List of Founders of Unicorn Companies

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.

Max Polyakov is an international entrepreneur in the information and space technology sector. He is the founder and CEO of Earth Observation System (EOS).

Jeff Bezos is an American entrepreneur, the founder and chairman of Amazon, and the founder of Blue Origin private spaceflight company.

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.

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.

Oleg Tinkov is a Russian businessman and investor.

Changpeng Zhao is an entrepreneur who works in the blockchain industry.

Luis von Ahn is a computer scientist, MacArthur Fellow, and CEO and cofounder of Duolingo.

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.

Tom Knight is an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, and synthetic biologist who played a major role in the development of the field.

Palmer Luckey is the designer of the Oculus Rift and the founder of Oculus VR and Anduril Industries.

Max Hodak is an entrepreneur and the founder of several companies, including Neuralink, Transcriptic, MyFit, and Science Corp.

Eric Lefkofsky is an American entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Tempus.

American socialite, model & businessperson

Jesse Powell is the founder of Kraken digital asset exchange.

Sebastian Thrun is a scientist, educator, inventor, and entrepreneur, founding several companies, including Google X, Udacity, and Kitty Hawk.

Adam Neumann is an Israeli entrepreneur and the co-founder and former CEO of WeWork.

American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, inventor, technologist, and CEO.

Patrick Collison is an Irish computer programmer and co-founder of Stripe.

Amir Haleem is cofounder and CEO of Helium Systems.

Howie Liu is an entrepreneur known for being the founder and CEO of Airtable, a low-code platform for building collaborative apps.

Russian, founder of Lada & VAZ-2106

Jared Birchall is the CEO of Neuralink and the managing director of Elon Musk's family office, Excession LLC.

Andy Fang is cofounder and head of consumer engineering of DoorDash.

Justin Mateen is a co-founder and former CMO of Tinder, an investor, and a real estate investor.