People

Serial founders

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

↓ founders.csv

4,001 serial founders · page 5 of 67

Anton Osika 3 companies

Swedish entrepreneur (born 1990)

Lovable, Depict, Legora

Auren Hoffman 3 companies

LiveRamp, Dialog, SafeGraph

Baiju Bhatt 3 companies

American entrepreneur

Robinhood, Cowboy Space Corporation, Aetherflux

Barry Diller 3 companies

American businessman and media executive (born 1942)

Universal Television, Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox Television Stations

Ben Horowitz 3 companies

American technology entrepreneur (born 1966)

Andreessen Horowitz, Loudcloud, Opsware

Ben Lamm 3 companies

American entrepreneur

Colossal Biosciences, Chaotic Moon Studios, Astromech

Ben Nelson 3 companies

American businessman

Minerva Project, BloomTech (fka Lambda School), Bloom Institute of Technology

Ben Silbermann 3 companies

American Internet entrepreneur

Pinterest, MightyQuiz, Audiobeta

Biz Stone 3 companies

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

Twitter, X.com, Jelly

Bob Weinstein 3 companies

American film executive (born 1954)

Miramax, Miramax Books, The Weinstein Company

Brad Fitzpatrick 3 companies

American programmer and creator of LiveJournal

Tailscale, LiveJournal, Tailscale Inc.

Brad Grey 3 companies

Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Plan B Entertainment, Paramount Animation

Brendan Eich 3 companies

American programmer and tech executive (born 1961)

Mozilla, Brave, Brave Software

Bret Taylor 3 companies

American entrepreneur (born 1980)

Quip, FriendFeed, Sierra

Brian Armstrong 3 companies

American businessman (born 1983)

Coinbase, NewLimit, Vosyn

Brian Fargo 3 companies

American video game executive

Interplay Entertainment, Robot Cache, inXile entertainment

Brian Timpone 3 companies

American conservative news businessman

Metric Media, Local Government Information Services, Journatic

Bruno Bonnell 3 companies

French businessman and politician (born 1958)

Atari SA, Infogrames, SELL

Burt Rutan 3 companies

American aerospace engineer (born 1943)

Virgin Galactic, Scaled Composites, The Spaceship Company

Caterina Fake 3 companies

American entrepreneur and businesswoman (born 1969)

Ludicorp, Flickr, Hunch

Chairul Tanjung 3 companies

Trans TV, CT Corpora, Trans Media

Charles Hoskinson 3 companies

American cryptocurrency entrepreneur

Ethereum, IOHK, Cardano

Chris Hughes 3 companies

American entrepreneur

Facebook, Jumo, Meta Platforms

Chris Urmson 3 companies

CEO of self-driving technology company Aurora

Waymo, Aurora Innovation, Aurora

Christopher Ré 3 companies

American computer scientist

SambaNova Systems, Snorkel AI, Cartesia

Dan Abrams 3 companies

American entrepreneur, television host, and lawyer (born 1966)

Abrams Media, Law & Crime, Mediaite

Dan Benjamin 3 companies

American podcaster and software developer

Fireside, 5by5 Studios, Dig Security

Daniel Chavez Moran 3 companies

Mexican businessman and real estate developer

Grupo Vidanta, Vidanta Foundation, Delia Moran Vidanta Foundation

Dave Thomas 3 companies

British computer programmer

The Pragmatic Programmer, LLC, Wendy's, Wendy's International

David Chang 3 companies

Momofuku, Boo, Momofuku Goods

David Friedberg 3 companies

The Climate Corporation, Metromile, Ohalo Genetics

David Geffen 3 companies

American media proprietor (born 1943)

DreamWorks, DreamWorks Animation, DreamWorks Television

David Yang 3 companies

Russian businessman

ABBYY, Maingen, Fullstack Academy

Dean Kamen 3 companies

American businessman (born 1951)

Segway Inc., DEKA, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology

Denis O'Brien 3 companies

Irish billionaire businessman (born 1958)

Aergo Capital, HandMade Films, Digicel

Dennis Crowley 3 companies

American Internet entrepreneur

Foursquare, Dodgeball, Foursquare Labs, Inc.

Dietrich Mateschitz 3 companies

Austrian entrepreneur (1944–2022)

Red Bull Powertrains, Red Bull GmbH, Red Bull Racing Team

Dov Moran 3 companies

Grove Ventures, Modu, M-Systems

Dwight Merriman 3 companies

American businessman (born 1968)

MongoDB, DoubleClick, Business Insider

Eli Ben-Sasson 3 companies

Israeli computer scientist and businessman

StarkWare, StarkWare Industries, StarkNet

Emmett Shear 3 companies

American businessperson (born 1983)

Twitch, Justin.tv, Kiko

Eric Lefkofsky 3 companies

American billionaire businessman (born 1969)

Tempus, Groupon, Lightbank

Eric Schmidt 3 companies

American businessman and software engineer (born 1955)

Kyutai, Jigsaw, Schmidt Sciences

Excision 3 companies

Canadian dubstep producer

Paradise Blue Festival, Bass Canyon, Lost Lands

Federico Faggin 3 companies

Physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur

Foveon, Zilog, Synaptics

Fred Ehrsam 3 companies

American businessman (born 1988)

Coinbase, Paradigm, Nudge

Gagan Biyani 3 companies

American businessman

Udemy, Sprig, Maven

Garrett Camp 3 companies

Canadian billionaire entrepreneur (born 1978)

Uber, StumbleUpon, The Camp Foundation

Gary Wang 3 companies

FTX, Light Chaser Animation Studios, Eastern Media International

German Klimenko 3 companies

MediaMetrics, Internet Development Institute, LiveInternet

Gili Raanan 3 companies

Cyberstarts, nLayers, Sanctum

Greg Wyler 3 companies

American tech entrepreneur

Eutelsat OneWeb, E-Space, O3b Networks, Ltd.

Greta Thunberg 3 companies

Fridays for Future, Fridays for Future Sweden, Fridays For Future South Africa

Guy Oseary 3 companies

Maverick Management, Hard Candy Fitness, Pearpop

Haim Saban 3 companies

Israeli and American media proprietor, investor (born 1944)

Saban Brands, Saban Music Group, BVS Entertainment

Hasso Plattner 3 companies

German businessman and philanthropist (born 1944)

SAP, Impressionism: The Hasso Plattner Collection, Museum Barberini

Henrik Fisker 3 companies

Danish automobile designer

Fisker, Fisker Automotive, Fisker Coachbuild

Håvar Bauck 3 companies

Faster Africa, HotelOnline, Nairobi Airport Hotel

Ilya Sutskever 3 companies

Computer scientist (born 1986)

OpenAI, Safe Superintelligence, Safe Superintelligence Inc.

Ion Stoica 3 companies

Romanian–American computer scientist

Databricks, Anyscale, Arena