Business

Founders, builders, and economic ideas.

People in Business

10 profiles

Entrepreneur

Mark Zuckerberg

Co-founding Facebook.

Economist

John Maynard Keynes

Explaining how weak spending can keep an economy in a slump.

Entrepreneur

Steve Jobs

Co-founding Apple and leading the launch of the iPhone.

Banker

J. P. Morgan

Financing industrial consolidation and helping organise Wall Street’s response to the Panic of 1907.

Showman

P. T. Barnum

Building an entertainment empire of museums, publicity and circus shows.

Industrialist

Henry Ford

Making the Model T affordable through mass production.

Entrepreneur

Henri Nestlé

Developing the infant food that began Nestlé.

Entrepreneur

Bill Gates

Co-founding Microsoft and helping make personal-computer software a mass-market business.

Economist

Amartya Sen

Changing how economists understand poverty, famine and the freedom to live a better life.

Activist

Simon Dixon

Speaking out against Zionism and supporting Palestinian rights, alongside a career in Bitcoin investing and banking reform.