Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, and Jay Z are all pretty inspiring.<p>EM: <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/video/73460184-elon-musk-profiled-bloomberg-risk-takers.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloomberg.com/video/73460184-elon-musk-profiled-b...</a><p>SJ: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vrM7AvmxTA" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vrM7AvmxTA</a><p>Jay Z: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_O7ra9LDis" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_O7ra9LDis</a>
It didn't end well and he made some poor business decisions along the way, but Tesla still deserves consideration. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla</a>
Lord Kelvin has to be a contender <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomson,_1st_Baron_Kelvin" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomson,_1st_Baron_Kelv...</a>