In the following video, Fool contributor Matt Thalman discusses three of his favorite freethinking CEOs. These gentlemen all regularly displace how their freethinking entrepreneurial mind-sets have allowed them to create not only strong companies but ones that resonate with consumers, have changed or started industries, and will surely be around in some form for many years to come.

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