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The Mattel co-founder who put Barbie into the world.

Product executive who became the public face of Instagram.

Executive who built Amazon Web Services and then succeeded Jeff Bezos as CEO.

Biotech entrepreneur who cofounded 23andMe and put a spit tube in the consumer’s hand.

Home Depot cofounder who later built an Atlanta sports empire with the same retailer’s energy.

Cofounder of Home Depot who taught America to wander a warehouse of possibility.

Mathematician-turned-tycoon who rose in 1990s Russia and died in exile in 2013.

Investor who made the proxy fight a permanent feature of American business.

Operator who ran PayPal and later became CEO of Verizon.

Mathematician who co-founded Akamai and died on Flight 11.

Technology and business executive.

Baghdadi merchant who built a trading house from Bombay to China.

NBA commissioner who turned a domestic league into a worldwide game.

Facebook co-founder who later built the work app Asana.

Brazilian co-founder of Facebook, now a Singapore-based investor.

Mattel co-founder who turned design and a garage shop into Hot Wheels.

Soap maker who printed a philosophy on every label.

Beauty entrepreneur who built a global house from a kitchen-table cream.

Engineer who founded DuckDuckGo, the privacy-first search company.

Tulsa banker and philanthropist who built BOK Financial into a major regional house.

Founder of Men's Wearhouse and the voice of I guarantee it.

Haitian industrialist and longtime leader of Haiti’s Jewish community.

Montreal-born entrepreneur who became president of Shopify and a champion of independent merchants.

The merchant who turned Starbucks into a third place between home and work.

Ukrainian-Israeli businessman who co-founded PrivatBank.

Electrical engineer who cofounded Qualcomm and put a piece of San Diego into every pocket.

Entrepreneur who became CEO of the Anti-Defamation League.

Hedge-fund manager who built Perceptive Advisors around biotech.

Investigator who turned corporate due diligence into a global industry.

Designer who founded Lane Bryant and made plus-size clothing a proper industry.

Co-founder of Oracle who still sets the company's technical course.

Computer scientist who co-founded Google and later Alphabet with Sergey Brin.

New York developer who leased, then rebuilt, the World Trade Center site.

American businessman remembered among retail entrepreneurs of the late twentieth century.

Russian-Israeli industrialist who built Novatek into a major natural-gas company.

Former Yukos executive who rebuilt a life in Israel as an investor and philanthropist.

Retailer who built The Limited, Victoria’s Secret, and a Columbus philanthropic map.

Businessman born in 1956, recorded here for a career in commerce and wealth.

Co-founder and first CEO of Netflix.

Entrepreneur who sold Broadcast.com, bought the Mavericks, and joined Shark Tank.

Programmer who co-founded Facebook and still runs its parent, Meta Platforms.

Builder of the Bloomberg terminal who served three terms as New York's mayor.

Founder, chairman, and CEO of Dell Technologies, built from a dorm-room PC shop.

Philadelphia entrepreneur who built Fanatics into the dominant digital sports-commerce company.

Georgian-Israeli businessman who built interests from energy to new media and leads St. Petersburg’s Jewish Congress.

Ukrainian-born financier who cofounded Alfa-Group and later the investment house LetterOne.

Bahraini-British designer who built a namesake women’s ready-to-wear line.

Industrialist who has long led European Jewish communal organizations from the president’s chair.

Metals trader who assembled Rusal, once the world’s largest aluminum company.

Longtime chairman of Progressive Insurance.

British retailer who once owned Topshop and a swath of the high street.

Co-founder of LinkedIn and a leading Silicon Valley investor.

American businessman and sports team owner (born 1941)

Czech-born publisher who built a newspaper and scientific empire, then left it in wreckage.

British industrialist and a leading figure of Anglo-Jewry.

Russian-Israeli businessman who turned an oil stake into a global fortune and a London football club.

Dealmaker who used MacAndrews & Forbes to buy everything from makeup to comic books.

New York lawyer who rose young and left a hard reputation.

Financier who built Reliance into a vehicle for 1980s corporate deals.

Ukrainian-born figure long described by Western agencies as a powerful boss of Russian organized crime.

Casino magnate who built Las Vegas Sands into a trans-Pacific empire.

Operator who made Facebook's ads a business and wrote Lean In.

Industrialist who built Access Industries and bought Warner Music.

Technology executive in social products and business.

Microsoft's longtime CEO and later owner of the Los Angeles Clippers.

Casino developer who remade the Las Vegas Strip as a stage for luxury.

Google’s early marketing hire who later ran YouTube for nine years.

Ukrainian-born industrialist who founded Renova and collected both companies and art.