List of Chicago/Booth Graduates Who Have Founded Companies

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Name	Description	Birthdate	Birthplace	Educated at	Founder of
Ari Paul	Founder of BlockTower Capital	May 25, 1984	United States	Booth School of Business University of Pennsylvania Princeton Day School	BlockTower Capital BlockTower Capital
Joi Ito	Joi Ito is a Japanese-American activist, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He is a founder of multiple organizations, as well as a philanthropist.	June 19, 1966	Kyoto	Tufts University Keio University ‌ Nishimachi International School University of Chicago Keio University Hitotsubashi University	‌ TWICS Digital Garage Safecast (organization) Neoteny
Dylan Taylor (executive)	Dylan Taylor is chairman and CEO at Voyager Space Holdings.	October 23, 1970	Denver	University of Chicago Booth School of Business	Voyager Space Holdings Commercial Spaceflight Federation
Larry Ellison	Internet entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist	August 17, 1944	The Bronx	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign University of Chicago ‌ South Shore High School (Chicago)	‌ Ellison Medical Foundation Oracle
Mike Nichols	American film director, screenwriter & film producer, creator of The Graduate, based in United States, born in Germany	November 6, 1931	Berlin	University of Chicago	‌ Friends In Deed
Joseph Stiglitz	American economist and professor, born 1943.	February 9, 1943	Gary, Indiana	University of Chicago Massachusetts Institute of Technology Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge Amherst College	Institute for New Economic Thinking
Saul Bellow	Canadian-born american writer	June 10, 1915	Lachine, Quebec	Roberto Clemente Community Academy Northwestern University University of Wisconsin–Madison University of Chicago	News from the Republic of Letters
Milton Friedman	American economist, statistician, and writer	July 31, 1912	Brooklyn	Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey University of Cambridge Columbia University Rahway High School University of Chicago	‌ Mont Pelerin Society
Patrick O. Brown	American biochemist	September 23, 1954	Washington, D.C.	University of Chicago	Impossible Foods
Martin Gardner	Recreational mathematician and philosopher	October 21, 1914	Tulsa, Oklahoma	University of Chicago	Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
Charu Sharma (entrepreneur)	An author, businesswoman, angle investor, and entrepreneur most well known for being the founder of NextPlay.ai.			‌ D. G. Ruparel College of Arts, Science and Commerce University of Chicago University of Virginia Stanford Graduate School of Business ‌ The Blossoms Sunderbai Thackersey English High School Williams College Mount Holyoke College Dartmouth College	Next Play Biz Dev Outsourced Osana Salud
Ernest Lawrence	Physicist	August 8, 1901	Canton, South Dakota	Yale University St. Olaf College University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) University of Chicago University of South Dakota Augustana Academy	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Greg Orlowski	A software developer, product architect, and the founder of Peanut and Deliveroo.			University of Chicago	Peanut (company) Deliveroo
Frances Kellor	American sociologist	October 20, 1873	Columbus, Ohio	Cornell University University of Chicago Cornell Law School	National Urban League
John Grierson	Scottish documentary pioneer	April 26, 1898	Scotland	University of Chicago University of Glasgow	‌ Documentary News Letter
Susan Glaspell	American writer	July 1, 1876	Davenport, Iowa	Drake University University of Chicago	Provincetown Players
Sara Paretsky	Modern american author of detective fiction	June 8, 1947	Ames, Iowa	Kansas State University ‌ Lawrence High School (Kansas) University of Chicago Booth School of Business University of Kansas	‌ Sisters in Crime
Brian Fabian Crain	Founder of Chorus One			London School of Economics University of Chicago University College London (UCL)	Chorus One
Peter George Peterson	American businessman	June 5, 1926	Kearney, Nebraska	Northwestern University University of Chicago Booth School of Business	Blackstone Group
Andrei Movchan	Russian economist	April 25, 1968	Moscow	University of Chicago Moscow State University	‌ Movchan's Group
Paul Romer	American economist	November 7, 1955	Denver	Phillips Exeter Academy University of Chicago	‌ Aplia
Wesley Clair Mitchell	American statistician	August 5, 1874	Rushville, Illinois	University of Chicago	National Bureau of Economic Research
J. Allen Hynek	American astronomer	May 1, 1910	Chicago	‌ Crane High School (Chicago) University of Chicago	‌ Center for UFO Studies
‌ John H. Johnson	American businessman	January 19, 1918	Arkansas City, Kansas	University of Chicago Wendell Phillips Academy High School Northwestern University ‌ DuSable High School	‌ Johnson Publishing Company
L. Gordon Crovitz	L. Gordon Crovitz is an American journalist and both the co-founder and co-CEO of the company NewsGuard.			Wadham College, Oxford Yale Law School University of Chicago	NewsGuard

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