There can be no denying that as the world emerges from Covid-19 there is a lot of economic damage that needs to be addressed. Economies shut down, whole industries effectively vanished for a year, and millions have lost their jobs. Debt at the household, corporate, and government levels is now the most severe they have ever been.
At times like these, entrepreneurs have to think fast and act to advert a deeper disaster to turn around these uncertain times. With this in mind, here are entrepreneurs that may do that.
Alejandro Betancourt
The entrepreneur, Alejandro Betancourt, made his name working in the oil and gas industry, delivering large scale infrastructure projects in Venezuela and other South American countries. When Betancourt started his own company, he already had forged connections to make it a success and new the market well.
Betancourt has become a shrewd investor, using his cash to fund a diverse range of products in the retail market and yet diversifying into the finance sector. These projects are already showing signs of building back better.
Steve Blank
Before his retirement in 1999, Steve Blank was a serial entrepreneur. He has taken four companies public in this chosen field of big tech, and many see him as the ‘Dean’ of Silicon Valley.
He has not been quiet in retirement but instead has been observing developments in Silicon Valley, writing down his thoughts about it, and selling it. Eager entrepreneurs that want to walk in his footsteps consume every word he speaks.
Mark Anderson
Fascinated by computer science and later the internet, Mark Anderson created one of the first internet browsers, Mosaic, in the 1990s. Later he would found the highly successful Netscape which later sold for $4.2 billion.
Anderson has since launched a venture capital firm with a former Netscape employee Ben Horowitz.
Mark Burnett
Former British paratrooper Mark Burnett moved to California in 1982 and made his living selling t-shirts on Venice Beach. When he wasn’t selling t-shirts he was coming up with reality TV ideas. His successes include Survivor, The Voice, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, Shark Tank and The Apprentice.
After his first success in 2000, Burnett has never looked back.
Brian Chesky
Airbnb has millions of users worldwide, and Chesky is one of the cofounders of the business. He and fellow broke art school graduate Joe Gebbia decided to rent out floor space in their apartment. The idea went well so they created a website to allow others to do the same.
After a spell in a startup incubator, the company got venture capital funding in 2010 and the idea took off into a brand.
Arianna Huffington
Greek born, Arianna Stasinopoúlou studied and graduated from Cambridge University in the mid 1980s. She moved to American and married Michael Huffington, Ronald Regan’s deputy assistant secretary of defence.
In 1997, she and her husband divorced. Between this time and 2005, her conservative views softened and she founded the Huffington Post, a liberal’s answer to the conservative based Drudge Report. AOL bought the Huffington Post for $325m in 2011.
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