https://padlet.com/joseph_howard/thebam A biography summarized by Joseph Howard. en-us 2017-11-29 20:24:26 UTC 2023-02-13 09:12:29 UTC hello@padlet.com joseph_howard https://padlet.com/joseph_howard/thebam/wish/211620927 John D. Rockefeller is one of the most famous entrepreneurs in American history.]]> 2017-11-29 20:24:47 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_howard/thebam/wish/211620927 joseph_howard https://padlet.com/joseph_howard/thebam/wish/211624730 John D. Rockefeller was an American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Standard Oil Company. The company dominated the oil industry and was the United States first great business trust. Sensing the commercial potential of the expanding oil production in western Pennsylvania in the early 1860s, he built his first oil refinery, near Cleveland, in 1863. Within two years it was the largest refinery in the area, and thereafter Rockefeller devoted himself exclusively to the oil business.

]]> 2017-11-29 20:33:42 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_howard/thebam/wish/211624730 joseph_howard https://padlet.com/joseph_howard/thebam/wish/213895940 I picked two entrepreneurs, JD Rockefeller and Pierre Omidyar.

This Padlet will give you information on the both the entrepreneurs.]]> 2017-12-06 20:05:02 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_howard/thebam/wish/213895940 joseph_howard https://padlet.com/joseph_howard/thebam/wish/213900726 John Davison Rockefeller was born in   born July 8, 1839, Richford, New York, U.S.—died May 23, 1937, Ormond Beach, Florida.]]> 2017-12-06 20:16:25 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_howard/thebam/wish/213900726 joseph_howard https://padlet.com/joseph_howard/thebam/wish/213904269 He moved with his family to Moravia, New York, and, in 1851, to Oswego, New York, where he attended Oswego Academy. The family relocated to Strongsville, a town near Cleveland, Ohio, in 1853, and later on he attended and later dropped out of Cleveland’s Central High School, taking a single business class at Folsom Mercantile College, and working as a bookkeeper.]]> 2017-12-06 20:25:33 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_howard/thebam/wish/213904269 joseph_howard https://padlet.com/joseph_howard/thebam/wish/213911780 Iranian-American economist Pierre Omidyar is best known as the founder and chairman of eBay, the online auction website.]]> 2017-12-06 20:46:17 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_howard/thebam/wish/213911780 joseph_howard https://padlet.com/joseph_howard/thebam/wish/213912015 https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-D-Rockefeller

https://www.officemuseum.com/photo_gallery_business%20classes.htm

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https://www.biography.com/people/pierre-omidyar-9542205#!]]> 2017-12-06 20:46:59 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_howard/thebam/wish/213912015 joseph_howard https://padlet.com/joseph_howard/thebam/wish/213916958 Business figure, entrepreneur and philanthropist Pierre Morad Omidyar was born on June 21, 1967, in Paris, France. Unlike many other high-tech entrepreneurs, Omidyar didn't set out to become an Internet tycoon. He moved to Maryland as a child when his father accepted a residency at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center. He wrote his first computer program at age 14, to catalog books for the school library.
He graduated from Tufts University in 1988 with a degree in computer science and went to work for a company that developed Macintosh software. Later, he worked for the Apple subsidiary Claris and then helped start a software company in 1991 called Ink Development Corp. The company later changed its name to eShop and was purchased by Microsoft in 1996.h]]> 2017-12-06 21:02:43 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_howard/thebam/wish/213916958 joseph_howard https://padlet.com/joseph_howard/thebam/wish/215208534 EBay, the multi-billion dollar online auction company that changed e-commerce, all started in the summer of 1995. Omidyar created code for a page called Auction Web on his personal website, letting people list items for auction.
To his amazement, the site attracted so many buyers and sellers that he soon had to set up a separate site devoted to auctions, which he dubbed eBay. By charging between 25 cents and $2 to sellers for posting their auction notice, and taking a small percentage of the sale, the company made money simply by setting up a place for buyers and sellers to meet.]]> 2017-12-11 20:15:27 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_howard/thebam/wish/215208534