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Serial founders

The most prolific builders in the graph — 5,293 founders who started two or more companies.

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Michael Lin 5 companies

Variance, FlowManual, No Lean Season, Reify Health, Dahlia Biosciences

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

Rahul Jain 5 companies

Pendo, Peach Payments, Wyzard AI, Wyzard, Flickstree

Rahul Sharma 5 companies

Micromax, Reviving Mind, YU Televentures, Zetwerk, Specter

Redouane Ouadi 5 companies

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

Sam 5 companies

Everlab, A Cloud Guru, Cuttable, eBest, Extraordinary Money

Saurabh Gupta 5 companies

ClickPe, Cityfurnish, Wonder Workshop, Verismart, Binocs

Adam Parfrey 4 companies

American writer and editor (1957–2018)

Feral House, Process Media, Exit, Amok Press

Alain Rossmann 4 companies

French entrepreneur

Openwave, Radius, Fandango, Phone.com

Alex Jones 4 companies

American far-right conspiracy theorist (born 1974)

Infowars store, Infowars, Hallow, Ai-Media

Amancio Ortega 4 companies

Spanish business tycoon

Uterqüe, Zara, Bershka, Inditex

Arnon Milchan 4 companies

Israeli billionaire businessman, film producer and former spy (born 1944)

Starz Entertainment, Regency Enterprises, Summit Entertainment, New Regency Productions

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

Bob Weinstein 4 companies

American film executive (born 1954)

Miramax, Miramax Books, The Weinstein Company, Dimension Films

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

Chris DeWolfe 4 companies

American technology entrepreneur

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

Christopher Ré 4 companies

American computer scientist

SambaNova Systems, Snorkel AI, Cartesia, Lattice Data

Daniel J. Kim 4 companies

Korean American businessman

aSim, alphaXiv, AuditBoard, Red Mango

David A. Siegel 4 companies

American computer scientist and entrepreneur (b. 1961)

Westgate Resorts, Glide Apps, Glide, Two Sigma

David Brevik 4 companies

American video game developer

Skystone Games, Flagship Studios, Blizzard North, Graybeard Games

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

Emmett Shear 4 companies

American businessperson (born 1983)

Twitch, Justin.tv, Kiko, Twitch Interactive

Eric Lefkofsky 4 companies

American billionaire businessman (born 1969)

Tempus, Groupon, Lightbank, Deuteroncology

Erik Spiekermann 4 companies

German typographer, designer and writer (born 1947)

Edenspiekermann, FontShop, MetaDesign, FontShop International

Excision 4 companies

Canadian dubstep producer

Paradise Blue Festival, Bass Canyon, Lost Lands, Subsidia

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)

Greg Lansky 4 companies

French adult film entrepreneur (born 1982)

Deeper, Vixen, Tushy, Vixen Media Group

Guy Oseary 4 companies

American talent manager (born 1972)

Maverick Management, Hard Candy Fitness, Pearpop, Community

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji 4 companies

Flutterwave, Andela, Future Africa, Itana

James H. Clark 4 companies

American computer scientist and entrepreneur

Netscape, Silicon Graphics, Harris myCFO, Healtheon

Janus Friis 4 companies

Danish entrepreneur (born 1976)

Kazaa, Skype, Starship Technologies, Skype Technologies

Jared Kushner 4 companies

American businessman (born 1981)

Affinity Partners, Observer Media, Cadre, Brain Co

Jay Adelson 4 companies

American Internet entrepreneur

Digg, Discovery Digital Networks, Revision3, Equinix

Jia Yueting 4 companies

Chinese entrepreneur

LeEco, Le.com, Faraday Future, Lemall

Joel Spolsky 4 companies

American software engineer and writer

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

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

Kevin Hartz 4 companies

Xoom Corporation, Sauron Systems, Eventbrite, Sauron

Kevin O'Connor 4 companies

American technical entrepreneur (born 1961)

DoubleClick, Graphiq, Public Accountability Initiative, Double Click

Larry Flynt 4 companies

American publisher (1942–2021)

Hustler Hollywood, Hustler, Larry Flynt Publications, Rap Pages

Larry Sanger 4 companies

Co-founder of Wikipedia (born 1968)

Wikipedia, Citizendium, Knowledge Standards Foundation, Wiktionary

Lars Larsen 4 companies

Danish businessman (1948–2019)

Jysk, Lars Larsen Group A/S, Made in Denmark, LKL ApS

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

Michael Seibel 4 companies

Managing director at Y Combinator

Twitch, Justin.tv, Socialcam, Twitch Interactive

Michael Stonebraker 4 companies

American computer scientist (born 1943)

Vertica, C-Store, Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, Streambase

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

Nat Friedman 4 companies

American technology executive and investor

Xamarin, Ximian, Medra, Andromeda

Niklas Zennström 4 companies

Swedish entrepreneur (born 1966)

Kazaa, Skype, Atomico, Skype Technologies