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Name	Description	Birthdate	Birthplace	Educated at	Founder of
Charlie Munger	Charlie Munger was an American business magnate and investor. He was best known as Warren Buffett's "right-hand man" and served as the vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway from 1978 until his death in 2023.	January 1, 1924	Omaha, Nebraska	University of Michigan California Institute of Technology Harvard University Harvard Law School ‌ Omaha Central High School University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts	Munger, Tolles & Olson
Michael Fred Phelps II	Michael Fred Phelps II is an American swimmer, 23-time Olympic champion, 26-time world champion in the 50-meter pool, multiple world record holder. The absolute record holder for the number of gold awards and awards in total in the history of the Olympic Games, as well as awards in total in the history of the World Championships in aquatics.	June 30, 1985	Baltimore County, Maryland	Towson High School University of Michigan ‌ Dumbarton Middle School Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder North Baltimore Aquatic Club	Sofie Biosciences
Eric Lefkofsky	Eric Lefkofsky is an American entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Tempus.	September 13, 1969	Detroit	University of Michigan University of Michigan Law School ‌ Southfield-Lathrup High School	Tempus Labs (company) Groupon Lightbank Echo Global Logistics ‌ InnerWorkings Zest Health MediaBank
Bobby Kotick	Bobby Kotick is CEO of Activision Blizzard.	November 16, 1963	Long Island	University of Michigan Roslyn High School	Activision Blizzard Activision ARTIVISOR
Sam Zell	Sam Zell was an American billionaire investor and the founder of Equity Group Investments, Equity Residential, Equity International, Equity LifeStyle Properties, and Equity Office Properties Trust.	September 28, 1941	Chicago	University of Michigan University of Michigan Law School	Equity Residential Equity Group Investments Equity International Equity Lifestyle Properties, Inc. Eq Office
Larry Page	Lawrence Edward Page is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin.	March 26, 1973	East Lansing, Michigan	University of Michigan Stanford University East Lansing High School Interlochen Center for the Arts	Alphabet Inc. Google Google Photos Google Chrome Google Hangouts Google Launchpad Accelerator
Gary Vaynerchuk	Gary Vaynerchuk is an entrepreneur, author, artist, speaker, and internet personality.	November 14, 1975	Babruysk	North Hunterdon High School Mount Ida College University of Michigan	VaynerMedia VeeFriends Resy
‌ Martin Kierszenbaum	Martin Kierszenbaum (Cherry Cherry Boom Boom) is an American songwriter, musician, manager, music publisher	1967		University of Michigan East Lansing High School USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism	‌ Cherrytree Records
Jeff Lawson	Entrepreneur, CEO and cofounder of Twilio.	1977	San Francisco	University of Michigan	Twilio StubHub Nine Star
Tom Brady	American football player, quarterback	August 4, 1977	San Mateo, California	University of Michigan Junípero Serra High School (San Mateo, California)	Religion Of Sports
David Horowitz (investor)	David Horowitz is the Co-Founder & CEO at Touchdown Ventures			University of Michigan	Touchdown Ventures
Claire McTaggart	Claire McTaggart is the founder of SquarePeg Hires	February 12, 1990		University of Michigan Georgetown University	SquarePeg Hires
Arnold Gingrich	American magazine editor and publisher	December 5, 1903	Grand Rapids, Michigan	University of Michigan Grand Rapids Community College ‌ Central High School (Grand Rapids, Michigan)	Esquire (magazine)
Sheel Mohnot	Founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures, The Pitch, Thistle		Pittsburgh	Carnegie Mellon University University of Michigan	Thistle (company) VitaMe Better Tomorrow Ventures
Khaled Naim	Khaled Naim is the CEO and cofounder of Onfleet.			Stanford University University of Michigan	Onfleet
David Kolodny	Entrepreneur and Co-founder of Wilbur Labs	December 31, 1990	Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles	University of Michigan	Wilbur Labs
Tony Fadell	American inventor, designer, entrepreneur, and angel investor	March 22, 1969		University of Michigan Grosse Pointe South High School	Nest (company) Future Shape LLC
Bill Joy	American computer scientist	November 8, 1954	Detroit	University of Michigan University of California, Berkeley ‌ North Farmington High School	Sun Microsystems
Niklas Zennström	Swedish entrepreneur	February 16, 1966	Järfälla Municipality	University of Michigan Uppsala University	Atomico Joost
Lee Linden	American businessman and investor	1996		Stanford University University of Michigan	Tapjoy Karma (company) ContestMachine Karma (mobile commerce company)
Syed Babar Ali	Pakistani businessman, philanthropist and former finance minister of pakistan	January 15, 1926	Lahore	Harvard Business School University of Michigan University of the Punjab Aitchison College Harvard University	Packages Limited
Leo Burnett	American journalist & businessperson, founder of Leo Burnett Worldwide, based in Illinois, born in St. Johns, Michigan	October 21, 1891	St. Johns, Michigan	University of Michigan	Leo Burnett Worldwide
Ashwin Kashyap	A businessperson and engineer working in the cyber insurance field.			University of Michigan University of California, Berkeley	CyberCube
‌ Tim Howes	American computer scientist	September 21, 1963	Ann Arbor, Michigan	University of Michigan	Rockmelt Opsware (company)
‌ Wyc Grousbeck	American entrepreneur	June 13, 1961	Worcester, Massachusetts	Princeton University Stanford University University of Michigan Stanford Graduate School of Business ‌ Noble and Greenough School University of Michigan Law School	Boston Basketball Partners

Charlie Munger was an American business magnate and investor. He was best known as Warren Buffett's "right-hand man" and served as the vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway from 1978 until his death in 2023.

Michael Fred Phelps II is an American swimmer, 23-time Olympic champion, 26-time world champion in the 50-meter pool, multiple world record holder. The absolute record holder for the number of gold awards and awards in total in the history of the Olympic Games, as well as awards in total in the history of the World Championships in aquatics.