See how different Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and other tech CEOs looked when they first started their companies

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side-by-side of Elon Musk in PayPal's early days in 1999 and then in 2024
Elon Musk today runs several more companies than he did in 1999, when the photo on the left was taken.

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From the 'godfathers of AI' to newer people in the field: Here are 17 people you should know — and what they say about the possibilities and dangers of the technology.

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Godfathers of AI
Three of the "godfathers of AI" helped spark the revolution that's making its way through the tech industry — and all of society. They are, from left, Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yoshua Bengio.

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See the Yankee Candle founder's wild house, which has sat on the market for 2 years but finally has an interested buyer

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Yankee Candle Founder lists house in Massachusetts
Yankee Candle Founder lists house in Massachusetts

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Bernard Arnault, the LVMH CEO who built a luxury giant, is one of the world's wealthiest people

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Bernard Arnault weaing a suit and tie, at a microphone.
Bernard Arnault, CEO of luxury-goods conglomerate LVMH, has brought all five of his children into the business.

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See inside a test Boeing 777X, which has been further delayed to 2026 and annoyed its top customer

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Wide view of Boeing 777-9 test bed, with two rows of three blue seats on either side and instrumentation racks in the distance
The interior of a 777X testbed at the 2023 Paris Air Show.

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I toured a $65 million Gulfstream G650ER private jet like the one bought by Michael Jordan to see how the ultra-rich travel

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Gulfstream G650ER.

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China's first home-grown airliner is seeking its first Western buyer as it takes advantage of Airbus and Boeing delays. Meet the Comac C919.

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A Comac C919 in the company livery.
Comac C919.

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Meet Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, the L'Oréal heiress worth about $90 billion

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Francoise Bettencourt-Meyers
Françoise Bettencourt Meyers is the granddaughter of L'Oréal founder Eugène Schueller.

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How Walmart heiress Alice Walton, the world's richest woman, spends her $95 billion fortune

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Alice Walton of Wal-Mart
Walmart's Alice Walton is the world's wealthiest woman.

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10 successful CEOs, politicians, and more who worked at McDonald's, from Kamala Harris to Jeff Bezos

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Kamala Harris
Vice President Kamala Harris could potentially boost her fellow California Democrats on the ballot should she become the party's presidential nominee.

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