Paul Graham is the co-founder of Y Combinator, an incubator for some of Silicon Valley’s most successful startups. “Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that’s hard to imagine unless you’ve done it yourself. The best source of advice for new founders is not professors or investors but other founders. Those on this list know things only a handful of people know.”





#1 Bill Gates, Cochair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Before Bill Gates was a philanthropist, before he was CEO of a big software company, he was an ambitious, nerdy, young founder. As much as anyone, he invented the software startup....

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