INVESTORS

50 CENT

American

Rapper who survived being shot nine times, made $100 million from a Vitamin Water deal, filed for bankruptcy, and rebuilt his fortune through television production.

AARON LEVIE

American

Co-founded Box at 20 years old and turned cloud storage into a $4 billion enterprise business

Building Mint.com and selling it to Intuit for $170 million at age 28 — one of the cleanest fintech exits in startup history

AB DE VILLIERS

South African

Being cricket's most complete batsman — and one of sport's most methodical builder-investors after retirement

ABBY JOSEPH COHEN

American

Wall Street's most famous equity bull. Chief U.S. investment strategist at Goldman Sachs through the 1990s. Called the decade-long bull market early and correctly — then couldn't call the exit.

ABDUL LATIF JAMEEL

Saudi Arabian

Founding the Abdul Latif Jameel Company and securing the exclusive Toyota distribution rights for Saudi Arabia in 1955 — one of the most lucrative distribution deals in automotive history.

ABDUL SAMAD RABIU

Nigerian

Building Nigeria's BUA Group into a multi-billion dollar industrial empire across cement, sugar, and essential food staples.

ABDULAZIZ AL GHURAIR

Emirati

Chairman of Mashreq Bank and head of Al Ghurair Group — the UAE family empire that spans banking, flour milling, construction, and real estate.

ABIGAIL JOHNSON

American

Running the world's second-largest mutual fund company — and proving that inheriting a throne doesn't mean you can't rebuild it from scratch.

ACHARYA BALKRISHNA

Indian

Co-founder of Patanjali Ayurved who built India’s fastest-growing FMCG company alongside yoga guru Baba Ramdev

Co-founder and CEO of Quora, former CTO of Facebook at 22, and the man on the OpenAI board when Sam Altman was fired for four days in November 2023.

ADAM KHOO

Singaporean

Adam Khoo Learning Technologies, value-momentum investing educator

ADAM NEUMANN

Israeli-American

Co-founder of WeWork who rode a $47B valuation off a cliff and walked away with $1.7 billion

ADEBAYO OGUNLESI

Nigerian-American

Bought London Gatwick Airport for $2.1 billion, founded Global Infrastructure Partners, which manages over $100 billion in infrastructure assets.

ADRIAN CHENG

Hong Kong / Chinese

K11 Art Mall concept, blending luxury retail with culture, leading Chow Tai Fook and New World Development

AILEEN LEE

American

The venture capitalist who coined the term 'unicorn' and built Cowboy Ventures to bet early on founders everyone else underestimated.

AJIT JAIN

Indian-American

Being called the most valuable employee at Berkshire Hathaway by Warren Buffett — who wasn't joking

AKIO TOYODA

Japanese

Toyota chairman who bet against full electrification when every automaker was going all-in on EVs

The intensely private billionaire who owns Chanel with his brother and revived the brand by giving Karl Lagerfeld free rein in 1983.

ALAN GREENSPAN

American

Running the Federal Reserve for 18 years — then admitting before Congress that he got the most important thing wrong

ALAN HOWARD

British

Co-founding Brevan Howard, one of the world's most secretive and successful macro hedge funds, and generating outsized returns by trading global interest rates and currencies.

ALBERT WENGER

German-American

Managing partner at Union Square Ventures and one of the most intellectually rigorous thinkers in venture capital.

ALEC GORES

American

Founded Gores Group — the PE firm that buys tech companies nobody wants and makes them profitable

ALEX HORMOZI

Iranian-American

Founder of Acquisition.com, author of $100M Offers, and one of the most followed business educators online

ALEX LIEBERMAN

American

Co-founder of Morning Brew, media entrepreneur, angel investor

ALEX RODRIGUEZ

American

MLB legend who rebuilt his reputation through real estate and tech investing after the steroid scandal

Co-founding the crypto funds Dragonfly and Hack VC, and betting early on where crypto and AI collide.

Managing Partner of 3G Capital and the man who brought zero-based budgeting to Burger King, Heinz, and Kraft Heinz — with results that were brilliant right up until they weren't.

ALEXIS OHANIAN

American

Co-founded Reddit at 22, then built one of Silicon Valley's most active early-stage VC funds.

ALFRED LIN

American

The Sequoia partner who backed Airbnb, DoorDash, and Instacart — and before that, helped turn Zappos into a $1.2 billion Amazon acquisition.

ALI ABDAAL

British-Pakistani

YouTube creator, ex-doctor, productivity and finance educator, author of Feel-Good Productivity

As a General Partner at a16z crypto, funding the deep infrastructure of Web3 like EigenLayer, LayerZero, and Solana.

Only daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton and the richest woman in the world. Built Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, and a medical school next door.

ALIKO DANGOTE

Nigerian

Africa's richest person who built a $30 billion cement and refinery empire from Lagos

ALLAN GRAY

South African

Founded Allan Gray Limited in 1974, building Africa's largest independent asset manager through contrarian value investing.

ALLAN MECHAM

American

Self-taught value investor from Utah who beat the market for 20 years with no Bloomberg terminal and no Ivy League degree

ALVIN CHOW

Singaporean

Dr Wealth platform, evidence-based investing education in Singapore

ALWALEED BIN TALAL

Saudi Arabian

The Arabian Warren Buffett — Saudi prince who became one of the world's biggest foreign investors

AMANCIO ORTEGA

Spanish

Founder of Zara and Inditex, revolutionized fast fashion

Co-founding Jungle Ventures and building it into one of Southeast Asia's largest early-stage funds on a cross-border India and Southeast Asia thesis.

Running Banco Santander since 2014 as the fourth generation of her family to lead it.

ANAND MAHINDRA

Indian

Chairman of Mahindra Group who turned a tractor company into a $21 billion global conglomerate spanning tech, auto, and aerospace

ANAS SEFRIOUI

Moroccan

Building Morocco’s largest real estate empire from scratch and constructing over 300,000 affordable homes across Africa.

ANATOLY YAKOVENKO

Ukrainian-American

Founded Solana, the fastest major blockchain. Former Qualcomm engineer who built the crypto network that processes 65,000 transactions per second.

ANDRE CRONJE

South African

Created Yearn Finance and pioneered yield farming — DeFi's most prolific and controversial builder

ANDRÉ ESTEVES

Brazilian

Turning a sold bank into Latin America's largest independent investment house and navigating brutal macroeconomic cycles.

Former chairman of Juventus FC, scion of the Agnelli dynasty that controls Exor — the Italian holding company behind Ferrari, Stellantis, and The Economist — and the architect of both Juventus's golden era and its most spectacular collapse

Chairman of illycaffè, the premium Italian espresso brand his grandfather started in Trieste in 1933 and that Andrea turned into a $500M global institution.