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Frank Packer
Sir Frank Packer (1906–1974) was an Australian media proprietor who built Australian Consolidated Press into the country's dominant magazine group and founded the Nine television network.
Frank Perkins (engine manufacturer)
Frank Arthur Perkins (1889–1967) was an English engineer who co-founded Perkins Engines in Peterborough in 1932 with Charles Chapman, building it into the world's largest diesel engine maker by 1953.
Frank Rosenthal
Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal (1929–2008), Chicago-born bookmaker and Las Vegas casino executive who ran the Stardust, Fremont, Hacienda, and Marina for the Chicago Outfit without a license, pioneered casino sports books, survived a 1982 car bombing, and inspired the film Casino.
Frank Rotman
Frank Rotman is an American venture capitalist who co-founded the fintech investment firm QED Investors in 2007 and is known for leading its Credit Karma investment.
Frank Thomas
Frank P. Thomas Jr. was a Purdue-trained Indianapolis engineer who invented the automated flame broiler, co-founded Burger Chef, and sold his rights to General Foods in 1968.
Frank Winfield Woolworth
Frank Winfield Woolworth (1852–1919) was an American retailer who built the F.W. Woolworth Company into the world's largest variety-store chain by selling goods at fixed five- and ten-cent prices.
Frank Wright (businessman)
Frank Wright was Roy W. Allen's first employee at the 1919 Lodi, California root beer stand, his partner from 1922 to 1924, and the W in A&W Root Beer.
Franka Emika GmbH
Franka Emika GmbH was a Munich-based robotics company founded in 2016 as a spin-off of German Aerospace Center research, best known for its torque-controlled Panda robot arm.
Frankfurt Stock Exchange
The Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse, Börse Frankfurt) is Germany's leading stock exchange, operated by Deutsche Börse AG, listing shares of over 10,000 companies from more than 130 countries.
Frankie Zhu
Frankie Zhu is a member of the investment team at Griffin Gaming Partners and Managing Director at GoodGame Advisors, an interactive entertainment M&A boutique he joined after banking at LionTree.
Franklin Antonio
Franklin Antonio (1953–2022) was an American engineer and philanthropist who co-founded Qualcomm in San Diego in 1985, served as chief scientist, and left nearly $200 million to the Summer Science Program.
Franklin Blackhorse
Franklin Blackhorse is a venture capital fund platform based in San Mateo, California, operating within the Franklin Templeton group through funds advised by Franklin Advisers, Inc.
Franklin Templeton Investments
Franklin Templeton Investments, also known as Franklin Resources, is an American investment manager founded in 1947, managing about $1.66 trillion for clients in over 150 countries.
Franklin Ventures Investments
Franklin Ventures Investments is a family of Delaware series limited partnerships through which Franklin Templeton's Franklin Venture Partners raises capital for technology-focused venture and growth investments.
František Hromada
František Hromada (1857–1934) was a Czech lawyer and chamber-of-commerce secretary who served as first chairman of the Czech Joint Stock Brewery, today's Budějovický Budvar, founded in 1895.
Franz-Josef Feilmeier
Franz-Josef Feilmeier is a German entrepreneur who founded the battery-storage manufacturer FENECON in Deggendorf in 2011 and won the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2023 award.
Fraser Kelton
Fraser Kelton is a General Partner, Early at venture firm Spark Capital. An AI-focused investor, he was Head of Product at OpenAI, leading the teams that launched ChatGPT and DALL·E.
Fraud triangle
The fraud triangle is a three-factor model of occupational fraud, first stated by Donald Cressey in the early 1950s, identifying pressure, opportunity, and rationalization as conditions present when fraud occurs.
Frazier Healthcare Growth Buyout
Frazier Healthcare Growth Buyout is the growth buyout franchise of Frazier Healthcare Partners, a Seattle healthcare private equity firm founded in 1991, whose Fund XI closed at $2.3 billion in 2024.
Frazier Healthcare Partners
Frazier Healthcare Partners is a Seattle-based private equity firm founded in 1991 by Alan Frazier that invests exclusively in healthcare, raising over $9 billion and backing more than 200 companies.
Frazier Life Sciences
Frazier Life Sciences is a life-sciences venture capital firm founded in 1991 by Alan Frazier and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, managing over $6.9 billion as of 2026.
Freakonomics
Freakonomics is a 2005 popular-economics book by economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner, applying incentives and data to questions like teacher cheating and the 1990s crime decline.
Fred Destin
Fred Destin is a London-based venture capitalist who founded the seed fund Stride.VC after serving as a General Partner at Accel and Accomplice (formerly Atlas Venture).
Fred Ford (video game programmer)
Fred Ford, born Robert Frederick Ford, is an American game programmer who co-founded Toys for Bob in 1989 and wrote the code for Star Control.
Fred Meyer
Fred Meyer is a chain of large hypermarkets in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, founded by Fred G. Meyer in Portland, Oregon, in 1922 and owned by Kroger since 1999.
Fred Trump
Frederick Christ Trump was an American real estate developer who built over 27,000 apartments in Brooklyn and Queens, and whose fortune paved the way for son Donald Trump's career.
Fred Wilson (venture capitalist)
Fred Wilson is an American venture capitalist who has invested since the 1980s and co-founded Union Square Ventures in New York in 2003, backing Twitter, Tumblr, Etsy, and Coinbase.
Freddie Mac
Freddie Mac, formally the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, is a government-sponsored enterprise chartered by Congress in 1970 to buy mortgage loans from lenders and package them into guaranteed securities.
Freddy Heineken
Alfred Henry "Freddy" Heineken (1923–2002) was a Dutch brewing magnate who secretly bought back his family's Heineken stake in 1954 and built a global beer brand.
Frédéric Bastiat
Frédéric Bastiat, full name Claude Frédéric Bastiat, was a French economist and journalist who led France's free-trade movement in the 1840s and wrote The Law.