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 B. Young 4 companies

British-born Australian accountant and businessman

Tiffany & Co., Avion School, Great Southern Group, Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities

John Hanke 4 companies

American technology executive (born 1967)

Niantic, Keyhole, Niantic Games Team, Keyhole, Inc

John Hendricks 4 companies

American businessman (born 1952)

Discovery, Inc., Warner Bros. Discovery Argentina, Discovery Channel, Discovery Latin America

Kam Ghaffarian 4 companies

American businessman

Quantum Space, Axiom Space, X-Energy, Intuitive Machines

Kyle Vogt 4 companies

American engineer

Twitch, Justin.tv, Cruise, The Bot Company

Larry Flynt 4 companies

American publisher (1942–2021)

Hustler Hollywood, Hustler, Larry Flynt Publications, Rap Pages

Larry Sanger 4 companies

Wikipedia, Citizendium, Knowledge Standards Foundation, Wiktionary

Mark Shuttleworth 4 companies

South African entrepreneur and space tourist (born 1973)

Thawte Consulting, Canonical Ltd., Ubuntu, Shuttleworth Foundation

Mark Zuckerberg 4 companies

American businessman and programmer (born 1984)

Facebook, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Meta Platforms, Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics

Michael G. Rubin 4 companies

American businessman (born 1972)

Magic, Fanatics, Inc., GSI Commerce, Fanatics

Miguel de Icaza 4 companies

Mexican software developer (born 1972)

Xamarin, Ximian, Framework Mono, GNU Midnight Commander

Mikhail Kokorich 4 companies

Russian physicist and entrepreneur (born 1976)

Destinus, Momentus Space, MOMENTUS, Unfurl

Naval Ravikant 4 companies

American entrepreneur and investor (born 1974)

Epinions, AngelList, SlidePay, Airchat

Naveen Jain 4 companies

Indian-American business executive

Viome, Moon Express, Immunity Project, inome

Niklas Zennström 4 companies

Swedish entrepreneur (born 1966)

Kazaa, Skype, Atomico, Skype Technologies

Noah Glass 4 companies

American technology entrepreneur

Odeo, Twitter, X.com, Olo

Nolan Bushnell 4 companies

American businessman and engineer (born 1943)

Atari, uWink, Chuck E. Cheese, Atari, Inc.

Oprah Winfrey 4 companies

Oxygen, Oprah Winfrey Network, Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, Harpo Productions

Peter Diamandis 4 companies

Greek-American engineer, physician and entrepreneur

Singularity University, Planetary Resources, HeroX, Zero Gravity Corporation

Peter Wood 4 companies

English entrepreneur (born 1946)

Esure, Línea Directa Aseguradora, Direct Line Group, Direct Line

Phạm Nhật Vượng 4 companies

Vietnamese businessman (born 1968)

VinFast, Vingroup, WinMart, VinSmart

Pierre Omidyar 4 companies

Entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder of eBay (born 1967)

eBay, Ulupono Initiative, First Look Media, Omidyar Network

Rabbe Grönblom 4 companies

Finnish businessman (1950–2015)

Kotipizza Group, Kotipizza, RG Line, Omena Hotels

Raymond Kurzweil 4 companies

American computer scientist, author and futurist (born 1948)

Singularity University, FatKat, Kurzweil Music Systems, Kurzweil Educational Systems

Reid Hoffman 4 companies

American internet entrepreneur (born 1967)

LinkedIn, Inflection AI, SocialNet, Manas AI

Rich Barton 4 companies

American businessman

Zillow, Expedia, Glassdoor, Expedia Group

Ronnie Screwvala 4 companies

UTV Motion Pictures, RSVP Movies, upGrad, UTV Software Communications

Serg Bell 4 companies

Singaporean businessman

Runa Capital, Acronis, Acumatica, Parallels

Steve Wozniak 4 companies

American engineer and programmer (born 1950)

Apple, Apple Inc., CL 9, Privateer Space

Stewart Butterfield 4 companies

Canadian entrepreneur and businessman (born 1973)

Ludicorp, Flickr, Slack, Slack Technologies

Sunil Mittal 4 companies

Indian industrialist and philanthropist (born 1957)

Airtel digital TV, Airtel India, Bharti Airtel, Bharti Enterprises

Travis Kalanick 4 companies

American entrepreneur and former CEO of Uber

Red Swoosh, Uber, RedSwoosh, CloudKitchens

Trip Hawkins 4 companies

American businessman (born 1953)

Digital Chocolate, Motive Studio, Electronic Arts, The 3DO Company

Vipul Ved Prakash 4 companies

Indian software engineer (born 1977)

Together AI, Cloudmark, Together, Topsy Labs

Vladimir Gusinsky 4 companies

RTVI, NTV, NTV Plus, TNT

Wayne Chang 4 companies

American businessman (born 1983)

Crashlytics, Spruce Systems, SpruceID, Digits

Whitney Wolfe Herd 4 companies

Founder and CEO of Bumble (born 1989)

Bumble, Tinder, Wolfe, Bumble Holding Limited

Yuri Milner 4 companies

Altos Labs, Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, VK, DST Global

Zhang Jindong 4 companies

Chinese businessman (born 1963)

Suning Holdings Group, Suning.com, Suning Appliance Group, Suning Real Estate

Abhishek Kumar 4 companies

Zealthix, Alienkind, LivSyt, Refold AI

Alessio Ippolito 4 companies

TradingOnline.com, ALESSIO IPPOLITO S.R.L., Guidatradingonline.net, Giocareinborsa.net

Amit Gupta 4 companies

InMobi, Yulu, Sudowrite, Jasper

Amit Kumar 4 companies

OctiFi, MyOnlineJet, NavyaEdu, Redacto

Anand Chowdhary 4 companies

Pabio, Oswald Labs, FirstQuadrant, Made with Love in India

Andrius Dauksa 4 companies

Pharmadrome OÜ, Pharmadrome Ltd, Pharmadrome SL, Dauksa Ltd

Ankit Gupta 4 companies

Reverie Labs, Bicycle Health, Simple Energy, DayaTani

Anurag Jain 4 companies

GirnarSoft, KredX, Cardekho, Milk Basket

Arturs Kruze 4 companies

Velocity Lab, Eloking, IDT Media, Grand Ventures

Ben Rubin 4 companies

Cava, Houseparty, 10% Happier, Norra

Benoit Brunel 4 companies

Telmatik, Communication LGP, Bloop360, Bonjour-santé

Chris Hsu 4 companies

Zibo, Unsaddl, Azibo, Prophia

Christopher Louis Chancé 4 companies

DataXype, Veloow, SocialForAll.net, Cuidalos App

David Baker 4 companies

Xaira Therapeutics, GenBio AI, Charm Therapeutics, Vilya

David C. Petersen 4 companies

Flexport, ImportGenius, BuildZoom, LocalMovers.com

David Oberlander 4 companies

ONE APOLLO, AutoSolo, Silent Valor, Ameratec

David R. Liu 4 companies

Beam Therapeutics, Editas Medicine, Prime Medicine, Chroma Medicine

Dawn Song 4 companies

Oasis Labs, Virtue AI, Oasis (Oasis Labs), Oasis Network

Dhruv Gupta 4 companies

Orange Health Labs, Unfaze AI, Drumkit, Khoji

Eric Caprarese 4 companies

Infinity One Network, B-Epic, One World Network, Brain Abundance

Eugenia Kuyda 4 companies

Luka, Wabi, Replika, Blush