Which founders came from Google?

149 people who founded or worked at Google went on to found 263 companies, including Abraham Bachrach, Adam Bry, Adrian Graham, Aidan N. Gomez and 145 others.

Ex-Google founders: 149 people who left Google to start companies

Abraham Bachrach

Went on to found

Skydio 2014

Adam Bry

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Skydio 2014

Adrian Graham

Went on to found

Nextstop 2008

Aidan N. Gomez

British-Canadian computer scientist (born 1996/97)

Went on to found

Cohere 2019

Amit Sangani

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MightyText 2012

Andrej Karpathy

Czechoslovak-born AI researcher (born 1986)

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OpenAI 2015

Andrew Boni

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Iterable 2013

Andrew Conrad

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Verily 2015

Andrew Ofstad

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Airtable 2012

Andrew Y. Ng

American artificial intelligence researcher

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Google Brain 2011 Coursera 2012 Priime 2015 Landing AI 2017 DeepLearning.AI 2017

Andy Huibers

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Bump Technologies 2008 Bump 2009

Andy Rubin

American businessman (born 1963)

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Android 2003 Essential Products 2015 Essential 2015

Anna Patterson

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Cuil 2008 Gradient Ventures 2017 Ceramic

Aravind Srinivas

American artificial intelligence company

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Perplexity AI 2022

Arthur D. Levinson

Chairman of Apple Inc

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Calico 2013

Arthur Mensch

French entrepreneur, AI researcher and startup leader (born 1992)

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Mistral AI 2023

Arvind Jain

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Rubrik 2014 Glean 2019

Ashish Vaswani

Indian computer scientist

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Adept 2022 Adept AI 2022 EssentialAI 2023 Essential AI 2023

Avery Pennarun

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Tailscale 2019 Tailscale Inc. 2019

Barret Zoph

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Thinking Machines Lab 2025

Belsasar Lepe

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Ooyala 2007 Cerby

Ben Darnell

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Cockroach Labs 2015

Ben Davenport

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BitGo 2013

Ben Mildenhall

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World Labs 2024

Ben Silbermann

American Internet entrepreneur

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Audiobeta 2006 MightyQuiz 2008 Pinterest 2010

Bill Magnuson

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Braze 2011

Bismarck Lepe

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Ooyala 2007

Biz Stone

American blogger and co-founder of Twitter (born 1974)

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X.com 1999 Twitter 2006 Medium 2012 Jelly 2013 West Co.

Brad Fitzpatrick

American programmer and creator of LiveJournal

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LiveJournal 1999 Tailscale 2019 Tailscale Inc. 2019

Bret Taylor

American entrepreneur (born 1980)

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FriendFeed 2007 Quip 2012 Sierra 2023

Brian Ichter

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Physical Intelligence 2024

Bryan Salesky

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Argo AI 2016 Stack AV

Cameron Adams

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Canva 2013

Carl Sjogreen

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Nextstop 2008

Chad Hurley

American businessman (born 1977)

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YouTube 2005 AVOS Systems 2011 MixBit 2013 GreenPark Sports 2018 EyeTell Green Park

Chelsea Finn

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Physical Intelligence 2024 Physical Intelligence (π)

Chris Olah

Canadian machine learning researcher (born 1991 or 1992)

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Anthropic 2021

Chris Urmson

CEO of self-driving technology company Aurora

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Waymo 2009 Aurora Innovation 2017 Aurora 2017

Christine Tsai

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500 Startups 2010 500 Global 2010

Christophe Bisciglia

American computer scientist

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Cloudera 2008

Chrys Bader-Wechseler

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Secret 2013

Clay Bavor

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Sierra 2023

Curtis Liu

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Amplitude 2012

Dan Siroker

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Optimizely 2010 Mind Emulation Foundation 2018 Limitless

Dani Yogatama

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Reka AI 2022

Daniel De Freitas

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Character.AI 2021

Dario Amodei

American AI entrepreneur (born 1983)

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Anthropic 2021

Dave Ferguson

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Nuro 2016

David Byttow

Anonymous message sharing app

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Secret 2013

David Carney

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Tailscale 2019 Tailscale Inc. 2019

David Crawshaw

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Tailscale 2019

David Luan

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Adept 2022 Adept AI 2022

David Stavens

American computer scientist

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Nines

Demis Hassabis

British AI researcher (born 1976)

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Elixir Studios 1998 DeepMind 2010 Google DeepMind 2010 Isomorphic Labs 2021

Dennis Crowley

American Internet entrepreneur

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Dodgeball 2000 Foursquare 2009 Foursquare Labs, Inc. 2009

Devin Finzer

American entrepreneur and technology executive

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OpenSea 2017

Don Burnette

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Kodiak Robotics 2018

Doug Ricket

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PayJoy 2015

Douglas Wightman

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Groq 2016

Durk Kingma

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OpenAI 2015

Elad Gil

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Mixer Labs 2008 MixerLabs 2008 Color Health 2013 Color Genomics 2013 Color 2015 Brain Co

Eleonore Crespo

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Pigment 2019

Enrique Munoz Torres

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Sunshine 2017

Evan Williams

American entrepreneur (born 1972)

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X.com 1999 Blogger 1999 Pyra Labs 1999 Odeo 2005 Twitter 2006 Medium 2012

Fei-Fei Li

American computer scientist (born 1976)

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World Labs 2024

Gabriel Pereyra

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Harvey 2022

Gary Wang

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Eastern Media International 1975 Light Chaser Animation Studios 2013 FTX 2019

George Hotz

American software engineer

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Comma.ai 2015 tiny corp 2022

Gordon Luk

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Cover 2013

Greg Corrado

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Google Brain 2011

Gummi Hafsteinsson

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Emu 2011

Igor Babuschkin

Went on to found

xAI 2023 SpaceXAI 2023 River AI

Illia Polosukhin

Public blockchain platform

Went on to found

NEAR Protocol 2018

Ilya Sutskever

Computer scientist (born 1986)

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OpenAI 2015 Safe Superintelligence 2024 Safe Superintelligence Inc. 2024

Ioannis Antonoglou

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Reflection AI 2024

Jacob Steeves

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Bittensor 2021

Jean-Philippe Vert

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Bioptimus 2024

Jeff Dean

American computer scientist and software engineer

Went on to found

Google Brain 2011 Discovery Loop 2026

Jeff Huber

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Standard Cyborg 2015 GRAIL 2016 Chroma

Jiajun Zhu

Went on to found

Nuro 2016

Jim Norris

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FriendFeed 2007

Jiten Vaidya

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PlanetScale 2018

John Hanke

American technology executive (born 1967)

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Keyhole 2001 Keyhole, Inc 2001 Niantic 2010 Niantic Games Team 2010

Jonathan Ross

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Groq 2016

Jonny Dyer

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Muon Space 2021

Justin Rosenstein

American businessman (born 1983)

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Asana 2008 Asana Inc. 2008

Justin Zhu

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Iterable 2013

Karol Hausman

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Physical Intelligence 2024 Physical Intelligence (π)

Karén Simonyan

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Inflection AI 2022

Kevin Gibbs

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Quip 2012

Kevin Hall

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Ripcord 2015

Kevin Systrom

American computer programmer and entrepreneur (born 1983)

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Instagram 2010 Artifact 2020

Larry Page

American businessman (born 1973)

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Google Summer of Code 2005 Alphabet Inc. 2015 Google Photos 2015 Googleplex

Lars Rasmussen

Danish software developer (born 1968)

Went on to found

Holdbar

Marissa Mayer

American business executive and engineer, former CEO of Yahoo!

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Sunshine 2017 Dazzle AI

Matt Welsh

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Fixie.ai 2022 Fixie

Max Ventilla

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Aardvark 2007 AltSchool 2013

Mike Belshe

American computer scientist

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BitGo 2013

Misha Laskin

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VanGo 2017 Reflection AI 2024

Mohit Aron

Indian businessman

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Nutanix 2009 Cohesity 2013

Mustafa Suleyman

British AI entrepreneur (born 1984)

Went on to found

DeepMind 2010 Google DeepMind 2010 Inflection AI 2022

Nadir Izrael

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Armis 2015

Nat Turner

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Flatiron Health 2012

Nathan Stoll

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Aardvark 2007

Nick Frosst

Canadian AI researcher & singer (born 1993)

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Cohere 2019

Niki Parmar

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Adept 2022 Adept AI 2022 EssentialAI 2023 Essential AI 2023

Nikil Viswanathan

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Alchemy 2017

Nisheeth Lahoti

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Rephrase.ai 2019

Noam Shazeer

American computer scientist, entrepreneur (born 1976)

Went on to found

Character.AI 2021

Omar Hamoui

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AdMob 2006

Othman Laraki

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Mixer Labs 2008 MixerLabs 2008 Color Health 2013 Color Genomics 2013 Color 2015

Pasha Sadri

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Polyvore 2007

Paul Buchheit

American computer engineer (born 1977)

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FriendFeed 2007

Percy Liang

American computer scientist

Went on to found

Together AI 2022 Together 2022 Simile

Pete Koomen

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Optimizely 2010

Peter Ludwig

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Applied Intuition 2017

Peter Mattis

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Cockroach Labs 2015

Peter Szulczewski

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Wish 2010

Piotr Dąbkowski

Entrepreneur

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ElevenLabs 2022

Piyush Prahladka

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Glean 2019

Qasar Younis

Pakistani-American businessman

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Talkbin 2011 Applied Intuition 2017

Rob Spiro

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Aardvark 2007 Good Eggs 2011

Rohan Seth

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Clubhouse 2020

Russell Power

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Cuil 2008

Ryan Dahl

American software engineer and developer of Node.js

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Deno 2020

Sandy Jen

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Meebo 2005 Honor 2014

Sanjay Jeyakumar

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Abnormal Security 2018

Sanjeev Singh

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FriendFeed 2007

Sean Knapp

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Ooyala 2007 Ascend.io 2015

Sebastian Thrun

German-American entrepreneur (born 1967)

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Waymo 2009 Kitty Hawk 2010 X Development 2010 Cresta 2017 Dulo

Sergey Brin

American computer scientist (born 1973)

Went on to found

Google Summer of Code 2005 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics 2013 Alphabet Inc. 2015 Lighter Than Air Research 2015

Sergey Levine

Went on to found

Physical Intelligence 2024 Physical Intelligence (π)

Seth Sternberg

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Meebo 2005 Honor 2014

Shawn Lewis

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Beep 2014 Weights & Biases 2017

Shishir Mehrotra

Went on to found

Coda 2014 Superhuman 2015

Sridhar Ramaswamy

Indian-American computer scientist and businessman

Went on to found

Neeva 2019 Nxyz

Steve Chen

Taiwanese-American Internet entrepreneur (born 1978)

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YouTube 2005 AVOS Systems 2011 USFIA 2013 MixBit 2013 Nom 2016

Sugu Sougoumarane

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PlanetScale 2018

Todd Jackson

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Cover 2013

Tom Brown

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SolidStage 2012 Anthropic 2021

Vijay Karunamurthy

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Nom 2016

Vishal Gupta

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Glean 2019

Vivek Raghunathan

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Neeva 2019 Xscape Photonics

Wojciech Zaremba

Polish-American computer scientist

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OpenAI 2015

Yaron Singer

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Robust Intelligence 2019

Yi Tay

Went on to found

Reka AI 2022

Yury Izrailevsky

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ClickHouse 2021

Zach Koch

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Fixie.ai 2022 Fixie Ultravox

Zach Weinberg

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Flatiron Health 2012 Curie.Bio

Ex-Google founders: 149 people who left Google to start companies

Founders who came from Google