List of Internet entrepreneurs

An Internet entrepreneur is an owner, founder or manager of an Internet-based business. This list includes Internet company founders and people brought on to companies for their general business or accounting acumen, as is the case with some CEOs hired by companies started by entrepreneurs.

NameNotable company or companies
Rony AbovitzMagic Leap, MAKO Surgical Corp.
Josh AbramsonCollegeHumor, Vimeo, TeePublic
Brian ActonWhatsApp
Rick AdamsUunet
Jay AdelsonDigg, Equinix, Revision3
Dinesh AgarwalIndiaMART
Ritesh AgarwalOYO Rooms
Bhavish AggarwalOla Cabs
Christopher AhlbergRecorded Future
Luis von AhnDuolingo, reCAPTCHA
Jeremy AllaireAllaire Corporation, Circle
Joseph J. AllaireAllaire Corporation, RStudio
Paul AllenMicrosoft
Dmitri AlperovitchCrowdStrike
Sam AltmanLoopt, OpenAI, Y Combinator
Brian AlveyWeblogs, Inc., Ceros
Tom AndersonMyspace
Marc AndreessenNetscape, Opsware, Mosaic, Andreessen Horowitz
Andrey AndreevBadoo
Ronnie AptekerInternet Solutions
Marco ArmentTumblr, Instapaper, Overcast
Brian ArmstrongCoinbase
Heather ArmstrongDooce
Jeff ArnoldSharecare, WebMD
Mohit AronNutanix, Cohesity
Samir AroraNetObjects, Mode Media
Trishneet AroraTAC Security
Michael ArringtonTechCrunch
Peter ArvaiPrezi
Alexander AsseilyJawbone, State
Jeff AtwoodStack Overflow, Stack Exchange
Ali AydarSnocap,
Nevzat AydinYemeksepeti
Calvin AyreBodog
Kunal BahlSnapdeal
Ajit BalakrishnanRediff.com
Binny BansalFlipkart
Jyoti BansalAppDynamics
Rohit BansalSnapdeal
Sachin BansalFlipkart
Peter BarrettRocket Science Games, Playground Global
Matt BarrieFreelancer.com
Rich BartonGlassdoor, Expedia Inc, Zillow
David BaszuckiRoblox
Jeff BatesSlashdot
Micahel BaumSplunk
Patrick BaynesUpdatesCentral, PeopleLinx
Andy BechtolsheimSun Microsystems, Arista Networks
Benjamin BejbaumDailymotion
Gordon BellQNX
Scott BelskyBehance
Marc BenioffSalesforce.com
Dan Benjamin5by5 Studios
Yuval Tal Payoneer
Alice BentinckEntrepreneur First, Code First: Girls
Tikhon BernstamScribd, Parse
Jeff BezosAmazon, Blue Origin
Sabeer BhatiaOutlook.com
Aneel BhusriWorkday, Inc.
Gina BianchiniNing, Mighty Networks
Noel BidermanAshley Madison
Sanjeev BikhchandaniNaukri.com
Willem van BiljonNimbula
Eric BinaNetscape, Mosaic
Christophe BiscigliaCloudera, WibiData
Gagan BiyaniUdemy, Lyft
Trevor BlackwellAnybots, Eunicycle
Steve BlankEpiphany, Inc.
Nathan BlecharczykAirbnb
Ryan BlockEngadget
David BohnettGeoCities
Cliff BoroKidZui
Eric BoykoStingray Digital
Alan BravermanXoom Corporation
Sergey BrinGoogle
Juliette BrindakGoogle
Wendell BrownLiveOps, Teleo, EVoice
Paul BuchheitFriendFeed
Matthew BucklandMemeburn
Paul BudnitzEllo
Ronald T. BurrNetZero
Leah BusqueTaskRabbit
Stewart ButterfieldFlickr, Slack
David ByttowSecret
Jason CalacanisMahalo.com, Weblogs, Inc.
Dalton CaldwellSnocap
Jon CallasPGP Corporation, Silent Circle
Garrett CampUber, StumbleUpon
Colin CampbellTucows
Daniel CaneCourseInfo
Mike Cannon-BrookesAtlassian
Carlos CardonaYupi
John CarmackId Software
Martin CasadoNicira
Steve CaseAOL
Pete CashmoreMashable
Maciej CeglowskiPinboard
Rohit ChaddaFoodpanda
Gurbaksh ChahalBlueLithium, Gravity4, RadiumOne
Wayne ChangCrashlytics
Stephen ChaoWonderHowTo
Charlie CheeverQuora
Paul ChenFortiva, FloNetwork
Steve ChenYouTube, MixBit
Brian CheskyAirbnb
Alex ChestermanZPG plc, Cazoo
Ben ChestnutMailChimp
Lew CirneNew Relic
James H. ClarkNetscape
Alon Nisim CohenCyberArk
Bram CohenBitTorrent, CodeCon
Scott CookIntuit
Stephen CohenPalantir Technologies
John CollisonStripe
Patrick CollisonStripe, Croma
Parker ConradZenefits
Michael CowplandCorel
Andrew CrawfordThe Book Depository
Dennis CrowleyFoursquare, Dodgeball
Mark CubanBroadcast.com
Adam CurryMevio (PodShow)
Adam D'AngeloQuora
Ben DarnellCockroach Labs
Sky DaytonEarthLink, Boingo Wireless
Nicolas De SantisOpodo
Bart DecremTapulous, Eazel, Flock
Michael DellDell
Nick DentonGawker Media
Bharat DesaiSyntel
Graeme DevineTrilobyte, Magic Leap
Chris DeWolfeMyspace
Satish DharmarajZimbra
Daniel DinesUiPath
Ryan DisraeliTeleSign
Chris DixonHunch
Dan DodgeQNX
Pieter van der DoesAdyen
Ralph DommermuthUnited Internet
John DonahoeeBay
Jack DorseyTwitter, Square Inc.
Scott DorseyExactTarget
Larry DrebesJanrain, RocketMail, Desktop.com
Rod DruryXero
Adam DunkelsContiki, LwIP, Protothread, uIP (micro IP)
David DuffieldWorkday, Inc. PeopleSoft
Kris DugganBetterWorks
Phil DumontetDASHED
Andy DunnBonobos
Pavel DurovVK, Telegram
Joshua DziabiakThe Zebra, ShowClix
Fred EhrsamCoinbase
Mark Essien Hotels.ng
Daniel EkSpotify
Sean EllisGrowthHackers, Qualaroo
Larry EllisonOracle Corporation
Jeri EllsworthCastAR
John ElvesjoTobii Technology
Judith EstrinBridge Communications, Precept Software, Packet Design
Batara EtoMixi
Marc EwingRed Hat
Tony FadellNest Labs
Mike FaithHeadsets.com
Caterina FakeFlickr, Hunch
Steffan Sondermark FallesenServage Hosting
Andy FangDoorDash
Shawn FanningNapster, Snocap, Rupture, Path, Airtime.com
Farooqui FaisalMouthshut.com
Scott FarquharAtlassian
Rahim FazalInvolver, Inc.
Arash FerdowsiDropbox
Bran FerrenApplied Minds
David FiloYahoo
Ryan FinleySurveyMonkey
Jon FisherCrowdOptic
Rob FishmanNiche, Brat
Mark FletcherBloglines
Pete FlintTrulia
Theodor ForseliusEveripedia
Justin FrankelCockos
Jared FriedmanScribd
Nat FriedmanXimian
Janus FriisSkype, Kazaa, Rdio
Gian FulgoniComScore
Marcos GalperinMercadoLibre.com
Bill GatesMicrosoft
Dirk GatesXircom, Xirrus
Jonathan GayFutureWave Software
Joe GebbiaAirbnb
Stephen GilfusCourseInfo
Bruce GilliatAlexa Internet
Noah GlassTwitter, Odeo
Craig Taro GoldTeleo, EVoice
Bryan GoldbergBustle, Elite Daily, Bleacher Report
Jason GoldbergFab
Anthony GoldbloomKaggle
David GoldmanSage Group
Adam GoldsteinHipmunk
Vishal GondalGOQii, Indiagames
Otavio GoodWord Lens
Kris GopalakrishnanInfosys
Terry GouFoxconn
Paul GrahamViaweb, Y Combinator, Hacker News
Jeff GreenThe Trade Desk, AdECN
Logan GreenLyft
Josh GreenbergGrooveshark
Meron GribetzMeta
Fabrice GrindaOLX, Zingy, Aucland
Daniel GrossCue
Tom GruberSiri
Garrett GruenerAsk.com, Alta Partners
Dominique GuinardEVRYTHNG
Vikas GuptaJambool
Andi GutmansZend Technologies
Oleg Gutsol500px
Daniel HaDisqus
Simon HackettInternode
Eric HahnProofpoint, Inc., Lookout Software
Brian HalliganHubSpot
Jeff HammerbacherCloudera
John HankeNiantic, Ingress
David Heinemeier HanssonBasecamp, Ruby on Rails, Instiki
Mike HarringtonValve, Picnik
Julia HartzEventbrite
Kevin HartzEventbrite, Xoom Corporation
Will HarveyForterra Systems, IMVU
Reed HastingsNetflix
Trip HawkinsElectronic Arts, The 3DO Company, Digital Chocolate
Jared HechtGroupMe
Scott HeifermanMeetup, Fotolog
Ahti HeinlaStarship Technologies, Skype
Brett HelmCoradiant, DB Networks
Cal HendersonSlack
Kevin HenriksonZimbra, Outlook Mobile
Joe HewittFirefox, Parakey
Danny HillisMetaweb, Applied Minds
David HindawiTanium, BigFix Inc
Orion HindawiTanium
Alexa HirschfeldPaperless Post
James HirschfeldPaperless Post
Jeremy HitchcockDyn
Veda Hlubinka-CookMetaweb
Andy HobsbawmEVRYTHNG
Reid HoffmanLinkedIn
Ryan HolmesHootsuite
Bri HoltEngrade
Dietmar HoppSAP
Ben HorowitzOpsware, Andreessen Horowitz
Meg HourihanPyra Labs, Kinja
Drew HoustonDropbox
Ken HoweryPayPal, Founders Fund
Tony HsiehZappos, LinkExchange
Jen-Hsun HuangNvidia
Ma HuatengTencent
Arianna HuffingtonHuffington Post, Thrive Global
Steve HuffmanReddit
Chris HughesFacebook
Chad HurleyYouTube, MixBit
Dave HyattFirefox, WebKit, Safari
P.J. HyettGitHub
Aaron IbaAppJet, Etherpad
Miguel de IcazaXamarin
Brendan IribeOculus VR
Subrah IyarWebEx
Charlie JacksonSilicon Beach Software, FutureWave Software
Naveen JainBlucora, Moon Express, Intelius
Sumit JainCommonfloor.com
Josh JamesDomo, Omniture
Philip J. K. JamesSnooth, Lot18
Xeni JardinBoing Boing
Jack JiaTrusper
Steve JobsApple Inc, Pixar
Bryan JohnsonBraintree, OS Fund, Kernel
Lawrence JonesUKFast
Lisa S. JonesEyeMail Inc.[1][2]
Michael JonesUserplane, MoVoxx, People Media, Brizzly, Myspace
Vikas JoshiElicitus
Lei JunXiaomi, Amazon China
Brewster KahleAlexa Internet
Philippe KahnFullpower Technologies, LightSurf, Starfish Software, Borland
Travis KalanickUber, Red Swoosh, Scour Inc.
Justin KanSocialcam, Twitch, Exec
Philip J. KaplanBlippy
Amit KapurGravity
Jawed KarimYouTube
Alex KarpPalantir Technologies
David KarpTumblr
Kenji KasaharaMixi
Eugene KasperskyKaspersky Lab
Natalya KasperskyKaspersky Lab
Brad KeywellGroupon, Lightbank, Mediaocean
Salman KhanKhan Academy
Vinod KhoslaSun Microsystems, Khosla Ventures
Spencer KimballCockroach Labs
Zach KleinVimeo
OD KoboPheed
Ruslan KoganKogan.com
Josh KopelmanHalf.com
Jan KoumWhatsApp
Shlomo KramerCheck Point, Imperva, Cato Networks
Gary KremenMatch.com
Mike KriegerInstagram
Scott KurnitAbout.com
George KurtzCrowdStrike
Sandra KurtzigASK Group, Kenandy
Joshua KushnerOscar Health
Willem Van LanckerOyster
Renaud LaplancheLending Club
Doug LeedsAsk.com
Eric LefkofskyGroupon, Lightbank, Mediaocean
Howard LermanYext
Sandy LernerCisco Systems
Max LevchinZip2, PayPal, Slide.com, Affirm
Aaron LevieBox
Jeremy LevittService Seeking
Robin LiBaidu
Kenneth LinCredit Karma
Vinny LinghamYola, Silicon Cape Initiative
Jesse LipsonShareFile
Ted LivingstonKik Messenger
Andrea LoPiggybackr
Claes LobergGuvera
Jake LodwickVimeo
Marc LoreDiapers.com, Jet.com
Martin LorentzonTradedoubler, Spotify
Palmer LuckeyOculus VR
Tobias LütkeShopify
Eric LyLinkedIn
Michael Richard LynchAutonomy Corporation
Barrett LyonProlexic Technologies, Defense.Net
Adam LyonsThe Zebra
Jack MaAlibaba Group
Igor MagazinnikViber, iMesh
Chris MalachowskyNvidia
Kumar MalavalliInMage, Brocade Communications Systems
Rob MaldaSlashdot
John Manoogian III140 Proof
Talmon MarcoViber, Juno, IMesh, Expand Networks
Clate MaskInfusionsoft
Andrew MasonGroupon
Natalie MassenetNet-a-Porter
Daniel MattesJumio, Jajah
Peter MattisCockroach Labs
Jed McCalebeDonkey network, Ripple, Stellar
Andrew McCollumFacebook
Mike McCueTellme Networks, Flipboard
Jim McKelveySquare Inc.
Nick McKeownNicira, Open Networking Foundation
William von MeisterThe Source, AOL, CompuServe
Dwight MerrimanDoubleClick, MongoDB Inc.
Heidi MesserRakuten Linkshare
Stephen MesserRakuten Linkshare
Loïc Le MeurSeesmic
Andrew MichaelFasthosts, Livedrive, Bark
Bob MinerOracle Corporation
Rich MinerWildfire Communications, Android
Halsey McLean MinorCNET
Kavin Bharti Mittalhike Messenger
Mahbod MoghadamGenius, Everipedia
Nick MolnarAfterpay
Louis MonierAltaVista
Darius A. Monsef IVCreative Market
Brit MorinBrit + Co
Dave MorinPath
Dustin MoskovitzFacebook, Asana
Matt MullenwegWordPress, Automattic, Akismet
Bobby MurphySnapchat
N. R. Narayana MurthyInfosys
Elon MuskPayPal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX, Neuralink, SolarCity, The Boring Company, OpenAI, Zip2
Demet MutluTrendyol group
Shiv NadarHCL
Satya NadellaMicrosoft
Mariam NaficyMinted
Divya NarendraConnectU, SumZero
Ted NashLittle Gossip, Tapdaq
Ashwin NavinBitTorrent
Col NeedhamIMDb
Seth NeimanBrocade Communications Systems
Gabe NewellValve
Craig NewmarkCraigslist
Bill NguyenColor Labs, Lala
Preetish NijhawanAkamai Technologies
Nandan NilekaniInfosys
Hiroyuki Nishimura2channel, Niconico, 2ch.sc, 4chan
Daniel NissanStructuredWeb
Phiwa NkambuleRiovic, Cybatar
Luke NosekPayPal
Ed OatesOracle Corporation
Kevin O'ConnorDoubleClick, FindTheBest, Graphiq
Alexis OhanianReddit, Initialized Capital
Shaul OlmertPlaybuzz
Pierre OmidyareBay
Seun Osewa Nairaland
Alec OxenfordOLX, Letgo
Raphael OuzanBillGuard
Stepan PachikovEvernote
Larry PageGoogle
Vijay PanduranganMitro
James ParkFitbit
Sean ParkerSpotify, Plaxo, Napster, Causes
Bob ParsonsGo Daddy
Ali PartoviCode.org, LinkExchange, ILike
Ben PasternakImpossible Rush, Impossible Dial, Flogg, Monkey
Narendra PatniIGATE
Aaron PatzerMint.com, Fountain
Sunil PaulSidecar, Brightmail
Bo PeabodyTripod.com
Carl PeiOnePlus, Nothing
Barney PellMoon Express, Powerset
Robert PeraUbiquiti Networks, Memphis Grizzlies
Jonah PerettiBuzzFeed, The Huffington Post
Melanie PerkinsCanva
Markus PerssonMojang, The Huffington Post
Jeffrey PetersonQuepasa, The Meet Group
Dan PickettNfrastructure
Mark PincusZynga, Tribe.net, Support.com
Adam PisoniYammer
Hasso PlattnerSAP
Alvin PohVodien
Kim PoleseClearStreet, SpikeSource
Christopher Poole4chan.org
Joris PoortRescale
Vipul Ved PrakashTopsy Labs
Azim PremjiWIPRO
Tom Preston-WernerGitHub, Gravatar, Jekyll
Curtis PriemNvidia
Tom ProulxIntuit
Jeff PulverVonage, Zula
Liu QiangdongJD.com
Ashley QuallsSickNotDead.com, WhatEverLife.com
Hooman RadfarAddThis
N. S. RaghavanInfosys
Dhiraj RajaramMu Sigma Inc.
Vivek RanadiveTIBCO Software
Jerry RaoMphasis
Osman RashidKno, Chegg
Aza RaskinSongza
Jens Eilstrup RasmussenGoogle Maps, Google Wave
Lars RasmussenGoogle Maps
Byju RaveendranByju's
Naval RavikantAngelList
Eric RiesIMVU, Lean startup
Jordan RitterCloudmark
Jesse RobbinsChef
John RobertsSugarCRM
Michael RobertsonMP3.com, Linspire, Gizmo5
Peter RojasGizmodo, Engadget, Joystiq
Martin RoscheisenFindLaw
Kevin RoseDigg, Pownce, Revision3
Philip RosedaleLinden Lab
Bob RosenscheinAnswers.com
Justin RosensteinAsana
Blake RossFirefox, Parakey
Andy RubinDanger, Android
Christian RudderOkCupid
Matt RutledgeWoot
Kevin P. RyanMongoDB Inc., DoubleClick, Business Insider
David O. SacksYammer, Geni.com, Craft Ventures
Larry SangerCitizendium, Wikipedia
Eduardo SaverinFacebook
Michael J. SaylorMicroStrategy
Michael Sayman4 Snaps
Alan SchaafImgur
Joshua SchachterDelicious, Memepool, Geo URI scheme
Stephan SchambachDemandware, Intershop Communications AG
Frank SchillingUniregistry
Ernesto SchmittFabula AI, The Craftory, Beamly
Arnout SchuijffAdyen
Paul SciarraPinterest
Adrian ScottRyze
John SculleyZeta Interactive
Michael SeibelJustin.tv, Socialcam
Jeff SeibertCrashlytics
Naveen SelvaduraiFoursquare
Arjun SethiMessageMe, Lolapps, Yahoo! Livetext
Nahum SharfmanShopping.com
Tina SharkeyBrandless
Liron ShapiraQuixey
Vijay Shekhar SharmaPaytm
Evan SharpPinterest
Emmett ShearJustin.tv, Twitch
S. D. ShibulalInfosys
Will ShuDeliveroo
Mark ShuttleworthCanonical, Thawte
Gil ShwedCheck Point
Ben SilbermannPinterest
Russel SimmonsYelp
Charles SimonyiIntentional Software
Pradeep SindhuJuniper Networks
Param SinghMr Lawyer
Gunjan SinhaEGain
Rashmi SinhaSlideshare
Jeffrey SkollEBay
Dylan SmithBox
Jack SmithOutlook.com
Jeffrey Christopher SmithSmule
Javier SolteroOutlook Mobile
Angelo SotiraDeviantArt
Mark SpencerDigium
Evan SpiegelSnap Inc. (formerly Snapchat)
Joel SpolskyStack Exchange, Fog Creek Software, Trello
Balaji SrinivasanCounsyl, Earn.com, Teleport
Eric StanleyOnewayhope
Chad SteelbergAdForce, DMarc Broadcasting
Ryan SteelbergAdForce, DMarc Broadcasting
David A. SteinbergZeta Interactive
Stephen StokolsFreedomPop
Biz StoneTwitter, Jelly
Jeremy StoppelmanYelp
Alexander StraubTruphone
Ludvig StrigeusμTorrent
Krishna SubramanianBlueLithium
Zeev SuraskiZend Technologies
John A. SwansonAnsys
Aaron SwartzReddit
Patrick SweeneyODIN Technologies
Kevin SystromInstagram
David TabizelHP Autonomy
Richard (Dick) TalensFitocracy
Garry TanPosterous, Initialized Capital
Yoshikazu TanakaGREE, Inc.
Stanley TangDoorDash
Bret TaylorFriendFeed, Quip
Keith TeareTechcrunch, RealNames, Easynet
Rodrigo TeijeiroRecargaPay, Sonico.com, Fnbox
Astro TellerBodyMedia
Chuck TempletonOpenTable
Milun TesovicMetroLyrics
Peter ThielPayPal, Palantir Technologies, Clarium Capital, Founders Fund, Valar Ventures
Steven ThomasWebroot
Sebastian ThrunUdacity
Linus TorvaldsLinux, Linux Kernel, Git, Subsurface
Nirav ToliaNextdoor, Epinions
Gina TrapaniLifehacker
Vlad TrifaEVRYTHNG
Benjamin TrottSix Apart, Movable Type, TypePad
Mena TrottSix Apart, Movable Type, TypePad
Penelope Trunkpenelopetrunk.com
Janie TsaoLinksys
Victor TsaoLinksys
Klaus TschiraSAP
Greg TsengTagged
Bhavin TurakhiaCodeChef, Media.net, Flock, Ringo, Zeta India
Divyank TurakhiaMedia.net
Isaiah TurnerMonkey
Tien TzuoZuora
David UlevitchOpenDNS, EveryDNS
Deena VarshavskayaWanelo
Raj VattikutiCovansys Corporation
Ricky Van VeenCollegeHumor
Juan VillalongaTerra.com
Kyle VogtCruise Automation, Justin.tv
Anubhav WadhwaTyrelessly
Romesh WadhwaniSymphony Technology Group
Dan WagnerVenda Inc
Todd WagnerBroadcast.com
Justin WaldronZynga
Jimmy WalesWikipedia, Wikia
John WalkerAutodesk
Michael WalrathRight Media
Chris WanstrathGitHub
David WarthenAsk.com
Matt WatsonStackify, VinSolutions
Lynda Weinmanlynda.com
Andrew WeinreichSixDegrees.com
Claus WellenreutherSAP
Jay WesterdalDomainTools
Evan WilliamsBlogger, Twitter, Medium
Maisie WilliamsDaisie
Jake WinebaumFamilyFun, Business.com
Whitney WolfeBumble, Tinder
Brian Wongkiip
Steven WoodsNeoEdge Networks
Steve WozniakApple Inc, Wheels of Zeus
Graham WylieSage Group
Eric XuBaidu
Tony XuDoorDash
Rahul YadavHousing.com
Sam YaganOkCupid, SparkNotes
Jerry YangYahoo
Richard YooRackspace, ServerBeach
Bob YoungRed Hat
Peggy YuDangdang
Niklas ZennströmAtomico, Skype, Kazaa
Yiming ZhangBytedance (Douyin/TikTok)
Changpeng ZhaoBinance)
Ilya ZhitomirskiyDiaspora
Min ZhuWebEx
John ZimmerLyft
Phil ZimmermannPretty Good Privacy, Zfone
Zohar ZisapelRAD Group
Mark ZuckerbergFacebook

See also

References

  1. Donnellan, Laurel (4 November 2021). "Love Is The Bottom Line At EyeMail Inc". Forbes. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
  2. Southerland, Randy (16 September 2014). "Corporate partnership helps email tech company quadruple its revenue". Atlanta Business Chronicle. Retrieved 5 November 2021.

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