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An Internet entrepreneur is an entrepreneur, an owner, founder or manager of an Internet based business.[1] This list includes Internet company founders, and people brought on to companies for their entrepreneurship skills, not simply for their general business or accounting acumen, as is the case with some CEO's hired by companies started by entrepreneurs.

Name Notable company or companies
Rony Abovitz Magic Leap
Josh Abramson CollegeHumor, Vimeo
Brian Acton Whatsapp
Rick Adams UUNET
Jay Adelson Digg, Equinix, Revision3
Trip Adler Scribd
Dinesh Agarwal IndiaMART
Bhavish Aggarwal Ola Cabs
Christopher Ahlberg Recorded Future
Luis von Ahn Duolingo, reCAPTCHA
Sujayath Ali Voonik
Jeremy Allaire Allaire Corporation, Circle
Joseph J. Allaire Allaire Corporation, RStudio
Paul Allen Microsoft
Dmitri Alperovitch CrowdStrike
Sam Altman Loopt, OpenAI, Y Combinator
Brian Alvey Weblogs, Inc., Ceros
Tom Anderson Myspace
Marc Andreessen Netscape, Opsware, Mosaic, Andreessen Horowitz
Andrey Andreev Badoo
Ronnie Apteker Internet Solutions
Marco Arment Tumblr, Instapaper, Overcast
Jeff Arnold Sharecare, WebMD
Mohit Aron Nutanix, Cohesity
Samir Arora NetObjects, Mode Media
Michael Arrington TechCrunch
Peter Arvai Prezi
Alexander Asseily Jawbone, State
Jeff Atwood Stack Overflow, Stack Exchange
Ali Aydar SNOCAP, Imeem
Nevzat Aydin Yemeksepeti
Calvin Ayre Bodog
Kunal Bahl Snapdeal
Ajit Balakrishnan Rediff.com
Micah Baldwin Graphic.ly
Scott Banister IronPort
Binny Bansal Flipkart
Jyoti Bansal AppDynamics
Rohit Bansal Snapdeal
Sachin Bansal Flipkart
Peter Barrett Rocket Science Games, Playground Global
Matt Barrie Freelancer.com
Rich Barton Glassdoor, Expedia Inc, Zillow
Jeff Bates Slashdot
Patrick Baynes UpdatesCentral, PeopleLinx
Andy Bechtolsheim Sun Microsystems
Bas Beerens WeTransfer
Benjamin Bejbaum Dailymotion
Gordon Bell QNX
Scott Belsky Behance
Marc Benioff Salesforce.com
Dan Benjamin 5by5 Studios
Ben Berkowitz SeeClickFix
Tikhon Bernstam Scribd, Parse
Jeff Bezos Amazon.com, Blue Origin
Anant Bhardwaj Instabase
Sabeer Bhatia Outlook.com
Aneel Bhusri Workday, Inc.
Gina Bianchini Ning
Noel Biderman Ashley Madison
Sanjeev Bikhchandani Naukri.com
Willem Van Biljon Nimbula
Eric Bina Netscape, Mosaic
Christophe Bisciglia Cloudera, WibiData
Gagan Biyani Udemy, Lyft
Trevor Blackwell Anybots, Eunicycle
Steve Blank Epiphany, Inc.
Nathan Blecharczyk Airbnb
Ryan Block Engadget
David Bohnett Yahoo! GeoCities
Cliff Boro KidZui
Eric Boyko Stingray Digital
Alan Braverman Xoom Corporation
Sergey Brin Google
Mike Cannon-Brookes Atlassian
Wendell Brown LiveOps, Teleo, EVoice
Paul Buchheit FriendFeed
Matthew Buckland Memeburn
Paul Budnitz Ello
Ronald T. Burr NetZero
Leah Busque TaskRabbit
Stewart Butterfield Flickr, Slack
David Byttow Secret (app)
Jason Calacanis Mahalo.com, Weblogs, Inc.
Dalton Caldwell SNOCAP
Jon Callas PGP Corporation, Silent Circle
Colin Campbell Tucows
Garrett Camp Uber, StumbleUpon
Daniel Cane CourseInfo
Carlos Cardona Yupi
John Carmack Id Software
Jeromy Carriere Quack.com
Michael Carter Game Closure
Martin Casado Nicira
Steve Case AOL
Pete Cashmore Mashable
Maciej Ceglowski Pinboard
Rohit Chadda Foodpanda
Gurbaksh Chahal BlueLithium, Gravity4, RadiumOne
Wayne Chang Crashlytics
Stephen Chao WonderHowTo
Shaherose Charania Women 2.0
Charlie Cheever Quora
Paul Chen Fortiva, FloNetwork
Steve Chen YouTube, MixBit
Brian Chesky Airbnb
Alex Chesterman ZPG plc
Ben Chestnut MailChimp
Pranay Chulet Quikr
Lew Cirne New Relic
James H. Clark Netscape
Scott Cook Intuit
Bram Cohen BitTorrent, CodeCon
Alon Nisim Cohen CyberArk
Stephen Cohen Palantir Technologies
John Collison Stripe
Patrick Collison Stripe, Croma
Kevin O' Connor DoubleClick, FindTheBest, Graphiq
Parker Conrad Zenefits
Veda Hlubinka-Cook Metaweb
Michael Cowpland Corel
Andrew Crawford The Book Depository
Dennis Crowley Foursquare, Dodgeball
Mark Cuban Broadcast.com
Adam D'Angelo Quora
Ben Darnell Cockroach Labs
Sky Dayton EarthLink, Boingo Wireless
Bart Decrem Tapulous, Eazel, Flock
Michael Dell Dell
Nick Denton Gawker Media
Bharat Desai Syntel
Nicolas De Santis Opodo
Graeme Devine Trilobyte, Magic Leap
Chris DeWolfe Myspace
Satish Dharmaraj Zimbra
Roger Dickey Gigster
Ryan Disraeli TeleSign
Chris Dixon Hunch
Dan Dodge QNX
Ralph Dommermuth United Internet
John Donahoe eBay
Jack Dorsey Twitter, Square Inc.
Scott Dorsey ExactTarget
Larry Drebes Janrain, RocketMail, Desktop.com
Rod Drury Xero
David Duffield Workday, Inc. PeopleSoft
Kris Duggan BetterWorks
Phil Dumontet DASHED
Andy Dunn Bonobos
Pavel Durov VK, Telegram
Joshua Dziabiak The Zebra, ShowClix
Fred Ehrsam Coinbase
Daniel Ek Spotify
Sean Ellis GrowthHackers, Qualaroo
Larry Ellison Oracle Corporation
Jeri Ellsworth CastAR
Judith Estrin Bridge Communications, Precept Software, Packet Design
Batara Eto Mixi
Marc Ewing Red Hat
Tony Fadell Nest Labs
Mike Faith Headsets.com
Caterina Fake Flickr, Hunch
Steffan Sondermark Fallesen Servage Hosting
Shawn Fanning Napster, SNOCAP, Rupture, Path, Airtime.com
Faisal Farooqui Mouthshut.com
Scott Farquhar Atlassian
Rahim Fazal Involver, Inc.
Arash Ferdowsi Dropbox
Bran Ferren Applied Minds
David Filo Yahoo
Ryan Finley SurveyMonkey
Rob Fishman Niche, Brat
Mark Fletcher Bloglines
Pete Flint Trulia
Justin Frankel Cockos
Jared Friedman Scribd
Nat Friedman Ximian
Janus Friis Skype, Kazaa, Rdio
Gian Fulgoni ComScore
Marcos Galperin MercadoLibre.com
Bill Gates Microsoft
Dirk Gates Xircom, Xirrus
Jonathan Gay FutureWave Software
Jonathan Zarra Gochat
Joe Gebbia Airbnb
Adam Gibson Deeplearning4j, ND4J
Stephen Gilfus CourseInfo
Bruce Gilliat Alexa Internet
Noah Glass Twitter, Odeo
Craig Taro Gold Teleo, EVoice
Bryan Goldberg Bustle, Elite Daily, Bleacher Report
Jason Goldberg Fab
Anthony Goldbloom Kaggle
David Goldman Sage Group
Adam Goldstein Hipmunk
Vishal Gondal GOQii, Indiagames
Otavio Good Word Lens
Kris Gopalakrishnan Infosys
Terry Gou Foxconn
Andrew Gower Jagex
Paul Graham Viaweb, Y Combinator, Hacker News
Logan Green Lyft
Josh Greenberg Grooveshark
Meron Gribetz Meta
Daniel Gross Cue
Tom Gruber Siri
Garrett Gruener Ask.com, Alta Partners
Dominique Guinard EVRYTHNG
Jeff Gunther Meddius
Vikas Gupta Jambool
Andi Gutmans Zend Technologies
Oleg Gutsol 500px
Daniel Ha Disqus
Simon Hackett Internode (ISP)
Eric Hahn Collabra Software
Brian Halligan HubSpot
Jeff Hammerbacher Cloudera
John Hanke Niantic, Ingress
David Heinemeier Hansson Basecamp, Ruby on Rails, Instiki
Mike Harrington Valve Corporation, Picnik
Julia Hartz Eventbrite
Kevin Hartz Eventbrite, Xoom Corporation
Will Harvey Forterra Systems, IMVU
Reed Hastings Netflix
Trip Hawkins Electronic Arts, The 3DO Company, Digital Chocolate
Jared Hecht GroupMe
Scott Heiferman Meetup, Fotolog
Brett Helm Coradiant, DB Networks
Cal Henderson Slack
Kevin Henrikson Zimbra, Outlook Mobile
Jack Herrick WikiHow
Joe Hewitt Firefox, Parakey
Danny Hillis Metaweb, Applied Minds
David Hindawi Tanium, BigFix Inc
Orion Hindawi Tanium
Alexa Hirschfeld Paperless Post
James Hirschfeld Paperless Post
Jeremy Hitchcock Dyn
Andy Hobsbawm EVRYTHNG
Reid Hoffman LinkedIn
Ryan Holmes Hootsuite
Bri Holt Engrade
Dietmar Hopp SAP SE
Ben Horowitz Opsware, Andreessen Horowitz
Meg Hourihan Pyra Labs, Kinja
Drew Houston Dropbox
Ken Howery Paypal, Founders Fund
Tony Hsieh Zappos, LinkExchange
Jen-Hsun Huang Nvidia
Ma Huateng Tencent
Steve Huffman Reddit
Chris Hughes Facebook
Chad Hurley YouTube, MixBit
Dave Hyatt Firefox, WebKit, Safari
P.J. Hyett GitHub
Aaron Iba AppJet, Etherpad
Miguel de Icaza Xamarin
Brendan Iribe Oculus VR
Subrah Iyar WebEx
Charlie Jackson Silicon Beach Software, FutureWave Software
Naveen Jain Blucora, Moon Express, Intelius
Sumit Jain Commonfloor.com
Josh James Domo, Omniture
Philip J. K. James Snooth, Lot18
Jack Jia Trusper
Steve Jobs Apple Inc, Pixar
Bryan Johnson Braintree, OS Fund, Kernel
Lawrence Jones UKFast
Michael Jones Userplane, MoVoxx, People Media, Brizzly, Myspace
Vikas Joshi Elicitus
Lei Jun Xiaomi, Amazon China
Tomer Kagan Quixey
Brewster Kahle Alexa Internet
Philippe Kahn Fullpower Technologies, LightSurf, Starfish Software, Borland
Travis Kalanick Uber, Red Swoosh
Nithin Kamath Zerodha
Justin Kan Socialcam, Twitch.tv, Exec (errand service)
Philip J. Kaplan Blippy
Amit Kapur Gravity (American company)
Jawed Karim YouTube
Alex Karp Palantir Technologies
David Karp Tumblr
Kenji Kasahara Mixi
Eugene Kaspersky Kaspersky Lab
Natalya Kaspersky Kaspersky Lab
Brad Keywell Groupon, Lightbank, Mediaocean
Salman Khan Khan Academy
Vinod Khosla Sun Microsystems, Khosla Ventures
Spencer Kimball Cockroach Labs
Zach Klein Vimeo
OD Kobo Pheed
Ruslan Kogan Kogan.com
Mahshad Koohgoli Protecode
Andrew Kortina Venmo
Josh Kopelman Half.com
Jan Koum Whatsapp
Shlomo Kramer Check Point, Imperva, Cato Networks
Gary Kremen Match.com
Mike Krieger Instagram
Scott Kurnit About.com
George Kurtz CrowdStrike
Sandra Kurtzig ASK Group, Kenandy
Joshua Kushner Oscar Health
Willem Van Lancker Oyster
Renaud Laplanche Lending Club
Curtis Lee Luxe
Doug Leeds Ask.com
Eric Lefkofsky Groupon, Lightbank, Mediaocean, Tempus
William LeGate Mobile applications
Howard Lerman Yext
Sandy Lerner Cisco Systems
Max Levchin Zip2, Paypal
Aaron Levie Box
Jeremy Levitt Service Seeking
Robin Li Baidu
Kenneth Lin Credit Karma
Vinny Lingham Yola, Silicon Cape Initiative
Jesse Lipson ShareFile
Ted Livingston Kik Messenger
Andrea Lo Piggybackr
Claes Loberg Guvera
Jake Lodwick Vimeo
Joe Lonsdale Palantir Technologies, Addepar
Marc Lore Diapers.com, Jet.com
Martin Lorentzon Tradedoubler, Spotify
Palmer Luckey Oculus VR
Tobias Lütke Shopify
Mina Lux FloNetwork
Michael Richard Lynch Autonomy Corporation
Barrett Lyon Prolexic Technologies, Defense.Net
Adam Lyons The Zebra
Eric Ly LinkedIn
Jack Ma Alibaba Group
Igor Magazinnik Viber
Chris Malachowsky Nvidia
Kumar Malavalli InMage, Brocade Communications Systems
Vikas Malpani Commonfloor
John Manoogian III 140 Proof
Talmon Marco Viber, Juno, IMesh, Expand Networks
Clate Mask Infusionsoft
Mike Masnick Techdirt
Andrew Mason Groupon
Daniel Mattes Jumio, Jajah
Peter Mattis Cockroach Labs
Jed McCaleb eDonkey network, Ripple, Stellar
Andrew McCollum Facebook
Mike McCue Tellme Networks, Flipboard
Jim McKelvey Square Inc.
Nick McKeown Nicira, Open Networking Foundation
William von Meister The Source, AOL, CompuServe
Jordan Mendelson SNOCAP, Yelp SeatMe
Dwight Merriman DoubleClick, MongoDB Inc.
Heidi Messer Rakuten Linkshare
Stephen Messer Rakuten Linkshare
Loïc Le Meur Seesmic
Andrew Michael Fasthosts, Livedrive, Bark
Matt Mickiewicz SitePoint, Flippa
Bob Miner Oracle Corporation
Rich Miner Wildfire Communications, Android
Halsey McLean Minor CNET
Kavin Bharti Mittal hike Messenger
Saket Modi Lucideus
Louis Monier AltaVista
Darius A. Monsef IV Creative Market
Mike Moradian CampusBuddy, CollegeBudget
Brit Morin Brit + Co
Dave Morin Path
Dustin Moskovitz Facebook, Asana
Matt Mullenweg WordPress, Automattic, Akismet
Bobby Murphy Snapchat
Elon Musk Paypal, Tesla Motors, Spacex, Neuralink, SolarCity, The Boring Company, OpenAI, Zip2
Demet Mutlu Trendyol group
Shiv Nadar HCL
Satya Nadella Microsoft
Mariam Naficy Minted
Nalden WeTransfer
N.R.Narayana Murthy Infosys
Divya Narendra ConnectU, SumZero
Ted Nash Little Gossip, Tapdaq
Ashwin Navin BitTorrent
Col Needham IMDb
Seth Neiman Brocade Communications Systems
Gabe Newell Valve Corporation
Craig Newmark Craigslist
Bill Nguyen Color Labs, Lala
Chris Nicholson Deeplearning4j
Preetish Nijhawan Akamai Technologies
Nandan Nilekani Infosys
Daniel Nissan StructuredWeb
Phiwa Nkambule Riovic, Cybatar
Luke Nosek Paypal
Ed Oates Oracle Corporation
Alexis Ohanian Reddit, Initialized Capital
Shaul Olmert Playbuzz
Pierre Omidyar eBay
Raphael Ouzan BillGuard
Stepan Pachikov Evernote
Larry Page Google
Vijay Pandurangan Mitro
James Park Fitbit
Sean Parker Spotify, Plaxo, Napster, Causes
Bob Parsons Go Daddy
Ali Partovi Code.org, LinkExchange, ILike
Ben Pasternak Impossible Rush, Impossible Dial, Flogg, Monkey
Narendra Patni IGATE
Aaron Patzer Mint.com, Fountain
Sunil Paul Sidecar, Brightmail
Bo Peabody Tripod.com
Barney Pell Moon Express, Powerset
Robert Pera Ubiquiti Networks, Memphis Grizzlies
Jonah Peretti BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post
Markus Persson Mojang
Dan Pickett Nfrastructure
Mark Pincus Zynga
Adam Pisoni Yammer
Hasso Plattner SAP SE
Christopher Poole 4chan.org
Joris Poort Rescale
Bhargav Sri Prakash FriendsLearn
Vipul Ved Prakash Topsy Labs
Azim Premji WIPRO
Curtis Priem Nvidia
Tom Proulx Intuit
Jeff Pulver Vonage, Zula
Liu Qiangdong JD.com
Hooman Radfar AddThis
N. S. Raghavan Infosys
Dhiraj Rajaram Mu Sigma Inc.
Aneel Ranadive Pinchit, Tag
Vivek Ranadive TIBCO Software
Jerry Rao Mphasis
Osman Rashid Kno, Chegg
Aza Raskin Songza
Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen Google Maps, Google Wave
Lars Rasmussen Google Maps
Eric Ries IMVU, Lean startup
Jordan Ritter Cloudmark
John Roberts SugarCRM
Michael Robertson MP3.com, Linspire, Gizmo5
Jesse Robbins Chef
Peter Rojas Gizmodo, Engadget, Joystiq
Martin Roscheisen FindLaw
Kevin Rose Digg
Philip Rosedale Linden Lab
Bob Rosenschein Curiyo, Answers.com
Justin Rosenstein Asana
Blake Ross Firefox, Parakey
Andy Rubin Danger, Android
Christian Rudder OkCupid
Matt Rutledge Woot
Kevin P. Ryan MongoDB Inc., DoubleClick, Business Insider
David O. Sacks Yammer
Alexander Samwer Jamba!, Lazada Group
Larry Sanger Citizendium, Wikipedia
Eduardo Saverin Facebook
Michael Sayman 4 Snaps
Michael J. Saylor MicroStrategy
Alan Schaaf Imgur
Joshua Schachter Delicious, Memepool, Geo URI scheme
Stephan Schambach Demandware, Intershop Communications AG
Roman Scharf Jajah
Eric Schiermeyer Zynga
Frank Schilling Uniregistry
Paul Sciarra Pinterest
Adrian Scott Ryze
John Sculley Zeta Interactive
Michael Seibel Justin.tv, Socialcam
Jeff Seibert Crashlytics
Naveen Selvadurai Foursquare
Maneesh Sethi Pavlok
Nahum Sharfman Shopping.com
Kunal Shah FreeCharge
Tina Sharkey Brandless
Liron Shapira Quixey
Vijay Shekhar Sharma Paytm
Evan Sharp Pinterest
Emmett Shear Justin.tv, Twitch.tv
S. D. Shibulal Infosys
Darian Shirazi Radius
Will Shu Deliveroo
Mark Shuttleworth Canonical, Thawte
Gil Shwed Check Point
Ben Silbermann Pinterest
Russel Simmons Yelp
Charles Simonyi Intentional Software
Pradeep Sindhu Juniper Networks
Jeet Singh Art Technology Group
Gunjan Sinha EGain
Rashmi Sinha Slideshare
Jeffrey Skoll EBay
Dylan Smith Box
Jack Smith Outlook.com
Jeffrey Christopher Smith Smule
Aleksander Soender Haxi
Javier Soltero Outlook Mobile
Ashok Soota Happiest Minds
Angelo Sotira DeviantArt
Mark Spencer Digium
Evan Spiegel Snapchat
Joel Spolsky Stack Exchange, Fog Creek Software, Trello
Eric Stanley Onewayhope
Chad Steelberg AdForce, DMarc Broadcasting
Ryan Steelberg AdForce, DMarc Broadcasting
David A. Steinberg Zeta Interactive
Stephen Stokols FreedomPop
Biz Stone Twitter, Jelly
Jeremy Stoppelman Yelp
Alexander Straub Truphone
Ludvig Strigeus MTorrent
Krishna Subramanian BlueLithium
Zeev Suraski Zend Technologies
John A. Swanson Ansys
Aaron Swartz Reddit
Patrick Sweeney ODIN Technologies
Kevin Systrom Instagram
David Tabizel HP Autonomy
Richard (Dick) Talens Fitocracy
Garry Tan Posterous, Initialized Capital
Yoshikazu Tanaka GREE, Inc.
Tolga Tanriseven GirlsAskGuys
Bret Taylor FriendFeed, Quip
Keith Teare Techcrunch, RealNames, Easynet
Rodrigo Teijeiro RecargaPay, Sonico.com, Fnbox
Astro Teller BodyMedia
Chuck Templeton OpenTable
Milun Tesovic MetroLyrics
Naveen Tewari InMobi
Peter Thiel Paypal, Palantir Technologies, Clarium Capital, Founders Fund, Valar Ventures
Sebastian Thrun Udacity
Steven Thomas Webroot
Linus Torvalds Linux, Linux Kernel, Git, Subsurface
Vlad Trifa EVRYTHNG
Janie Tsao Linksys
Victor Tsao Linksys
Klaus Tschira SAP SE
Greg Tseng Tagged
Bhavin Turakhia CodeChef, Media.net, Flock, Ringo
Divyank Turakhia Media.net
Isaiah Turner Monkey
David Ulevitch OpenDNS, EveryDNS
Deena Varshavskaya Wanelo
Pierre Valade Sunrise Calendar
Raj Vattikuti Covansys Corporation
Ricky Van Veen CollegeHumor
Juan Villalonga Terra.com
Kyle Vogt Cruise Automation, Justin.tv
Anubhav Wadhwa Tyrelessly
Romesh Wadhwani Symphony Technology Group
Dan Wagner Venda Inc
Todd Wagner Broadcast.com
Justin Waldron Zynga
Jimmy Wales Wikipedia, Wikia
John Walker Autodesk
Michael Walrath Right Media
Chris Wanstrath GitHub
David Warthen Ask.com
Matt Watson Stackify, VinSolutions
Lynda Weinman lynda.com
Andrew Weinreich SixDegrees.com
Claus Wellenreuther SAP SE
Tom Preston-Werner GitHub, Gravatar, Jekyll
Jay Westerdal DomainTools
Evan Williams Blogger, Twitter, Medium
Jake Winebaum FamilyFun, Business.com
Whitney Wolfe Bumble, Tinder
Brian Wong kiip
Steven Woods NeoEdge Networks
Steve Wozniak Apple Inc, Wheels of Zeus,
Graham Wylie Sage Group
Eric Xu Baidu
Rahul Yadav Housing.com
Sam Yagan OkCupid, SparkNotes
Ramu Yalamanchi Hi5
David Yang ABBYY
Jerry Yang Yahoo
Richard Yoo Rackspace, ServerBeach
Kyle York Dyn
Bob Young Red Hat
Peggy Yu Dangdang
Niklas Zennström Atomico, Skype, Kazaa
Ilya Zhitomirskiy Diaspora
Min Zhu WebEx
John Zimmer Lyft
Phil Zimmermann Pretty Good Privacy, Zfone
Zohar Zisapel RAD Group
Mark Zuckerberg Facebook

See also

References

  1. ^ Radoff, Jon. "On Being an Internet Entrepreneur". Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 4 December 2015.

Further reading