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Name	Description	Birthdate	Birthplace	Educated at	Founder of
Holly H. Baynham	American composer, musician, and sound artist	1980	Johnson City, Tennessee	Stanford University	Safe Haven 6 Underground
Elon Musk	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	Pretoria	University of Pennsylvania ‌ Waterkloof House Preparatory School University of Pretoria Queen's University ‌ Stephen J.R. Smith School of Business Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Pretoria Boys High School Stanford University	xAI SpaceX Starlink Tesla (company) Neuralink PayPal The Boring Company Zip2 X.com (bank)
Chris Romer	American politician	January 1, 1959	Denver	Stanford University	Project Canary
Sam Altman	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	Chicago	John Burroughs School Stanford University	AltC Acquisition Corp. World OpenAI Incentivai Tools for Humanity Corp Apollo Projects Loopt Hydrazine Capital
Keith Rabois	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	Edison, New Jersey	Harvard Law School Stanford University	Y Ventures OpenStore OpenDoor
Peter Thiel	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	Frankfurt	San Mateo High School Stanford University Stanford Law School	Valar Ventures PayPal Clarium Capital Palantir Technologies ‌ Thiel Foundation Thiel Capital Mithril Capital Management Dialog Founders Fund Breakout Labs
George Eng	Investor & scientist, computer scientist & investor, creator of American Airlines Theatre, based in California, born in Sgonn	March 18, 1968	‌ Sgonn	Stanford University	Opsware (company) Moon Express Singularity University
Ryan Breslow	Ryan Breslow is a cofounder and executive chairman of Bolt, cofounder of ECO, and founder of Conscious Culture.	May 20, 1994	Miami	Stanford University	Eco Love Health Bolt (e-commerce company) Conscious Culture
Elizabeth Holmes	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	Washington, D.C.	Stanford University St. John's School (Texas)	Theranos
Phil Knight	Phil Knight is the cofounder and chairman emeritus of Nike.	February 24, 1938	Portland, Oregon	University of Oregon Cleveland High School (Portland, Oregon) Charles H. Lundquist College of Business Stanford University Oregon State University	Nike, Inc. Laika (company)
Austin Russell	Austin Russell is the founder and CEO of Luminar Technologies.	March 14, 1995	Newport Beach, California	Stanford University St. Margaret's Episcopal School	Luminar Technologies
Garry Tan	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	Winnipeg	Stanford University	Posterous Initialized Capital
Tiger Woods	American professional golfer	December 30, 1975	‌ Cypress, California	Western High School (Anaheim, California) Stanford University	TGL ‌ Tiger Woods Design TMRW Sports
Jennifer Lopez	American Singer, Performer, Actress	July 24, 1969	Bronx, New York City	Stanford University Baruch College Dartmouth College	JLo Beauty Lopez Family Foundation Culture Kitchen
Sam Harris	Sam Harris is an American neuroscientist, philosopher, and author of five New York Times bestsellers.	April 9, 1967	Los Angeles	University of California, Los Angeles Stanford University	Waking Up
Balaji S. Srinivasan	Balaji S. Srinivasan is an angel investor and entrepreneur.	1979		Stanford University	Counsyl Earn.com Teleport (company) Coin Center
Do Kwon	Do Kwon is a cofounder and former CEO of Terraform Labs, which was building Terra, a digital currency made for Web3.	September 6, 1991	Seoul	Stanford University	Anyfi ANCHOR Terraform Labs
Marissa Mayer	Marissa Mayer is an American business executive and engineer, founder and CEO of Sunshine, and former CEO of Yahoo!	May 30, 1975	Wausau, Wisconsin	Stanford University ‌ Wausau West High School	Sunshine
Sergey Brin	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	Moscow	Eleanor Roosevelt High School (Maryland) Center for Talented Youth Stanford University University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland	Google Launchpad Accelerator Google Lighter Than Air Google Hangouts The Brin Wojcicki Foundation Alphabet Inc. Google Chrome
Reid Hoffman	Reid Hoffman is an entrepreneur, investor, and the co-founder of LinkedIn.	August 5, 1967	Palo Alto, California	The Putney School University of Oulu University of Oxford Wolfson College, Oxford Babson College Stanford University	LinkedIN ads Reinvent Capital FWD.us Inflection LinkedIn Red Planet Kiva (organization)
Andy Fang	Andy Fang is cofounder and head of consumer engineering of DoorDash.	1992	Vista, California	Stanford University The Harker School	DoorDash
Alfred Lin	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	Taiwan	Stuyvesant High School Harvard University Stanford University	‌ Venture Frogs
Larry Page	Lawrence Edward Page is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin.	March 26, 1973	East Lansing, Michigan	Stanford University University of Michigan Interlochen Center for the Arts East Lansing High School	Alphabet Inc. Google Launchpad Accelerator Google Photos Google Chrome Google Hangouts Google
Stanley Tang	Stanley Tang is a cofounder of DoorDash and is head of DoorDash Labs, the company's robotics and automation arm.	1992	Hong Kong	Stanford University King George V School (Hong Kong)	DoorDash
James Gutierrez	James Gutierrez is co-founder and CEO of Insikt (Aura) and founder of Oportun.			Stanford University Yale University	Oportun Insikt (Aura)

American composer, musician, and sound artist

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.

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.

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.

Investor & scientist, computer scientist & investor, creator of American Airlines Theatre, based in California, born in Sgonn

Ryan Breslow is a cofounder and executive chairman of Bolt, cofounder of ECO, and founder of Conscious Culture.

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.

Phil Knight is the cofounder and chairman emeritus of Nike.

Austin Russell is the founder and CEO of Luminar Technologies.

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.

American professional golfer

American Singer, Performer, Actress

Sam Harris is an American neuroscientist, philosopher, and author of five New York Times bestsellers.

Balaji S. Srinivasan is an angel investor and entrepreneur.

Do Kwon is a cofounder and former CEO of Terraform Labs, which was building Terra, a digital currency made for Web3.

Marissa Mayer is an American business executive and engineer, founder and CEO of Sunshine, and former CEO of Yahoo!

Sergey Brin is a computer scientist and entrepreneur he is cofounder of Google as well as co-founder and previous president of Alphabet Inc.

Reid Hoffman is an entrepreneur, investor, and the co-founder of LinkedIn.

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

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.