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The Facebook Mafia

Early Facebook employees who left to build Asana, Quora, Cloudflare, Opendoor, Path and more.

47 founders 87 companies Root: Facebook →
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Every founder in the Facebook lineage

47 founders · 87 companies

Founders who worked at or founded Facebook and went on to build their own companies.

P Palmer Luckey 7 founded
Oculus 2012 Oculus VR 2012 Anduril 2017 Anduril Industries 2017 Reality Labs 2020 Erebor 2025 ModRetro
S Sean Parker 6 founded
Napster 1999 Plaxo 2001 Causes 2007 Airtime 2011 The Parker Foundation 2015 Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy 2016
S Steve Chen 5 founded
YouTube 2005 AVOS Systems 2011 USFIA 2013 MixBit 2013 Nom 2016
D Dustin Moskovitz 4 founded
Meta Platforms 2004 Asana 2008 Asana Inc. 2008 Good Ventures 2011
A Alexandre Lebrun 3 founded
Wit.ai 2014 Nabla 2018 Advanced Machine Intelligence 2025
B Bret Taylor 3 founded
FriendFeed 2007 Quip 2012 Sierra 2023
M Mark Zuckerberg 3 founded
Meta Platforms 2004 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics 2013 Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 2015
M Mo Shaikh 3 founded
Aptos 2021 Aptos Labs 2021 Maximum Frequency Ventures 2025
A Adeniyi Abiodun 2 founded
Mysten Labs 2021 Sui 2023
A Amjad Masad 2 founded
Replit 2016 Repl.it
A Andrew McCollum 2 founded
Meta Platforms 2004 Jobspice 2009
A Avery Ching 2 founded
Aptos 2021 Aptos Labs 2021
C Charlie Cheever 2 founded
Quora 2009 Expo 2016
C Chris Hughes 2 founded
Meta Platforms 2004 Jumo 2010
D David A. Marcus 2 founded
Diem 2019 Lightspark
E Evan Cheng 2 founded
Mysten Labs 2021 Sui 2023
E Evan Sharp 2 founded
Pinterest 2010 West Co.
G George Danezis 2 founded
Mysten Labs 2021 Sui 2023
G George Hotz 2 founded
Comma.ai 2015 tiny corp 2022
J Justin Rosenstein 2 founded
Asana 2008 Asana Inc. 2008
K Kostas Chalkias 2 founded
Mysten Labs 2021 Sui 2023
S Sam Blackshear 2 founded
Mysten Labs 2021 Sui 2023
A Abhinav Gupta 1 founded
Skild AI 2023
A Adam D'Angelo 1 founded
Quora 2009
A Amanpreet Singh 1 founded
Contextual AI 2023
C Charles Gorintin 1 founded
Alan 2016
C Chris Kalani 1 founded
Phantom 2021
C Christoph Lassner 1 founded
World Labs 2024
D Dave Morin 1 founded
Path 2010
D Denis Yarats 1 founded
Perplexity AI 2022
D Dhruba Borthakur 1 founded
Rockset 2016
D Douwe Kiela 1 founded
Contextual AI 2023
E Eduardo Saverin 1 founded
Meta Platforms 2004
G Gabriel Pereyra 1 founded
Harvey 2022
G Grant LaFontaine 1 founded
Whatnot 2019
G Guillaume Lample 1 founded
Mistral AI 2023
H Ham Serunjogi 1 founded
Chipper Cash 2018
H Hunter Horsley 1 founded
Bitwise Asset Management 2017
J Jeff Hammerbacher 1 founded
Cloudera 2008
J Joe Lau 1 founded
Alchemy 2017
R Rousseau Kazi 1 founded
Threads (Threads.com) 2019
T T.R. Vishwanath 1 founded
Glean 2019
T Timothée Lacroix 1 founded
Mistral AI 2023
T Todd Jackson 1 founded
Cover 2013
V Venkat Venkataramani 1 founded
Rockset 2016
W Wojciech Zaremba 1 founded
OpenAI 2015
Z Zhuoxun Yin 1 founded
Magic Eden 2021
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