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Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?
I love Steve Jobs. His style, vision and overall charisma made me his fan.
- jgrahamc 6mo agoI just don't idolize individuals.
- tmtvl 6mo agoRichard Stalman, someone who puts other people's rights before his own wallet.
- oulipo2 6mo agoHe's got a lot of sexual assault allegations against him. Also awful personal character
- tmtvl 6mo agoConsidering some others mentioned here are Elon Musk and Steve Jobs it seems like 'awful personal character' doesn't count for much. If we completely ignore the Stallman support and take the Stallman report as completely factual and accept it at face value, then I still think the good he has done outweighs the bad.
- oulipo2 6mo agoWell, "awful personal character" SHOULD count for much in response to the question "Who is your favorite entrepreneur", actually
- Chinjut 6mo agoWhere can I find these allegations of him committing sexual assault?
- tmtvl 6mo agoProbably on stallman-report.org, although I will hasten to add stallmansupport.org as a counterbalance.
- __patchbit__ 6mo agoElon Musk then Steve Jobs.
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- perilunar 6mo agoElon Musk. Ok, so he's a bit of a arse, and I really wish he had stayed out of politics, but overall...
- tmtvl 6mo agoHow is the hyperloop coming along nowadays?
- al_borland 6mo agoWe’re just going to ignore Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink to point at something that he said he didn’t even want to do and said other people should try it? If anyone else had a single one of those companies it would be considered a life-defining achievement. He has multiple at the same time. Not having a 100% unicorn rate doesn’t make someone a failure.
- highhedgehog 6mo agoAlso Starlink is pretty cool
- dgellow 6mo agoHe’s responsible for at least hundred of thousand of death with the illegal shutdown down of USAID
- jorisboris 6mo agoi share your sentiment, the politics venture hurt his brand, but he's still a crazy impressive entrepreneur
- highhedgehog 6mo agoI don't like the person, but his vision on SpaceX is incredible
- dnnddidiej 6mo agoGeohot. He is unconventional. Probably leaving money on table but doing more unconventional stuff.
- mikewarot 6mo agoHenry Maudslay, who made the first practical screw cutting lathe, bench micrometer, and transformed the world of machine tools. He made a bench micrometer that could measure to the 1/10,000th of an inch in the early 1800s. He helped set up the very first machine tool based line for the production of pully blocks for the British Navy. [1] https://todayinsci.com/M/Maudslay_Henry/MaudslayHenry-ToolBuilders(1916).htm https://todayinsci.com/M/Maudslay_Henry/MaudslayHenry-ToolBu...
- benreesman 6mo agoThe demoscene: https://youtu.be/YqgEtpJ8tGI https://youtu.be/YqgEtpJ8tGI
- oulipo2 6mo agoAnyone that worked unselfishly for the public good. People like doctors and scientists putting their career at work to improve humanity
- manu3000 6mo agoMarcel Duchamp
- late_night_fix 6mo agoI admired Steve jobs for product vision, but I wouldn't ignore the ecosystem around him.
- omertt27 6mo agopieter levels, the guy is honest i think.He is doing simple things and succeed.I love his videos.
- jorisboris 6mo agoi know pieter levels, but i'm not aware that he's making videos?
- kamphey 6mo agoHe might be referring to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6reLWfFNer0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6reLWfFNer0
- smackeyacky 6mo agoRod Canion. Practical, but radical enough to take on IBM when their PC looked unassailable. Being first to the table with a 386 and working with others to make sure micro channel was DOA set the standards for the industry for decades. Edit: 2nd was Gary Kildall
- trolleski 6mo agoDo you mean which billionaire master do you simp for? Stop idolizing them!
- nickfromseattle 6mo agoPalmer Luckey. Many of the things he discusses, he brings an interesting angle I didn't think of, and has changed my opinion on numerous topics. Great orator.
- jorisboris 6mo agoRichard Branson, he goes against so much convention: - everyone has so much process to "hire right", but in his books he hired kinda random it seems. And seems to delegate a lot rather than "founder mode" - the original remote worker: bought a caribbean island for cheap and managed his businesses from there - random collections of businesses under his brand: airline, telecom, music, ... was he just like super lucky that everything worked out for him?
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- ekm2 6mo agoA better question would have been..who would you consider a formidable rival?
- mitchbob 6mo agoJosé Andrés, founder of World Central Kitchen [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Central_Kitchen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Central_Kitchen
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- claudiulodro 6mo agoIt's not one particular entrepreneur, but my favorite are the long-term local small business owners, like the guy I met a few months ago that's had a tire shop in town since the 70s. They've found a sustainable way to make a living providing something useful for their local community. That should really be the goal.
- bawis 6mo agoI love the typical family-owned small businesses, their runners are the ones that aspired entrepreneurs should listen to their advices instead of bestsellers books of ghouls preaching their bullshit.
- andyjohnson0 6mo agoStewart Brand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Brand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Brand
- dennisjoseph 6mo agoGary Burrell - Garmin Lee Kuan Yew — Singapore Chung Ju-yung — Hyundai
- slipwalker 6mo agoThomas Edison. He was gangsta ! Stole, cheated and lied everytime he could. If we are limited to recent personalities, then John Mcaffe, same reasons.
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