Company · Food & Beverage · founded 1940
McDonald's
American fast food chain founded in 1940 as a restaurant run by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald in San Bernardino, California. It had 45,356 restaurants in more than 100 countries at the end of 2025.
Of the 1 person here linked to McDonald's, 0 are founders and 0 are 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 McDonald's
Executive Past
Role
President (1955-1968), chairman of the board (1968-1977), senior chairman (1977-1984); bought the company in 1961 and is credited as its founder, 1955–1984
Also at
Source
· high confidence. Wikipedia says he became owner of McDonald's Corporation in 1961. His role began in 1954 as the McDonald brothers' franchising agent, per his profile text.
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Ray Kroc
Franchiser and owner, McDonald's Corporation
middle-class, then unstable · some · no college