Famous Entrepreneurs

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Famous Entrepreneurs
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Ben and Jerry

• Ben and Jerry is created by two childhood friends
  Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield. They both took a
  5 correspondence in ice cream-making.
• After a failed attempt by Ben Cohen to return the
  company to private ownership, Ben and Jerry's was
  purchased in August 2000 by the Unilever
  conglomerate for slightly over 326.43 million.
  Jerry made about 19 million dollars through the
  deal, and Ben about 46 million.

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Hershey

• By the lack of education Milton S. Hershey went
  nearly bankrupt at age 30 and then went on to
  become not only one of Americas wealthiest
  individual but also a successful entrepreneur.

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Mary-Kay

• Mary Kay retired in 1963 for a month after a
  lengthy and successful career in direct sales. 
  She decided to write a book to help women thrive
  in a man-dominated business world.  She made two
  lists one contained the good things in some
  companies. life savings of 5,000 and the help of
  her 20-year-old son Richard Rogers, she launched
  Mary Kay Cosmetics on Friday, September 13, 1963.
  The Company she founded remains today one of the
  greatest success stories in the annals of
  business.  The Company today includes more than
  800,000 Independent Beauty Consultants in 37
  markets on five continents.

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Donald Trump

• Trump began his career at his father's company,
  the Trump Organization, and initially
  concentrated on his father's preferred field of
  middle class rental housing.
• He is the CEO of Trump Organization, an
  American-based real estate company in the premium
  real estate market
• By 1994, the effects of recession left him unable
  to meet loan payments

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