Who are the founders and CEOs of popular tech companies?
Most of us know our Musks from our Bezos and our Gates from our Jobs. But who are the founders and CEOs behind a lot of the other, most popular tech companies? Who’s the CEO of Dyson? Can you name the 3 founders of Apple? We’ve pulled together a list – both of the company founders, but also the current CEO.
But first, a few notes…
- Many companies are subsidiaries. In this case, we’ve listed the parent company in brackets after the name.
- Where a company doesn’t have a CEO we’ve listed an equivalent person with their title in brackets.
- For simplicity, we’ve removed company suffixes, such as “Inc.”.
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| Company | Founder(s) | CEO |
|---|---|---|
| Acer | Stan Shih, Carolyn Yeh & George Huang | Jason Chen |
| Adobe | John Warnock & Charles Geschke | Shantanu Narayen |
| Alibaba | Jack Ma | Daniel Zhang |
| Amazon | Jeff Bezos | Jeff Bezos |
| Anker | Steven Yang | Steven Yang |
| AMD | Jerry Sanders | Lisa Su |
| Apple | Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak & Ronald Wayne | Tim Cook |
| ARM | Jamie Urquhart, Mike Muller, Tudor Brown, Lee Smith, John Biggs, Harry Oldham, Dave Howard, Pete Harrod, Harry Meekings, Al Thomas, Andy Merritt & David Sea | Simon Segars |
| Asus | Ted Hsu, M.T. Liao, Wayne Tsiah, T.H. Tung & Luca D.M | Jonney Shih (Chairman) |
| Automattic | Matt Mullenweg | Matt Mullenweg |
| Broadcom | (Started as a division of HP) | Tan Hock Eng |
| ByteDance | Zhang Yiming & Liang Rubo | Zhang Yiming |
| Capgemini | Serge Kampf | Aiman Ezzat |
| Cisco | Leonard Bosack & Sandy Lerner | Chuck Robbins |
| Dell | Michael Dell | Michael Dell |
| Dropbox | Drew Houston & Arash Ferdowsi | Drew Houston |
| Dyson | James Dyson | Roland Krueger |
| eBay | Pierre Omidyar | Jamie Iannone |
| Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz & Chris Hughes | Mark Zuckerberg | |
| Foxconn | Terry Gou | Young Liu (Chairman and President) |
| Fujitsu | (Started as a division of Fuji) | Masami Yamamoto (Chairman) |
| Google (Alphabet) | Larry Page & Sergey Brin | Sundar Pichai |
| Hive | (Started as a division of Centrica) | |
| Honor | Ren Zhengfei | |
| HP | Bill Hewlett & David Packard | Enrique Lores |
| Huawei | Ren Zhengfei | Ren Zhengfei |
| IBM | Charles Ranlett Flint | Arvind Krishna |
| Instagram (Facebook) | Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger | |
| Intel | Gordon Moore & Robert Noyce | Pat Gelsinger |
| Kaspersky | Eugene Kaspersky, Natalya Kaspersky, Alexey De-Monderik & Vadim Bogdanov | Eugene Kaspersky |
| Lenovo | Liu Chuanzhi | Yang Yuanqing |
| LG | Koo In-hwoi | Koo Kwang-mo |
| Logitech | Daniel Borel, Pierluigi Zappacosta & Giacomo Marini | Bracken Darrell |
| McAfee | John McAfee | Peter Leav |
| Microsoft | Bill Gates & Paul Allen | Satya Nadella |
| Nest (Google) | Tony Fadell & Matt Rogers | |
| Netgear | Patrick Lo | Patrick Lo |
| Nintendo | Fusajiro Yamauchi | Shuntaro Furukawa (President) |
| Nokia | Fredrik Idestam, Leo Mechelin & Eduard Polón | Pekka Lundmark |
| Nvidia | Jensen Huang, Curtis Priem & Chris Malachowsky | Jensen Huang |
| OnePlus | Carl Pei & Pete Lau | Pete Lau |
| Oppo | Tony Chen | Tony Chen |
| Oracle | Larry Ellison, Bob Miner & Ed Oates | Safra Catz |
| PayPal (eBay) | Ken Howery, Luke Nosek, Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Yu Pan & Elon Musk | |
| Philips | Gerard Philips & Anton Philips | Frans van Houten |
| Ring (Amazon) | Jamie Siminoff | |
| Salesforce | Marc Benioff, Parker Harris, Dave Moellenhoff & Frank Dominguez | Marc Benioff |
| Samsung | Lee Byung-chul | Lee Jae-yong (President) |
| Shopify | Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand & Scott Lake | Tobias Lütke |
| Softbank | Masayoshi Son | Masayoshi Son |
| Sony | Masaru Ibuka & Akio Morita | Kenichiro Yoshida |
| Spotify | Daniel Ek & Martin Lorentzon | Daniel Ek |
| Squarespace | Anthony Casalena | Anthony Casalena |
| Tencent | Ma Huateng, Zhang Zhidong, Xu Chenye, Chen Yidan & Zeng Liqing | Ma Huateng |
| Tesla | Martin Eberhard & Marc Tarpenning | Elon Musk |
| Texas Instruments | Cecil H. Green, J. Erik Jonsson, Eugene McDermott & Patrick E. Haggerty | Rich Templeton |
| TP-Link | Zhao Jianjun & Zhao Jiaxing | Jeffrey Chao (Chairman) |
| Tumblr (Automattic) | David Karp | |
| Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone & Evan Williams | Jack Dorsey | |
| Vodafone | Ernest Harrison & Gerry Whent | Nick Read |
| Wix | Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami & Giora Kaplan | Avishai Abrahami |
| Qualcomm | Irwin Jacobs & Andrew Viterbi | Cristiano Amon |
| WordPress.com (Automattic) | Matt Mullenweg | |
| Yahoo (Verizon Media) | Jerry Yang & David Filo | |
| YouTube (Google) | Chad Hurley, Steve Chen & Jawed Karim | Susan Wojcicki |
| Zoom | Eric Yuan | Eric Yuan |
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