Role Models

Tim Reichert – EXCEL Esports – London, United Kingdom

Philipp Künstler – hitcap esports GmbH Berlin, Germany

Jakob Fatih – FitX – Essen, Germany

Leonard Bosack – Cisco Systems

Sandy Lerner – Cisco Systems and Urban Decay [Cosmetics]

Morris Chang – TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company)

Paul Akers – FastCap

Lumafield

ASML (Advanced Semiconductor Materials Lithography) [Philips Branch-out]

Yunus Topaloglu – BlackCoco‘s

OpenSea

Docker

LEGO [Danish leg godt „play well“]

Keller Rinaudo Cliffton – Zipline International

TetraPack

Pure-Pak

Mixpanel

Intercom

Aidan Kehoe -Skout Security [Secure Operations Center (SOC) Cyber Security]

David Lieb – Bump and Google Photos

Robert Hohman – Glassdoor

Ali Ghodsi – Databricks

Thierry Cruanes – Snowflake

Anthony Casalena – Squarespace

Mies van der Rohe – Architect

Chat Pipkin – Belkin International and Linksys

Mark Leonard – Constellation Software

Frank Wittle – Jet Engine Inventor

Soichiro Honda – Honda

Dustin Moskovitz – Facebook

Michael Arrington – Crunchbase

Paul Buchheit – Gmail

Peter Freedman – Rode Microphone

Rewe –

Edeka –

Karl Albrecht – Albrecht Discount (Aldi)

Lidl –

dm

Eve Systems

Telegram

(CZ) – Binance

Fielmann

ProtonMail, ProtonVPN, ProtonDrive and ProtonCalendar

Slack

Signal

discord

Zoom

Wolt

Dean und David
hans im Glück
neue dönastie

Waipu.tv

Lyft

TripAdvisor

MotelOne

Udemy

booking.com

Shazam

Pinterest

DocMorris

Shopapotheke

Too Good Too Go

Johannes Nill, Peter Faxel und Ulrich Müller-Albring – AVM

Victor Lugger – Big Mamma and Sunday.com

Adobe

the verge

Texhcrunch

Peter Thiel – PayPal and Palantir

Palmer Lucky – Oculus Rift and Anduril Industries

Marc Zuckerberg – Oculus Rift, Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook and Meta
Florian gsxhwandter – Runtastic

Sergey Brin – Google Alphabet

David Guetta – DJ and Jack Black

Jeff Lawson – Twilio

arnold Schwarzenegger
Ryan Srrhant

Joe Rogan

Datagroup

Tom Sachs – Artist

Craig Frederigi – NeXt and Apple

Tarek Müller – About You

Marco Knauf – true fruits

destinia.com

Justin Kan – Twitch

fabian Mydealz content pepper

riverside.fm

Jack Conte – Patreon

Dieter Rams – Designer Braun

Sandy Munroe – Lean Design and Munro Live

Joe Justice – Agile Development Tesla

Michael Althoff – Yellotools

Hermann Hauser

Franz von Holzhausen – Designer Tesla

Trumpf

Robert Bosch

Würth

Ray Kroc – McDonalds

John Walker – Autodesk and Fourmilabs

Daniel Klein – SumUp

Valentin Stalf – N26

Duolingo Capatcha

Joe Tanner – Early Winters

barber and butcher

Lori Greiner – QVC [Earring organizer] and Shark Tank

Rainer Opolka – Ledlenser

Reddit

Rippling

Instacart
Stripe

OpenSea

MatterPort

SubStack

Docker

Twitch

Tim Letherman – Letherman Tool Group

Steven Yang – Anker Innovations

Markus Persson – Minecraft

Guy Raz – How I Built This

Stephen Kaufer – TripAdviser

Matt Mullenweg – Automaticc and WordPress

Melanie Perkins – Canva

Perry Chen – Kickstarter

Jake Carpenter – Burton Snowboards

Tony Xu – DoorDash

John Collison – Shripe

Chipotle

Nolan Bushnell – Atari and Chuck E. Cheese

Michael Dell – Dell Computers

James Dyson – Dyson

John Zimmer – Lyft

Stewart Butterfield – Slack and Flickr

Chat Pipkin – Belkin International

Jerry Murrell – Five Guys

Sara Blakely – Spanx

Xiaomi

NIO

GlassDoor

Sonos

Beats

Shazam

Siri

Docusign

Drew Houston – Dropbox

Zscaler

CloudFlare

HelloFresh

MongoDB

Sea

Roku

Snap

YouTube

Whatsapp

Square

Fitbit

Etsy

Rocket Internet

Robert Gentz – Zalando

Jack Ma – Alibaba Group

Nick Woodman – GoPro

David Karp – Tumblr

Scott Cook – Intuit

Timothy Stokely – OnlyFans

Kevin Systrom – Instagram

Fred Luddy – ServiceNow

Robert Pera – Ubiqiti Networks

Reid Hoffman – LinkedIn

Tony Hsieh – Zappos

Tom Preston-Werner – GitHub

Sid Sijbrandij – GitLab

Dylan Field – Figma

Brain Armstrong – Coinbase

Melanie Perkins – Canva – Sydney, Australia

Michael Seibel – Twitch and Y Combinator – San Francisco and Mountain View, USA

Paul Graham – Y Combinator – Boston and Mountain View, USA

Justin Kan – Twitch – San Francisco and Seattle, USA

Andrej Karpathy – Software Engineer Tesla – Palo Alto, USA

Sam Altman – OpenIA – San Francisco, USA

David J. Malan – Professor Harvard CS50 – Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Fred Rogers – Mr Rogers [TV series] – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Mark Andreessen – Mosaik and Andreessen Capital – Menlo Park, USA

Steve Jobs – Apple, NeXT and Pixar – Cupertino, Redwood City and Emeryville, USA

Elon Musk – PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, The boring Company, Twitter and Neuralink – San Jose, Hawthorn, Austin, Pflugeville, Texas, San Francisco and Fremont, USA

Jeff Bezos – Amazon – Seattle, USA

Peter Thiel – PayPal and Palantir

Ray and Charles Eames – Eames Design

Marc Benioff – Salesforce – San Francisco, USA

Tarek Müller – About You – Hamburg, Germany

Albert Einstein – Engineer and Scientist – Ulm, Munich, Zurich, Berlin and Princeton, New Jersey, New York, USA

Josef Prusa – Prusa Research – Prague, Czechia

Garry Tan – Initialised Ventures – San Francisco, USA

Casey Neistat – YouTube Creator – New York, USA

Gary Vaynerchuk- Vaynermedia and Veefriends – New York, USA

Sarah Kauss – Swell – New York, USA

Brian Chesky – Airbnb – San Francisco, USA

Walt Disney – The Walt Disney Company – Burbank, Los Angeles, USA

Tobi Lütke – Shopify – Ottawa, Canada

Cliff Fleming – Bundaberg Brewery – Bundaberg, Australia

Scott Farquhar – Atlassian – New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Robert Cade – The Gatorade Company [Softdrink] – Chicago, USA

Stan Lee – Marvel

Henry Ford – Ford

Daniel Ek – Spotify

Alan Touring – Scientist

Mahadma Ghandi – Design und Philosophy

Reed Hastings – Netflix

Ingvar Kamprad – IKEA

Isaac Newton – Scientis

Thomas Alva Edison – Scientist

James Watt – Scientist

Ben Francis – Gymshark

Tony Fadell – General Magic, Philipps, Apple and Nest

Pierre Omidyar – General Magic and eBay

Conrad Parker – Rippling

Pavel Mayer – Art + Com

Le Corbusier – Architect

Jony Ive – Apple Designer

Rainer Schaller – McFit – Schlüsselfeld, Bavaria, Germany

Max Schaber – Datagroup [IT services provider]

Zaha Hadid – Architect

Sam Walmart – Walmart

Bill Gates – Microsoft – Seattle, USA

Mark Cuban – MicroSutions, Audionet, Broadcast.com and Shark Tank

Scooter Braun – SB Projects [Label Justin Bieber]

Jerry Yang – Yahoo – Sunnyvale, California, USA

Dietmar Hopp – SAP (SystemAnalyse und Programmentwicklung) – Walldorf, Germany

Hasso Plattner – SAP (SystemAnalyse und Programmentwicklung) – Walldorf, Germany

Steve Case – AOL (America OnLine) – New York, USA

Tom Anderson – Myspace – Beverly Hills, California, USA

Anti Role Models and Companies lost track

Don Valentine – Sequoia Capital – Menlo Park, California, USA

SAP (SystemAnalyse und Programmentwicklung) – Walldorf, Germany

AOL (America OnLine) – New York, USA

Myspace – Beverly Hills, California, USA

Nokia – Tampere, Finland

Volkswagen (VW) – Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany

BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke) – Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Mercedes-Benz – Untertürkheim, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Porsche – Zuffenhausen, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Audi – Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany

Bosch – Gerlingen, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

ZF Friedrichshafen – Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany