Lists / Notable Founder
Founders of famous companies
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Reid Hoffman
Entrepreneur. Product Strategist. Investor.
 
Tim O'Reilly
Founder, CEO, O'Reilly Media
 
Mitch Kapor
Lotus founder, built from 0 to $200MM in 3 yrs. Co-founder EFF. Founding Chair Mozilla. Investor: Twilio, Uber, Inkling, bit.ly.
 
Josh Kopelman
Founding Partner, First Round Capital; Founder Half.com (sold to EBay)
 
Dave Morin
Entrepreneur.
 
Eric Ries
Author of The Lean Startup
 
Kevin Rose
CEO at Milk Inc., Founder of Digg. Co-Founder of Revision3. Board member at Tony Hawk Foundation.
 
Chris Dixon
Co-founder at Founder Collective; Co-founder, CEO at Hunch; CEO/Co-founder at SiteAdvisor (acquired by McAfee)
 
Marc Andreessen
General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
 
Max Levchin
VP of Engineering at Google; Founder & CEO at Slide, Inc; Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at PayPal
 
Michael Arrington
Founder Techcrunch, founder of CrunchFund, blogger at Uncrunched.
 
Joshua Schachter
CEO at Tasty Labs; Member of Technical Staff at Google; Director Engineering del.icio.us at Yahoo; founder at del.icio.us
 
Steve Case
Co-founder of AOL; now Chairman of Case Foundation and Revolution (Zipcar, LivingSocial, Exclusive Resorts, Everyday Health, Revolution Money, Miraval, etc)
VC
 
Tim Ferriss
Author of #1 NY Times bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek, Japanophile, tea drinker, tango world record holder, language learning fanatic.
 
Matt Mullenweg
WordPress, Automattic, Akismet, Polldaddy, VaultPress, Gravatar... http://ma.tt/
 
Jonathan Abrams
Co-founder of Founders Den, co-owner of Slide nightclub, former founder & CEO of Socializr, Friendster, and HotLinks.
 
Bill Gross
Founder of Technology Incubator Idealab and 100 companies in last 30 years. Tweeting while on my quest for learning in life and at conferences.
 
Steve Blank
Customer Development & Secret History, Teaching at Stanford, Berkeley and Columbia http://www.steveblank.com
 
Ariel Poler
Started 3 Internet companies (IPRO, Topica & TextMarks); Director at Kana, LinkExchange, Freedom Financial, Odeo and StumbleUpon. BS from MIT. MBA from Stanford
 
Shervin Pishevar
Managing Director at Menlo Ventures; Co-Founder of SGN
 
Evan Williams
@Evan Williams Farm boy from Nebraska. Co-founder of Twitter. http://evhead.com
 
Gary Vaynerchuk
Family 1st! but after that, Businessman, @winelibrary, @VaynerMedia, Author of @TYEbook and a dude that Loves the hustle (hard work), people and the @nyjets
 
James Hong
Founder of HOTorNOT.com, Angel Investor.
 
Karl Jacob
Keen (Ingenio), DimensionX, Wallop, Coveroo and Cloudmark. $500+ million in exits to msft, at&t etc. Early advisor to facebook.
 
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