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Sam's Founders who are great at X

bySam Kaufman

  1. Ryan Petersen

    Founder and CEO of Flexport; venture partner at Founders Fund

    1. Flexport

      Founder and CEO

      2013 – Present

    2. Founders Fund

      Venture Partner

      Present

    3. Columbia Business School — Deming Center

      Advisory Board Member

      Present

  2. Travis Kalanick

    Founder and CEO of Atoms; co-founder of Uber

    1. Atoms

      Founder and Chief Executive Officer

      2018-03 – Present

    2. 10100

      Founder

      2018-03 – Present

    3. Uber

      Co-founder and board member

      2009 – 2019-12

  3. tobi lutke

    Co-founder and CEO of Shopify

    1. Shopify

      Co-founder and CEO

      2008-04 – Present

  4. Mira Murati

    Founder and CEO at Thinking Machines

    1. Thinking Machines

      Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

      2024-12 – Present

    2. Unlearn

      Board Member

      2023-03 – Present

    3. OpenAI

      Chief Technology Officer

      2022-05 – 2024

  1. Palmer Luckey

    Founder of Anduril Industries; angel investor

    1. Erebor

      Co-founder

      2025 – Present

    2. Anduril

      Founder

      2017 – Present

    3. ModRetro

      Founder

      Present

  2. Blake Scholl

    Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, developing supersonic aircraft and propulsion systems.

    1. Boom Supersonic

      Founder and CEO

      2014-04 – Present

    2. Groupon

      Sr. Director (Point of Sale; then SmartDeals, Relevance & Personalization)

      2012-02 – 2014-03

    3. Kima Labs

      Co-Founder & CEO

      2010-01 – 2012-02

  3. Dylan Field

    Co-founder, Chair, CEO, and President of Figma

    1. Figma

      Co-founder, Chair, Chief Executive Officer and President

      2025-04 – Present

    2. LinkedIn

      Data Analytics Intern

      2010 – 2010

  4. Dario Amodei

    Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic

    1. Anthropic

      Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

      2021 – Present

    2. OpenAI

      Vice President of Research

      2019-12 – 2020-12

    3. Google

      Senior Research Scientist, Google Brain

      2015-10 – 2016-07

  1. Scott Wu

    Co-founder and CEO of Cognition

    1. Cognition

      Co-founder and CEO

      2023-11 – Present

    2. Lunchclub

      Co-founder and CTO

      2022

    3. Scale AI

      Founding Engineer

      Past

  2. Nikita Bier

    Product Growth Partner at Lightspeed; Advisor to X

    1. X

      Advisor

      2026-08 – Present

    2. Lightspeed Venture Partners

      Product Growth Partner

      2024-09 – Present

    3. Solana

      Advisor

      Present

  3. Chris Bakke

    MTS co-founder; entrepreneur and angel investor

    1. MTS

      Co-Founder

      Present

  4. Ilya Sutskever

    Co-founder and CEO at Safe Superintelligence

    1. Safe Superintelligence

      Co-founder and CEO

      2025-07 – Present

    2. OpenAI

      Co-founder and Chief Scientist

      2018-11 – 2024-05

    3. Google

      Research Scientist

      2013-03 – 2015-12

  1. Alexandr Wang

    Chief AI Officer and Head of Meta Superintelligence Labs at Meta

    1. Meta

      Chief AI Officer and Head of Meta Superintelligence Labs

      2025-06 – Present

    2. Expedia Group

      Independent Director

      2023-06 – Present

    3. Scale

      Co-founder and Board Member

      2016 – Present

  3. Amjad Masad

    CEO of Replit; angel investor

    1. Replit

      Founder and CEO

      2016-04 – Present

    2. Meta

      Tech Lead, JavaScript Infrastructure

      2016

    3. Codecademy

      Founding Engineer

      2011-11 – 2013-10

  4. Michael Truell

    Co-founder and CEO of Cursor; SpaceXAI leader

    1. xAI

      AI

      2026-08 – Present

    2. Cursor

      Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

      2022 – Present

    3. Dorm Room Fund

      Student Investment Partner (Class of 2019)

      2019 – 2019

  1. Max Spero

    Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Pangram

    1. Pangram

      Co-founder and CEO

      Present

  2. John Collison

    Co-founder and president of Stripe

    1. Stripe

      Co-founder and President

      2010 – Present

  3. Jensen Huang

    Co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer at NVIDIA

    1. NVIDIA

      Co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer

      1993 – Present

    2. LSI Logic

      Director, Coreware

      1985 – 1993

    3. AMD

      Microprocessor Designer

      1984 – 1985

  4. Sam Altman

    Building OpenAI and the intelligence age

    1. OpenAI

      Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

      2023-11 – Present

    2. Tools for Humanity

      Co-founder and Chairman

      Present

    3. Merge Labs

      Co-founder

      Present