Company · Telecommunications · founded 1980

Dish Network

American satellite television and IPTV provider, formerly EchoStar Communications Corporation, now a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar. Its main competitor is DirecTV.

Part of EchoStar.

Of the 1 person here linked to Dish Network, 1 is a founder and 1 is still there. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.

Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.

1 person at Dish Network

Founder

Role

Co-founder, chairman, and CEO (to May 2011 and March 2015 to December 2017), 1980–now

Also at

Frito-Lay

Source · high confidence. Wikipedia says he was CEO until May 2011 and again from March 2015 until December 2017, and remains chairman.

Still there

Telecommunications · Media 3 / 0

Charlie Ergen

Co-founded Echosphere in 1980 selling satellite dishes from a truck, and built it into EchoStar and Dish Network, the U.S. satellite TV company he still chairs

professional-class · some · graduate degree