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Larry Page co-founded Google at Stanford, led it twice as chief executive and was the first chief executive of Alphabet. He still sits on the Alphabet board.

Dietrich Mateschitz co-founded Red Bull in 1984 and turned an adapted Thai tonic into a global energy drink brand marketed through Formula One and other sports.

Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA in 1943 and built it into a global home furnishing brand around flat packs, self-service stores and a franchise model.

Stefan Persson ran H&M as chief executive from 1982 to 1998 and chaired its board until 2020, the years in which the Swedish chain grew into a global multi-brand group.

Demis Hassabis co-founded DeepMind in 2010 and now leads Google DeepMind, the unit behind Gemini. He shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold.

Sergey Brin co-founded Google at Stanford and was president of Alphabet until 2019. He has since returned to technical work on Google's Gemini models.