Game Changers

How did a workingclass boy from the Bronx named Ralph Lifshitz grow up to become billionaire Ralph Lauren a name that is now synonymous with elegance and sophistication Learn about his meteoric rise and how he overcame myriad challenges to become a global fashion icon

You may know him as the owner of the NBAs Dallas Mavericks but in reality Mark Cuban is the biggest maverick He cofounded Broadcastcom then became a billionaire by selling at the peak of the dotcom boom Learn what makes Cuban tick as we explore the career of this brash entrepreneur

Reid Hoffman not only created LinkedIn he also embodies it As the most connected man in Silicon Valley Hoffman has leveraged his own vast web of personal and professional connections to get in on the ground floor of most of the hot tech companies of the past decade including Facebook Zynga Flickr and Digg

For decades Warren Buffett has occupied an unparalleled position in American finance Not only a legendary investor with an astounding success rate and a billionaire forty times over Buffett is also the most respected businessman in America After taking control of textile manufacturing company Berkshire Hathaway Buffett expanded and grew the organization into a 164 billion enterprise

What does an NBA legend with five championship rings and three MVPs do for a second act If youre  Earvin Magic Johnson you become a supersuccessful serial entrepreneur with a billiondollar portfolio of popular franchises and real estate Magic announced his retirement because of HIV in 1991 but 20 years later hes not only healthy but hes also deep into a second legacy

From Virgin Records to Virgin Airlines to Virgin Galactic he took the power and possibilities of branding to new heights In the process he reinvented the role of the entrepreneur becoming his own best pitchman and turning himself into a living symbol of the Virgin brand Along the way Branson brought adventure back into venture capitalism

Learn about Joanne Rowling creator of Harry Potter the bestselling fiction writer of all time The first author to become a billionaire from her work Rowlings imaginative tales of a boy wizard have generated the most popular and profitable series of books and movies ever produced and caused hundreds of millions of kids to rediscover reading in an age of texting and Twitter

Reed Hastings transformed the way we see movies and television not once but twice In 1997 the California entrepreneur combined DVDs and the US Post Office to create Netflix the first online DVD movie rental business Eight years later he reinvented Netflix with a new service Streaming movies and television shows directly through the internet

Jeff Bezos revolutionized the way we shop almost singlehandedly turning it into a 34 billion enterprise With the launch of Amazoncom in 1994 Bezos began selling books online but before the end of the decade online shopping was on the map Selling increasingly more diverse products and services Amazoncom eventually became a massive online store

Fashion Icon Anna Wintour always dreamed of being the EditorinChief of Vogue Magazine With a keen eye for fashion and a fearless attitude toward new and groundbreaking trends Wintour eventually found herself at the forefront of the fashion industry realizing her dream of running Vogue

Craig Newmark a shy guy in the tech world wanted to make it easier for people to connect and for businesses to put up job postings So he created Craigslistorg As the online classifieds forum came to life so did problems The site became embroiled in crimes that originated on the site and was accused of facilitating lewd posts

Marc Andreessen is the cofounder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and cofounder of Internet pioneer Netscape Communications Corp This program features interviews with Netscape cofounder Jim Clark Jim Barksdale the former chief executive officer of Netscape and Eric Bina the cocreator of Mosaic and a founder of Netscape

Before Elon Musk bought it Twitter was one of the most popular social media platforms Changing the social media game in 140 characters Twitter had to navigate a variety of challenges on its way to the top and more when it arrived This program features interviews with Twitter Chairman Jack Dorsey and Mike Maples founder and managing partner of venture capital firm Floodgate

American hiphop artist and entrepreneur JAYZ is one of the most successful people in music Born Shawn Corey Carter JAYZs rise to global fame and fortune is even more inspiring when one takes into account the obstacles he had to overcome Through interviews with friends former colleagues and business associates discover the whole story

Founder and CEO of Facebook Inc now Meta and one of the worlds youngest billionaires Mark Zuckerberg was the sly programming student at Harvard University who dropped out to develop a social media platform that became one of the most popular sites in the world Years after Facebooks launch privacy and other concerns like failures to factcheck political ads continue to plague the website

His name is synonymous with lsquoCorporate Titan As cofounder of KKR in 1976 American businessman Henry Kravis is generally credited with pioneering private equity Along with his cousin George Roberts Kravis now rules over an empire that dwarfs some of the worlds mightiest public corporations

Follow Sergey Brin and Larry Page from their first meeting at Stanford to the creation of their revolutionary search engine and the media megacompany whose platforms are changing old media businesses like newspapers books movies and television Along the way to their astounding success the cofounders have also redefined advertising and created a chain of products with Google at the head

Learn about Jon Stewart from his New Jersey boyhood when he was known as Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz through the struggles of part time jobs and late night gigs at New Yorks comedy clubs See his early work in television shows and movies including rare video from his early career and watch his development into a popular American commentator hosting Comedy Centrals satirical The Daily Show

College dropout Cocreator of the largest technology company in the world Multibillionaire These are just a few of the well known facts about Steve Jobs Learn much more as we peel back the many layers of the intensely private technology icon his style of leadership management and creative process from Apples founding in 1976 to the revolutionizing how we live

Dive deep into the life of media powerhouse News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch who created a global media empire worth more than 30 billion Loved by some reviled by others AustralianAmerican businessman Keith Rupert Murdoch has shaped both the American political scene and by extension global politics

Larry Ellison businessman entrepreneur and philanthropist began the database management company in 1977 with Bob Miner and Ed Oates and is the companys CTO Follow the cofounder of Oracle from his early days in Chicago through the founding of the multibilliondollar software company to his rise as the highest paid executive of the last decade with a total compensation of 184 billion