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91 published founders.
- Andy Jassy — President & CEO
Amazon
- Arvind Krishna — Chair & CEO
IBM
- Shantanu Narayen — Chair & CEO
Adobe
- Lisa Su — Chair & CEO
AMD
- Nat Friedman — Investor & Entrepreneur
NFDG
- Paul Graham — Co-founder
Y Combinator
- Daniel Ek — CEO & Co-founder
Spotify
- Matthew Prince — Co-founder & CEO
Cloudflare
- Michelle Zatlyn — CEO & Co-founder
Cloudflare
- Dylan Field — CEO & Co-founder
Figma
- Robin Li — Co-founder & CEO
Baidu
- Pony Ma — Founder
Tencent
- Zhang Yiming — Founder
ByteDance
- Fei-Fei Li — Co-director
Stanford HAI
- Greg Brockman — President & Co-founder
OpenAI
- Ilya Sutskever — Co-founder
Safe Superintelligence
- Mustafa Suleyman — CEO, Microsoft AI
Microsoft
- Yann LeCun — Chief AI Scientist
Meta
- Andrew Ng — Founder
DeepLearning.AI
- Demis Hassabis — CEO
Google DeepMind
- Dario Amodei — CEO & Co-founder
Anthropic
- Tim Cook — CEO
Apple
- Sundar Pichai — CEO
Alphabet / Google
- Satya Nadella — Chairman & CEO
Microsoft
- Jensen Huang — President, CEO, and Co-founder
NVIDIA
- Sandeep Nailwal — Co-founder
Polygon
- Emin Gün Sirer — Professor and Founder
Ava Labs
- Camila Russo — Founder & CEO
The Defiant
- Vitalik Buterin — Co-founder
Ethereum Foundation
- Brian Armstrong — CEO & Co-founder
Coinbase
- Nitin Gupta — Co-founder & CEO
Unikorn
- Jan Hammer — CEO & Co-Founder
Klarna
- Lei Zhang — Founder & CEO
Lufax
- Vlad Yatsenko — CEO & Co-Founder
Revolut
- Stripe Founders - Patrick and John Collison — CEO & President
Stripe
- Danielle Fong — CEO & Founder
Eavor
- Shreya Arora — CEO & Founder
Elucidate
- Rohan Rao — CEO & Co-Founder
ClimateAI
- Phoebe Kaae — CEO & Co-Founder
Pachama
- Michael Seibel — CEO & Founder
Y Combinator
- Sarah Guo — Partner
Scale Venture Partners
- Joseph Cohen — CEO & Co-Founder
Airbyte
- Jessica Livingston — Partner
Y Combinator
- Jane Park — Founder & CEO
The Big Exchange
- Marissa Mayer — CEO & Founder
Sunshine Contacts
- Reshma Saujani — Founder & CEO
Girls Who Code
- Whitney Wolfe Herd — CEO & Founder
Bumble
- Ruchi Sanghvi — CEO & Founder
Cobwebs Technologies
- Ritesh Agarwal — Founder and CEO
OYO Rooms
- Pinduoduo — Co-founder and CEO
Pinduoduo
- Byung-kyu Lee — CEO & Founder
Coupang
- Jack Ma — Former Executive Chairman
Alibaba Group
- Zhang Bangxin — CEO & Founder
Shein
- Melissa James — CEO & Founder
Allume Energy
- Dan Bates — CEO & Co-founder
Boundless Bio
- Arun Majumdar — Professor & Founder
Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
- Bill Gates — Co-chair & Founder
Breakthrough Energy
- Phoebe Koundouri — Professor & Founder
Climate KIC
- Drew Houston — CEO
Dropbox
- Aaron Levie — Co-founder & CEO, Box
Box
- Stewart Butterfield — Co-founder & Former CEO
Slack
- Elon Musk — CEO
Tesla
- Mark Zuckerberg — CEO
Meta Platforms
- Travis Kalanick — Co-founder
Uber
- Reid Hoffman — Co-founder, Chairman
LinkedIn
- Brian Chesky — CEO
Airbnb
- Tobias Lütke — CEO
Shopify
- Dara Khosrowshahi — CEO
Uber (Current), Expedia (Former)
- Bjarne Stroustrup — Creator of C++
C++
- Linus Torvalds — Creator of Linux
Linux
- Peter Thiel — Co-founder
PayPal (co-founded)
- Marc Benioff — Chairman, Co-CEO
Salesforce
- Steve Jobs — Co-founder (deceased)
Apple Inc. (co-founded)
- Jerry Yang — Co-founder
Yahoo! (co-founded)
- Spenser Skates — Co-founder and CEO
Amplitude
- Eric Yuan — Founder and CEO
Zoom
- Benoit Dageville — Co-founder and President of Product
Snowflake
- Matei Zaharia — Co-founder and Chief Technologist
Databricks
- Vlad Magdalin — Co-founder and CEO
Webflow
- Frank Slootman — CEO
Snowflake
- Daniel Dines — Co-founder and CEO
UiPath
- Melanie Perkins — Co-founder and CEO
Canva
- Parker Conrad — Co-founder and CEO
Rippling
- Henrique Dubugras — Co-founder and Co-CEO
Brex
- Amit Bendov — Co-founder and CEO
Gong
- Alexandr Wang — Founder and CEO
Scale AI
- Ali Ghodsi — Co-founder and CEO
Databricks
- Brian Halligan — Executive Chairman
HubSpot
- Adam Selipsky — CEO
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Sam Altman — CEO
OpenAI
- Patrick Collison — Co-founder and CEO
Stripe