Marc Puig inherited a family fragrance legacy, turning Puig’s modest 1914 roots and $1 million seed into a global powerhouse. Strategic licenses with Paco Rabanne, Carolina Herrera, and Prada fueled explosive growth, while bold acquisitions like Dries Van Noten expanded into fashion. Today, his creative alchemy dominates beauty with €4 billion revenue.
In July 1944, 730 delegates from 44 nations gathered at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, forging a postwar monetary order. They pegged currencies to the US dollar backed by gold at $35 per ounce, birthing the IMF and World Bank to stabilize trade, prevent devaluations, and avert Depression-era chaos forever.
Brett Adcock founded Figure AI in 2022 to pioneer humanoid robots tackling labor shortages. After Vettery’s $110M Adecco sale and Archer Aviation’s eVTOL push, he assembled talent from Tesla and DeepMind. Securing $675M from OpenAI, Bezos, and Nvidia, Figure 02 advances commercial deployment at BMW, eyeing home tasks.
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Vinod Khosla rose from New Delhi’s middle-class roots to co-found Sun Microsystems in 1982, powering the internet era with Unix workstations, SPARC processors, and Java. After leaving Sun, he shaped Silicon Valley as a Kleiner Perkins partner, then launched Khosla Ventures in 2004, backing bold bets like Impossible Foods and QuantumScape. His risk-embracing philosophy fuels clean energy and AI innovations, embodying immigrant-driven disruption.