Top 5 successful entrepreneurs in the world right now

Great Entrepreneurs is pleased to announce The Top 50 Entrepreneurs of These are the daring individuals with bold visions who are transforming the economy and the way we live our lives.

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These innovators were not content to work within the strictures of the economy as it was. Rather, they had ideas and started businesses that created new categories or, in some cases, new industries altogether. They did not just penetrate markets, but rather fundamentally redefined markets. Elon Musk has revolutionized industries as wide-ranging as spaceflight, solar energy, electric cars, and neurotechnology.

Entrepreneurs change the way we think. Through their hard work and focus, they show that one singular person can affect the world in remarkable ways. Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of The Top 50 Entrepreneurs of Elon Musk is known for being one of his generation's most visible and visionary entrepreneurs. Musk, who was born in South Africa, showed an interest in computers from an early age.

Since then, he's honed his entrepreneurial instincts to create a plethora of businesses. Over the years, he's received numerous distinctions, including an honorary doctorate from Yale, and in he was selected as Time's "Person of the Year. Two years later, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Physics and a Bachelor of Science in Economics.

Soon after, he was accepted into a PhD program in Materials Science at Stanford University, but he dropped out after two days to launch the software company Zip2 with his brother and a friend. Best known for playing a seminal role in the development and growth of e-commerce, Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos is one of the richest men in the world.