Which founders came from Facebook?

Ex-Facebook founders: 47 people who left Facebook to start companies

47 people who founded or worked at Facebook went on to found 87 companies, including Abhinav Gupta, Adam D'Angelo, Adeniyi Abiodun, Alexandre Lebrun and 43 others.

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Founders who came from Facebook

Abhinav Gupta

Went on to found

Skild AI 2023

Adam D'Angelo

American businessman (born 1984)

Went on to found

Quora 2009

Adeniyi Abiodun

Went on to found

Mysten Labs 2021 Sui 2023

Alexandre Lebrun

Went on to found

Wit.ai 2014 Nabla 2018 Advanced Machine Intelligence 2025

Amanpreet Singh

Went on to found

Contextual AI 2023

Amjad Masad

Jordanian-American businessman

Went on to found

Replit 2016 Repl.it

Andrew McCollum

American angel investor and businessman (born 1983)

Went on to found

Meta Platforms 2004 Jobspice 2009

Avery Ching

Went on to found

Aptos 2021 Aptos Labs 2021

Bret Taylor

American entrepreneur (born 1980)

Went on to found

FriendFeed 2007 Quip 2012 Sierra 2023

Charles Gorintin

Went on to found

Alan 2016

Charlie Cheever

American businessman

Went on to found

Quora 2009 Expo 2016

Chris Hughes

American entrepreneur

Went on to found

Meta Platforms 2004 Jumo 2010

Chris Kalani

Went on to found

Phantom 2021

Christoph Lassner

Went on to found

World Labs 2024

Dave Morin

American entrepreneur and angel investor (born 1980)

Went on to found

Path 2010

David A. Marcus

Went on to found

Diem 2019 Lightspark

Denis Yarats

Computer scientist

Went on to found

Perplexity AI 2022

Dhruba Borthakur

Went on to found

Rockset 2016

Douwe Kiela

Went on to found

Contextual AI 2023

Dustin Moskovitz

American internet entrepreneur (born 1984)

Went on to found

Meta Platforms 2004 Asana 2008 Asana Inc. 2008 Good Ventures 2011

Eduardo Saverin

Brazilian internet entrepreneur (born 1982)

Went on to found

Meta Platforms 2004

Evan Cheng

Went on to found

Mysten Labs 2021 Sui 2023

Evan Sharp

American Internet entrepreneur

Went on to found

Pinterest 2010 West Co.

Gabriel Pereyra

Went on to found

Harvey 2022

George Danezis

Went on to found

Mysten Labs 2021 Sui 2023

George Hotz

American software engineer

Went on to found

Comma.ai 2015 tiny corp 2022

Grant LaFontaine

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Whatnot 2019

Guillaume Lample

Went on to found

Mistral AI 2023

Ham Serunjogi

Went on to found

Chipper Cash 2018

Hunter Horsley

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Bitwise Asset Management 2017

Jeff Hammerbacher

American data scientist

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Cloudera 2008

Joe Lau

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Alchemy 2017

Justin Rosenstein

American businessman (born 1983)

Went on to found

Asana 2008 Asana Inc. 2008

Kostas Chalkias

Went on to found

Mysten Labs 2021 Sui 2023

Mark Zuckerberg

American businessman and programmer (born 1984)

Went on to found

Meta Platforms 2004 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics 2013 Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 2015

Mo Shaikh

Went on to found

Aptos 2021 Aptos Labs 2021 Maximum Frequency Ventures 2025

Palmer Luckey

American entrepreneur (born 1992)

Went on to found

Oculus 2012 Oculus VR 2012 Anduril 2017 Anduril Industries 2017 Reality Labs 2020 Erebor 2025 ModRetro

Rousseau Kazi

Went on to found

Threads (Threads.com) 2019

Sam Blackshear

Went on to found

Mysten Labs 2021 Sui 2023

Sean Parker

American entrepreneur and philanthropist (born 1979)

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Napster 1999 Plaxo 2001 Causes 2007 Airtime 2011 The Parker Foundation 2015 Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy 2016

Steve Chen

Taiwanese-American Internet entrepreneur (born 1978)

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YouTube 2005 AVOS Systems 2011 USFIA 2013 MixBit 2013 Nom 2016

T.R. Vishwanath

Went on to found

Glean 2019

Timothée Lacroix

Went on to found

Mistral AI 2023

Todd Jackson

Went on to found

Cover 2013

Venkat Venkataramani

Went on to found

Rockset 2016

Wojciech Zaremba

Polish-American computer scientist

Went on to found

OpenAI 2015

Zhuoxun Yin

Went on to found

Magic Eden 2021

How this list is built. A person appears here if they founded or worked at Facebook and later founded at least one other company in the graph. Missing someone? Add them.