The World is Ending: 10 Entrepreneurs to Meet before Doomsday
The idea, which he wrote about in a paper for an economics class at Yale, was based on a bank-clearinghouse system, with the clearinghouse in the middle of the representative banks. Now FedEx moves approximately 6 million packages worldwide every day, and has expanded into print and copy services with the acquisition of Kinko’s.
Famous Saying: "Information about the package is as important as the package itself."
8. Jeff Bezos
Bezos is the founder and CEO of online company Amazon.com, the largest retailer on the Internet. He was also the Time Person of the Year in 1999.
His online-bookstore experiment has changed the way consumers purchase almost anything--books, music, clothing, jewelry and, most recently, wine online. Bezos survived the dot-com bust of the 1990s with a handful of equals such as eBay, Yahoo and Google. And his innovations in online user reviews and shopping cart e-commerce have become the standard in online shopping.
