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November 2026The human story behind the startups80 journeys so far

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Larry Page

Alphabet

Larry Page, Sergey Brin

1998 | Mountain View

Jeff Bezos

Amazon

Jeff Bezos

1994 | Seattle

Elon Musk

SpaceX

Elon Musk

2002 | Starbase

Mark Zuckerberg

Meta Platforms

Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz

2004 | Menlo Park

Martin Eberhard

Tesla

Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning, Ian Wright

2003 | Austin

Dario Amodei

Anthropic

Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Jared Kaplan

2021 | San Francisco

Sam Altman

OpenAI

Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever

2015 | San Francisco

Peter Thiel

Palantir

Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Joe Lonsdale

2003 | Aventura

Reed Hastings

Netflix

Reed Hastings, Marc Randolph

1997 | Los Gatos

Nir Zuk

Palo Alto Networks

Nir Zuk, Rajiv Batra

2005 | Santa Clara

George Kurtz

CrowdStrike

George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch, Gregg Marston

2011 | Austin

Andy Bechtolsheim

Arista Networks

Andy Bechtolsheim, David Cheriton, Ken Duda

2004 | Santa Clara

Ali Ghodsi

Databricks

Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia, Ion Stoica

2013 | San Francisco

Marc Benioff

Salesforce

Marc Benioff, Parker Harris, Dave Moellenhoff

1999 | San Francisco

Intuitive Surgical

Frederic Moll, John Freund, Robert Younge

1995 | Sunnyvale

Patrick Collison

Stripe

Patrick Collison, John Collison

2010 | South San Francisco

Garrett Camp

Uber

Garrett Camp, Travis Kalanick

2009 | San Francisco

Sehat Sutardja

Marvell Technology

Sehat Sutardja, Weili Dai, Pantas Sutardja

1995 | Santa Clara

AppLovin

AppLovin

Adam Foroughi, John Krystynak, Andrew Karam

2012 | Palo Alto

ServiceNow

Fred Luddy

2004 | Santa Clara

Brian Chesky

Airbnb

Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, Nathan Blecharczyk

2008 | San Francisco

Jay Adelson

Equinix

Jay Adelson, Albert (Al) Avery

1998 | Redwood City

Derrick Rossi

Moderna

Derrick Rossi, Noubar Afeyan, Robert Langer

2010 | Cambridge

Snowflake

Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, Marcin Zukowski

2012 | Menlo Park

Ken Xie

Fortinet

Ken Xie, Michael Xie

2000 | Sunnyvale

Matthew Prince

Cloudflare

Matthew Prince, Michelle Zatlyn, Lee Holloway

2009 | San Francisco

Ernest Garcia III

Carvana

Ernest Garcia III, Ryan Keeton, Ben Huston

2012 | Tempe

Tony Xu

DoorDash

Tony Xu, Andy Fang, Stanley Tang

2013 | San Francisco

Vlad Tenev

Robinhood

Vlad Tenev, Baiju Bhatt

2013 | Menlo Park

Datadog

Datadog

Olivier Pomel, Alexis Le-Quoc

2010 | New York City

Palmer Luckey

Anduril Industries

Palmer Luckey, Trae Stephens, Brian Schimpf

2017 | Costa Mesa

Gene Lee

Ramp

Eric Glyman, Karim Atiyeh, Gene Lee

2019 | New York

Scott Wu

Cognition AI

Scott Wu, Steven Hao, Walden Yan

2023 | San Francisco

Brett Adcock

Figure AI

Brett Adcock

2022 | San Jose

Ilya Sutskever

Safe Superintelligence

Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy

2024 | Palo Alto

VAST Data

Renen Hallak, Shachar Fienblit, Jeff Denworth

2016 | New York

Alexandr Wang

Scale AI

Alexandr Wang, Lucy Guo

2016 | San Francisco

Fanatics

Michael Rubin, Alan Trager, Mitchell Trager

1995 | New York

Tim Sweeney

Epic Games

Tim Sweeney

1991 | Cary

Tarek Mansour

Kalshi

Tarek Mansour, Luana Lopes Lara

2018 | New York

Etched

Etched

Gavin Uberti, Chris Zhu, Robert Wachen

2022 | San Jose

Perplexity AI

Perplexity AI

Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho

2022 | San Francisco

Hamdi Ulukaya

Chobani

Hamdi Ulukaya

2005 | Norwich

Parker Conrad

Rippling

Parker Conrad, Prasanna Sankar

2016 | San Francisco

Fal

Fal

Burkay Gur, Gorkem Yurtseven

2021 | San Francisco

Harvey

Harvey

Winston Weinberg, Gabriel Pereyra

2022 | San Francisco

Helion Energy

Helion Energy

David Kirtley, John Slough, Chris Pihl

2013 | Everett

Jason Citron

Discord

Jason Citron, Stanislav Vishnevskiy

2015 | San Francisco

William Hockey

Plaid

Zach Perret, William Hockey

2013 | San Francisco

Devin Finzer

OpenSea

Devin Finzer, Alex Atallah

2017 | Miami

Superhuman

Superhuman

Rahul Vohra, Conrad Irwin, Vivek Sodera

2014 | San Francisco

Shield AI

Shield AI

Brandon Tseng, Ryan Tseng, Andrew Reiter

2015 | San Diego

Todd Park

Devoted Health

Todd Park, Ed Park

2017 | Waltham

Faire

Faire

Max Rhodes, Daniele Perito, Marcelo Cortes

2017 | San Francisco

NinjaOne

NinjaOne

Sal Sferlazza, Chris Matarese

2013 | Austin

Cyera

Cyera

Yotam Segev, Tamar Bar-Ilan, Yonatan Itay

2021 | New York City

Mira Murati

Thinking Machines Lab

Mira Murati, John Schulman, Barret Zoph

2025 | San Francisco

OpenEvidence

Daniel Nadler, Zachary (Zack) Ziegler

2022 | Miami

Biosplice Therapeutics

Biosplice Therapeutics

Osman Kibar

2008 | San Diego

Hayes Barnard

GoodLeap

Hayes Barnard, Jason Walker, Matt Dawson

2003 | Roseville

Whatnot

Whatnot

Grant LaFontaine, Logan Head

2019 | Marina del Rey

Ankur Jain

Bilt Rewards

Ankur Jain

2019 | New York

Ben Lamm

Colossal Biosciences

Ben Lamm, George Church

2021 | Dallas

Alchemy

Alchemy

Nikil Viswanathan, Joe Lau

2017 | San Francisco

Will Ahmed

WHOOP

Will Ahmed, John Capodilupo, Aurelian Nicolae

2012 | Boston

Gusto

Gusto

Joshua Reeves, Edward Kim, Tomer London

2011 | San Francisco

Mercor

Mercor

Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath, Surya Midha

2023 | San Francisco

Notion Labs

Notion Labs

Ivan Zhao, Simon Last, Akshay Kothari

2013 | San Francisco

Chris Larsen

Ripple

Chris Larsen, Jed McCaleb, Arthur Britto

2012 | San Francisco

Digital Currency Group

Digital Currency Group

Barry Silbert

2015 | Stamford

Cristina Fonseca

Talkdesk

Tiago Paiva, Cristina Fonseca

2011 | San Francisco

Vercel

Vercel

Guillermo Rauch

2015 | San Francisco

Tanium

Orion Hindawi, David Hindawi

2007 | Kirkland

Replit

Amjad Masad, Faris Masad, Haya Odeh

2016 | Foster City

Jiajun Zhu

Nuro

Dave Ferguson, Jiajun Zhu

2016 | Mountain View

Flexport

Flexport

Ryan Petersen, David Petersen

2013 | San Francisco

Keller Rinaudo Cliffton

Zipline

Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, Keenan Wyrobek, Ryan Oksenhorn

2014 | South San Francisco

AlphaSense

AlphaSense

Jack (Jaakko) Kokko, Raj Neervannan

2011 | New York

Carta

Carta

Henry Ward, Manu Kumar

2012 | San Francisco

Automation Anywhere

Automation Anywhere

Mihir Shukla, Neeti Mehta Shukla, Ankur Kothari

2003 | San Jose

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