The document profiles several successful entrepreneurs including Richard Hayne of Urban Outfitters, Jack Dorsey of Twitter, Travis Kalanick of Uber, Dustin Moskovitz of Facebook and Asana, Guy Laliberté of Cirque du Soleil, Frederick W. Smith of FedEx, and Elon Musk of Tesla Motors and SpaceX. It discusses how each of them founded highly successful companies and amassed personal fortunes of over $1 billion through innovations in retail fashion, social media, transportation, logistics, entertainment, and electric vehicles.

1. Beautiful Smart Fun
Attractive
 Objects, space and wearables
for the sake of looking good
Richard Hayne, Urban
Outfitters
Richard co-founded the
company in 1970. It has had
international success by
constantly changing styles
and circulating brands that
target niche markets. He’s
now worth $1.5B.
Organized
 Platforms to structure content
and schedule events
Healthy
 Practices for maintaining
internal and external health
Balanced
 Promoting equality across
cultures to counter effects of
failing economies
Safe
 Solutions and practices for
protecting well-being and
mitigating risk
Anna Haupt, Hovding
With engineering partner,
Terese Alstin, Hovding is a
re-invented bicycle helmet
targeting cyclists who would
not wear one otherwise. This
cross of several technologies
has the potential to create an
all-around safer sport.
Convenient
 New ways for more easily
executing existing
processes
Travis Kalanick, Uber
Travis found his entry to the
billionaire’s club with the
driver-passanger network
platform, co-founded with
Garret Camp. The company
faces controversy, but
is breakthrough in hired
transportation.
Resourceful
 Assisting experience, education
and insight
Tyler Jensen,
The Startup Garage
By providing the resources
and tools entrepreneurs
need to successfully build
business.
Efficient
 Systems to increase the speed
of activity
Frederick W. Smith,
FedEx
Born from a passion for
flight, Frederick repurposed
his aircraft maintenance
company to develop the
first integrated air/ground
delivery system in 1971. He’s
now worth $3.5B.
Connected
 Bridging the gaps of time and
space between people and
entities
Gary Kremen, Match.com
The conecpt was born in 1993
for newspaper advertising
classifieds. Based on
community feedback, the
company altered and beta
launched in 1995. 10 years
later was noted as the world’s
largest online dating site.
Sustainable
 Products and practices to assist
the planet in providing for
humans long-term
Elon Musk,
Tesla Motors
The world has benefitted
from Elon’s innovation
across multiple industries
of ‘smart’ — companies
including Paypal and
SpaceX. Tesla has set a bar
for the automobile footprint.
Today Elon is worth $9.7B.
Interactive
 Real-time interactions
between people
and organizations
Jack Dorsey, Twitter
Founder of two billon-dollar
Sillicon Valley startups,
Jack is know for his eclectic
tastes and helping shape
social media. He was
recently named to Disney’s
board and is worth $2B.
Entertaining
 Creating experiences to instill
happiness
Guy Laliberté,
Cirque du Soleil
Guy is a Canadian
entrepreneur who started
out as a circus act — eating
fire, playing music and
walking on stilts. He’s now
worth over $2B.
Decorative
 Means of preparing for
celebration, expression and
festivity
Alexander Mendeluk,
Spirithoods
Avid Gamer with a rep for
being a bit alternative,
Spirithoods was featured on
the hit show ‘Shark Tank’ and
leveraged the publicity to
grow the business.
The perfect blend of all 3
 Mark Zuckerburg is the entrepreneur at this point. Why?
Because most people spend more time engaging with his creation than
any other. By integrating personal social connections, genius algorithums
and clean information architecture, Facebook takes the cake. #gamechanger
Mark Zuckerburg, Facebook
Affordable
 Simplifying and streamlining
processes for the impact of
cutting costs
Herb Kelleher,
Southwest Airlines
In 1967, the concept to
provide air travel to a small,
targeted area (Texas) was
first drawn on a napkin.
Southwest established
itself with many of the
traditional costs cut, later
expanding the model
nationally.
Dustin Moskovitz,
Asana
Dustin earned his place
as one of the world’s
youngest billionaires as a
co-founder of Facebook
in 2004. He co-founded
the task management
platform, Asasa, with Justin
Rosenstein and today is
worth $7.6B.
Ayla Skye, Quick & Fit
As an olympic hopeful,
Alya was injured and
designed a lifestyle to
remain toned and in shape
purely through diet.
Blake Mycoskie,
Tom’s Shoes
Millions of children around
the world have Blake to
thank for the shoes on their
feet. Blake’s One-for-One
model leverages first-world
consumption to meet the
needs of the less fortunate.
What ’ s Your V is ion?
To make the world more...
To make the world more. .
To make the world more. .
To make the world more. .
Hey entrepreneur!
To make the world more. . Many entrepreneurs (and most of the ones featured here) have more than
one vision for startup’s impact on the world. And that’s ok!
Define yours, and write it down.
Clarity of your big-picture vision will help develop your brand, create
messaging and visuals and focus communication efforts.
“Billionaires: Richard Hayne, Jack Dorsey, Travis Kalanick, Dustin Moskovitz, Guy Laliberté, Frederick W. Smith, Elon Musk.” Forbes. Retrieved Aug 8, 2014
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