Lei Jun

Lei Jun is a Chinese entrepreneur and investor, chiefly famous for founding the home electronics company Xiaomi Inc. In accordance with Chinese naming tradition, Lei is his family name. Despite devoting a lot of time to Xiaomi, Lei also keeps investing in other companies and is Chairman of several. His investments chiefly lays within the…

Xiaomi

Xiaomi Inc is a privately owned electronics company based in Beijing. It sells, among other things, smartphones, smart-TV, laptops and mobile apps. In 2015, it was the 5th largest smartphone manufacturer in the world. It became the largest smartphone manufacturer in China in 2014, pushing Samsung down to a second place. Xiaomi has employees in…

Binny Bansal & Sachal Bansal

Binny Bansal and Sachal Bansal are two Indian entrepreneurs, chiefly famous for founding the e-commerce platform Flipkart. India Today Magazine jointly ranked Binny and Sachal Bansal #26 on their “India’s 50 Most Powerful People of 2017” list. Binny Bansal Early life Binny Bansal is originally from Chandigarh, a city that serves as state capital for…

Flipkart

Flipkart is an Indian electronics commerce company based in Bangalore. It was founded in 2007 by Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal. Ten years later, Flipkart was valued at 11.6 billion USD. Short facts about Flipkart Type of business Private Sector E-commerce / Online shopping Founded 2007 Headquarters Bangalore, India Area served India Founders Sachin Bansal Binny…

Cheng Wei

Cheng Wei is a Chinese entrepreneur, chiefly famous for creating the taxi-hailing app Didi Dache and turning it into the huge mobile transportation platform Didi Chuxing. In accordance to Chinese naming traditions, his family name is Cheng and his given name Wei. Among English speakers, he frequently uses his English nickname Will. In 2016, Didi…

Didi Chuxing

Didi Chuxing started out as an app to order taxi pick up in China, but has today grown to include a wide range of services, including social ride sharing. Currently used by close to 300 million people in 400 Chinese cities, and with some services being inter-city, Didi Chuxing is commonly referred to as a…

Evan Sharp, Ben Silbermann & Paul Sciarra

Evan Sharp Evan Sharp is an American entrepreneur, chiefly famous for being the co-founder and chief creative officer of Pinterest. In 2017, his estimated net worth exceeded 1 billion USD. Early life Evan Sharp, born in 1982, grew up in York, Pennsylvania. He received a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Chicago, before…

Pinterest

Founded by Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp and Paul Sciarra, Pinterest is an online site where users can create their own pin boards. Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann has described the site as “a catalog of ideas” and stated that the genesis of Pinterest came from his childhood love of collecting. When Silbermann and his friends looked…

Arash Ferdowsi & Drew Houston

Arash Ferdowsi Arash Ferdowsi is an Iranian-American entrepreneur chiefly famous for being one of Dropbox’s co-founders. In 2015, his estimated net worth was 500 million USD. Early life Ferdowsi was born in Overland Park, Kansas, USA on October 7, 1985. He attended Blue Valley Northwest High School in Overland Park, from which he graduated in…

Dropbox

Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by Dropbox Inc, a company based in San Francisco, USA. Among other things, Dropbox offers cloud storage and file synchronization. Dropbox will give you a free account with a set storage size. If you need more space, that is available for a fee (paid subscription). A paid subscription…