Case studies on male founder.

Left Cisco to found Zoom and built a video-conferencing giant that IPO'd in 2019

Bought a 6-store Seattle roaster and built the world's largest coffeehouse chain

Rejected English teacher who built Alibaba into a global e-commerce giant

Built Amazon from an online bookstore into a trillion-dollar everything store

Co-founded NVIDIA in 1993 and grew it into a trillion-dollar AI chip leader

Turned one California burger stand into the world's largest fast-food franchise

Led the $985M buyout of Beatrice International, the first Black-owned billion-dollar business

Co-founded Apple in a garage and rebuilt it into the world's most valuable brand

Coder who built a snowboard shop, then pivoted its software into Shopify