tycoon
Powerful business leader
A tycoon is a wealthy, powerful businessperson—someone who dominates an industry or commands vast commercial resources: a real estate tycoon, a media tycoon.
The word carries connotations of outsized influence and sometimes ruthlessness.
It originated from a Japanese title for the shogun, borrowed into English during the 19th century to describe men of great power.
Low-ranking peer
- industrialistMajor manufacturing business owner
- mogulInfluential industry leader
- capitalistPrivate ownership supporter
- oligarchMember of small ruling class
plutocrat · financier · titan · kingpin · czar · robber-baron · conglomerate · monopolist
Person worth ten figures
- millionairePerson possessing great wealth
- fortuneWealth or destiny
- richesAbundant valuable possessions
- affluenceAbundance of money
assets · estate · empire · holdings · portfolio · inheritance · prosperity · opulence
One who begins something
- startupNew business enterprise
- ventureRisky new undertaking
- self-madeSuccessful through own efforts
- innovatorCreator of new methods
disruptor · visionary · dealmaker · acquisition · IPO · merger · expansion · bootstrap
Slippery viscous fluid
- steelCarbon-hardened iron alloy
- railroadPermanent track for trains
- shippingTransporting goods to destinations
- miningExtracting earth's resources
real-estate · media · tech · banking · textile · automotive · pharmaceutical · telecommunications
baron
Low-ranking peer
- industrialistMajor manufacturing business owner
- mogulInfluential industry leader
- capitalistPrivate ownership supporter
oligarch · plutocrat · financier · titan · kingpin · czar · robber-baron · conglomerate · monopolist · patriarch
billionaire
Person worth ten figures
- millionairePerson possessing great wealth
- fortuneWealth or destiny
- richesAbundant valuable possessions
affluence · assets · estate · empire · holdings · portfolio · inheritance · prosperity · opulence · treasure
founder
One who begins something
innovator · disruptor · visionary · dealmaker · acquisition · IPO · merger · expansion · bootstrap · risk-taker
oil
Slippery viscous fluid
- steelCarbon-hardened iron alloy
- railroadPermanent track for trains
- shippingTransporting goods to destinations
mining · real-estate · media · tech · banking · textile · automotive · pharmaceutical · telecommunications · entertainment
mansion
Large, stately home
butler · estate · villa · luxury · extravagance · opulence · lavishness · glamour · champagne · caviar
dominance
Superior influence over others
leverage · command · sway · grip · authority · hegemony · ascendancy · supremacy · reach · connections
- corporate worldCEO, CFO, COO, VP, executive
- bigwigsbigwig, big shot, big wig, VIP, big kahuna
- business empiresmogul, magnate, conglomerate, monopoly, merger
- business mogulsmogul, magnate, billionaire, titan, industrialist
- business peopleCEO, executive, entrepreneur, investor, mogul
- Business Titansmogul, magnate, industrialist, billionaire, CEO
- oil tycoonsWealthy crude industrialists
- railroad tycoonsWealthy controllers of train networks
- media tycoonWealthy communications industry owner
- real estate tycoonWealthy large-scale landowner
- business tycoonsPowerful wealthy industrialists
- newspaper tycoon