great entrepreneurs at the start
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What Great Entrepreneurs
Looked Like When They
Started Their First Company
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Henry Ford (Ford Motor Co.)
•Formed Ford & Malcomson in 1902 (age 39).
•Fun fact: Ford became an apprentice machinist in Detroit at the age of 16.
Photo: “Barney Oldfield & Henry Ford,” The History Channel
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Mary Kay Ash (Mary Kay®)
•Opened her first store in 1963 (age 45).
•Fun fact: Ash quit her sales job in 1963 after being passed over for a promotion by a man she had trained.
Photo: Corbis for Inc. Magazine
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Steve Jobs (Apple)
•Founded Apple with Steve Wozniak in 1976 (age 21).
•Fun fact: After dropping out of Reed College after one semester, Steve Jobs worked as a technician with Atari.
Photo: Silvermac.com
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Debbi Fields (Mrs. Fields®)
•Founded Mrs. Fields Cookies in 1977 (age 21).
•Fun fact: Fields used money from her childhood job as a “ball girl” for the Oakland Athletics to buy ingredients for baking cookies.
Photo: mrsfields.com
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Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield (Ben and Jerry’s®)
•Opened their first Ben & Jerry’s ice cream parlor in 1978 in a renovated gas station in Vermont, using $8,000 of their own and $4,000 they borrowed (ages: 27).•Fun fact: Boyhood friends, Cohen and Greenfield wanted to do something that was “fun” and decided to start a food business. After realizing bagel equipment was too expensive, they took a correspondence course in ice-cream making.
Source: Star Magazine
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Oprah Winfrey•Launched her own production company, Harpo Studios, in 1988 (age: 34).
•Fun fact: Winfrey started out in rural Mississippi, where her grandmother said she used to interview her corncob doll.
Source: AP
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Pierre Omidyar (eBay™)
•Launched “Auction Web,” now eBay, in 1995 (age:28).
•Fun fact: he wrote the basics of eBay over labor day weekend in 1995 to help his fiancée trade PEZ candy dispensers.
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Wendy Kopp (Teach for America)
•Kopp founded Teach for America in 1989 (age: 22).
•Kopp described her idea of Teach for America in her college undergraduate thesis.
Source: Echoing Green