WHO KNEW: Dunkin Donuts Founder, William Rosenberg was Jewish!

The founder of Dunkin Donuts was William Rosenberg. Jewish and born in Boston Massachusetts, his parents were
Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Rosenberg, at the age of 17 was a delivery boy for an ice cream company, and
quickly rose to national sales manager at the age of 21. At the beginning of World War II he joined the Bethlehem Steel
Company and became the first Jewish Trade Union Delegate. Later, Rosenberg opened his first food distribution
company, which delivered meals, snacks, and coffee to factory workers in Boston Massachusetts. After noticing that most
of the money that was coming in was from selling doughnuts and coffee, Rosenberg decided to open up his first donut
and coffee shop called "Open Kettle". It was two years later changed its name to The famous "Dunkin Donuts".
Rosenberg didn't just create your normals donut shops. Rather, instead of offering just 5 different flavors of donuts, he
offered 52 varieties of doughnuts. After opening his 6th shop, he decided to franchise his business. Rosenberg died at
the age of 86 due to cancer.

Founder of software giant Oracle Corp is Jewish: Larry Ellison

Did you know that Oracle is one of the prominent companies founded by Jews in america. Larry Ellison is a Jewish-
American business magnate and co-founder and chief executive officer of software company Oracle Corporation and a
classic rags-to-riches success story. Born in New York to a 19-year-old unwed Jewish mother and brought up by his great-
aunt and great-uncle after his mother couldn’t support him. In 2011, with a personal wealth of $39.5 billion, he was
listed fifth on Forbes magazine's annual list of billionaires, making him the wealthiest Jew on the list. Ellison is now the
ninth-wealthiest person in the United States and the tenth-wealthiest in the world, with a fortune of $93.9 billion,
according to Bloomberg.

Ellison never finished college, but founded the company that would become Oracle with $1,200 of his own money at age
33. Oracle now has some 135,000 employees across the globe, and recorded a net income of more than $10 billion in
2020.

He is also well-known for his philanthropic activities. In 2010, he joined a number of billionaires pledging support for the
Warren Buffett and Bill Gates “Giving Pledge,” under which he committed to give away at least 50% of his wealth. Ellison
has separately said he will donate 95% of his wealth when he dies.

DreamWorks: Founded by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen

Did you know that DreamWorks is another one of the prominent companies founded by Jews in america. The studio
DreamWorks Animation produces animated films and television programs. The company was founded in 1994 (as
Dreamworks SKG) by three Jewish heavy-hitters in the entertainment industry (pictured left to right): David Geffen,
Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Stephen Spielberg. In 2016, Dreamworks became a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, a division of
NBCUniversal, which is itself a division of Comcast. The studio has released 42 feature films as of April 2022, including
several of the highest-grossing animated films of all time, with Shrek 2 (2004) having been the highest at the time of its
release.