Bill Gross

Bill Gross is a lifelong entrepreneur who has personally started more than 150 companies, with more than 50 IPOs and M&A and more than 10 unicorns. He is famous for the 20 climate-related companies he has created, and for inventing the pay-per-click search technology that powers Google and a huge portion of Internet monetization. Google licensed the patents from his company Goto/Overture and Yahoo acquired the company. He is most famous for inventing the incubator/start-up studio method of company creation with Idealab, which just celebrated its 30th anniversary.