Tony Fernandes and the Flight Attendant

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Tony Fernandes and the Flight Attendant
When we started AirAsia Thailand there was this woman we hired as a flight attendant. A year into it she came and asked me, ‘Tony, I would like to be a pilot. Is that possible?’ I said, Go sit through the classes. If you qualify I will hire you as a pilot.’ She did. She became a first officer and subsequently she…
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Elon Musk

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Elon Musk
The world knows Elon Musk as a wealthy, imaginative genius — the man who is making electric cars mainstream and putting rockets in space. But when Musk was a kid growing up in South Africa, he got it bad from the others.He was “the youngest and smallest guy in his school” and that he was beaten and picked on all the time.…
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Bungie Studios

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Bungie Studios
Bungie Studios, one of the most beloved game developers in the industry, raised the bar for their willingness to take care of their fans. The story begins with a distraught father whose son had to receive liver transplant surgery around the holidays. Since being in the hospital left his son unable to play the newest release of his favorite video game franchise,…
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H’Hen Nie (Ms. Vietnam)

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H’Hen Nie (Ms. Vietnam)
The first and only Miss Vietnam who hails from an ethnic minority, the 26-year-old Finance major came from the Rade tribe whose customs include young women marrying young and starting a family early. – But H’Hen Nie did not want to limit herself to the tribe’s customs, choosing instead to go against tradition and insisting that her parents allow her to go…
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Philippe Pozzo di Borgo

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Philippe Pozzo di Borgo
Philippe, the son of a French duke, became quadriplegic following a paragliding accident in 1993. At first, he didn’t adjust well to his disability, once attempting suicide by wrapping his oxygen tube around his neck. But his spirits turned around after hiring Abdel Sellou, a recent Algerian immigrant and former criminal who had only applied for the job to fulfill the income…
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Jasmine Crowe

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Jasmine Crowe
In America, one out of seven people go hungry every day. For black and Hispanic kids, that number can hit as high as one in three. It was that mere fact that led Jasmine Crowe, a black female social entrepreneur, to create an app to address hunger. – Founded in Atlanta, Goodr is a real-time food rescue app that works like Uber,…
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Saroo Brierley

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Saroo Brierley
Growing up in Tasmania, Saroo Brierley had a map of India on his wall. “The map’s hundreds of place names swam before me in my childhood,” he recalls. I would stare up at the map, lost in the thought that somewhere among all those names was the place I had come from.” Until the age of five, Saroo lived with his mother,…
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Steve Jobs and Pixar

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Steve Jobs and Pixar
In 1986, shortly after he was forced out of Apple, Steve Jobs bought a small computer manufacturer named (drumroll) Pixar. In 2000, he relocated the company to an abandoned Del Monte canning factory. The original plan called for three buildings, with separate offices for computer scientists, animators, and the Pixar executives. Jobs immediately scrapped it. Instead of three buildings, there was going…
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