NEWS: Forbes has named @elonmusk #1 on their “America’s 250 Greatest Innovators” list. “Musk is the only person in history to have founded (or grown from nearly nothing) five companies, each with multibillion-dollar valuations, each in a different industry.”
Forbes’ America’s Greatest Innovators (as shown in the post)Here’s the top 10 list extracted from the image in the specified X post:
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Rank
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Name
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Age
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Bio
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#1
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Elon Musk
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54
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Tesla. SpaceX. Neuralink. xAI. The Boring Company. Musk is the only person in history to have four (or grown from nearly nothing) five companies, each with multibillion-dollar valuations, each in a different industry.
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#2
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Jeff Bezos
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61
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Completely upended America’s $7.4 trillion retail industry, then pioneered cloud computing with Amazon Web Services. Now he’s helping NASA return to the moon at Blue Origin and building AI manufacturing systems at Prometheuse.
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#3
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Bill Gates
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70
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Not content with kickstarting the personal computing revolution and making Microsoft the dominant player in workplace software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), at age 50 Gates reinvented himself as a generous—and data-driven— philanthropist who helped eradicate polio from India.
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#4
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George Lucas
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81
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One of the founding fathers of the modern blockbuster, Lucas also revolutionized movie merchandising, unleashing a never-ending tsunami of Star Wars action figures and Indiana Jones lunch boxes. Through his special effects house Industrial Light & Magic and THX sound outfit, he sold his tools to other moviemakers.
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#5
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Jensen Huang
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62
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For years, Nvidia built graphics chips that made computer games (pretty and fast. Huang transformed that niche business into the $187 billion (trailing 12-month revenue) beating heart of the AI economy thanks to an early bet on parallel computing.
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#6
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Sam Altman
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40
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Read our exclusive profile.
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#7
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Phil Knight
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87
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The Nike cofounder revolutionized the design and production of running shoes, but more importantly, he built the world’s best marketing machine, powered by the planet’s best athletes.
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#8
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Martine Rothblatt
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71
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The creator of SiriusXM satellite radio. Rothblatt’s biotech-focused second act is even more impressive: United Therapeutics, which she founded in 1996, made medicines that helped save her daughter’s life, and is now developing genetically modified pig organs for human transplant.
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#9
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Ted Turner
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87
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In the 1980s, Turner built cable’s first “superstation,” Atlanta’s TBS, on a foundation of Braves baseball and pro wrestling. Then he invented the 24-hour news cycle with CNN before making classic movies cool again with TCM.
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#10
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Vinod Khosla
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70
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Sun Microsystems, which Khosla cofounded, was an early pioneer in network computing. He then became a legendary venture capitalist with early bets on risky, complicated tech that produced giants such as Square, DoorDash and OpenAI.
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