Startup mafia · Lineage

The Twitter Mafia

Ex-Twitter founders and the Odeo lineage that produced Twitter, Medium and Square.

14 founders 42 companies Root: Twitter →

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Every founder in the Twitter lineage

14 founders · 42 companies

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

E Elad Gil 6 founded

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

J Jack Dorsey 6 founded

X.com 1999 Square 2009 Cash App 2013 Bluesky Social PBC 2021 Bluesky 2021 Omacom Foundation 2026

E Evan Williams 5 founded

X.com 1999 Blogger 1999 Pyra Labs 1999 Odeo 2005 Medium 2012

O Othman Laraki 5 founded

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

B Biz Stone 4 founded

X.com 1999 Medium 2012 Jelly 2013 West Co.

M Matt Huang 4 founded

Hotspots 2011 Tempo 2015 Paradigm 2018 Avarra

M Moxie Marlinspike 3 founded

Whisper Systems 2010 Open Whisper Systems 2013 Signal 2018

N Noah Glass 3 founded

X.com 1999 Odeo 2005 Olo

B Brandon Millman 1 founded

Phantom 2021

C Charles Gorintin 1 founded

Alan 2016

E Ethan Sutin 1 founded

Squad 2018

E Evan Reiser 1 founded

Abnormal Security 2018

J Justin Zhu 1 founded

Iterable 2013

S Sanjay Jeyakumar 1 founded

Abnormal Security 2018

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