Top 5 Entrepreneurs to look out for in 2021

Even if they are not entrepreneurs or have other interests, most people have a good idea. Today, we’re bringing you a list of five 2021 entrepreneurs whose stories will inspire you. We tell the stories of entrepreneurs who had to get their businesses up and to run.

1. Elon Musk

Elon Musk, a South African Entrepreneur, is best known for founding Tesla Motors and SpaceX in 2012, which launched a historic commercial spacecraft.

Who Is Elon Musk?

Elon Musk is a South African-American entrepreneur who founded X.com (later Paypal), SpaceX, and Tesla Motors. Musk amassed a fortune at the end of his twenties when he sold his Zip2 start-up to a Compaq Computers division.

Musk made headlines in May 2012 when he launched a railroad to the International Space Station carrying the first commercial vehicle. In 2016, he added SolarCity to his portfolio, and in the early days of President Donald Trump, he bolstered his position as an industry leader by serving as a consultant.

More About Elon Musk:

In 1995, Musk relocated to California to attend Stanford University. Instead, he chose a business career alongside his brother Kimbal as co-founder of Zip2. Compaq paid $307 million for the startup in 1999. Musk co-founded the online bank X.com the same year, which merged with Confinity to form PayPal in 2000. eBay paid the company $1.5 billion in 2002.

Musk, the CEO and CTO of SpaceX founded the company in 2002 as an Aerospace and Space Transportation company. In 2004, he was appointed chairman and architect of Tesla Motors, Inc. (now Tesla, Inc.), and in 2008, he was named CEO. In 2006, he co-founded SolarCity, a solar energy services company that Tesla later acquired and renamed Tesla Energy.

Then In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI, a non-profit artificial intelligence research organisation. In 2016, he co-founded the neurotechnology firm Neuralink and The Boring Company, a tunnel construction firm. Musk has proposed the Hyperloop, a high-speed transportation system. Musk is a billionaire.

Musk has been chastised for his unconventional or non-scientific positions, as well as his numerous controversies. In 2018, a diver who assisted in the rescue of Tham Luang sued Musk for defamation, and a California jury ruled in Musk’s favour. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the United States sued him for falsely tweeting that he had secured financing for a private takeover of Tesla the following year.

He has reached an agreement with the SEC, is now President, and accepts Twitter’s restrictions. Musk has spread false information about the COVID-19 pandemic, and expert opinions on topics such as artificial intelligence and the Internet have been called into question.

2. Brandon Ivan Peña

Brandon Ivan Peña is an American Entrepreneur widely known for his involvement in the coffee industry.

Who is Brandon Ivan Peña?

Brandon Ivan Peña is an incredibly talented and dedicated entrepreneur, business consultant, and motivational speaker. Born and brought up in El Paso, Texas, Brandon is currently living in New York City to stay connected and live out all his entrepreneurial goals. Speaking of which, Brandon has quite a few.

He is well known in the business world for his ventures such as 787 Coffee, Haciendo Iluminada, and his motivational brand “brandON.” Brandon Ivan Peña has recently been mentioned in the Forbes Top 100 Entrepreneurs of 2021 list and has been lauded by Yahoo Finance to be one of the Top 10 Entrepreneurs to follow in 2021. So, what’s so magical about him that he is being rewarded so? Read on to understand the true power of the empire Brandon Ivan Peña has built.

More on 787 Coffee: A Farm to Cup experience:

Brandon Ivan Peña is most successful and widely known for his involvement in the coffee industry. We say the industry as a whole because he has made himself a member of both the production and delivery processes of good quality coffee. Brandon has bought farms in Puerto Rico (Haciendo Iluminida), cultivating the most full-bodied, delicious, and warm coffee that can only be had when you are indeed an expert at identifying what’s good and what’s not.

Brandon himself is a coffee lover and a connoisseur of sorts and wants to share the experience with others. He says that people deserve to finally learn what properly grown and roasted, freshly brewed coffee tastes like instead of those easily purchased instant pouches. He wanted the experience to be as authentic and inspiring as possible, and for that, Brandon needed to ensure that 787 Coffee would never be grouped along with other such cafes.

After proper packaging from the farms, the coffee is shipped to the shops of 787 coffee. Currently, there are ten shops of 787 Coffee up and running in New York City, Puerto Rico, and Florida shortly.

3. Jack Dorsey

Jack Patrick Dorsey is an American philanthropist and technology entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of the financial payment company Twitter and the founder and CEO of Square.

Who Is Jack Dorsey?

As a university student, Jack Dorsey got involved in web development and eventually founded the Twitter website in 2006. Dorsey has been the CEO, Chief Executive Officer, and Executive Chairman of Twitter since then. Square, the popular online payment platform, was also launched in 2010.

Creation of Twitter

Dorsey transferred to New York University after spending a brief time at Missouri University of Science and Technology. In the tradition of computer science entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg, he dropped out of college before completing his degree. Instead, Dorsey relocated to Oakland, California, and began selling his dispatch software over the internet in 2000. Dorsey combined a broader range of shipping software with simple instant messaging shortly after the company’s inception.

Dorsey approached Odeo, a now-defunct Silicon Valley startup, for the idea. “What if you can easily share your status with your friends, so they know what you’re up to?” He presented us with this idea. Biz Stone, a former executive at Odeo, stated. Evan Williams, Dorsey, Stone, and Odeo co-founded Obvia, which later became a Twitter company. Dorsey created a simple website in two weeks where users could immediately post 140-character or fewer short messages known as Twitter-language ‘tweets.’

On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey sent out the first tweet, “I just set my Twitter.” Dorsey was named CEO of the company. He removed his nose ring in Silicon Valley to appear more prosperous but kept his boyish and mop-like, abstract, forearm-length tattoo, which included the human clavicle, among other things. In October 2008, Dorsey’s co-founder Evan Williams took over as CEO of Twitter, with Dorsey remaining as President of the company.

4. Ratnakar Upadhayay

Ratnakar Upadhayay is an Indian Entrepreneur best known for his revolutionary idea of giving the world its first content delivery platform in Hinglish, popularly known as Rv Talks.

Who Is Ratnakar Upadhayay?

Ratnakar Upadhayay is an Indian entrepreneur who founded Run Media Group (Mavilach Run Media LLP), Rv Talks, Digivanced, and Garden Eve. He started his career as an assistant admin in a coaching institute in his city, Lucknow. While doing his job and studies in coaching, he got an offer from his fellow coaching mate to start a club.

He accepted that offer, but that club runs for just six months, and due to some internal issues, it has been closed. After that, he entered the event industry and organised a mega festival National Students Summit for students, popularly known as NSS-Fest. It got massive popularity between the students and successfully two seasons has been done.

NSS-Fest’s next season was scheduled in 2020, but due to covid, it got postponed till things get normal.  He runs Run Media Group, the Largest Media Company in the Middle East & North American region, with over 80 Magazine Titles and over 40 websites covering Business, Consumer, Customer, Technology, Lifestyle segments in the US, Australia, Middle East. Run Media Group also offers digital advertising, Talent Management, Events Marketing solutions.

More About Rv Talks

In 2019 Ratnakar met with an accident in which he got screws in his legs. Which ultimately get him down for bed rest for almost ten months. After the accident, coronavirus also came into existence. While doing the bedrest, he got in touch with Neha, an Architect by profession. Neha and Ratnakar were good friends at that time.

One day she told him that she wants to write and start blogging. That time Ratnakar was running a writing page on Instagram in the name of Rv Talks. He decided to start a blogging site with the same name. Neha invited her four friends to be part of this project. After launching the site one day, Ratnakar thought to change the way of writing and reading.

So he suggested Neha and her friends begin writing in Hinglish and start the world’s first Hinglish magazine written in Roman Hindi. His vision was to make “Hindi a globally readable language”. In a month, Neha’s friend quit this idea as they were not comfortable in Hinglish writing. By the end of August, only Neha and Ratnakar were left in the magazine.

He has gone through many ups and downs but never gives up on his idea. Currently, Neha is the co-founder of Run Media Group along with Nikhil Singh Sumal & Nitin Kumawat. When it comes to Rv Talks, then now it’s serving more than 50K readers. 

5. Eric Yuan

Eric Yuan founded Zoom, a video communication tool, in April 2019.

Who Is Eric Yuan?

In addition, he serves as Zoom’s chairman and CEO. According to reports, Eric first considered Zoom as a college freshman in China. He used to travel for 10 hours by train to see his girlfriend.

He began to consider alternative methods of visiting his lover. Yuan also introduced the Zoom concept.

Success In Pandemic 

The coronaviral crisis has deprived millions of Americans of income, not Eric Yuan‘s.

Zoom, a video conferencing app is developed by Yuan. Even before the coronavirus outbreak forced people to work and mainly socialise online, zoom share price grew exponentially. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Yuan has collected more than $17 billion in less than two years of fortune since it joined this three-comma club. He is now also listed officially as one of the richest in the USA, the Forbes 400.

When Business Insider reached Yuan in April, he refused to comment on his net worth, career, or personal life, saying he was busy working 18 hour days at Zoom.