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The Twitter Mafia

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

13 founders 36 companies Root: Twitter →

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Every founder in the Twitter lineage

13 founders · 36 companies

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

J Jack Dorsey 6 founded

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

E Elad Gil 5 founded

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

O Othman Laraki 5 founded

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

E Evan Williams 4 founded

X.com 1999 Blogger 1999 Pyra Labs 1999 Odeo 2005

M Matt Huang 3 founded

Hotspots 2011 Tempo 2015 Paradigm 2018

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 Biz Stone 2 founded

X.com 1999 Jelly 2013

B Brandon Millman 1 founded

Phantom 2021

C Charles Gorintin 1 founded

Alan 2016

E Evan Reiser 1 founded

Abnormal Security 2018

J Justin Zhu 1 founded

Iterable 2013

S Sanjay Jeyakumar 1 founded

Abnormal Security 2018