An Internet entrepreneur is an owner, founder or manager of an Internet-based business. This list includes Internet company founders and people brought on to companies for their general business or accounting acumen, as is the case with some CEOs hired by companies started by entrepreneurs.
For a list of pioneers, see List of Internet pioneers.
Internet entrepreneurs
Name Notable company or companies Magic Leap, MAKO Surgical Corp. CollegeHumor, Vimeo, TeePublic WhatsApp Uunet Digg, Equinix, Revision3 IndiaMART OYO Rooms Ola Cabs Recorded Future Duolingo, reCAPTCHA Allaire Corporation, Circle Allaire Corporation, RStudio Microsoft CrowdStrike Loopt, OpenAI, Y Combinator Weblogs, Inc., Ceros Myspace Netscape, Opsware, Mosaic, Andreessen Horowitz Badoo Internet Solutions Hacker Hous Tumblr, Instapaper, Overcast Coinbase Dooce Sharecare, WebMD Nutanix, Cohesity NetObjects, Mode Media TAC Security Download.com, Softonic TechCrunch Prezi Jawbone, State Stack Overflow, Stack Exchange Yemeksepeti Bodog Snapdeal Rediff.com Udemy Flipkart AppDynamics Snapdeal Flipkart Rocket Science Games, Playground Global Freelancer.com Glassdoor, Expedia Inc, Zillow Roblox Slashdot Splunk UpdatesCentral, PeopleLinx Sun Microsystems, Arista Networks Dailymotion QNX Behance Salesforce.com 5by5 Studios Entrepreneur First, Code First: Girls NewMe Scribd, Parse DonorsChoose.org Amazon, Blue Origin Outlook.com Workday, Inc. Ning, Mighty Networks Ashley Madison Naukri.com Nimbula Netscape, Mosaic Cloudera, WibiData Udemy, Lyft Anybots, Eunicycle Epiphany, Inc. Airbnb Engadget GeoCities KidZui Stingray Digital Bot Sentinel Xoom Corporation Google Miss O & Friends FriendFeed Memeburn Ello NetZero TaskRabbit Flickr, Slack Secret Mahalo.com, Weblogs, Inc. Snocap PGP Corporation, Silent Circle Uber, StumbleUpon Tucows CourseInfo Atlassian Yupi Id Software Nicira AOL Mashable Pinboard Foodpanda BlueLithium, Gravity4, RadiumOne Zipcar, Veniam Crashlytics WonderHowTo Quora Fortiva, FloNetwork YouTube, MixBit Airbnb ZPG plc, Cazoo MailChimp New Relic Netscape CyberArk BitTorrent, CodeCon Intuit Palantir Technologies Stripe Stripe, Croma Zenefits Adult FriendFinder Corel The Book Depository Foursquare, Dodgeball Broadcast.com Mevio (PodShow) Quora Cockroach Labs EarthLink, Boingo Wireless Opodo Tapulous, Eazel, Flock Dell Gawker Media Syntel Trilobyte, Magic Leap Myspace Zimbra UiPath TeleSign Hunch QNX Adyen United Internet eBay Feastables, MrBeast Burger Twitter, Square Inc. ExactTarget Janrain, RocketMail, Desktop.com Xero Contiki, LwIP, Protothread, uIP (micro IP) Workday, Inc. PeopleSoft BetterWorks DASHED Bonobos VK, Telegram The Zebra, ShowClix Coinbase Hotels.ng Spotify GrowthHackers, Qualaroo Oracle Corporation CastAR Tobii Technology Bridge Communications, Precept Software, Packet Design Mixi Red Hat Nest Labs Headsets.com Flickr, Hunch Servage Hosting DoorDash Napster, Snocap, Rupture, Path, Airtime.com Mouthshut.com Atlassian Involver, Inc. Dropbox Applied Minds Yahoo SurveyMonkey CrowdOptic Niche, Brat Bloglines Trulia Everipedia Cockos Scribd Ximian Skype, Kazaa, Rdio ComScore MercadoLibre.com Microsoft Xircom, Xirrus FutureWave Software Airbnb Alexa Internet Twitter, Odeo Find Engine, Computerworld Bustle, Elite Daily, Bleacher Report Fab LAUNCH Media, SurveyMonkey Kaggle Sage Group Hipmunk GOQii, Indiagames Word Lens Infosys Foxconn Viaweb, Y Combinator, Hacker News The Trade Desk, AdECN Lyft Grooveshark Meta OLX, Zingy, Aucland Cue Siri Ask.com, Alta Partners EVRYTHNG Jambool Zend Technologies 500px Disqus Internode Proofpoint, Inc., Lookout Software HubSpot Cloudera Niantic, Ingress Basecamp, Ruby on Rails, Instiki Valve, Picnik Eventbrite Eventbrite, Xoom Corporation Forterra Systems, IMVU DeepMind Technologies Limited, Isomorphic Labs Netflix Electronic Arts, The 3DO Company, Digital Chocolate Angi GroupMe Meetup, Fotolog Starship Technologies, Skype Coradiant, DB Networks Slack Firefox, Parakey Metaweb, Applied Minds Tanium, BigFix Inc Tanium Paperless Post Paperless Post Dyn Metaweb EVRYTHNG LinkedIn Hootsuite Engrade SAP Opsware, Andreessen Horowitz Pyra Labs, Kinja Dropbox PayPal, Founders Fund Zappos, LinkExchange Nvidia Tencent Huffington Post, Thrive Global Reddit Facebook YouTube, MixBit Firefox, WebKit, Safari GitHub AppJet, Etherpad Xamarin Oculus VR WebEx Silicon Beach Software, FutureWave Software Blucora, Moon Express, Intelius Commonfloor.com Domo, Omniture Snooth, Lot18 Boing Boing Trusper Apple Inc, Pixar Braintree, OS Fund, Kernel UKFast EyeMail Inc. Userplane, MoVoxx, People Media, Brizzly, Myspace Elicitus Xiaomi, Amazon China Alexa Internet Fullpower Technologies, LightSurf, Starfish Software, Borland Uber, Red Swoosh, Scour Inc. Socialcam, Twitch, Exec Blippy Gravity YouTube Palantir Technologies Tumblr Mixi Kaspersky Lab Kaspersky Lab Groupon, Lightbank, Mediaocean Khan Academy Sun Microsystems, Khosla Ventures Cockroach Labs Vimeo Malwarebytes Pheed Kogan.com Half.com WhatsApp Check Point, Imperva, Cato Networks Match.com Instagram About.com CrowdStrike ASK Group, Kenandy Oscar Health Oyster Lending Club Ask.com Groupon, Lightbank, Mediaocean Google DeepMind Yext Cisco Systems Zip2, PayPal, Slide.com, Affirm Box Service Seeking Baidu Credit Karma Yola, Silicon Cape Initiative ShareFile Kik Messenger Piggybackr Guvera Vimeo Business Telecom Diapers.com, Jet.com Tradedoubler, Spotify Oculus VR ServiceNow Shopify LinkedIn Autonomy Corporation Prolexic Technologies, Defense.Net The Zebra Alibaba Group Viber, iMesh Nvidia InMage, Brocade Communications Systems Slashdot 140 Proof Viber, Juno, IMesh, Expand Networks Groupon Net-a-Porter Jumio, Jajah Cockroach Labs eDonkey network, Ripple, Stellar Facebook Tellme Networks, Flipboard Square Inc. Nicira, Open Networking Foundation The Source, AOL, CompuServe DoubleClick, MongoDB Inc. Rakuten Linkshare Rakuten Linkshare Seesmic Fasthosts, Livedrive, Bark Oracle Corporation Wildfire Communications, Android CNET hike Messenger Genius, Everipedia Afterpay AltaVista Creative Market Brit + Co Path Facebook, Asana OpenAI, ChatGPT WordPress, Automattic, Akismet Snapchat Infosys PayPal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX, Neuralink, SolarCity, The Boring Company, OpenAI, Zip2 Trendyol group HCL Microsoft Minted ConnectU, SumZero Little Gossip, Tapdaq BitTorrent IMDb Brocade Communications Systems Valve Craigslist Color Labs, Lala Akamai Technologies Infosys 2channel, Niconico, 2ch.sc, 4chan PayPal Oracle Corporation DoubleClick, FindTheBest, Graphiq Reddit, Initialized Capital Nord Security Playbuzz eBay Nairaland OLX, Letgo BillGuard Evernote Google Mitro Fitbit Spotify, Plaxo, Napster, Causes Go Daddy Code.org, LinkExchange, ILike Impossible Rush, Impossible Dial, Flogg, Monkey IGATE Mint.com, Fountain Sidecar, Brightmail Tripod.com OnePlus, Nothing Moon Express, Powerset Ubiquiti Networks, Memphis Grizzlies BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post Canva Mojang, The Huffington Post Quepasa, The Meet Group Word Magazine, Bolt.com Nfrastructure Zynga, Tribe.net, Support.com Yammer SAP Vodien ClearStreet, SpikeSource 4chan.org Rescale Topsy Labs WIPRO GitHub, Gravatar, Jekyll Nvidia Intuit Vonage, Zula JD.com SickNotDead.com, WhatEverLife.com AddThis Infosys Mu Sigma Inc. TIBCO Software Mphasis Kno, Chegg Songza Google Maps, Google Wave Google Maps Satyam Computer Services Byju's AngelList Cyient Moonberg Entertainment Tiscali IMVU, Lean startup Cloudmark Chef SugarCRM MP3.com, Linspire, Gizmo5 Gizmodo, Engadget, Joystiq FindLaw Digg, Pownce, Revision3 Linden Lab Answers.com Asana Firefox, Parakey Danger, Android OkCupid Woot MongoDB Inc., DoubleClick, Business Insider Yammer, Geni.com, Craft Ventures Gokada, Pathao, JoBike Citizendium, Wikipedia Facebook MicroStrategy 4 Snaps Imgur Delicious, Memepool, Geo URI scheme Demandware, Intershop Communications AG Uniregistry Fabula AI, The Craftory, Beamly Adyen Pinterest Ryze Zeta Interactive Justin.tv, Socialcam Crashlytics Foursquare MessageMe, Lolapps, Yahoo! Livetext Shopping.com Brandless Paytm Pinterest Justin.tv, Twitch Infosys Deliveroo Canonical, Thawte Check Point Klarna Pinterest Yelp Intentional Software Juniper Networks Mr Lawyer EGain Slideshare EBay Box Qualtrics Outlook.com Outlook Mobile DeviantArt Digium Snap Inc. (formerly Snapchat) Stack Exchange, Fog Creek Software, Trello Counsyl, Earn.com, Teleport Eric Stanley Stay Inspired Zeta Interactive FreedomPop Twitter, Jelly Yelp μTorrent BlueLithium Zend Technologies Google DeepMind AlexNet, OpenAI Zendesk Ansys Reddit ODIN Technologies Recode Instagram HP Autonomy Fitocracy Payoneer Posterous, Initialized Capital GREE, Inc. DoorDash FriendFeed, Quip Techcrunch, RealNames, Easynet TeRra Magazine RecargaPay, Sonico.com, Fnbox BodyMedia OpenTable CommerceNet MetroLyrics PayPal, Palantir Technologies, Clarium Capital, Founders Fund, Valar Ventures Webroot Udacity Linux, Linux Kernel, Git, Subsurface Lifehacker OutKick EVRYTHNG Six Apart, Movable Type, TypePad Six Apart, Movable Type, TypePad penelopetrunk.com Linksys Linksys SAP Tagged CodeChef, Media.net, Flock, Ringo, Zeta India Media.net Monkey Zuora OpenDNS, EveryDNS Wanelo Covansys Corporation CollegeHumor Terra.com Cruise Automation, Justin.tv Tyrelessly Symphony Technology Group Venda Inc Broadcast.com Zynga Wikipedia, Wikia Autodesk Right Media Niantic GitHub Ask.com Stackify, VinSolutions lynda.com SixDegrees.com SAP DomainTools Blogger, Twitter, Medium Daisie FamilyFun, Business.com Bumble, Tinder kiip NeoEdge Networks Apple Inc, Wheels of Zeus Sage Group Baidu DoorDash Housing.com OkCupid, SparkNotes Yahoo Rackspace, ServerBeach Red Hat Dangdang Atomico, Skype, Kazaa Bytedance (Douyin/TikTok) Binance) Diaspora WebEx Lyft Pretty Good Privacy, Zfone RAD Group FacebookAvishai AbrahamiWix.com
See also
List of entrepreneurs List of Internet pioneers Startup company Business incubator Skunkworks project
References
Further reading Livingston, Jessica, Founders at works: stories of startups' early days, Berkeley, CA: Apress; New York: Distributed to the book trade worldwide by Springer-Verlag New York, 2007.