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Jerzy Starak
Jerzy Starak, born in 1947, is a Polish billionaire businessman who took over Polpharma in 2000 and built it into Poland's largest generic drug maker.
Jes Staley
Jes Staley, born James Edward Staley, is an American banker who led the British bank Barclays as chief executive from 2015 until his 2021 resignation.
Jesse Beyroutey
Jesse Beyroutey is an American venture capitalist and Managing Partner at IA Ventures, a Manhattan-based seed firm, known for early bets on Komodo Health and Ironclad.
Jesse Cohn
Jesse Cohn is an American hedge fund investor who joined Elliott Investment Management in 2004 and, as Managing Partner, leads activist campaigns at Twitter, Salesforce, and Phillips 66.
Jesse Itzler
Jesse Itzler, also known as Jesse Jaymes, is an American entrepreneur, author, and speaker who co-founded Marquis Jet and owns a minority stake in the Atlanta Hawks.
Jesse Livermore
Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877–1940) was an American stock speculator who made and lost several fortunes, most famously by shorting the 1929 Wall Street crash, and died by suicide in 1940.
Jesse Walden
Jesse Walden is an American venture capital investor, founder and general partner of Variant, a crypto firm launched in 2020 after earlier roles at Spotify and Andreessen Horowitz.
Jessica Huang Pouleur
Jessica Huang Pouleur is a Singapore-based venture capital investor and general partner at Openspace Ventures, which she joined from Disney in 2020, leading growth-stage investing across Asia Pacific.
Jessica Schultz
Jessica Schultz is a venture capital investor and Partner at Northzone in Stockholm, known for investments in Klarna, Einride, and Flink, and for co-founding meal-kit company HelloFresh.
Jessie Chen
Jessie Chen (陈媛, Chen Yuan) is a Chinese education executive who describes herself as a co-founder of VIPKid, the Beijing online English-education company founded in 2013.
Jesús Núñez Velázquez
Jesús Núñez Velázquez is a Spanish education entrepreneur, born in Pecharromán, who founded Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio in 1993, Spain's first private university not affiliated with the Catholic Church.
Jet Commerce
Jet Commerce, legally PT Global Jet Ecommerce, is an Indonesian e-commerce enabler founded in Jakarta in 2017 that operates official brand stores on Southeast Asian marketplaces.
Jet Jie Li
Jet Jie Li, also known as Li Jie (李杰), is the founder, chairman, and CEO of J&T Express, which he started in Indonesia in 2015 after years at OPPO.
Jeune Afrique Media Group
Jeune Afrique Media Group is a privately held pan-African media and events company based in Paris, led by Amir Ben Yahmed, son of founder Béchir Ben Yahmed.
Jevons paradox
The Jevons paradox, or Jevons effect, is the observation by William Stanley Jevons in 1865 that greater efficiency in using a resource increases its total consumption.
Jewish economists
Jewish economists are economists of Jewish descent, upbringing, or self-identification; though about 0.2 percent of world population, they have won roughly 40 percent of Nobel economics prizes since 1969.
Jewish National Fund
The Jewish National Fund, or Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, is an organization founded in 1901 that owns about 2.5 million dunams of land in Israel and plants its forests.
Jfl Equity Investors
JFL Equity Investors is the flagship private equity fund series of J.F. Lehman & Company, a New York firm specializing in defense, aerospace, and maritime companies.
JFrog
JFrog Ltd. is an Israeli software company, founded in 2008, whose Artifactory platform manages software packages and releases; it went public on Nasdaq in September 2020.
Jheri Redding
Jheri Redding, born Robert William Redding, was an American hairdresser and entrepreneur who founded four haircare companies, including Redken and Nexxus, and is credited with inventing the Jheri curl.
Jho Low
Jho Low (Low Taek Jho) is a Malaysian financier charged in the United States and Malaysia over the misappropriation of more than $4.5 billion from the state fund 1MDB.
Ji Qi
Ji Qi (季琦, born 1966) is a Chinese serial entrepreneur who co-founded Ctrip, co-founded Home Inns, and founded Huazhu (H World Group), where he is executive chairman and CEO.
Jia Jiaya
Jia Jiaya (贾佳亚), born 1978, is a Chinese computer-vision researcher and chair professor at HKUST who founded SmartMore, a Hong Kong industrial AI unicorn, in 2019.
Jia Liu (刘佳)
Jia Liu (刘佳) is a partner at GSR Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm, focusing on AI applications, consumer, and enterprise services since December 2013.
Jia Qin (贾沁)
Jia Qin (贾沁) is a partner and head of M&A at HongShan, the venture and private-equity firm formed from Sequoia's former China business after its 2024 independence.
Jia Yu Capital
Jia Yu Capital (嘉御资本), formerly Jia Yu Fund, is a Chinese venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Wei Zhe, Alibaba's former B2B chief executive.
Jiahe Biopharmaceutical (嘉和生物药业)
Jiahe Biopharmaceutical, known in English as Genor Biopharma, is a Chinese biopharmaceutical company founded in Shanghai in 2007 that developed monoclonal antibodies and biosimilars for cancer and autoimmune disease.
Jiahua Capital
Jiahua Capital (加华资本, English name Harvest Capital) is a Beijing-based growth investor founded in 2007 by Song Xiangqian, managing over 30 billion RMB and known for its Eastroc Beverage investment.
Jianai (Simplove) Yogurt (简爱)
Jianai (Simplove) Yogurt (简爱) is a premium chilled yogurt brand of Pucheng Dairy, founded in Guangzhou in 2014 by former Mengniu executive Xia Haitong and known for its additive-free formula.
Jiang Jianqi
Jiang Jianqi (蒋建琪), born 1964 in Huzhou, Zhejiang, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded cup milk tea maker Xiangpiaopiao in 2005 and took it public in 2017.