Joe Lacob, a Kleiner Perkins partner since 1987, is the principal owner of the Golden State Warriors and Golden State Valkyries.
Julia Hartz went from MTV and FX to co-founding Eventbrite in 2006, became CEO in 2016 and took it public in 2018.
Ben Horowitz co-founded Loudcloud, turned it into Opsware and sold it to HP for $1.6 billion in 2007, then co-founded Andreessen Horowitz with Marc Andreessen.
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.
Dylan Field left Brown University on a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship to co-found Figma with Evan Wallace, releasing the web-based design tool in 2016.
Tom Steyer founded the hedge fund Farallon Capital in 1986, left in 2012 for climate advocacy, and spent over $253 million on his 2020 presidential run.
Baiju Bhatt co-founded zero-commission trading platform Robinhood in 2013 with Vlad Tenev, led its product and design, and later founded Cowboy Space Corporation.
Vlad Tenev moved from Bulgaria at five, met Baiju Bhatt at Stanford and co-founded Robinhood, which became a publicly traded multibillion-dollar fintech company.
Aaron Patzer founded Mint.com, sold to Intuit in 2009, then Fountain.com, sold to Porch.com in 2015, and the health app Vital.
Meg Whitman led eBay and Hewlett-Packard as CEO, ran for California governor in 2010 spending $144 million of her own money, and served as US ambassador to Kenya from 2022 to 2024.
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.
