One of the best interviews with online entrepreneurs
Travis Kalanick
Travis Kalanick is the co-founder of Uber.
Travis Cordell Kalanick (born August 6, 1976) is an American entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of the peer-to-peer file sharing company Red Swoosh and the transportation network company Uber.
ELON MUSK
Elon Musk is the founder of PayPal, SpaceX, and Telsa Motors.
Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is a South African-born Canadian-American business entrepreneur, engineer, inventor and investor. He is the founder, CEO and CTO of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors; chairman of SolarCity, co-chairman of OpenAI; co-founder of Zip2; and co-founder of PayPal.
JEFF BEZOS
Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon.
Jeffrey Preston “Jeff” Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is an American technology entrepreneur and investor. He has played a role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products and services, most recently video streaming. Amazon.com became the largest retailer on the World Wide Web and a model for Internet sales.
Tony Hsieh
Tony Hsieh is the CEO of Zappos.
Tony Hsieh (born December 12, 1973) is an American internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is the CEO of the online shoe and clothing shop Zappos. Prior to joining Zappos, Hsieh co-founded the internet advertising network LinkExchange, which he sold to Microsoft in 1999 for $265 million.[3]
Evan Williams
Evan Williams is the co-founder of Blogger, Twitter and Medium.
Evan Clark Williams (born March 31, 1972) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur who has founded Blogger, Twitter and Medium. Williams was previously Chairman and CEO of Twitter, one of the internet’s top ten websites.[3]
Kevin Systrom
Kevin Systrom is the co-founder of Instagram.
Kevin Systrom (born December 30, 1983) is an American entrepreneur and computer programmer, best known as the co‑founder and CEO of Instagram, an online mobile photo, video sharing application.
Jack Dorsey
Jack Dorsey is the co-founder of Twitter and Square.
Jack Dorsey (born November 19, 1976) is an American programmer and entrepreneur widely known as a co-founder and CEO of Twitter, and as the founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company.
Paul Graham
Paul Graham is the co-founder of Y Combinator
Paul Graham (born 13 November 1964) is an English computer scientist, venture capitalist, and essayist. He is known for his work on Lisp, for co-founding Viaweb (which eventually became Yahoo! Store), and for co-founding the Y Combinator seed capital firm.
Evan Spiegel
Evan Spiegel is the co-founder of Snapchat.
Evan Thomas Spiegel (born June 4, 1990) is an American Internet entrepreneur who is the co-founder and CEO of the mobile application Snapchat.
Drew Houston
Drew Houston is the co-founder of Dropbox.
Andrew W. “Drew” Houston (born March 4, 1983) is an American Internet entrepreneur who is best known for being the founder and CEO of Dropbox, an online backup and storage service.
Brian Chesky
Brian Chesky is the co-founder of Airbnb.
Brian Joseph Chesky (born August 29, 1981) is an American Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of the co-founders of the hospitality exchange service, Airbnb. Chesky is the CEO of the company.
Jack Ma
Jack Ma is the founder of Alibaba.
Jack Ma or Ma Yun (born September 10, 1964) is a Chinese business magnate and philanthropist. He is the founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group, a family of successful Internet-based businesses.
Tom Preston-Werner
Tom Preston-Werner is the co-founder of Github.
Thomas “Tom” Preston-Werner (born October 28, 1979) he is most prominently known for his role as founder and former CEO of GitHub, a Git repository web-based hosting service, which he co-founded in 2008 with Chris Wanstrath and PJ Hyett. Preston-Werner is also the creator of the avatar service, Gravatar.
Chad Hurley
Chad Hurley is the co-founder of Youtube
Chad Meredith Hurley (born January 24, 1977) is an American co-founder and former CEO of the popular video-sharing website YouTube and MixBit.
Ben Silbermann
Ben Silbermann is co-founder of Pinterest.
Ben Silbermann (born 1982) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded and is CEO of Pinterest, a virtual pinboard which lets users organize images, links, recipes and other things.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is the co-founder of Facebook.
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer, Internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the chairman, chief executive, and co-founder of the social networking website Facebook.
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