People

Serial founders

The most prolific builders in the graph — 4,001 founders who started two or more companies.

↓ founders.csv

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John Romero 5 companies

American video game designer (born 1967)

Romero Games, id Software, Ion Storm, Monkeystone Games, Loot Drop

Joop van den Ende 5 companies

Endemol, Banijay UK, Stage Entertainment Germany, Stage Entertainment, Joop van den Ende TV-Productions

Jordan Weisman 5 companies

American video game designer

Harebrained Schemes, WizKids, FASA Corporation, Smith & Tinker, FASA Studio

Larry Ellison 5 companies

American businessman (born 1944)

Oracle, Oracle Corporation, F50 League LLC, Canada SailGP Team, Ellison Medical Foundation

Larry Page 5 companies

American businessman (born 1973)

Google, Alphabet Inc., Google Photos, Google Summer of Code, Googleplex

Li Shufu 5 companies

Chinese billionaire entrepreneur (born 1963)

Geely Ming Industrial, Shufu News, Emgrand, Geely, Zeekr

Marc Andreessen 5 companies

American businessman (born 1971)

Netscape, Andreessen Horowitz, Loudcloud, Ning, Opsware

Martín Varsavsky 5 companies

Jazztel, Fon, Viatel, Gameto, Overture Life

Michael Dell 5 companies

American businessman (born 1965)

Dell Technologies, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Dell, Dell Software, OTA Broadcasting

Sebastian Thrun 5 companies

German-American entrepreneur (born 1967)

Waymo, Kitty Hawk, Cresta, X Development, Dulo

Sergey Brin 5 companies

American computer scientist (born 1973)

Google, Alphabet Inc., Lighter Than Air Research, Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, Google Summer of Code

Steve Chen 5 companies

Taiwanese-American Internet entrepreneur (born 1978)

YouTube, AVOS Systems, Nom, USFIA, MixBit

Steve Jobs 5 companies

American businessman and inventor (1955–2011)

Apple, NeXT, Pixar, MDTV, Apple Inc.

Sunil Jaglan 5 companies

Selfie With Daughter, Period Chart Campaign, Gali Band Ghar, Lado Panchayat, Daughter's Nameplate Campaign

Tim League 5 companies

American film producer and entrepreneur

Neon, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Drafthouse Films, Mondo, Fantastic Fest

Abhishek Gupta 5 companies

Circles.Life, Flux Auto, Riverline AI, Semaai, Khoji

Agung Afif 5 companies

Bali Premium Villa, Juara Holding Group, Bali Premium Trip, Komodo Luxury, IndonesiaJuara Trip

Alex T. Wolf 5 companies

LearnSynergy Education Solutions L.P., Averion, Inc., Western Beauty Outfitters, LLC, LearnSynergy Global Institute, Lamin

Amit Jain 5 companies

Luma AI, GirnarSoft, Alloy Robotics, Zamp, Cardekho

Anshul Gupta 5 companies

Kirana Club, Actively, Wint Wealth, Eat Atlas, SpeakX

Brenton Avery 5 companies

Oakpont Professionals, Digihub Australia, Brent Capital, Oakpont, DigiTrust

Felipe Malucelli 5 companies

AITRADBRASIL, Emita Aqui, Apostila Brasil, eTraduções, Ferrara Cidadania Italiana

Fábio Luiz Vieira 5 companies

My Brazilian Doctor, VZ Associados Consultoria em Saude, e-Basis Treinamento Gerencial e Tecnologia, Fique Vivo, Viver Angola

Jennifer Doudna 5 companies

Caribou Biosciences, Mammoth Biosciences, Editas Medicine, Intellia Therapeutics, Scribe Therapeutics

Manuel Palacio 5 companies

Cento, Pici Pasta Bar, Quilombo, PIRATA Group, Cracks (software)

Murat Bilican 5 companies

BIL Enterprises, Hospitality Brandbook, HBB Nexus OS, HBB Decor, Whitmore Circle

Othman Laraki 5 companies

Color Health, Color Genomics, Mixer Labs, MixerLabs, Color

Redouane Ouadi 5 companies

AllSight Studios, Lunescape, Journey Morocco, The Ouadi Group, Ltd., AllSight Music Group

René Krauß 5 companies

Schülerzeitung SCHULZ, FORMALITY Deutschland, alcasan UG (haftungsbeschränkt), screenfox New Media, Familienforschung Krauss

Ryan Smith 5 companies

LeafLink, Qualtrics, Move Loot, Alloy Robotics, Mura

Alexis Ohanian 4 companies

American entrepreneur (born 1983)

Reddit, Initialized Capital, breadpig, Athlos

Amancio Ortega 4 companies

Spanish business tycoon

Uterqüe, Zara, Bershka, Inditex

Anil Ambani 4 companies

Indian businessman (born 1959)

Amblin Partners, Reliance Communications, Reliance General Insurance, Reliance Venture

Ashish Vaswani 4 companies

Indian computer scientist

Adept, EssentialAI, Adept AI, Essential AI

Barry Silbert 4 companies

American entrepreneur and investor (born 1976)

Genesis Global, Digital Currency Group, Grayscale Investments, SecondMarket

Bhavish Aggarwal 4 companies

Indian businessman

Ola, Ola Cabs, Ola Electric, Krutrim

Brett Adcock 4 companies

American technology entrepreneur (born 1986)

Figure, Archer Aviation, Figure AI, Vettery

Brian Acton 4 companies

American business executive (born 1972)

WhatsApp, Signal, WhatsApp LLC, Sunlight Giving

Brian Lee 4 companies

South Korean-American entrepreneur

The Honest Company, ShoeDazzle, Art of Sport, LegalZoom

Chad Hurley 4 companies

American businessman (born 1977)

YouTube, AVOS Systems, MixBit, GreenPark Sports

Chris Anderson 4 companies

British-American businessman (born 1957)

Future plc, 20n, GeekDad, Future US

Chris DeWolfe 4 companies

American technology entrepreneur

Myspace, Jam City, Rough House Games (Plai Labs), PLAI Labs

Chris Evans 4 companies

Ginger Productions, A Starting Point, CarFest, incident.io

Daniel Ek 4 companies

Swedish businessman (born 1983)

Spotify, Brilliant Minds, Spotify Technology, Neko

Daniel J. Kim 4 companies

Korean American businessman

aSim, alphaXiv, AuditBoard, Red Mango

David Brevik 4 companies

American video game developer

Skystone Games, Flagship Studios, Blizzard North, Graybeard Games

David J. Brown 4 companies

American computer scientist (born 1957)

Silicon Graphics, Previse, Gamify, Healx

David J. Kim 4 companies

American businessman

C2 Education, Animoca Brands, Uncapped Games, Datumo

Demis Hassabis 4 companies

British AI researcher (born 1976)

Isomorphic Labs, DeepMind, Elixir Studios, Google DeepMind

Denny Vrandečić 4 companies

Croatian computer scientist (born 1978)

Wikidata, Abstract Wikipedia, Wikifunctions, Semantic-MediaWiki.org

Dritan Hoxha 4 companies

Albanian entrepreneur and media mogul (1968-2008)

Lori Caffe, Gazeta Shqip, DigitAlb, SuperSport Albania

Erik Spiekermann 4 companies

Edenspiekermann, FontShop, MetaDesign, FontShop International

Frank Wang 4 companies

Founder of DJI (born 1980)

Serverless Stack, DJI, OpenCode, Panta

Gavin Wood 4 companies

British computer programmer and entrepreneur

Ethereum, Polkadot, Parity Technologies, Polkadot (Web3 Foundation)

George Clooney 4 companies

Casamigos, Satellite Sentinel Project, Section Eight Productions, Smokehouse Pictures

Greg Lansky 4 companies

French adult film entrepreneur (born 1982)

Deeper, Vixen, Tushy, Vixen Media Group

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji 4 companies

Flutterwave, Andela, Future Africa, Itana

Janus Friis 4 companies

Danish entrepreneur (born 1976)

Kazaa, Skype, Starship Technologies, Skype Technologies

Jay Adelson 4 companies

Digg, Discovery Digital Networks, Revision3, Equinix

Joel Spolsky 4 companies

American software engineer and writer

Glitch, Inc., Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow, Trello