingwomen-led
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for founding Bumble and rewriting the rules of online dating around safety and respect, then taking the company public as a young founder.

Bumble β†—Wikipedia β†—
SB

Sara Blakely

Founder of Spanx, who built a global apparel brand from a single idea and no outside capital

Spanx

consumerapparelbootstrappedwomen-led
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for founding Spanx with your savings and a homemade prototype, proving a self-funded founder could build an iconic brand on her own terms.

Spanx β†—Wikipedia β†—
RL

Robert Langer

Co-founder of Moderna and MIT institute professor, prolific inventor in drug delivery

Moderna / MIT

biotechdrug-deliverymrnascience
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for a lifetime of biomedical invention and for co-founding Moderna, whose mRNA platform helped the world respond to a pandemic.

MIT Langer Lab β†—Wikipedia β†—
US

Ugur Sahin

Co-founder and CEO of BioNTech, co-creator of the first authorized mRNA COVID-19 vaccine

BioNTech

biotechmrnavaccinesoncology
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for co-founding BioNTech in Mainz and racing an mRNA vaccine to the world in record time while keeping cancer as the long mission.

BioNTech β†—Wikipedia β†—
OT

Ozlem Tureci

Co-founder and chief medical officer of BioNTech, immunotherapy pioneer

BioNTech

biotechimmunotherapyvaccinesoncology
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for co-founding BioNTech and dedicating your career to teaching the immune system to fight cancer, work that also helped end a pandemic.

BioNTech β†—Wikipedia β†—
MY

Muhammad Yunus

Founder of Grameen Bank and Nobel Peace laureate who pioneered microcredit

Grameen Bank

social-enterprisemicrofinancepovertyimpact
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for founding Grameen Bank and proving the poor are creditworthy, extending tiny loans that let millions build their own way out of poverty.

Grameen Bank β†—Wikipedia β†—
JN

Jacqueline Novogratz

Founder and CEO of Acumen, pioneer of patient capital for fighting poverty

Acumen

social-enterpriseimpact-investingpovertyleadership
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for founding Acumen and investing patient capital in companies serving the poor, showing that dignity and enterprise can grow together.

Acumen β†—Wikipedia β†—
SH

Scott Harrison

Founder and CEO of charity: water, who reinvented nonprofit transparency for clean water

charity: water

social-enterpriseclean-watertransparencyimpact
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for founding charity: water and its 100 percent model, funding clean water for tens of millions while restoring people's trust in giving.

charity: water β†—Wikipedia β†—
NN

Nandan Nilekani

Co-founder of Infosys and architect of Aadhaar, India's digital identity system

Infosys

it-servicesdigital-identityindiapublic-infrastructure
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for co-founding Infosys and then designing Aadhaar and India's digital public infrastructure, giving over a billion people a portable digital identity.

Infosys β†—Wikipedia β†—
NM

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Founder of Infosys, a father of India's global IT services industry

Infosys

it-servicesindiagovernanceoutsourcing
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for founding Infosys with borrowed savings and a belief in compassionate capitalism, helping put India on the map as a global technology power.

Infosys β†—Wikipedia β†—
FN

Falguni Nayar

Founder and CEO of Nykaa, who built India's leading beauty retail platform in her fifties

Nykaa

e-commercebeautyindiawomen-led
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for leaving a banking career to found Nykaa at fifty and building one of India's most loved retail brands into a public company.

Nykaa β†—Wikipedia β†—
SV

Sridhar Vembu

Co-founder of Zoho, who built a global software company bootstrapped from rural India

Zoho

saasbootstrappedindiarural-development
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for co-founding Zoho and refusing outside capital, building world-class software from villages in Tamil Nadu and creating jobs where few thought possible.

Zoho β†—Wikipedia β†—
JM

Jack Ma

Founder of Alibaba, who brought hundreds of millions of small merchants online in China

Alibaba

e-commercechinafintechsmall-business
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for founding Alibaba from an apartment in Hangzhou and giving countless small Chinese businesses a global storefront and a path to grow.

Alibaba Group β†—Wikipedia β†—
MS

Masayoshi Son

Founder and CEO of SoftBank, one of the boldest technology investors of his era

SoftBank Group

investingjapantechnologytelecom
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for founding SoftBank and backing internet and AI companies with rare conviction, funding a generation of ambitious builders across the world.

SoftBank Group β†—Wikipedia β†—
FL

Forrest Li

Founder and CEO of Sea Limited, builder of Shopee and Garena across Southeast Asia

Sea Limited

e-commercegamingfintechsoutheast-asia
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for founding Sea in Singapore and building Shopee, Garena, and SeaMoney into digital rails that serve hundreds of millions across Southeast Asia.

Sea Limited β†—Wikipedia β†—
AT

Anthony Tan

Co-founder and CEO of Grab, Southeast Asia's leading super-app for rides, food and payments

Grab

ride-hailingfintechsoutheast-asiasuper-app
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for co-founding Grab to make transport safer in Malaysia and growing it into a super-app that gives millions of drivers and merchants a livelihood.

Grab β†—Wikipedia β†—
AD

Aliko Dangote

Founder of Dangote Group, Africa's largest industrial conglomerate and refinery

Dangote Group

manufacturingcementenergyafrica
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for building Dangote Group from a commodities trader into Africa's largest industrial company, making cement, food, and fuel on the continent itself.

Dangote Group β†—Wikipedia β†—
SM

Strive Masiyiwa

Founder of Econet Wireless, who fought to bring mobile telecoms to Africa

Econet Wireless

telecomafricaconnectivityphilanthropy
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for founding Econet after a years-long legal battle to break a state monopoly, connecting millions across Africa and mentoring its next entrepreneurs.

Econet Wireless β†—Wikipedia β†—
TA

Tope Awotona

Founder and CEO of Calendly, who bootstrapped a scheduling tool into a global SaaS company

Calendly

saasproductivitybootstrappeddiaspora
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for founding Calendly with your own savings after several failed ventures, building a beloved product that quietly saves millions of people time every day.

Calendly β†—Wikipedia β†—
MG

Marcos Galperin

Co-founder and CEO of MercadoLibre, the e-commerce and fintech leader of Latin America

MercadoLibre

e-commercefintechlatamlogistics
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for founding MercadoLibre from a business-school idea and building Latin America's essential marketplace and payments network, Mercado Pago.

MercadoLibre β†—Wikipedia β†—
MS

Mudassir Sheikha

Co-founder and CEO of Careem, the Middle East's first ride-hailing unicorn

Careem

ride-hailingsuper-appmiddle-eastfintech
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for co-founding Careem in Dubai and building the region's first tech unicorn, a super-app that created work for millions of captains across the Middle East.

Careem β†—Wikipedia β†—
DV

David Velez

Founder and CEO of Nubank, builder of the world's largest digital bank outside Asia

Nubank

fintechneobanklatamfinancial-inclusion
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for founding Nubank after struggling to open a bank account in Brazil, and banking over a hundred million Latin Americans the incumbents ignored.

Nubank β†—Wikipedia β†—
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