Co-founded

With half the money from the sale of his previous company, the entrepreneur co-founded an electronic money transfer service, which has become essential for people buying or selling products on the Internet.

Lots of people who have heard of Betty Friedan misstate her place in history. She was not a man-hater, not a bra-burner, not a sexual confrontationist, touting the birth-control pill. A suburbanite, wife and mother, she would be forced out of the National Organization for Women, which she co-founded, for being too conservative.

He also co-founded a company that offers the experience of weightlessness aboard a specially outfitted aircraft.