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The Xooglers

Ex-Google founders behind Instagram, Foursquare, Cloudera, Pinterest, Nuro, Character.AI and a generation of AI companies.

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Every founder in the Google lineage

148 founders · 248 companies

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

A Andrew Y. Ng 5 founded

Google Brain 2011 Coursera 2012 Priime 2015 Landing AI 2017 DeepLearning.AI 2017

E Elad Gil 5 founded

Mixer Labs 2008 MixerLabs 2008 Color Health 2013 Color Genomics 2013 Color 2015

E Evan Williams 5 founded

X.com 1999 Blogger 1999 Pyra Labs 1999 Odeo 2005 Twitter 2006

O Othman Laraki 5 founded

Mixer Labs 2008 MixerLabs 2008 Color Health 2013 Color Genomics 2013 Color 2015

S Sebastian Thrun 5 founded

Waymo 2009 Kitty Hawk 2010 X Development 2010 Cresta 2017 Dulo

S Steve Chen 5 founded

YouTube 2005 AVOS Systems 2011 USFIA 2013 MixBit 2013 Nom 2016

A Ashish Vaswani 4 founded

Adept 2022 Adept AI 2022 EssentialAI 2023 Essential AI 2023

C Chad Hurley 4 founded

YouTube 2005 AVOS Systems 2011 MixBit 2013 GreenPark Sports 2018

D Demis Hassabis 4 founded

Elixir Studios 1998 DeepMind 2010 Google DeepMind 2010 Isomorphic Labs 2021

J John Hanke 4 founded

Keyhole 2001 Keyhole, Inc 2001 Niantic 2010 Niantic Games Team 2010

L Larry Page 4 founded

Google Summer of Code 2005 Alphabet Inc. 2015 Google Photos 2015 Googleplex

N Niki Parmar 4 founded

Adept 2022 Adept AI 2022 EssentialAI 2023 Essential AI 2023

S Sergey Brin 4 founded

Google Summer of Code 2005 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics 2013 Alphabet Inc. 2015 Lighter Than Air Research 2015

A Andy Rubin 3 founded

Android 2003 Essential Products 2015 Essential 2015

A Anna Patterson 3 founded

Cuil 2008 Gradient Ventures 2017 Ceramic

B Ben Silbermann 3 founded

Audiobeta 2006 MightyQuiz 2008 Pinterest 2010

B Biz Stone 3 founded

X.com 1999 Twitter 2006 Jelly 2013

B Brad Fitzpatrick 3 founded

LiveJournal 1999 Tailscale 2019 Tailscale Inc. 2019

B Bret Taylor 3 founded

FriendFeed 2007 Quip 2012 Sierra 2023

C Chris Urmson 3 founded

Waymo 2009 Aurora Innovation 2017 Aurora 2017

D Dennis Crowley 3 founded

Dodgeball 2000 Foursquare 2009 Foursquare Labs, Inc. 2009

G Gary Wang 3 founded

Eastern Media International 1975 Light Chaser Animation Studios 2013 FTX 2019

I Igor Babuschkin 3 founded

xAI 2023 SpaceXAI 2023 River AI

I Ilya Sutskever 3 founded

OpenAI 2015 Safe Superintelligence 2024 Safe Superintelligence Inc. 2024

J Jeff Huber 3 founded

Standard Cyborg 2015 GRAIL 2016 Chroma

M Mustafa Suleyman 3 founded

DeepMind 2010 Google DeepMind 2010 Inflection AI 2022

P Percy Liang 3 founded

Together AI 2022 Together 2022 Simile

A Andy Huibers 2 founded

Bump Technologies 2008 Bump 2009

A Arvind Jain 2 founded

Rubrik 2014 Glean 2019

A Avery Pennarun 2 founded

Tailscale 2019 Tailscale Inc. 2019

B Bryan Salesky 2 founded

Argo AI 2016 Stack AV

C Christine Tsai 2 founded

500 Startups 2010 500 Global 2010

D Dan Siroker 2 founded

Optimizely 2010 Mind Emulation Foundation 2018

D David Carney 2 founded

Tailscale 2019 Tailscale Inc. 2019

D David Luan 2 founded

Adept 2022 Adept AI 2022

G George Hotz 2 founded

Comma.ai 2015 tiny corp 2022

J Jeff Dean 2 founded

Google Brain 2011 Discovery Loop 2026

J Justin Rosenstein 2 founded

Asana 2008 Asana Inc. 2008

K Kevin Systrom 2 founded

Instagram 2010 Artifact 2020

M Marissa Mayer 2 founded

Sunshine 2017 Dazzle AI

M Matt Welsh 2 founded

Fixie.ai 2022 Fixie

M Max Ventilla 2 founded

Aardvark 2007 AltSchool 2013

M Misha Laskin 2 founded

VanGo 2017 Reflection AI 2024

M Mohit Aron 2 founded

Nutanix 2009 Cohesity 2013

Q Qasar Younis 2 founded

Talkbin 2011 Applied Intuition 2017

R Rob Spiro 2 founded

Aardvark 2007 Good Eggs 2011

S Sandy Jen 2 founded

Meebo 2005 Honor 2014

S Sean Knapp 2 founded

Ooyala 2007 Ascend.io 2015

S Seth Sternberg 2 founded

Meebo 2005 Honor 2014

S Shawn Lewis 2 founded

Beep 2014 Weights & Biases 2017

T Tom Brown 2 founded

SolidStage 2012 Anthropic 2021

V Vivek Raghunathan 2 founded

Neeva 2019 Xscape Photonics

Z Zach Koch 2 founded

Fixie.ai 2022 Fixie

Z Zach Weinberg 2 founded

Flatiron Health 2012 Curie.Bio

A Abraham Bachrach 1 founded

Skydio 2014

A Adam Bry 1 founded

Skydio 2014

A Adrian Graham 1 founded

Nextstop 2008

A Aidan N. Gomez 1 founded

Cohere 2019

A Amit Sangani 1 founded

MightyText 2012

A Andrej Karpathy 1 founded

OpenAI 2015

A Andrew Boni 1 founded

Iterable 2013

A Andrew Conrad 1 founded

Verily 2015

A Andrew Ofstad 1 founded

Airtable 2012

A Aravind Srinivas 1 founded

Perplexity AI 2022

A Arthur D. Levinson 1 founded

Calico 2013

A Arthur Mensch 1 founded

Mistral AI 2023

B Barret Zoph 1 founded

Thinking Machines Lab 2025

B Belsasar Lepe 1 founded

Ooyala 2007

B Ben Darnell 1 founded

Cockroach Labs 2015

B Ben Davenport 1 founded

BitGo 2013

B Ben Mildenhall 1 founded

World Labs 2024

B Bill Magnuson 1 founded

Braze 2011

B Bismarck Lepe 1 founded

Ooyala 2007

B Brian Ichter 1 founded

Physical Intelligence 2024

C Cameron Adams 1 founded

Canva 2013

C Carl Sjogreen 1 founded

Nextstop 2008

C Chelsea Finn 1 founded

Physical Intelligence 2024

C Chris Olah 1 founded

Anthropic 2021

C Christophe Bisciglia 1 founded

Cloudera 2008

C Chrys Bader-Wechseler 1 founded

Secret 2013

C Clay Bavor 1 founded

Sierra 2023

C Curtis Liu 1 founded

Amplitude 2012

D Dani Yogatama 1 founded

Reka AI 2022

D Daniel De Freitas 1 founded

Character.AI 2021

D Dario Amodei 1 founded

Anthropic 2021

D Dave Ferguson 1 founded

Nuro 2016

D David Byttow 1 founded

Secret 2013

D David Crawshaw 1 founded

Tailscale 2019

D Devin Finzer 1 founded

OpenSea 2017

D Don Burnette 1 founded

Kodiak Robotics 2018

D Doug Ricket 1 founded

PayJoy 2015

D Douglas Wightman 1 founded

Groq 2016

D Durk Kingma 1 founded

OpenAI 2015

E Eleonore Crespo 1 founded

Pigment 2019

E Enrique Munoz Torres 1 founded

Sunshine 2017

F Fei-Fei Li 1 founded

World Labs 2024

G Gabriel Pereyra 1 founded

Harvey 2022

G Gordon Luk 1 founded

Cover 2013

G Greg Corrado 1 founded

Google Brain 2011

G Gummi Hafsteinsson 1 founded

Emu 2011

I Illia Polosukhin 1 founded

NEAR Protocol 2018

I Ioannis Antonoglou 1 founded

Reflection AI 2024

J Jacob Steeves 1 founded

Bittensor 2021

J Jean-Philippe Vert 1 founded

Bioptimus 2024

J Jiajun Zhu 1 founded

Nuro 2016

J Jim Norris 1 founded

FriendFeed 2007

J Jiten Vaidya 1 founded

PlanetScale 2018

J Jonathan Ross 1 founded

Groq 2016

J Jonny Dyer 1 founded

Muon Space 2021

J Justin Zhu 1 founded

Iterable 2013

K Karol Hausman 1 founded

Physical Intelligence 2024

K Karén Simonyan 1 founded

Inflection AI 2022

K Kevin Gibbs 1 founded

Quip 2012

K Kevin Hall 1 founded

Ripcord 2015

L Lars Rasmussen 1 founded

Holdbar

M Mike Belshe 1 founded

BitGo 2013

N Nadir Izrael 1 founded

Armis 2015

N Nat Turner 1 founded

Flatiron Health 2012

N Nathan Stoll 1 founded

Aardvark 2007

N Nick Frosst 1 founded

Cohere 2019

N Nikil Viswanathan 1 founded

Alchemy 2017

N Nisheeth Lahoti 1 founded

Rephrase.ai 2019

N Noam Shazeer 1 founded

Character.AI 2021

O Omar Hamoui 1 founded

AdMob 2006

P Pasha Sadri 1 founded

Polyvore 2007

P Paul Buchheit 1 founded

FriendFeed 2007

P Pete Koomen 1 founded

Optimizely 2010

P Peter Ludwig 1 founded

Applied Intuition 2017

P Peter Mattis 1 founded

Cockroach Labs 2015

P Peter Szulczewski 1 founded

Wish 2010

P Piotr Dąbkowski 1 founded

ElevenLabs 2022

P Piyush Prahladka 1 founded

Glean 2019

R Rohan Seth 1 founded

Clubhouse 2020

R Russell Power 1 founded

Cuil 2008

R Ryan Dahl 1 founded

Deno 2020

S Sanjay Jeyakumar 1 founded

Abnormal Security 2018

S Sanjeev Singh 1 founded

FriendFeed 2007

S Sergey Levine 1 founded

Physical Intelligence 2024

S Shishir Mehrotra 1 founded

Coda 2014

S Sridhar Ramaswamy 1 founded

Neeva 2019

S Sugu Sougoumarane 1 founded

PlanetScale 2018

T Todd Jackson 1 founded

Cover 2013

V Vijay Karunamurthy 1 founded

Nom 2016

V Vishal Gupta 1 founded

Glean 2019

W Wojciech Zaremba 1 founded

OpenAI 2015

Y Yaron Singer 1 founded

Robust Intelligence 2019

Y Yi Tay 1 founded

Reka AI 2022

Y Yury Izrailevsky 1 founded

ClickHouse 2021

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