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Ex-company founders

Ex-Apple founders: 18 people who left Apple to start companies

18 people who founded or worked at Apple went on to found 46 companies, including Alex Fielding, Amit Jain, Arthur D. Levinson, Bertrand Serlet and 14 others.

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Founders who came from Apple

18
Went on to found
Ripcord 2015 Privateer Space
Arthur D. Levinson
Chairman of Apple Inc
Went on to found
Calico 2013
Bertrand Serlet
French software engineer and businessman
Went on to found
Fungible 2015
Brian Acton
American business executive (born 1972)
Daniel Gross
American entrepreneur
Dave Morin
American entrepreneur and angel investor (born 1980)
Went on to found
Path 2010
Do Kwon
South Korean businessman and convicted felon (born 1991)
Went on to found
Terra 1999 Terraform Labs 2018
Went on to found
Mysten Labs 2021 Sui 2023
Went on to found
Flipboard 2010
Went on to found
Emu 2011
Went on to found
Aleph Alpha 2019
Lew Cirne
Canadian technologist and entrepreneur
Went on to found
New Relic 2008 Wily Technology
Went on to found
Fixie.ai 2022 Fixie
Reid Hoffman
American internet entrepreneur (born 1967)
Steve Jobs
American businessman and inventor (1955–2011)
Steve Wozniak
American engineer and programmer (born 1950)
Vipul Ved Prakash
Indian software engineer (born 1977)
How this list is built. A person appears here if they founded or worked at Apple and later founded at least one other company in the graph. Missing someone? Add them.