identify any five entrepreneurs who solved problems of society
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1. Alon Braun
Alon Braun started his career as a programmer in the Israeli defense forces. During this time, he built his first startup, Webstare, which was founded by Apple Israel.
After his service, Braun joined the Hebrew University faculty of earth sciences where he received his master’s degree in oceanography. From there, he specialized in plant molecular biology, marine microscopy, and paleontology.
Alon split his time between Being CEO of performance marketing network TalkingAds and CEO in Pathwwway Which is a full management customer retention agency for online businesses. Besides his passion for science and technology, his hobbies include businesses growth strategies and agile methodologies development.
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2. Phav Daroath
Phav Daroath is a young entrepreneur from Cambodia who is the Executive Director of WaterSHED, a development project in Asia that develops solutions for clean water and sanitation. Daroath has worked with a wide range of market development activities across Cambodia after transitioning from a career in accounting and auditing.
Daroath's goal is to provide innovative solutions and business development opportunities within Cambodia and throughout Asia.
3. Alisee de Tonnac
Alisee de Tonnac is from France but has spent her life in other countries, including Singapore, California, Italy, Switzerland, Brazil, Cambodia and Nigeria.
She is the co-founder of Seedstars, which provides a competition to find the next big ideas among entrepreneurs. The competition is now in over 60 cities and will have 15 strategic hubs with co-working spaces and academies around the world.
De Tonnac received her master’s degree in international management at the Bocconi University in Italy. Her many accolades include winning the Harvard Model Congress, Europe Award of Excellence. Previously, she worked as a product manager for L’Oreal Group and Voyage Prive.
4. Murray Newlands
Murray Newlands began his career as a solicitor in England but soon determined he had other entrepreneurial aspirations. His foray into building businesses began with a marketing agency and quickly led to online and technology businesses.
Over the last decade, Newlands has started, grown and sold many businesses. Currently, Murray operates Sighted, an online invoicing company, and ChattyPeople, a chatbot startup. In his spare time, he is a public speaker, thought leader, author, online and social media video personality, investor and mentor.
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5. Alexander Naydenov
Alexander Naydenov is a Bulgarian entrepreneur who now calls Germany his home. He is co-founder of PaperHive, an online co-working hub that is a resource for scholars. This resource is a place to collaborate, share, and annotate online texts.
Naydenov is also co-founder and chairman of Where Ideas Find Their Home, a social entrepreneurship incubator. His business has helped numerous non-profits and furthered many social initiatives. Naydenov has a bachelor’s degree in economics and master’s degree in business and computer science. Alexander also started IdeaHub, a German startup weekend series.
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Dhirubhai Ambani (1932-2002) started out humbly by selling traditional snacks to religious pilgrims. His business soon grew, and he expanded and diversified, eventually building India's largest private company, Reliance Industries. Reliance has interests in telecommunications, power generation, information technology, consumer goods, and logistics. Ambani's sons now run Reliance and are some of India's wealthiest people: Mukesh Ambani, 57, is worth over $18.6 billion and Anil Ambana, 55, is worth an estimated $5.1 billion.
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata or JRD Tata (1904-1933) was born in Paris to Indian and French parents. He was trained as an aviator in Europe and later became India's first commercial airline pilot. Working for the family business, TATA group, he set out on his own and built TATA airlines, which ultimately became the modern Air India. By the time of his death, TATA owned nearly 100 different businesses across many industries. Notably, his automobile venture, Tata Motors (TTM), produces economical automobiles that nearly all working Indians can afford to own. JRD Tata is descended from Jamshetji Tata who founded the TATA group of companies in the mid-1800s.
Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy, age 68, co-founded Indian IT giant Infosys (INFY) with an initial investment of 10,000 rupees, or just a few hundred dollars in today's money. He is often referred to as the father of the Indian IT industry, serving as CEO of Infosys from 1981 until 2002, and then its chairman until 2011. Infosys currently has a market capitalization of around $40 billion.
Azim Premji, 69, is worth an estimated $15.3 billion and is the chairman of Wipro Industries (WIT), a diversified software and technology company that many have compared to Microsoft. Premji is sometimes referred to as India's Bill Gates as a result.
Lakshmi Niwas Mittal, 64, began his career working for his father's steel business. He later set out on his own due to family infighting and created what is now one of the largest steelmakers in the world, ArcelorMittal (MT), which has a market capitalization of $16 billion. Mittal himself is worth nearly $17 billion.
Ghanshyam Das Birla (1894-1983) started his first company in the early 1900s operating a cotton and textile mill. By 1919 Birla's businesses also included significant paper and sugar production. By the time he died, Birla Group was a multi-sector global conglomerate. His son Kumar Birla now runs the company and commands a net worth of $7 billion.
Dilip Shanghvi, 59, started Sun Pharmaceuticals in 1982 with a meager 10,000 rupee investment. Today, that investment has grown to a value of nearly 2 trillion rupees, making Sun India's largest pharmaceutical company. Today, Shanghvi has a net worth of around $12.8 billion.
Mukesh "Micky" Jagtiani, 62, is an Indian businessman who has spent most of his life outside of India. He was educated in Mumbai and Beirut, eventually settling in London. While in London, he dropped out of college and began driving a taxi before starting his first company which eventually grew into the retail and real estate giant Landmark, now based out of Dubai. Landmark has expanded into e-commerce, creating India's version of Amazon (AMZN). Jagtiani is worth over $5 billion.
Shiv Nadar, 69, founded HCL Infosystems in 1976 with an investment of a few thousand dollars, selling calculators and microcomputers. HCL soon expanded to Singapore and the far east, generating over 1 million rupees in sales not long after its expansion. HCL has continued to grow making Nadar a billionaire worth over $11 billion.
Ardeshir Godrej (1868-1936) co-founded the Godrej Group, a diversified conglomerate with interests in real estate, consumer products, security, household appliances, and industrial tools. The company had modest beginnings — Ardeshir and his brother succeeded at locksmithing after failed ventures into hand fashioned medical devices. Godrej Group was founded with a 3,000-rupee investment, and the Godrej companies are worth over half a trillion rupees today.