The 50 Media & Entertainment companies that produced the most founders (2026)

A founder factory is a company whose people leave to start companies of their own. This ranks every company in the graph by how many of its alumni — people who founded it or worked there — went on to found at least one company, counting only ventures started no earlier than the company itself.

Refreshed 2026-10-28 · updates nightly

#	Company	Sector	HQ	Founded	Founders	Companies started
1	Facebook	Media & Entertainment	Menlo Park, USA	2004	47	65
2	Twitter	Media & Entertainment	San Francisco, USA	2006	14	27
3	LinkedIn	Media & Entertainment	Sunnyvale, USA	2002	8	8
4	Justin.tv	Media & Entertainment	San Francisco, USA	2007	6	11
5	YouTube	Media & Entertainment	San Bruno, USA	2005	6	10
6	Rooster Teeth	Media & Entertainment	United States	2003	6	2
7	Odeo	Media & Entertainment	San Francisco, USA	2005	5	12
8	Socialcam	Media & Entertainment	San Francisco, USA	2011	5	5
9	Twitch	Media & Entertainment	San Francisco, USA	2011	4	9
10	Slide	Media & Entertainment	San Francisco, USA	2005	4	7
11	Netflix	Media & Entertainment	Los Gatos, USA	1997	4	5
12	Quora	Media & Entertainment	Mountain View, USA	2009	4	4
13	Upright Citizens Brigade	Media & Entertainment	United States	1999	4	4
14	Upright Citizens Brigade	Media & Entertainment	United States	—	4	4
15	Instagram	Media & Entertainment	San Francisco, USA	2010	4	3
16	Lucasfilm	Media & Entertainment	United States	1971	3	8
17	Reddit	Media & Entertainment	San Francisco, USA	2005	3	7
18	Spotify	Media & Entertainment	Stockholm, Sweden	2006	3	5
19	Miramax	Media & Entertainment	Canada	1979	3	4
20	Pinterest	Media & Entertainment	San Francisco, USA	2010	3	4
21	Starz Entertainment	Media & Entertainment	United States	1997	3	4
22	Meetup	Media & Entertainment	New York City, USA	2002	3	3
23	Book My Show	Media & Entertainment	India	—	3	1
24	Snap	Media & Entertainment	Santa Monica, USA	2011	3	1
25	Banijay UK	Media & Entertainment	United Kingdom	1994	2	10
26	Endemol	Media & Entertainment	Netherlands	1994	2	10
27	Napster	Media & Entertainment	San Mateo, USA	1999	2	9
28	Blogger	Media & Entertainment	San Francisco, USA	1999	2	7
29	Krup Music	Media & Entertainment	India	2015	2	7
30	Krup Productions	Media & Entertainment	India	—	2	7
31	Krup Publishing	Media & Entertainment	—	2015	2	7
32	Warner Bros. Discovery Argentina	Media & Entertainment	Argentina	1993	2	6
33	DreamWorks	Media & Entertainment	United States	1994	2	5
34	DreamWorks Animation	Media & Entertainment	United States	1994	2	5
35	Katalyst Media	Media & Entertainment	United States	2000	2	5
36	Summit Entertainment	Media & Entertainment	United States	1991	2	5
37	LivePlanet	Media & Entertainment	United States	2000	2	4
38	Maverick Management	Media & Entertainment	United States	2014	2	4
39	DreamWorks Television	Media & Entertainment	United States	1996	2	3
40	FriendFeed	Media & Entertainment	Mountain View, USA	2007	2	3
41	Imagine Entertainment	Media & Entertainment	United States	1985	2	3
42	Imagine Television Studios	Media & Entertainment	—	1985	2	3
43	Miramax Books	Media & Entertainment	United States	1979	2	3
44	Onewayhope	Media & Entertainment	United States	2016	2	3
45	Pearl Street Films	Media & Entertainment	—	2012	2	3
46	Semantic-MediaWiki.org	Media & Entertainment	—	2007	2	3
47	Sequence	Media & Entertainment	—	—	2	3
48	Stan	Media & Entertainment	—	—	2	3
49	51 Minds Entertainment	Media & Entertainment	United States	2004	2	2
50	AllSight Studios	Media & Entertainment	United States	2020	2	2

How this is counted. A person counts as an alumnus of a company if they founded it or worked there. They count towards the company’s score if they went on to found at least one other company that was started no earlier than the company itself. Universities and other non-commercial organisations are pruned from the graph where we can identify them. Data is community-corrected — fix something.