Business
- Joani Blank (1959), founder of Good Vibrations.
- Marc Canter (1980), co-founder of MacroMind (later Macromedia).
- Jerry Greenfield (1973), co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream.
- John Gutfreund (1951), executive, former CEO of Salomon Brothers Inc., Business Week named him "King of Wall Street" in the 1980s.
- Charles Martin Hall (1885), co-discoverer of the electrolytic process of producing aluminium, founder of Alcoa, Inc. (and contributor to the American spelling of "aluminum").
- Ralf Hotchkiss (1969), co-founder and current (2006) Whirlwind Chief Engineer of Whirlwind Wheelchair International, 1989 MacArthur Foundation Fellow.
- Dave Kaemmer (1985), founder of the Papyrus Design Group and iRacing.com
- Jane Pratt (1984), creator of Sassy and Jane magazines.
- Nova Spivack (1991), technology entrepreneur
- Nikhil Srinivasan (1990), chief investment officer
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My friend, after twenty thousand years murder is still a business that’s mainly in the hands of amateurs.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1985)
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—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
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—William Burroughs (b. 1914)