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Ex-company founders

Ex-IBM founders: 8 people who left IBM to start companies

8 people who founded or worked at IBM went on to found 10 companies, including Craig Newmark, Curtis Priem, Josh Luber, Jun Rao and 4 others.

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Founders who came from IBM

8
Craig Newmark
American entrepreneur, Craigslist founder
Went on to found
Craigslist 1995
Curtis Priem
American electrical engineer (born 1958/59)
Went on to found
Nvidia 1993
Josh Luber
American entrepreneur (born 1978)
Went on to found
StockX 2015
Went on to found
Confluent 2014
Leah Busque
American entrepreneur (born 1979)
Went on to found
TaskRabbit 2008
Went on to found
Datadog 2010
Went on to found
Meebo 2005 Honor 2014
Went on to found
Cuil 2008 Ceramic
How this list is built. A person appears here if they founded or worked at IBM and later founded at least one other company in the graph. Missing someone? Add them.