List of Founders of Unicorn Companies
Name | Description | Founder of | Educated at | ||
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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). | |||||
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. | |||||
Changpeng Zhao is an entrepreneur who works in the blockchain industry. | |||||
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. | |||||
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. | |||||
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. | |||||
American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, inventor, technologist, and CEO. | |||||
Russian, founder of Lada & VAZ-2106 | |||||
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. | |||||
Stanley Tang is a cofounder of DoorDash and is head of DoorDash Labs, the company's robotics and automation arm. | |||||
Founder of Circle | |||||
Anne Wojcicki is cofounder and CEO of 23andme. She is an American biotech analyst, biologist, philanthropist, and investor. | |||||
RJ Scaringe is founder and CEO of Rivian Automotive. |
