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Gantt chart

A Gantt chart is a project-planning diagram in which each task is a horizontal bar spanning its start and finish dates, developed by Henry L. Gantt in the early 1900s.

Gao Aimin

Gao Aimin (高爱民) is a Chinese venture capitalist and general manager of SDIC Venture Capital in Beijing, known for its early backing of AI chip designer Cambricon.

Gao Jifan

Gao Jifan (高纪凡) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Trina Solar in Changzhou in 1997 and leads it as chairman and CEO; Forbes estimated his family's wealth at $1.6 billion in 2026.

Gao Kang

Gao Kang (高亢) is a Chinese quantitative investor and founder of Yanfu Investments, a Shanghai quantitative hedge fund he started in 2019 after stints at Two Sigma and Ruitian Investment.

Gao Pengfei

Gao Pengfei (高鹏飞) is a Chinese quantitative investor who founded Beijing Qianxiang Private Fund Management, known internationally as Metabit Trading, in 2018 and remains its chief executive.

Gao Xiqing

Gao Xiqing (高西庆), born 1953, is a Chinese lawyer and Duke-trained investment executive who helped design China's stock markets and led sovereign fund China Investment Corporation from 2007 to 2014.

Gao Yang (geneticist)

Gao Yang (高扬), born 1980, is a Chinese geneticist and executive who co-founded Berry Genomics in Beijing in 2010, a pioneer of non-invasive prenatal testing in China.

Gao Yuncheng

Gao Yuncheng (高云程) is a Chinese fund manager who serves as managing partner and CEO of Greenwoods Asset Management, a contrarian value investor managing about US$20 billion.

Gao Yunfeng

Gao Yunfeng (高云峰), born in 1967, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Han's Laser in Shenzhen in 1996 and chairs the laser equipment maker, worth 15.5 billion yuan in 2026.

Gaojing Solar

Gaojing Solar (高景太阳能) is a Chinese manufacturer of monocrystalline silicon rods and wafers for solar panels, founded in Zhuhai, Guangdong in 2019 and backed by IDG Capital and Zhuhai Huafa Group.

Gaorong Capital

Gaorong Capital, formerly Banyan Capital, is a Chinese venture capital firm founded in 2014 by three ex-IDG partners, best known for its early bet on Pinduoduo.

Gaotu Techedu

Gaotu Techedu, formerly GSX Techedu (跟谁学), is a Chinese online education company founded by Chen Xiangdong in 2014, once a leading K-12 tutor before the 2021 regulatory changes affecting the tutoring industry.

Gap analysis

Gap analysis is a management technique that measures the difference between an organization's current state and its desired state, then produces prioritized actions to close the gap.

GAP insurance

GAP insurance, or guaranteed asset protection, is auto coverage that pays the gap between a vehicle's loan or lease balance and its insurer's total-loss settlement.

GapMinder Ventures

GapMinder Ventures is a Bucharest-based venture capital firm investing in Romanian and Eastern European technology startups, running a €50 million fund from 2018 and an €80 million fund launched in 2024.

Garden of Allah Hotel

The Garden of Allah Hotel was a villa-and-courtyard hotel on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, a gathering place for Hollywood writers and stars from 1927 to 1959.

Garheng Kong

Garheng Kong is a physician-scientist and venture investor who founded HealthQuest Capital in Austin in 2012, known for a healthcare-only strategy he calls value optimization and over 40 exits.

Garn–St. Germain Depository Institutions Act

The Garn–St. Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982 is a United States federal law, signed by President Reagan in October 1982, that deregulated savings and loan associations.

Garrett Camp

Garrett Camp, born 1978, is a Canadian software engineer and serial founder who co-founded StumbleUpon and Uber, then founded the startup studio Expa.

Garry Newman

Garry Newman, born 1982, is a British game developer who founded Facepunch Studios in Birmingham in 2009, the independent studio behind Garry's Mod and Rust.

Gartner

Gartner, Inc. is an American technology research and advisory firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, known for its Magic Quadrants and Hype Cycle, with $6.3 billion in 2025 revenue.

Gartner Magic Quadrant

The Gartner Magic Quadrant is a series of market research reports by Gartner that plot technology vendors on a two-by-two grid, placing each in one of four quadrants.

Gary A. Binning

Gary A. Binning is a private equity investor who co-founded Dominus Capital, a New York middle-market buyout firm, in 2008, after earlier roles at Quad-C Management and Paribas.

Gary Chamberlain

Gary Chamberlain (1948–2020) was an American econometrician and Harvard's Louis Berkman Professor of Economics, known for foundational work on panel data econometrics and semiparametric estimation.

Gary Chropuvka

Gary Chropuvka is an American quantitative finance executive who served as President of WorldQuant from 2020 to 2021, after co-heading Goldman Sachs Asset Management's Quantitative Investment Strategies.

Gary E. Milgard

Gary E. Milgard (1936–2005) was an American businessman from Tacoma, Washington who started a glass company with his father in 1958 and built Milgard Manufacturing into the largest residential window supplier in the western United States.

Gary Gallen

Gary Gallen is a British solicitor and entrepreneur, founder and chief executive of rradar, a technology-driven legal, insurance, and risk management group based in Hull, England.

Gary Gensler

Gary Gensler, also known as Gary Scott Gensler, is an American financial regulator who served as the 33rd SEC chair from 2021 to 2025, after leading the CFTC.

Gary Ginter

Gary Ginter is an American trader and entrepreneur who co-founded the Chicago Research and Trading Group in 1977, growing it into the world's largest options-trading firm.

Gary Goldsmith

Gary Goldsmith, a British recruitment entrepreneur, is the uncle of Catherine, Princess of Wales. He founded Computer Futures' contract division, sold shares for £17 million, and co-founded the RDLC.