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Name	Description	Birthdate	Birthplace	Educated at	Founder of
Donald Trump	Donald Trump is the forty-fifth and forty-seventh president of the United States of America, an American businessman, and a television personality.	June 14, 1946	New York City	Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania New York Military Academy Fordham University	‌ Trump Mortgage Truth Social
Elon Musk	Elon Musk is a serial entrepreneur known for creating high-tech, science fiction-inspired ventures. He is a founder of PayPal, an early-stage investor and CEO of Tesla, Inc., and founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer of SpaceX.	June 28, 1971	Pretoria	University of Pennsylvania ‌ Waterkloof House Preparatory School ‌ Stephen J.R. Smith School of Business University of Pretoria Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Pretoria Boys High School Queen's University Stanford University	xAI Neuralink PayPal SpaceX Starlink The Boring Company Zip2 X.com (bank) Tesla (company)
Michael Steinhardt	American financier, newspaper publisher, philanthropist	1940	New York City	Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Lafayette High School (New York City)	‌ Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life
Shakira	Colombian singer	February 2, 1977	Barranquilla	University of Pennsylvania University of California, Los Angeles	‌ Barefoot Foundation
Ari Paul	Founder of BlockTower Capital	May 25, 1984	United States	Booth School of Business University of Pennsylvania Princeton Day School	BlockTower Capital BlockTower Capital
Andrew Chung	Founder and Managing Partner at 1955 Capital	1977		Harvard University Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania	1955 Capital
Arthur Hayes	Co-Founder at 100x Group, banker, entrepreneur, derivative trader, Bitcoin advocate, and a fintech pioneer.	1985	Detroit	‌ Nichols School Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania	Bitmex
Robert Leshner	Founder and CEO of Compound Labs			CFA Institute University of Pennsylvania	Compound Robot Ventures
John Legend	Famous As: Singer	December 28, 1978	Springfield, Ohio	‌ North High School (Springfield, Ohio) University of Pennsylvania	OurSong
Brian Sheth	Brian N. Sheth is the cofounder of Sangreal Foundation, Vista Equity Partners, and Haveli Investments. He was on the Forbes 2018 World Billionaires list with an estimated net worth of $2 billion.	November 26, 1975	Acton, Massachusetts	Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania	Vista Equity Partners Haveli Investments
Dan Zwirn	Dan Zwirn is the founder of Arena Investors.			Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Harvard Business School	Arena Investors
Jeff Weiner	Jeff Weiner is an internet business executive, best known for serving as the chief executive officer of LinkedIn.	February 21, 1970	New York City	Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Mamaroneck High School	Next Play Ventures
Derek Yoo	CEO @purestakeco, working on @MoonbeamNetwork and @MoonriverNW, helping developers build native multi-chain applications.		United States	University of Pennsylvania	Moonbeam Fuze (company) PureStake
Justin Sun	Founder of TRON	July 30, 1990	Xining	University of Pennsylvania Peking University The University of Hong Kong	JUST HTX TRON (cryptocurrency) BitTorrent (cryptocurrency)
Warren Buffett	American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist	August 30, 1930	Omaha, Nebraska	Columbia Business School Woodrow Wilson High School (Washington, D.C.) University of Pennsylvania University of Nebraska–Lincoln Columbia University Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania	Berkshire Hathaway The Giving Pledge
Jason Colodne	Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Colbeck Capital Management			Horace Mann School University of Pennsylvania	Colbeck Capital Management
Erik Moore	Founder and Managing Director of Base Ventures.		Richmond, California	University of Pennsylvania Dartmouth College Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania	Base Ventures
Brian Roddy	Brian Roddy is the vice president of engineering of cloud security at Google.			University of Pennsylvania University of Wisconsin–Madison	Reactivity
Jason Lee	Co-founder and CEO of DailyPay			University of Pennsylvania	Salt Labs DailyPay
Satya Patel	Venture Capitalist and founder of Homebrew			University of Pennsylvania	Homebrew Screendoor (venture capital)
Shubham Singh	Shubham Singh is an Indian Entrepreneur. He is an Ethical hacker and Founder of Many Statups like VD Hosts, NishGifts. He is awarded with Innovative Entrepreneur Award	July 5, 2002	India	Allen Career Institute Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania	Router Protocol VD Hosts
Josh Harris (businessman)	American businessman	1965	Chevy Chase, Maryland	‌ The Field School Harvard Business School Harvard University Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania	Apollo Global Management ‌ Apollo Investment Corporation
Mark Pincus	Mark Pincus is an entrepreneur who founded Zynga.	February 13, 1966	Chicago	Francis W. Parker School (Chicago) Harvard Business School Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Harvard University	Reinvent Capital Zynga
David Stachura	University Professor and CSO of SpecBio	February 9, 1978		University of Pennsylvania Lehigh University	‌ SpecBio
‌ Jay Penske	American entrepreneur & media owner, CEO of Gold Derby Award, born in New York	January 1, 1979	New York City	Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Cranbrook Educational Community St. Mary's Preparatory	Penske Media Corporation

Donald Trump is the forty-fifth and forty-seventh president of the United States of America, an American businessman, and a television personality.

Elon Musk is a serial entrepreneur known for creating high-tech, science fiction-inspired ventures. He is a founder of PayPal, an early-stage investor and CEO of Tesla, Inc., and founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer of SpaceX.

American financier, newspaper publisher, philanthropist

Founder of BlockTower Capital

Founder and Managing Partner at 1955 Capital

Co-Founder at 100x Group, banker, entrepreneur, derivative trader, Bitcoin advocate, and a fintech pioneer.

Founder and CEO of Compound Labs

Brian N. Sheth is the cofounder of Sangreal Foundation, Vista Equity Partners, and Haveli Investments. He was on the Forbes 2018 World Billionaires list with an estimated net worth of $2 billion.

Dan Zwirn is the founder of Arena Investors.

Jeff Weiner is an internet business executive, best known for serving as the chief executive officer of LinkedIn.

CEO @purestakeco, working on @MoonbeamNetwork and @MoonriverNW, helping developers build native multi-chain applications.

American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Colbeck Capital Management

Founder and Managing Director of Base Ventures.

Brian Roddy is the vice president of engineering of cloud security at Google.

Co-founder and CEO of DailyPay

Venture Capitalist and founder of Homebrew

Shubham Singh is an Indian Entrepreneur. He is an Ethical hacker and Founder of Many Statups like VD Hosts, NishGifts. He is awarded with Innovative Entrepreneur Award