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Vinod Khosla is an Indian-born American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and served as its first chairman and chief executive before moving into venture capital, initially at Kleiner Perkins and later through Khosla Ventures, which he founded. His investmen...
Janus Friis is a Danish technology entrepreneur known for developing internet communication and file-distribution services with Swedish entrepreneur Niklas Zennström. The pair co-founded the peer-to-peer file-sharing application Kazaa and later Skype, whose software brought internet-based voice call...
Trip Hawkins is an American entrepreneur who founded the video game publisher Electronic Arts in 1982 after working at Apple. He promoted software creators as recognizable authors and helped establish EA through titles developed by independent studios. Hawkins later founded The 3DO Company, which de...
Martin Lorentzon is a Swedish entrepreneur who co-founded the music-streaming company Spotify with Daniel Ek in 2006. Before Spotify, he co-founded Tradedoubler, a digital performance-marketing company established in Sweden. Lorentzon served as Spotify's chairman during its development into an inter...
Ali Ghodsi is a computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Databricks and serves as its chief executive officer. Databricks grew out of research at the University of California, Berkeley that produced Apache Spark, an open-source engine for large-scale data processing. The company develops a...
Joe Gebbia is an American designer and entrepreneur who co-founded Airbnb with Brian Chesky and Nathan Blecharczyk. The company began after Gebbia and Chesky offered short-term lodging in their San Francisco apartment, then developed into an online marketplace connecting hosts with guests seeking ac...
Chad Hurley is an American internet entrepreneur and one of the three cofounders of YouTube, alongside Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. The video sharing service was founded in 2005 and acquired by Google in 2006 for approximately 1.65 billion dollars in stock. Hurley served as YouTube's first chief exec...
Nathan Blecharczyk is an American technology entrepreneur and one of the three cofounders of Airbnb, alongside Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia. As the company's original technical founder, he built early versions of the platform and served as its first chief technology officer. He has subsequently held...
Steve Chen is a Taiwanese-American technology entrepreneur and one of the co-founders of YouTube, alongside Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. Before YouTube, he worked at PayPal, where members of the future founding team met. Chen served as YouTube's chief technology officer during its early growth, help...
Scott McNealy is an American technology entrepreneur who co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and served as its chief executive for most of the company's independent history. Sun developed networked workstations, servers, the Solaris operating system, and the SPARC processor architecture; its enginee...
Jawed Karim is a German-American software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded YouTube with Steve Chen and Chad Hurley. On 23 April 2005, he uploaded the platform's first video, Me at the zoo, an approximately 19-second clip recorded at the San Diego Zoo. Karim later pursued graduate study in co...
British animator Peter Lord co-founded Aardman Animations in 1972 with David Sproxton, building one of the world's most recognized stop-motion studios. He co-directed the stop-motion feature film Chicken Run (2000) and served as a producer on the Wallace & Gromit franchise. Lord is known for his wor...
Mustafa Suleyman is a British technology entrepreneur and artificial intelligence executive who co-founded DeepMind, an AI research company acquired by Google in 2014. He later co-founded Inflection AI, which developed consumer-facing conversational AI systems. In 2024 he joined Microsoft as chief e...
Bing Gordon is an American business executive and investor who was part of the founding team of Electronic Arts in 1982. During his long tenure at the video game company, he held senior roles including chief creative officer and contributed to its product and marketing strategy. He later joined the...
Alexis Ohanian is an American internet entrepreneur and investor who co-founded Reddit with Steve Huffman in 2005. He later co-founded the venture capital firm Initialized Capital and subsequently established Seven Seven Six, another investment firm focused on early-stage companies. Ohanian has also...
Spencer Rascoff is an American technology entrepreneur and executive known for co-founding Zillow, an online real-estate marketplace launched in 2006. He served as Zillow's chief executive and helped develop the company as a platform for property listings, market information, and automated home-valu...
Lloyd Frink is an American technology executive and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Zillow, the online real-estate marketplace launched in 2006. Before Zillow, he worked at Microsoft and held senior roles at Expedia, where he was involved in product development and strategy rather than se...
Bobby Seale is an American political activist who co-founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense with Huey P. Newton in Oakland, California, in 1966. He served as the organization's chairman and helped develop programs addressing food access, health care, political education, and police conduct...
Steve Huffman is an American co-founder of Reddit, the social news aggregation platform launched in 2005, and has served as its CEO.
Co-founder of Coinbase and later co-founder of crypto-focused investment firm Paradigm in 2018, making him influential as both a builder and backer in digital assets.
Nick Swinmurn is an American entrepreneur who founded Zappos in 1999 as one of the first major online shoe retailers, later acquired by Amazon for about $1.2 billion.
American co-founder of Warby Parker, the direct-to-consumer eyewear company launched in 2010 that disrupted traditional optical retail with affordable prescription glasses.
James Park is an American co-founder and CEO of Fitbit, the wearable fitness tracker company founded in 2007 and acquired by Google in 2021.
American co-founder of Warby Parker, the direct-to-consumer eyewear startup launched in 2010 that went public via direct listing on the Nasdaq in 2021.
American entrepreneur who co-founded Lyft in 2012 with John Zimmer, building one of the two dominant ride-sharing platforms operating in the United States.
Yale School of Management professor who co-founded Honest Tea in 1998 with Seth Goldman, and is widely recognized for his expertise in game theory.
American entrepreneur who co-founded Lyft in 2012 with Logan Green, serving as its president as the platform expanded across dozens of North American cities.
David Sproxton is a British animator and producer who co-founded Aardman Animations with Peter Lord in 1972. Starting as a small production company, Sproxton helped develop it into a studio recognized for its stop-motion clay animation techniques. He played a role in producing projects such as the W...
Eric Lefkofsky is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of Groupon (2008), and later founded Tempus AI, a health technology company using data science in cancer care.
Co-founder of Ethereum and founder of the Cardano blockchain and development firm IOG (Input Output Global), a leading figure in proof-of-stake blockchain research.
