[thrance]

The only case I am aware of is that of the "Potsdam Giants" [1]. Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia was so obsessed with tall men he created a regiment of them, and pushed these soldiers to marry tall women. It apparently worked in producing even taller offspring.

As for entrepreneurship, I don't think there's a gene that encodes that :). Although heredity isn't only genetic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Giants

[swalling]

The population-level version of this is the Dutch, who only relatively recently became the tallest people on Earth through natural selection.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2015.021...