Julia Hartz went from MTV and FX to co-founding Eventbrite in 2006, became CEO in 2016 and took it public in 2018.
Jack Conte, a YouTube musician with the duo Pomplamoose, co-founded Patreon to help creators earn directly from their fans and serves as its CEO.
Kevin Rose co-founded Digg, which launched in December 2004, and other startups including Revision3, Pownce and Milk, and re-purchased Digg with Alexis Ohanian in 2025.
Alexis Ohanian co-founded Reddit with Steve Huffman and Aaron Swartz, then co-founded the venture firm Initialized Capital and worked as a Y Combinator partner.
Bob Parsons founded GoDaddy in 1997, sold about 70 percent to a private equity consortium in 2011 and now runs YAM Worldwide across power sports, golf, real estate and marketing.
David Filo and Jerry Yang started 'Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web' in February 1994, which they renamed Yahoo! and turned into one of the internet's pioneering companies.
Jerry Yang arrived in San Jose from Taiwan at ten knowing one English word, met David Filo at Stanford and co-founded Yahoo!, later serving as its CEO.
Steve Case ran America Online as CEO from 1991, orchestrated the 2000 AOL Time Warner merger and later founded the venture firm Revolution LLC.
Jimmy Wales, a former options trader, launched Wikipedia on January 15, 2001 with Larry Sanger and co-founded the wiki host Fandom.
Craig Newmark, a former IBM, Bank of America and Charles Schwab programmer, founded Craigslist and later Craig Newmark Philanthropies.
Sundar Pichai joined Google in 2004, led Chrome, ChromeOS and Google Drive, became Google's CEO in 2015 and Alphabet's CEO in 2019.
Ev Williams grew up on a Nebraska farm, founded Blogger, co-founded Twitter and later created Medium and the venture firm Obvious Ventures.
