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Gary Kremen

Gary Kremen is an American internet entrepreneur and Stanford MBA who founded Match.com and won a $65 million judgment over the stolen sex.com domain, establishing domain names as protectable property.

Gary Lauterbach

Gary Lauterbach is a computer architect who co-founded Cerebras Systems in 2015, served as its CTO, and earlier was chief architect of Sun Microsystems' UltraSPARC III and IV processors.

Gary Lubner

Gary Lubner is a South African-born businessman who was chief executive of Belron, the world's largest vehicle-glass company and parent of Autoglass and Safelite, from 2000 until early 2023.

Gary North (economist)

Gary North (1942–2022), born Gary Kilgore North, was an American economist and Christian Reconstructionist who argued that Austrian free-market economics was grounded in the Bible.

Gary Rieschel

Gary Rieschel is an American venture capitalist and Founding Managing Partner of Qiming Venture Partners, which he launched in Shanghai in 2005 and which backed Xiaomi and Bilibili.

Gary Stevenson (economist)

Gary Stevenson, born 1986, is a British economist and former Citigroup interest-rate trader who left in 2014 to campaign for wealth taxes through his YouTube channel Gary's Economics.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Gary Vaynerchuk, known as GaryVee, is a Belarusian-American entrepreneur who grew his family's New Jersey wine store into a national e-commerce business and founded VaynerMedia.

Gashapon (ガシャポン)

Gashapon (ガシャポン) is Bandai's trademarked capsule toy brand, named for the crank's 'gasha' and capsule's 'pon' sounds, sold in Japan since 1977; it leads Japan's capsule toy market with 57% of FY2025 maker sales.

Gasoline and diesel usage and pricing

Gasoline and diesel usage and pricing describes how pump prices are built from crude oil, refining, distribution, and taxes; global gasoline averaged $1.00 per liter in 2025.

Gastón Taratuta

Gastón Taratuta is an Argentine entrepreneur who founded Aleph Group, a Miami-based digital-advertising intermediary, and in 2022 became the first Argentine named EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year.

Gate Bioscience

Gate Bioscience is a preclinical biotechnology company founded in 2021 in Brisbane, California, developing oral small molecules called Molecular Gates that block disease-causing secreted proteins through the Sec61 channel.

Gateway Design Automation

Gateway Design Automation was an American electronic design automation company, founded by Prabhu Goel in 1982, that developed the Verilog hardware description language and Verilog-XL simulator.

Gauge Capital

Gauge Capital is a middle-market private equity firm headquartered in Southlake, Texas, founded by Tom McKelvey and Drew Johnson, managing over $3.0 billion across five sectors.

Gaurav Ahuja

Gaurav Ahuja is a senior partner at ChrysCapital, the Mumbai private equity firm, where he leads fundraising and raised the record $2.2 billion Fund X in 2025.

Gaurav Biswas

Gaurav Biswas is an entrepreneur and the co-founder and chief executive of TruKKer, a digital freight platform often described as an "Uber for trucks," founded in 2016.

Gaurav Garg

Gaurav Garg is a venture capital investor and cofounder of Wing Venture Capital, founded in 2013, known for early-stage investments in FireEye, RingCentral, and Jasper Technologies.

Gaurav Munjal

Gaurav Munjal (गौरव मुंजाल) is an Indian technology entrepreneur who cofounded the ed-tech company Unacademy in 2015 and led it through its 2026 sale to upGrad.

Gauss–Markov theorem

The Gauss–Markov theorem, also called the Gauss–Markov–Aitken theorem, states that under classical assumptions, ordinary least squares has the smallest variance among linear unbiased estimators, summarized as "OLS is BLUE".

Gaussian Robotics (高仙机器人)

Gaussian Robotics (高仙机器人) is a Shanghai company founded in 2013 that makes autonomous commercial cleaning robots, sold abroad as Gausium; SoftBank co-led its $188 million Series C in 2021.

Gautam Adani

Gautam Adani is an Indian industrialist who founded the Adani Group in 1988 as a commodity trader in Ahmedabad, building it into ports, power, and airports.

Gautam Singhania

Gautam Hari Singhania is an Indian businessman who has led the Raymond Group as Chairman and Managing Director since 2000, succeeding his father Vijaypat Singhania.

Gávea Investimentos

Gávea Investimentos is an independent asset management firm in Rio de Janeiro, founded in 2003 by former Brazilian central bank governor Arminio Fraga, which wound down its hedge funds in 2026.

Gawker

Gawker, also known as Gawker.com, was a New York-based gossip and media-criticism website founded by Nick Denton in 2002, closed in 2016 after a $140 million judgment.

Gawker Media

Gawker Media, also known as the Gawker Media Network, was a New York media company founded by Nick Denton in 2002 that ran Gawker, Gizmodo, Deadspin, and Jezebel.

Gaya iron industry

The Gaya iron industry (가야) was the iron-producing and trading economy of the Gaya polities in southeastern Korea, which used iron ingots as currency and exported iron to Japan until 562.

Gayle Benson

Gayle Benson, born Gayle Marie LaJaunie, is an American businesswoman and the only woman to own both an NFL and an NBA team, the New Orleans Saints and Pelicans.

Gazprom Neft

Gazprom Neft (Газпром нефть) is a Russian state-controlled oil company, the oil subsidiary of Gazprom. It was formed from Sibneft, which Gazprom acquired in 2005 and renamed in 2006, and ranks among Russia's largest oil producers.

GB Group

GB Group, trading as GBG, is a British technology company headquartered in Chester that provides identity verification, location intelligence, and fraud prevention services in 195 countries.

GBOF V Feeder SCS

GBOF V Feeder SCS is a Luxembourg feeder vehicle that raised $1.13 billion in 2015 for Gilde Buy-Out Fund V, the buyout fund of Rivean Capital.

GC Health Assurance Holdings, LLC

GC Health Assurance Holdings, LLC is a Massachusetts-based venture capital fund vehicle managed by General Catalyst, reporting $103.5 million sold in a Form D filing dated December 2020.