Which founders came from Twitter?

Ex-Twitter founders: 14 people who left Twitter to start companies

14 people who founded or worked at Twitter went on to found 42 companies, including Biz Stone, Brandon Millman, Charles Gorintin, Elad Gil and 10 others.

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Founders who came from Twitter

Biz Stone

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

Went on to found

X.com 1999 Medium 2012 Jelly 2013 West Co.

Brandon Millman

Went on to found

Phantom 2021

Charles Gorintin

Went on to found

Alan 2016

Elad Gil

Went on to found

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

Ethan Sutin

Went on to found

Squad 2018

Evan Reiser

Went on to found

Abnormal Security 2018

Evan Williams

American entrepreneur (born 1972)

Went on to found

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

Jack Dorsey

American entrepreneur (born 1976)

Went on to found

X.com 1999 Square 2009 Cash App 2013 Bluesky Social PBC 2021 Bluesky 2021 Omacom Foundation 2026

Justin Zhu

Went on to found

Iterable 2013

Matt Huang

Went on to found

Hotspots 2011 Tempo 2015 Paradigm 2018 Avarra

Moxie Marlinspike

American entrepreneur

Went on to found

Whisper Systems 2010 Open Whisper Systems 2013 Signal 2018

Noah Glass

American technology entrepreneur

Went on to found

X.com 1999 Odeo 2005 Olo

Othman Laraki

Went on to found

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

Sanjay Jeyakumar

Went on to found

Abnormal Security 2018

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