founders.io ⌕
Companies Founders Rankings Reports Investors Startup mafias Connection finder Y Combinator Unicorns 🦄 About Contribute
Ex-company founders

Ex-Yahoo founders: 23 people who left Yahoo to start companies

23 people who founded or worked at Yahoo went on to found 38 companies, including Abhinav Asthana, Amjad Masad, Amr Awadallah, Ankit Sobti and 19 others.

About Yahoo → Lineage tree: The Yahoo Mafia →

Founders who came from Yahoo

23
Went on to found
Postman 2014
Amjad Masad
Jordanian-American businessman
Went on to found
Replit 2016 Repl.it
Amr Awadallah
Egyptian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur
Went on to found
Cloudera 2008 Vectara
Went on to found
Postman 2014
Brian Acton
American business executive (born 1972)
Cal Henderson
British computer programmer and author
Went on to found
Slack 2009
Colin Kroll
American entrepreneur
Went on to found
Vine 2012
Went on to found
Wish 2010
Went on to found
Emu 2011 Greenboard 2024 Miter
Went on to found
Rockset 2016
Went on to found
Sunshine 2017
Went on to found
Slack 2009
Went on to found
Bandcamp 2007
Went on to found
Souq
Jan Koum
American entrepreneur (born 1976)
Went on to found
WhatsApp 2009 WhatsApp LLC 2009
Went on to found
Polyvore 2007
Lukas Biewald
American entrepreneur (born 1981)
Marissa Mayer
American business executive and engineer, former CEO of Yahoo!
Went on to found
Sunshine 2017 Dazzle AI
Went on to found
Polyvore 2007
Went on to found
Souq
Went on to found
Slack 2009
Stewart Butterfield
Canadian entrepreneur and businessman (born 1973)
How this list is built. A person appears here if they founded or worked at Yahoo and later founded at least one other company in the graph. Missing someone? Add them.