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Logan Green

Lyft

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Mark Zuckerberg

Meta Platforms

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Jonah Peretti

Buzzfeed

Deepinder Goyal

Deepinder Goyal

Zomato

Jan Koum

Jan Koum

WhatsApp Inc.

Reed Hastings

Reed Hastings

Netflix

Chris Barton

Chris Barton

Guard Inc.

Sujeet Kumar

Sujeet Kumar

Udaan

Chad Richison

Chad Richison

Paycom

Eric S. Yuan

Eric S. Yuan

Zoom Video Communications, Inc.

Clark Valberg

Clark Valberg

InVisionApp Inc.

Yoshikazu Tanaka

Yoshikazu Tanaka

Gree Inc

Pranay Chulet

Pranay Chulet

Quikr

Sid Sijbrandij

Sid Sijbrandij

GitLab

Srinivasu M. N.

Srinivasu M. N.

BillDesk

Alex Shevchenko

Alex Shevchenko

Grammarly

Stepan Pachikov

Stepan Pachikov

EverNote

Evan Spiegel

Evan Spiegel

Snap Inc.

Chris Wanstrath

Chris Wanstrath

GitHub

Mark Pincus

Mark Pincus

Zynga

Sriharsha Majety

Sriharsha Majety

Swiggy

Melanie Perkins

Melanie Perkins

Canva

Sarah Leary

Sarah Leary

Nextdoor

Ben Silbermann

Ben Silbermann

Pinterest

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Narayana Murthy

Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy CBE LH is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is the founder of Infosys and has been the chairman, chief executive officer, president, and chief mentor of the company before retiring and taking the title of chairman emeritus.

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Narayana Murthy

Infosys

Founder and Chairman Emeritus Started on the side Doesn't code

Mark Pincus

Mark Jonathan Pincus is an American entrepreneur known as the founder of Zynga, a mobile social gaming company. Pincus also founded the startups Freeloader, Inc., Tribe Networks, and Support.com.

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Mark Pincus

Zynga

CEO, Cofounder Quit job to start Doesn't code

Kavin Bharti Mittal

Kavin Bharti Mittal is an Indian internet entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Hike. From 2012 to 2018, Hike built a SuperApp centered around messaging to bring India, a mobile-first population online.

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Kavin Bharti Mittal

Hike

Founder & CEO Quit job to start Does code

Sujeet Kumar

Sujeet Kumar is a co-founder of udaan. He founded udaan in 2016 with Vaibhav Gupta and Amod Malviya, who were both former senior executives at Flipkart.

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Sujeet Kumar

Udaan

Co-Founder, CEO Quit job to start Doesn't code

Jan Koum

Jan Koum is the co-founder and former CEO of WhatsApp, a mobile messaging app which was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for US$19.3 billion.

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Jan Koum

WhatsApp Inc.

Co-Founder, CEO Started on the side Does code

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