Famous Entrepreneurs
Business Vocab
Business "Failures"
Fun Facts
100
This company was founded in a garage in Los Altos, California and was the first company to reach $1 Trillion in brand value. Who's garage was this?
Steve Jobs
100
This term refers to a short and persuasive explanation of your business idea, usually delivered in under a minute.
Elevator Pitch
100
A competitor to the emerging company Netflix turned down the offer to buy them out for $50 million. They eventually filed for bankruptcy in 2010
Blockbuster
100
The word Entrepreneur comes from this language, meaning "to undertake"
French
200
This person, who is known as the "Queen of Talk Shows" grew up in poverty in Mississippi
Oprah Winfrey
200
This term is used when a company has the exclusive possession or control of supply or trade in a service/commodity
Monopoly
200
This company took a risk and created a new version of their popular soft drink in 1985. They had to pull their "ground breaking" product from shelves in 79 days.
Which company was it + what was the product called?
New Coke - Coca Cola
200
This $5 billion headquarters was considered to be a waste of money until productivity rates for this company rapidly boosted.
Apple Park
300
This Japanese author and entrepreneur founded a lifestyle brand and wrote the bestseller "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" They even have their own Netflix series series and their last name has become a verb to some people.
Marie Kondo
300
The job title of the department of a business or organization that deals with the hiring, administration, and training of personnel
Human Resources
300
This Entrepreneur and inventor famously failed in 1000 experiments before perfecting the product that would change the world
Thomas Edison
300
In the United States, approximately how many how many new businesses are founded annually?
500,000
400
This famous Entrepreneur co-founded a company called X.com, which later merged and turned into PayPal.
Elon Musk
400
What word is being described:
Using borrowed capital or resources to increase the potential return of an investment
Leverage
400
In 1982, James Burke, the CEO of this Billion Dollar Company famously pulled 31 million bottles of Tylenol worldwide in response to the Chicago Tylenol Murders, which killed 7 people.
Johnson & Johnson
400
The average age of successful startup founders
45
500
This person's real identity and name is a mystery. All we know is that they are worth $130 billion. What is the pseudonym of this person?
Satoshi Nakamoto
500
What does "MVP" stand for in design production?
Minimal Viable Product
500
This camera company, who even has a verb named after them, failed due to their reluctance to move into the digital age and stuck with their film photography
Kodak
500
This percentage of entrepreneurs in the US have no degree or higher education
5%