Entrepreneurs

Rong Songnian, a Shanghai entrepreneur during the Republic of China, was known as the “King of Melon Seeds”. A native of Yinxian County, Zhejiang Province.

David Packard (English: David Packard, September 7, 1912 - March 26, 1996), one of the founders of the American Hewlett-Packard Company (English abbreviation HP, the official Chinese name Hewlett-Packard Company). In 1939, David Packard and William Hewlett co-founded Hewlett-Packard Company. From 1969 to 1971, he served as Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Nixon Cabinet.

Thomas J. Watson (English: Thomas J. Watson, February 17, 1874 - June 19, 1956), whose full name is Thomas John Watson, Sr., was an American businessman, founder and first chairman of the technology giant IBM (International Business Machines Corporation). CEO, he served as the first chief executive of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) from 1914 to 1956, leading IBM to develop into an internationally renowned business organization from the 1920s to the 1950s. He practices an effective management style.

Ratan Naval Tata, GBE (English: Ratan Naval Tata; December 28, 1937 - October 9, 2024), Indian entrepreneur, born in Surat, Gujarat, India, chairman of the Tata Group (1991-2012).

Lawrence Edward "Larry" Page, an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur, founded Google in 1998 with Sergey Brin.

Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison, born in the Bronx, New York, United States, is the co-founder and chairman of Oracle. According to statistics from Forbes magazine in 2013, his personal assets are as high as US$43 billion, ranking fifth in the world. In the 2019 list of the 400 richest people in the United States, he ranked 5th with assets of US$65 billion. In April 2020, Ellison ranked fifth in the world's richest list published by Forbes with a net worth of US$59 billion. He ranked fifth on the list of the top 400 richest people in the United States published by Forbes in September 2020, with assets of US$72 billion.

Vincent Kennedy "Vince" McMahon (English: Vincent Kennedy "Vince" McMahon, /məkˈmæn/, surname also translated as McMahon, August 24, 1945), is the former President and CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), also known as Mr. McMahon (Mr. McMahon's ring name participates in its wrestling shows. He also serves as a producer of World Wrestling Entertainment films and a screenwriter of World Wrestling Entertainment television programs. He actively participates in performances on many of its brands, most often participating in the storyline of WWE Raw, usually playing the role of an evil corporate ruler. Because of his participation in storyline performances, he won 1 WWE Championship, 2 World Heavyweight Championships and 1 ECW Championship in 2009. He was also the winner of the 1999 Royal Rumble. He and the current President of the United States, Donald Trump, are both enemies and friends. They are each other's fierce rivals in the business world, and they are the best partners of both sides in peacetime. When Trump was not running for president, he often went to watch the games and even acted as a screenwriter. He even "battled" with the McMahon family. Trump also used a golden arm hook to knock down Vince, and then the two sides scuffled. Not to be outdone, Vince once grabbed Trump who was watching the game in the box and directly brought him to the ring to serve him with old fists. Due to a sex scandal, he voluntarily resigned as President and CEO of WWE on June 17, 2022, and his daughter Stephanie McMahon took over the position. She officially announced her retirement on July 22. By January 2023, he returned as chairman of the company. In April of the same year, Endeavor announced that WWE and its Ultimate Fighting Championship would merge into a new company, TKO Group Holdings, with Vince serving as executive chairman of the new company. Later, Vince's sex trafficking and sexual assault lawsuit entered the federal investigation stage, so he resigned from TKO in January 2024.

Fang Jietang (1783-1846), named Hengxing, was a giant businessman in Shanghai in the middle and late Qing Dynasty.

Fang Jiaobo (November 25, 1885 - May 24, 1968), whose given name was Jifan and whose courtesy name was Jiaobo, was born on November 25, 1885 (October 19th, the 11th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty). Male, native of Zhenhai, Zhejiang, Shanghai lawyer and industrialist during the Republic of China. He has successively served as chairman of the Ningshao Shipping Company, chairman of the Shanghai Public Settlement Taxpaying Chinese Association, and vice president of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce.

Hino Kohiro (July 20, 1968 -), Japanese video game producer, president of video game developer LEVEL-5.

Hayakawa Tokuji (Japanese: Hayakawa Tokuji/Hayakawa Lottery, November 3, 1893 - June 24, 1980), born in Tokyo, Japan, was an industrialist and inventor, and the founder of Sharp Corporation. He is famous for his improvement of the mechanical pencil and his invention of the Tokuo buckle, a men's belt buckle that does not require punching holes in the belt. Jiangmu Xinxin, one of the three beauties of Taisho, is his half-sister.

Cao Dewang (May 1946-), native of Fuqing, Fujian, is an entrepreneur and philanthropist in the People's Republic of China. He is the lifelong honorary chairman of the board of directors of Fuyao Group, one of the honorary presidents of the World Chinese Federation, and the first Chinese winner of the Ernst & Young Global Entrepreneur Award. He has served as a member of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a national conditions researcher of the State Council, a special economic researcher of the Fujian Provincial Government, president of the China Automotive Glass Association, and executive vice president of the Fujian Provincial Entrepreneurs Association. He is known as the "King of Glass."

Cao Chaoyang (1963-), born in Hebei, is currently the chairman and CEO of China National Chemical and Rubber Corporation, and the chairman and party secretary of Fengshen Tire Co., Ltd. In 1978, the second year after the restoration of the college entrance examination system after the Cultural Revolution, he enrolled in Zhenjiang Agricultural Machinery College (the predecessor of Jiangsu University) at the age of 15. In 1982, after graduation, he began to join the Henan Rubber Factory, which is now Fengshen Tire Co., Ltd. , but left in the middle of 1991 until 2000, including deputy director of the workshop, deputy director of the branch, secretary of the party committee and director of the Jiaozuo Synthetic Fiber Factory, and then in 2000, he was appointed general manager, secretary of the party committee, and chairman of the board of directors of Henan Tire Group Co., Ltd. today. In addition, he also serves as the chairman, general manager and party committee secretary of China National Chemical Rubber Guilin Co., Ltd., the chairman and general manager of CRRC Shuangxi Tire Co., Ltd., and the director of Qingdao Huanghai Rubber Co., Ltd. In terms of public office, the distinction is between representing Henan Province in the 10th and 11th National People's Congress.

Zeng Yuqun (March 1968-), a native of Ningde, Fujian, is an entrepreneur in the People's Republic of China. Founder and Chairman of CATL New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. Member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and currently Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce.

Soichiro Honda (Japanese: Soichiro Honda, November 17, 1906 - August 5, 1991) was born in Guangming Village, Iwata County, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan (later changed to Tenryu City, now the Tenryu area of ​​Hamamatsu City). Japanese entrepreneur, mechanical engineer, founder of Honda Giken Industrial Co., Ltd. Soichiro Honda and Sony's Dai Ibuka are world-famous as Japan's postwar technology entrepreneurs. As the founder of HONDA, Soichiro Honda used his extraordinary courage and scientific research spirit to develop Honda from a motorcycle repair shop into the world's number one motorcycle company and automobile manufacturer.

Zhu Jianghong (November 1945-), a native of Xinhui, Guangdong, was born in Zhongshan County, Guangdong Province (now Zhuhai City). He once served as the chairman of Zhuhai Gree Electric Appliances Co., Ltd., and is currently a member of the Communist Party of China, a representative of the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress and the chairman of the Preparatory Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Enterprise Brand Building Promotion Association.

Zhu Baosan (March 11, 1848 - September 2, 1926), whose given name was Peizhen and whose courtesy name was Baosan, was born in Dinghai, Zhejiang (then part of Ningbo Prefecture). He was the richest man in the late Qing Dynasty, a famous banking and insurance capitalist and industrialist, and was proficient in English.

Zhu Jun (October 7, 1966 -), chairman and co-founder of The9 City, is a Chinese-Singaporean tycoon. In addition to business in the Internet industry, Zhu Jun loves football and once owned the Chinese Super League team Shanghai Shenhua.

Lido Anthony Iacocca (English: Lido Anthony Iacocca, October 15, 1924 - July 2, 2019), nicknamed Lee Iacocca, was an Italian-American entrepreneur. He successively served as the general manager of Ford Motor Company, president of Chrysler Motor Company, and the person in charge of the development of Ford's classic sports car "Ford Mustang". During his tenure as president of Chrysler, he successfully turned the company around and earned the title of "Hero of American Industry." In recent years, "Iacocca" has also begun to be commonly used as a metaphor for "an entrepreneur who turns a company's operations from losses to profits."

Li Shihe (1941-), a native of Chongqing, is the main promoter of TD-SCDMA technology. He once served as vice president and chief scientist of Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd. In his early years, he worked at the Telecommunications Science and Technology Research Institute of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. Later, he was labeled as a counterrevolutionary during the Cultural Revolution and spent eight years in Xi'an through labor reform. In 1978, he was sent abroad by the government to study at the University of Montreal in Canada and received his doctorate after four years. Then return to China. He successively served as chief engineer and director of the Fourth Research Institute of the Post and Telecommunications Research Institute of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. Vice President and Deputy Chief Engineer of the Institute of Posts and Telecommunications Science and Technology. After 1993, Chen Wei, a project manager who worked with Motorola's Semiconductor Department, and Xu Guanghan, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, proposed the initial concept of TD-SCDMA. After 1995, he became the chairman of YCDMA Company and began the research, development and promotion of TD-SCDMA. Li Shihe has been nominated as an academician of the Academy of Engineering many times.

Li Yeting (1807-1867), a famous shipping businessman in the late Qing Dynasty, once monopolized the sand ship industry in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. The founder of the famous Shanghai family business group "Xiaogang Li Family".

Li Shufu (June 25, 1963 -), native of Taizhou, Zhejiang, entrepreneur, founder and current chairman of Geely Holding Group. Bachelor of Management Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, Master of Science from Yanshan University, PhD from Harbin Institute of Technology. He once served as a member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, and a representative of the Taizhou Municipal People's Congress. He ranked 68th on Forbes' 2019 list of the world's billionaires, with assets reaching US$23.8 billion.

Li Yunshu (1867-1928), named Houyou, was a native of Zhenhai County, Ningbo Prefecture, Zhejiang Province, and a national capitalist in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.

Lee Kun-hee (Korean: Lee Kun-hee/Li Junhee, Romanized: I Geon-hui; January 9, 1942 - October 25, 2020), a South Korean entrepreneur, the third son of Samsung founder Lee Byung-cheol, and the second chairman of Samsung Group. He ranked 65th on Forbes' 2019 list of the world's billionaires, with assets of US$16.9 billion. Lee Kun-hee was born in Gyeongsangnam-do, Japanese-occupied Korea in 1942 and graduated from Waseda University. In 1966, after returning from studying abroad for an MBA in the United States, he joined Toyo Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of Samsung. Two years later, he was appointed as a director of Toyo Broadcasting. In 1978, he was promoted to vice chairman of Samsung C&T, and the following year he was promoted to vice chairman of Samsung Group. In 1987, after Lee Byung-cheol passed away, he took over as chairman of Samsung Group. Three months after taking office as Chairman of Samsung, he proposed the "Second Entrepreneurship Declaration", "New Management" in 1993, "Extraordinary Management" from 1997 to 2000, and the "Talent Pool" vision in 2004.