Which founders came from SpaceX?

Ex-SpaceX founders: 11 people who left SpaceX to start companies

11 people who founded or worked at SpaceX went on to found 29 companies, including Elon Musk, George Hotz, Harry O'Hanley, Jemuel Joseph and 7 others.

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Founders who came from SpaceX

Elon Musk

Businessman (born 1971)

Went on to found

Zip2 1996 PayPal 1998 X.com 1999 Tesla 2003 Hyperloop One 2014 OpenAI 2015 Neuralink 2016 The Boring Company 2016 Thud 2017 xAI 2023 X Corp. 2023 SpaceXAI 2023 X Holdings Corp 2023 America PAC

George Hotz

American software engineer

Went on to found

Comma.ai 2015 tiny corp 2022

Harry O'Hanley

Went on to found

ABL Space Systems 2017 Long Wall

Jemuel Joseph

Went on to found

Cover 2013 Alloy Robotics

Jordan Noone

American aerospace engineer

Went on to found

Relativity Space 2015 Zoo

Justin Lopas

Went on to found

Base Power 2023

Neel Kunjur

Went on to found

K2 Space 2022

Signe Lonholdt

Went on to found

Kadeya 2021

Thomas Markusic

Went on to found

Firefly Aerospace 2014

Tom Mueller

American aerospace engineer and rocket engine designer

Went on to found

Impulse Space 2021

Will Bruey

Went on to found

Varda 2020 Varda Space Industries 2021

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