11Reed Hastings
Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix offered to form a partnership with Blockbuster in the late 90s and the CEO of Blockbuster (John Antioco) laughed in his face.
12Todd Davis
Todd Davis, the CEO of Life Lock (identity theft protection) posted his social security number to the public to show the effectiveness of his company. His identity was stolen 13 times.
13Sidney Weinberg
Sidney Weinberg, the CEO of Goldman Sachs started from as a janitor's assistant in the company, where his responsibilities included brushing the firm’s partners’ hats and wiping the mud from their overshoes making $3/week.
14Dick Fuld
Dick Fuld, the former CEO of Lehman Brothers, got punched in the face and knocked out cold in the Lehman Brothers gym, the same night the Bank announced its bankruptcy.
15Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo, circumvented her own rule disallowing employees to work from home by bringing her home to work--and building a nursery by her office.
16Aaron Feuerstein
Aaron Feuerstein, who was the owner and CEO of Malden Mills, which burned down in 1995. After this happened, he supported his 3,000 employees for 6 months using his personal savings. It ended up costing him $25 million to do the right thing.
17Vikram Pandit
Former Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit apologized for Citigroup's board of directors' misuse of bailout money on increasing his salary, condemned their purchase of a private jet plane, and worked for 2 years for only $1 a year until they returned to profitability.
