People

Serial founders

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

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Eric Ries 3 companies

American entrepreneur

Long Term Stock Exchange, Long-Term Stock Exchange, Inc., Answer.AI

Eric Schmidt 3 companies

American businessman and software engineer (born 1955)

Kyutai, Jigsaw, Schmidt Sciences

Erik Prince 3 companies

American businessman and founder of Blackwater USA (born 1969)

Academi, Total Intelligence Solutions, Frontier Services Group

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

Russian entrepreneur (b. 1966)

MediaMetrics, Internet Development Institute, LiveInternet

Gili Raanan 3 companies

Israeli inventor

Cyberstarts, nLayers, Sanctum

Greg Stafford 3 companies

American game designer (1948–2018)

Chaosium, Different Worlds, Issaries, Inc.

Greg Wyler 3 companies

American tech entrepreneur

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

Greta Thunberg 3 companies

Swedish activist (born 2003)

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

Gustavo Cisneros 3 companies

Venezuelan media mogul (1945–2023)

Cisneros Media, Venevisión International Productions, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

Halle Tecco 3 companies

American academic and author

Rock Health, Cofertility, Natalist

Hank Green 3 companies

American vlogger and entrepreneur (born 1980)

Good Store, Complexly, DFTBA Records

Hasso Plattner 3 companies

German businessman and philanthropist (born 1944)

SAP, Impressionism: The Hasso Plattner Collection, Museum Barberini

Hector Rivas 3 companies

American businessman and sports agent

Nukleus, ThriftBooks, Disruptive Sports Agency

Henk Rogers 3 companies

Dutch-born American computer programmer (born 1953)

Blue Startups, The Tetris Company, Blue Planet Software

Henrik Fisker 3 companies

Danish automobile designer

Fisker, Fisker Automotive, Fisker Coachbuild

Hiroshi Mikitani 3 companies

Japanese billionaire business magnate and writer (born 1965)

Rakuten Group, Inc., Rakuten, Crimson Group

Håvar Bauck 3 companies

Norwegian-born entrepreneur

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

Ivan Tavrin 3 companies

Russian oligarch and investor

Kismet Acquisition Two Corp, Kismet Acquisition One Corp, Kismet Capital Group

Jaan Tallinn 3 companies

Estonian programmer and investor

Skype, Bluemoon Interactive, Skype Technologies

Jade Raymond 3 companies

Canadian video game creator (born 1975)

Motive Studio, Ubisoft Toronto, Haven Studios

Jahangir Siddiqui 3 companies

Pakistani businessman

JS Bank, JS Group, Mahvash & Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation

Jake Winebaum 3 companies

American entrepreneur (born 1959)

business.com, Brighter, FamilyFun

Jan Stenbeck 3 companies

Swedish businessman (1942–2002)

Tele2, Comviq, Millicom

Jared Isaacman 3 companies

American aerospace executive (born 1983)

Shift4 Payments, Harbortouch, Draken International

Jason Andrews 3 companies

American businessman

Spaceflight Industries, BlackSky, Spaceflight, Inc.

Jason Citron 3 companies

American businessman and entrepreneur (born 1984)

Discord, OpenFeint, Discord Inc.

Jason Kapalka 3 companies

Canadian game developer (born 1970)

Storm Crow Manor, Blue Wizard Digital, PopCap Games

Jason Scott 3 companies

American historian and archivist (born 1970)

WikiTeam, Allica Bank, Just Solve the File Format Problem

Jed McCaleb 3 companies

American cryptocurrency entrepreneur

Ripple, Vast, Stellar

Jeff Arnold 3 companies

American Internet entrepreneur

WebMD, Sharecare, Pilot.com

Jeff Atwood 3 companies

American software developer (born 1970)

Discourse, Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow

Jeff Bezos 3 companies

American businessman (born 1964)

Amazon, Blue Origin, Nash Holdings

Jeff Hawkins 3 companies

American businessperson

Palm, Inc., Numenta, Handspring

Jeff Strain 3 companies

Video game designer

Undead Labs, ArenaNet, Possibility Space

Jeremy Howard 3 companies

Australian data scientist (born 1973)

Fastmail, Enlitic, Answer.AI

Jihan Wu 3 companies

Chinese-Singaporean entrepreneur (born 1986)

Bitmain, Bitdeer, Matrixport

Jim McKelvey 3 companies

American billionaire businessman

Square, Cash App, MADE

Jimmy Lai 3 companies

Hong Kong businessman and activist (born 1947)

Giordano, Next TV, Next Digital

John D. Howard 3 companies

American private equity firm

Irving Place Capital, Parallel Systems, Croissant

John H. Williams 3 companies

American winemaker

Frog's Leap Winery, Vanguard Animation, Rapidflare

John Ledford 3 companies

American businessman and producer

Section23 Films, Sentai Filmworks, A.D. Vision

John Morgan 3 companies

American lawyer (born 1956)

Jasper.ai, Morgan & Morgan, Litify

John Roberts 3 companies

British businessman (born 1973)

AO World, Multiplex, SugarCRM

Jon Callas 3 companies

American computer security expert

MDTV, Silent Circle, PGP Corporation

Jon Gosier 3 companies

American software developer

HiveColab, Appfrica, Abayima

Jonathan M. Rothberg 3 companies

American scientist and entrepreneur (born 1963)

454 Life Sciences, Butterfly Network, Hyperfine

Jordan Randall Smith 3 companies

Musical artist

SNOtone, Symphony Number One, Dallas Festival of Modern Music

Josh Harris 3 companies

American investor and sports team owner (born 1964)

Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, 26North, Apollo Global Management

Josh Kushner 3 companies

American businessman (born 1985)

Oscar Health, Cadre, Vostu

Joshua Topolsky 3 companies

American technology journalist (b.1977)

Input, The Outline, The Verge

José Andrés 3 companies

Spanish chef (born 1969)

China Chilcano, China Poblano, Minibar

Jules B. Kroll 3 companies

American businessman (born 1941)

Kroll Bond Rating Agency, Kroll Inc., K2 Intelligence

Justin Sun 3 companies

Chinese-born crypto billionaire (born 1990)

Capy, Tron, Scrapybara