Famous Entrepreneurs

Mr. Ricardo Candela Homes

San Pedro

(?-C.64), the main disciple of Jesus Christ, the 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 we know 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 rented out as accommodation.

Michael Dell: Customer Direct

At twelve years working as a waiter in a Chinese restaurant. At sixteen he sold newspapers. With eighteen founded Dell Computers, whose shares were revalued on the Stock Exchange 36,000% in ten years and whose annual turnover exceeds 20 billion-with b-dollars. Her parents tried to persuade him to leave "The ARM COMPUTER stupid hobby."

Netscape

Jim Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape and Healtheon, is the only person on earth who has been able to create three companies worth more than one billion dollars. The fourth is a matter of time ...

King C. Gillette: Vision

Born in Wisconsin in 1855, King C. Gillette began working as a "traveling salesman" at 21 years of age. Son of inventor, conceived very young countless mechanical devices though they had no outlet. At 35 years was employed as a clerk in the Baltimore Seal Company, whose president, William Painter .- once gave him a tip that eventually became an obsession for Gillette, "If you want to get rich, invent a disposable item that people consumed over and over again. "

Gillette told himself reciting the alphabet every morning with the hope that the letters will inspire the answer to your search. In 1895, forty years, while shaving in the mirror finally had so long desired vision: "At that moment I imagined the disposable razor with two blades attached to a metal handle."

Entrepreneurs fifties

Ray Kroc was 52 years old and worked as an appliance salesman for restaurants when he was fascinated by the small burger brothers Maurice and Richard McDonald, and its system of simple food, cheap and fast.

Kroc proposed to extend the two brothers burger concept through franchising and the three teamed up for this purpose. In 1961, he bought the McDonald brothers hand in business for more than two and a half million dollars becoming the principal owner of the chain, which would become the fast food company in the world.

Grilled Chicken: Roger Schuler

The need to get rid of leftover chicken a bad deal.

Roger Schuler - Swiss - had no luck with the then new business of raising chickens and selling retail, and then transfer your Larco shop, he found more than 1,000 chickens in their possession.

Transformed his farm house santa clara - blue for the flies-step at a restaurant, built on the only raw material I had in abundance and it was cheap enough to attract people traveling on the road.

There was only one way to do: serve a unique dish and prepared in mass quantities. The grilled chicken was born.

Henry Ford: American Industrial known for its innovative methods in the industry of motor vehicles.

At 16 he became an apprentice mechanic in Detroit. From 1888 to 1899 he was a mechanic, and later chief engineer of the Edison Illuminating Company. In 1893, after experience in his spare time, managed to build his first car, and in 1903 created the Ford Motor Company.

Bill Gates: American businessman, president and CEO of Microsoft Corporation.

Fascinated by computers since the age of 12 embarked on several programming projects while studying.

During his stay at Harvard in 1975, Gates teamed up with Allen to develop a version of the programming language BASIC for the Altair, the first computer or personal computer. Given the results he obtained with his work on BASIC, decided to leave Harvard in 1977 to devote himself entirely to Microsoft, and get "a computer on every desk and in every home", the idea behind the company.

Thomas Alva Edison

Under ten years, the small Thomas set up his first laboratory in the basement of the house of his parents and taught himself the rudiments of chemistry and electricity. But at twelve, Edison also realized that he could exploit not only their creativity but also his keen practical sense. So, not to mention his passion for the experiments considered in his power to win real money materializing some of their good ideas.

His first venture was selling newspapers and candy on the train that made the journey from Port Huron to Detroit. Had broken the Civil War and the travelers were hungry for news. Edison convinced the railroad telegraphers to describe in the bulletin boards of the stations on the development brief tenure of the war, not to mention add to foot the full details appeared in newspapers, those newspapers sold Edison himself on the train and it goes without saying that they are obscured by the hands.

And they all? No more, but for now suffice.

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