swap_horiz Steve Madden Alternatives

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Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett is an American investor and the longtime leader of Berkshire Hathaway, which he transformed from a strugg...

Finance Investing Value Investing Berkshire

9.2 Excellent

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Sam Walton

Sam Walton was an American retail entrepreneur who opened the first Walmart store in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962. He devel...

Retail Supply Chain Arkansas Walmart

9.2 Excellent

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John D. Rockefeller

John D. Rockefeller was an American industrialist who founded Standard Oil in 1870 and built it into the dominant United...

19TH Century Industrial Oil Billionaire

9.2 Excellent

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Bernard Arnault

Bernard Arnault is a French business executive associated with LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the luxury-goods group...

Luxury France Fashion Lvmh

9.0 Excellent

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Ray Kroc

Ray Kroc was an American businessman who joined the McDonald brothers' restaurant enterprise as a franchise agent in 195...

Retail Scale Fast Food Franchise

8.9 Great

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Amancio Ortega

Amancio Ortega is a Spanish entrepreneur who co-founded the clothing company that became Inditex and developed the Zara...

Spain Fashion Fast Fashion Zara

8.9 Great

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Howard Schultz

Howard Schultz is an American business executive best known for leading the expansion of Starbucks. He joined the compan...

Retail Brand Coffee Franchise

8.5 Great

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Tadashi Yanai

Tadashi Yanai is a Japanese business executive who founded and leads Fast Retailing, the parent company of Uniqlo. He tr...

Retail Japan Fashion Fast Fashion

8.4 Great

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Sara Blakely

Sara Blakely is an American entrepreneur who founded the apparel company Spanx in 2000 after developing a footless under...

Fashion Apparel Dtc Female Founder

8.2 Great

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Tony Hsieh

Tony Hsieh was an American entrepreneur and investor associated with LinkExchange and Zappos. He co-founded LinkExchange...

Ecommerce Retail Culture Zappos

8.2 Great

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Richard Liu (Liu Qiangdong)

Richard Liu, also known as Liu Qiangdong, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the retail company that became JD.com. H...

Ecommerce Retail Logistics China

8.0 Great

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Michael Rubin

Michael Rubin is an American entrepreneur who founded and leads Fanatics, a company centered on licensed sports merchand...

Ecommerce Retail Billionaire Fanatics

7.8 Good

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Francois-Henri Pinault

Francois-Henri Pinault is a French business executive associated with Kering, the luxury-goods group controlled by the P...

Luxury France Fashion Gucci

7.7 Good

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Nick Swinmurn

Nick Swinmurn is an American entrepreneur recognized for founding the online shoe and clothing retailer Zappos in 1999....

Ecommerce Retail Zappos Co Founder

7.3 Good

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Katrina Lake

Katrina Lake is an American entrepreneur who founded Stitch Fix, an online personal-styling and clothing retail company,...

AI Subscription Fashion Female Founder

7.0 Good

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Yusaku Maezawa

Yusaku Maezawa is a Japanese entrepreneur and art collector who founded the fashion retail company Start Today, which de...

Ecommerce Japan Space Fashion

7.0 Good

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Blake Mycoskie

Blake Mycoskie is an American entrepreneur best known for founding the footwear company TOMS in 2006. The company became...

Impact Social Enterprise Shoes Toms

7.0 Good

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Andy Dunn

Andy Dunn is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Bonobos, an internet-based menswear company, in 2007 and served as...

Ecommerce Fashion Dtc Men

6.9 Fair

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Jennifer Hyman

American entrepreneur who co-founded Rent the Runway in 2009, creating one of the first subscription-based rental servic...

Subscription Fashion Dtc Female Founder

6.8 Fair

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Dov Charney

Canadian-American entrepreneur who founded American Apparel in 1989, known for vertically integrated US manufacturing be...

Controversial Manufacturing Fashion Dtc

5.8 Mediocre