Ex-Microsoft founders: 36 people who left Microsoft to start companies
36 people who founded or worked at Microsoft went on to found 74 companies, including Alex DeNeui, Alexander Skidanov, Ami Luttwak, Assaf Rappaport and 32 others.
Founders who came from Microsoft
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Assaf Rappaport
Israeli entrepreneur and cybersecurity executive (born 1983)
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Bhavish Aggarwal
Indian businessman
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Bill Gates
American businessman and philanthropist (born 1955)
Daniel Dines
Romanian entrepreneur (born 1972)
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Do Kwon
South Korean businessman and convicted felon (born 1991)
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Gabe Newell
American businessman (born 1962)
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Gavin Wood
British computer programmer and entrepreneur
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Kunal Bahl
Indian entrepreneur
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Mike Harrington
American businessman and video game designer (born 1964)
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Paul Allen
American businessman (1953–2018)
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Traf-O-Data 1972
Asymetrix 1984
Starwave 1992
Apex Learning 1997
Flying Heritage Collection 2004
Living Computers: Museum + Labs 2006
1000memories 2010
Stratolaunch Systems 2011
Allen Institute for Cell Science 2014
Allen Institute for Immunology 2018
Mojave Aerospace Ventures
Vulcan Productions
CloudCoreo
Peyush Bansal
Indian entrepreneur (born 1985)
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Rich Barton
American businessman
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Rob Glaser
Entrepreneur, RealNetworks founder
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Roy Reznik
Israeli-American cloud information security company
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Zhang Yiming
Chinese internet entrepreneur (born 1983)
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