Which South African-born Canadian-American business magnate founded Global Link Information Network with his brother Kimbal Musk in 1995?
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Zip2 Zip2 was a company that primarily provided and licensed online city guide software to newspapers. The company started as Global Link Information Network in 1995 founded by brothers Elon and Kimbal Musk and Greg Kouri in Palo Alto, California with US$28,000 of their father's (Errol Musk) money plus US$6,000 from Kouri. Initially, Global Link provided local businesses with an Internet presence by linking their services to searchers and providing directions. Elon Musk combined a free Navteq database with a Palo Alto business database to create the first system. The company then began to assist newspapers in designing online city guides before being purchased by Compaq Computer in 1999.
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Elon Musk Elon Reeve Musk ( ; born June 28, 1971) is a South African-born Canadian American business magnate, investor, engineer, and inventor.
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Ron Joyce Ronald Vaughan "Ron" Joyce (born October 19, 1930) is a Canadian billionaire businessman. He co-founded the Tim Hortons doughnut chain as Tim Horton's partner and first franchisee.
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Tom Glocer Tom Glocer (born October 8, 1959) is an American business executive and the former CEO of Thomson Reuters and Reuters.
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Frank Hasenfratz Frank Hasenfratz (born 1935) is a Hungarian-born Canadian billionaire businessman.
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Eric Sprott Eric Sprott (born 1944/45) is a Canadian billionaire businessman.
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Bernard Ebbers Bernard John "Bernie" Ebbers (born August 27, 1941) is a Canadian businessman. He co-founded the telecommunications company WorldCom and is a former chief executive officer of that company.
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Cameron Zubko Cameron Zubko (born 1975) is a Canadian businessman and Chief Operating Officer of Ice Wireless, a Canadian 3G/4G telecommunications company.
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Mohammed Dewji Mohammed "Mo" Gulamabbas Dewji (born 8 May 1975) is a Tanzanian businessman,philanthropist, and former politician. He is the president and CEO of MeTL Group, a Tanzanian conglomerate founded by his father in the 1970s. Dewji served as Member of Parliament from 2005 – 2015 for his home town of Singida. In March 2015 "Forbes" magazine named him as the 21st richest person in Africa, with his net worth an estimated US $1.1 billion, having also been the first billionaire in Tanzanian "Forbes" Magazine in 2013.
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Aubrey Dan Aubrey Dan (born October 4, 1963) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist as well as a producer and impresario. He is the son of Leslie Dan, a Canadian entrepreneur and founder of the generic pharmaceutical manufacturer Novopharm. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario and received a Bachelor of Management and Organizational Studies. The department was later renamed after Aubrey Dan in 2006, and is now called the DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies.
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Walter Frederick Light Walter Frederick Light, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (June 24, 1923 – February 24, 1996) was a Canadian business executive.
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Global Diamond Resources Global Diamond Resources plc (formerly Lesotho Diamond Corporation) is a Gibraltan company developing the Kao diamond pipe in the Kingdom of Lesotho. The founders of the company are Australian businessmen Alan Bond and Robert Nelson.
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Bob Stiller Robert P. Stiller is an American billionaire who founded the Keurig Green Mountain coffee company in 1993. He graduated from New York Military Academy and Parsons College. In 2001, he was named Forbes's first "Entrepreneur of the Year" and one of Investors Business Daily's "Top 10 leaders and successful CEOs".
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Rael Levitt Rael Levitt (born 10 May 1971) is an entrepreneur and business owner from South Africa and an auctioneer.
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Neuralink Neuralink is an American neurotechnology company founded by Elon Musk and eight others, reported to be developing implantable brain–computer interfaces (BCIs). The company's headquarters are in San Francisco; it was started in 2016 and was first publicly reported in March 2017. The trademark for "Neuralink" was purchased from its previous owners in January 2017.
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Edward Bronfman Edward Maurice Bronfman, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (November 1, 1927 – April 4, 2005) was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and member of the Bronfman family.
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Louis Legendre (oceanographer) Louis Legendre {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 16 February 1945) is a Canadian oceanographer. His brother is the ecologist Pierre Legendre.
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Richard H. Tomlinson Richard H. Tomlinson, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born c. 1924) is a Canadian chemist and philanthropist. He is best known as a founding director of Gennum Corp., a Canadian manufacturer of semiconductors and semiconductor-based products, and for making one of the largest single donations to a Canadian university.
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Joseph Tsai Joseph Tsai (Tsai Chung-hsin, born 1963/64) is a Taiwanese-Canadian businessman. He is the co-founder and executive vice chairman of Alibaba Group.
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Mick Davis Sir Michael Lawrence "Mick" Davis (born 15 February 1958) is a South African/British businessman. He served as the Chief Executive (CEO) of Xstrata plc, an Anglo-Swiss multinational mining company, until its merger with Glencore in 2013. After leaving Xstrata, he formed the mining venture, X2 Resources.
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Masaba Yunus Masaba "Mas" Yunus (born November 30,1990) is a Ugandan serial entrepreneur and investor who owns multiple businesses. Born 30 November 1990, Yunus is the founder and proprietor of a growing African business conglomerate named Mas Group of Companies with interests in Transport & Logistics, information technology, Business consultancy, Branding & Advertising.
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George A. Cope George A. Cope {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 28 July 1961) is a Canadian businessman, and is currently the CEO of Bell Canada.