An open index of founder and operator profiles published by Art of the Startup. Each entry links to a full written profile.
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Submit for review| Name | Known for | Based in | Company |
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| Sam Altman | Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI | San Francisco, California | OpenAI |
| Dario Amodei | Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic | San Francisco, California | Anthropic |
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| Marques Brownlee | Founder of MKBHD and Studio MKBHD | New Jersey | Studio MKBHD |
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| Emma Chamberlain | Founder of Chamberlain Coffee | Los Angeles, California | Chamberlain Coffee |
| Erhan Ciris | Founder and CEO of 4D Sight | New York City | 4D Sight |
| Patrick Collison | Co-founder and CEO of Stripe | San Francisco, California | Stripe |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Faranak Firozan | Executive and life coach helping Silicon Valley professionals align ambition with wellbeing | Santa Clara, CA | Faranak Executive Coaching |
| Wade Foster | Co-founder and CEO of Zapier | Columbia | Zapier |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Ali Ghodsi | Co-founder and CEO of Databricks | San Francisco, California | Databricks |
| Gregory Graf | Founder & CEO, Snake River Strategies | Star, Idaho | Snake River Strategies |
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| Kristi Hardy | Founder of Cinderella Dress Rentals and a community advocate in Kuna, Idaho | Kuna, ID | Cinderella Dress Rentals |
| Allison Hild | Cincinnati workplace transition specialist and career coach | Cincinnati, Ohio | Independent coaching practice |
| Name | Known for | Based in | Company |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Liang | Co-founder and CEO of Otter.ai | Mountain View, California | Otter.ai |
| Max Lytvyn | Co-founder of Grammarly | San Francisco | Grammarly |
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| Eoghan McCabe | Co-founder and CEO of Intercom | San Francisco, California | Intercom |
| Valerie Mills | Founder of Mills Marketing and St. Louis social media consultant | St. Louis, Missouri | Mills Marketing |
| Jeffrey Morgan | Co-founder and CEO of Ollama, and previously a builder of Docker Desktop | San Francisco, CA | Ollama |
| Shashank Murali | Co-founder of TapChief, building Airlearn | Bangalore, Karnataka | Airlearn |
| Elon Musk | Founder and CEO of SpaceX | Austin, Texas | SpaceX |
| Name | Known for | Based in | Company |
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| Hannah Neeleman | Co-Founder of Ballerina Farm and former professional ballerina | Kamas, UT | Ballerina Farm |
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| Jan Oberhauser | Founder and CEO of n8n | Berlin | n8n |
| Anton Osika | Co-founder and CEO of Lovable | Stockholm | Lovable |
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| Melanie Perkins | Co-founder and CEO of Canva | Sydney, New South Wales | Canva |
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| Dave Rogenmoser | Co-founder and CEO of Jasper | Austin, Texas | Jasper |
| Name | Known for | Based in | Company |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stuart Squires | Clinical Director at Vive Adolescent Care | St. George, Utah | Vive Adolescent Care |
| Lucjan Suski | Co-founder and CEO of Surfer SEO | Wroclaw | Surfer SEO |
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| Kathy Taylor | Retired womens lacrosse coach and 2018 NCAA Division II national champion | Cazenovia, New York | Le Moyne College |
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| Gavin Uberti | Co-founder and CEO of Etched | San Jose, CA | Etched |
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| Frank VanderSloot | Founder and Executive Chairman of Melaleuca, The Wellness Company | Idaho Falls, Idaho | Melaleuca, The Wellness Company |
| Claire Vo | Founder and CEO of ChatPRD, three-time chief product officer, host of How I AI | San Francisco, CA | ChatPRD |
| Name | Known for | Based in | Company |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tim Zheng | Co-founder and CEO of Apollo.io | San Francisco, California | Apollo.io |
| Yang Zhilin | Co-founder and CEO of Moonshot AI, and a co-author of Transformer-XL and XLNet | Beijing | Moonshot AI |