Founders educated at Stanford University
Name | Description | Birthdate | Birthplace | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
American composer, musician, and sound artist | 1980 | ||||
Elon Musk is a serial entrepreneur known for creating high-tech, science fiction-inspired ventures. He is a founder of PayPal, an early-stage investor and CEO of Tesla, Inc., and founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer of SpaceX. | June 28, 1971 | ||||
American politician | January 1, 1959 | ||||
Sam Altman is an investor and entrepreneur. He is the founder of companies OpenAI, Hydrazine Capital, Loopt, Tools for Humanity, AltC Acquisition Corp., and Apollo. Altman served as the president of Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019. | April 22, 1985 | ||||
An American businessman, entrepreneur, and angel investor. He is a general partner at Founders Fund, and has held executive roles at PayPal, LinkedIn, Slide, and Square. His most notable angel investments include: YouTube, Airbnb, Palantir, Eventbrite, Lyft, Quora, Yammer, Skybox, Counsyl, Weebly, and Wish. | March 17, 1969 | ||||
Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, and political activist. He is one of the founders of PayPal and has founded several venture investment firms. | October 11, 1967 | ||||
Investor & scientist, computer scientist & investor, creator of American Airlines Theatre, based in California, born in Sgonn | March 18, 1968 | ||||
Ryan Breslow is a cofounder and executive chairman of Bolt, cofounder of ECO, and founder of Conscious Culture. | May 20, 1994 | ||||
Elizabeth Holmes is an American businesswoman and the founder of Theranos, a health technology company that was found to be performing fraudulent practices and is now closed. | February 3, 1984 | ||||
Phil Knight is the cofounder and chairman emeritus of Nike. | February 24, 1938 | ||||
Austin Russell is the founder and CEO of Luminar Technologies. | March 14, 1995 | ||||
An entrepreneur, designer, investor, and software engineer. He is the co-founder and managing partner of In initialized Capital, and a former partner of Y Combinator. | March 21, 1981 | ||||
American professional golfer | December 30, 1975 | ||||
American Singer, Performer, Actress | July 24, 1969 | ||||
Sam Harris is an American neuroscientist, philosopher, and author of five New York Times bestsellers. | April 9, 1967 | ||||
Balaji S. Srinivasan is an angel investor and entrepreneur. | 1979 | ||||
Do Kwon is a cofounder and former CEO of Terraform Labs, which was building Terra, a digital currency made for Web3. | September 6, 1991 | ||||
Marissa Mayer is an American business executive and engineer, founder and CEO of Sunshine, and former CEO of Yahoo! | May 30, 1975 | ||||
Sergey Brin is a computer scientist and entrepreneur he is cofounder of Google as well as co-founder and previous president of Alphabet Inc. | August 21, 1973 | ||||
Reid Hoffman is an entrepreneur, investor, and the co-founder of LinkedIn. | August 5, 1967 | ||||
Andy Fang is cofounder and head of consumer engineering of DoorDash. | 1992 | ||||
Alfred Lin is a Taiwanese-American venture capitalist, partner at Sequoia Capital, co-founder of Venture Frogs, and former COO/CFO and chairman of Zappos. | August 15, 1990 | ||||
Lawrence Edward Page is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin. | March 26, 1973 | ||||
Stanley Tang is a cofounder of DoorDash and is head of DoorDash Labs, the company's robotics and automation arm. | 1992 | ||||
James Gutierrez is co-founder and CEO of Insikt (Aura) and founder of Oportun. |
