Named people in the GTM cases: Who built
the engine?

Aaron Levie

Co-founder and CEO

Abhi

founder with Cambridge MBA

Abhinav Asthana

Cofounder and CEO

Adam Bujak

Capgemini automation leader; partner-side operator

Adam Carr

Head of Global Sales in the 2023 account

Adam Guild

CEO and co-founder

Adam Markowitz

Cofounder and CEO; retrospective author

Adam Wiggins

Cofounder

Adarsh Hiremath

Cofounder; CTO at launch, later co-CEO

Aidan Gomez

co-founder and CEO

Akshay Kothari

COO/co-founder in the historical profile

Alan Chang

CEO and co-founder, former Revolut operator

Alex Bouaziz

CEO

Alex Halliday

founder and CEO, interviewed about segmentation and customer onboarding

Alex Holt

Field CTO

Alex Kendall

co-founder and CEO

Alex MacCaw

Founder

Alex Mashrabov

Co-founder and CEO

Alex Shevchenko

Co-founder

Alex Solomon

Cofounder

Alex Stephany

CEO and former JustPark operator

Alex Zhu

Musical.ly cofounder; TikTok senior vice president in 2018

Alexander Rinke

Co-founder and co-CEO

Alexandr Wang

Cofounder; CEO until the June 2025 Meta move

Alexandre de Brebisson, Kundan Kumar and Jose Sotelo

Lyrebird founders

Alexis Ohanian

Co-founder

Alfred Lin

Sequoia investor and board member

Alina Vandenberghe

Cofounder

Ally DeForest

Author of the 2022 customer-success handbook

Aman Narang

Co-founder

Amanda Kahlow

Founder

Ami Luttwak

Co-founder and CTO

Amir Haghighat

Co-founder & CTO

Amit Bendov

Co-founder and CEO

Amjad Masad

Co-founder & CEO

Amy Pressman

Co-founder

Andrew Bialecki

Co-founder and CEO

Andrew Guttormsen

Co-founder, growth and marketing

Andrew Mason

Founder

Andrew Mauboussin

Engineering and ML leader in archived Surge biography

Andrew Miklas and Baskar Puvanathasan

Cofounders

Andrew Ofstad

Co-founder; product leader in the historical interview

Andrew Petrov, Kos Stiskin, Oleg Laguta and Yakov Novikov

co-founders identified by the investor

Andrew Schapiro

Creative director in the 2021 interview

Andrew Warden

Marketing executive

Andrey Dobrynin

managing director interviewed about product evolution

Andrey Khusid

Co-founder and CEO

Andrus Purde

Early marketing leader

Andy Byrne

Co-founder and early CEO

Andy Konwinski

Co-founder

Andy Puddicombe

Co-founder

Aneel Bhusri

Cofounder

Angelica Cabellos

SVP, Value Engineering International

Ankit Sobti and Abhijit Kane

Cofounders

Anna Baird

Former CFO/COO, later CRO

Anne Raimondi

COO and Head of Business appointed 2021

Annie Liao

Build Club founder; education partner

Anthony Katz

First account executive

Anton Osika

Co-founder & CEO

Ara Mahdessian

Cofounder and CEO in the memo

Arash Ferdowsi

Co-founder

Aravind Srinivas

Co-founder and CEO

Arjun Prakash

co-founder and CEO

Armen Zildjian

VP Sales in historical GTM discussion

Artem Sokolov

founder

Artur Bergman

Founder

Arvind Jain

co-founder, former Google Distinguished Engineer and Rubrik co-founder

Ashley Kramer

CRO, appointed September 2026

Ashu Singhal

Cofounder

Assaf Hefetz

Cofounder and technical leader

Assaf Rappaport

Co-founder and CEO

Augusto Marietti

Cofounder

Bastian Nominacher

Co-founder and co-CEO

Ben Chestnut

Co-founder

Ben Freeman

co-founder, former Tessian growth leader

Ben Uretsky

Cofounder; founding CEO

Bernd Greifeneder

Co-founder and CTO

Bill Galfano

InStereo co-founder and CEO

Bill Gates

Co-founder

Bipul Sinha

Cofounder and CEO; profile subject

Blake Beltram

Cofounder; original product builder

Bob Wise

Executive author of the pricing-policy update

Bob Young

Cofounder

Bobby Murphy

Co-founder

Bonnie Bogle

Development Seed leader and announcement author

Borge Hald

Co-founder and early CEO

Bradford Jordan

Head of Productivity & Enablement

Brendan Foody

Cofounder; CEO at launch, co-CEO in 2026 release

Brendan Schwartz

Co-founder

Brent Frei

Co-founder and former CMO

Bret Taylor

co-founder with Salesforce, Quip, Facebook and Google experience

Brian Acton

Cofounder

Brian Armstrong

Cofounder and CEO in the retrospective

Brian Campbell

Commercial leader

Brian Chesky

Co-founder

Brian Donahoo

CEO in the early interview

Brian Halligan

Co-founder; early CEO

Brian McCarthy

President of Global Revenue and Field Operations

Brooks Pettus

President, Customer on the reviewed page

Bryan Helmig

Co-founder

Bryant Chou

Co-founder

Caleb Kruse

Chief of staff

Cameron Adams

Co-founder

Carl Quinn

Early customer and advocate

Carla Wood Balch

President of Altos Solutions in the announcement

Carles Reina

First GTM hire; former VP of Revenue

Carlo Gualandri

founder and CEO

Cecilia Stallsmith

Chief Marketing Officer, 2026 interview

Cecilia Ziniti

co-founder and CEO, three-time general counsel

Chad Peets

RPT partner supporting GTM team buildout

Charles Geschke

Co-founder

Chase Lochmiller

Co-founder & CEO

Chenyu Zhao

Co-founder

Chris Agarpao

First employee

Chris Britt

Cofounder

Chris Degnan

Chief Revenue Officer

Chris Farinacci

COO during the scaling period

Chris Golec

Founder

Chris Jennings

Cofounder

Chris Lavigne

Early video creator

Chris Savage

Co-founder and CEO

Chris Wanstrath

co-founder and interviewee

Christian Chabot

Co-founder and early CEO

Christina Cacioppo

Cofounder and CEO

Claire Butler

First GTM hire; employee 10

Claire Carroll

Analytics engineer and community manager

Clément Delangue

Cofounder

Cristina Cordova

COO appointed in 2023

Cristina Junqueira

Cofounder

Cully Cavness

Co-founder, President & CSO

Curtis Simpson

CISO and customer advocate

Damon Billian

Early community leader

Dan Cook

Sales leader in the cited talk

Dan Kurzius

Co-founder

Dan Levin

Former COO

Daniel Dines

Co-founder and CEO

Dannie Herzberg

President

Danny Grander

Cofounder

Darius Contractor

Growth adviser appointed in 2022

Dave Duffield

Cofounder

Dave Gerhardt

VP Marketing in historical GTM discussion

Dave Goldberg

CEO in the post-2009 period

Dave Teare, Sara Teare, Roustem Karimov and Natalia Karimov

Founding families

David Barrett

Founder and CEO in cited interviews/filing

David Baszucki

Founder and CEO; essay author

David Cancel

Co-founder; CEO in historical account

David Cramer

Cofounder

David Darmanin

Co-founder

David Heinemeier Hansson

Co-founder

David Holz

Founder

David Hsu

Founder

David Luck

founder and CEO named in the company timeline

David Morandi

Co-founder and CTO

David Okuniev

Co-founder

David Orr

Parched Hospitality president and owner, named customer spokesperson

David Vélez

Founder and CEO; retrospective author

David Wadhwani

Digital Media / Creativity and Productivity leader

David Wheeler

Early team member

David Wortendyke

Co-founder

Denis Yarats

Co-founder and CTO

Derek Shimozawa

Payments Platform Engineering

Devon Groff

Early associate sales engineer

Dharmesh Shah

Co-founder and CTO

Dheeraj Pandey

Cofounder and interview subject

Diane Greene

Co-founder and founding CEO

Dietmar Hopp

Cofounder

Dimitris Samouris

CEO

Dmitriy Zaporozhets

project creator

Dmitry Gerasimenko

Founder

Dmitry Melnikov

Co-founder

Dmitry Shevelenko

Chief Business Officer

Dmytro Lider

Co-founder

Doug Winter

Co-founder and former CEO

Dr Shun Pang

founder with NHS medical experience

Dr Sonia Szamocki

founder and former NHS doctor

Dr Thomas Kelly

founder and CEO

Drew Houston

Co-founder and CEO at launch

Dustin Moskovitz

Co-founder

Dwight Merriman, Eliot Horowitz and Kevin Ryan

founders with DoubleClick experience

Dylan Baker

Early community builder

Ed Calnan

Co-founder and former CRO

Ed Hallen

Co-founder

Edith Harbaugh

Cofounder

Eduardo Pontes and Ali Mazanderani

founders identified by Accel

Edward Wible

Cofounder

Edwin Chen

Founder and CEO

Eilon Reshef

Co-founder and product leader

Elena Verna

Head of Growth, as identified in December 2025 interview

Elias Torres

Co-founder

Elon Musk

Author and financier identified in the 2006 plan

Emily Jorgens

Enterprise partnerships leader

Emmanuel Straschnov

Co-founder

Eran Ashkenazi

Global support and services leader

Eran Zinman

Co-founder and co-CEO

Eric Glyman

Cofounder and CEO in the interview

Eric Gundersen

Founder and early business-development leader

Eric Yuan

Founder and CEO in the sources studied

Erica Xu

Co-founder

Erik Cassel

Early co-builder named in the founder account

Erik Swan

Cofounder named in the product-history chapter

Eugen Alpeza

co-founder, former Palantir commercial/AIP work

Eugenio Pace

Cofounder

Evan Goldberg

Founder

Evan Reiser

Co-founder and CEO

Evan Spiegel

Co-founder

Fabian Hedin

Co-founder

Forrest Zeisler

Cofounder

Frank Swain

Worldwide sales leader, appointed 2010

Franz Doerr

founder, previously at Deutsche Bank

Fred Ehrsam

Cofounder

Fred Luddy

Founder and CEO in the interview

Fred Xie

Co-founder

Frederic Kerrest

Cofounder

Gabe Pereyra

Cofounder

Gabe Rogol

CEO

Gadi Shamia

CEO appointed in 2019, formerly Talkdesk COO

Gai Kun

Kuaishou senior vice president; Kling oversight

Gaines Murfee

AE in 2017; later customer-implementation manager

Garrett Camp

Co-founder

Gaurav Vohra

Growth and onboarding leader

Gautier Cloix

CEO, formerly Palantir France CEO

Geddes Munson

SVP Engineering on the reviewed page

Gemma Cipriani-Espineira

Chief Customer Officer in 2022

Geoff Dalgas and Jarrod Dixon

Founding developers

Georgiana Laudi

Marketing director in 2014

Gerald Chappell

CEO

Gina Gotthilf

Former VP of Marketing and Growth

Girish Mathrubootham

Co-founder

Gorkem Yurtseven

FAL CTO; distribution partner

Grad Conn

Chief experience officer during the scaling period

Graham Audenart

Owner of Painters Enterprise; first customer

Grant Lee

Co-founder

Greg Marsh

CEO

Greg Schwartz

Co-founder and CEO

Gregory Holmes

Early worldwide sales leader

Guillaume Moubeche

Co-founder and CEO

Guillermo Rauch

Vercel founder and CEO, author of the 2020 positioning change

Gurdeep Singh Pall

President of AI strategy, appointed 2024

Guy Kawasaki

Chief evangelist from 2014

Guy Podjarny

Cofounder

Harrison Chase

founder and retrospective author

Hassaan Raza

CEO and co-founder interviewed about product and infrastructure strategy

Hasso Plattner

Cofounder

Haya Odeh

Co-founder, VP of Design

Hayden Brown

CEO since January 2020

Henrique Dubugras

Cofounder and co-CEO in the 2022 interview

Henry Schuck

Co-founder and CEO

Henry Ward and Manu Kumar

co-founders of eShares

Henry Yang

Co-founder and CMO

Hermann Frank

co-founder and CEO

Hjalmar Nilsonne

CEO and co-founder

Howie Liu

Co-founder and CEO

Ian Heidt

Cofounder

Ilja Smarjov

Customer Success Manager in 2018

Immad Akhund

Cofounder and CEO

Ion Stoica

Databricks co-founder and UC Berkeley professor, interviewed about commercialization and partnerships

Irina Novoselsky

CEO in the 2025 account

Isaac Saldana

Cofounder

Ivan Zhao

Co-founder

Jack Dorsey

Block/Square cofounder and interview subject

Jack Newton

Cofounder

Jacob Haddad

CEO, Oxford engineering background

Jake Crump

Help-center author

James Cadwallader

co-founder and CEO

James Dewar

CEO, Goldsmiths computer science and Imperial machine learning

James Hawkins

Cofounder and co-CEO

James Ramsey

Worldwide sales and distribution leader, historical

Jan Koum

Cofounder

Jan Oberhauser

founder and CEO

Janine Pelosi

Chief marketing officer at IPO

Jason Citron

Cofounder

Jason Droege

Chief Strategy Officer from September 2024; interim CEO appointed June 2025

Jason Fried

Co-founder

Jason Mills

Product and customer leader; CPO in 2021 filing

Jason Zintak

CEO during the documented PMF transition

Javi

co-founder and COO

Jay Chaudhry

Founder and CEO; interview subject

Jay Kreps, Neha Narkhede and Jun Rao

co-founders and Kafka creators at LinkedIn

Jay Maloney

SVP, Cloud Sales

Jayshree Ullal

founding CEO, former Cisco SVP

Jeff Atwood

Cofounder

Jeff Bailey

CRO appointed in 2024

Jeff Burke

Business development, as identified by Google case study

Jeff Lawson

co-founder and CEO at the time of the interview, describing the developer-to-enterprise sales transition

Jeff Shiner

CEO during cited growth period; executive chairman on current biography

Jeff Tangney

Founder and CEO in the launch interview

Jen Wong

Chief operating officer, joined in 2018

Jim Cook

Early Netflix executive and retrospective author

Jim Eberlin

Founder

Joe Gebbia

Co-founder

Joe McDonald

CEO

Joe Sexton

President of worldwide field operations from 2012

Joe Thomas

Co-founder

Joel Gascoigne

Founder

Joel Spolsky

Co-founder

Johan Brenner

Creandum investor and retrospective author

John Bicket

Cofounder and CTO

John D’Agostino

Head of worldwide sales in the 2014 case

John Foley

Cofounder and CEO in the 2019 account

John Kodumal

Cofounder

John McMahon

Board member and sales advisor

John Van Siclen

CEO during the major scaling and reinvention period

John Warnock

Co-founder

Johnny Ho

Co-founder

Jon Miller

Engagio cofounder; joined Demandbase as CPO in 2020

Jon Noronha

Co-founder and CPO

Jon Wang and Jeffery Liu

co-founders and co-CEOs named in the announcement

Jonathan Grimm

Co-founder and CTO

Jonathan Liu

Head of Sales Operations in Unify case study

Jonny

co-founder and CEO

Jordan Topoleski

COO; CFO Council author

Jorn van Dijk

Co-founder

Josh Haas

Co-founder

Josh Payne

founder and CEO

José Morales

CRO appointed in 2020

Judith Faulkner

Founder

Julia O’Mara

COO

Julien Chaumond

Cofounder

Juliet Stanton

Linguistics specialist

Justyn Howard

Co-founder; executive chair since 2024

Jyoti Bansal

Founder and early CEO

Kai Mak

CRO, appointed September 2024

Kaitlin Sahlinger

Professional-services leader

Karl Bach and Archy de Berker

co-founders

Karl Sun

Co-founder

Karri Saarinen

Co-founder and CEO

Kate Jarvis

CEO and co-founder

Katie Boyd

Success Methodology Manager

Kaveh Rostampor and Niklas Skog

co-founders

Kelly Wright

First salesperson and later sales executive

Ken Fine

Chief customer officer, appointed 2013

Ken Xie

Co-founder and CEO

Kevan Lee

Marketing leader

Kevin Huang

COO

Kevin Moore

CRO

Kevin Systrom

Cofounder and former CEO

Kody Fisher and Zach Hudson

Technical support practitioners

Koen Bok

Co-founder

Kristen Habacht

Early sales leader

Kristo

Cofounder named in the official story

Kyle Porter

Co-founder and former CEO

Larry Ellison

Oracle founder; oral-history subject

Latané Conant

CRO appointed in 2023; former role

Lauren Lennon and Alex Levinson

Authors of the June 2025 customer-trust statement

Leandra Fishman Yanagawa

SVP, Sales and Customer Success (joined August 2016)

Leo Widrich

Co-founder

Lew Cirne

Founder

Li Yang

Head of Product and Operations

Lin Qiao

Co-founder & CEO

Luca Ferrari

Bending Spoons co-founder and CEO

Lucy Guo

Cofounder

Luis Capelo

Grid.ai co-founder

Luis von Ahn

Co-founder

Luke Diaz

VP of Customer Success in 2020

Mahi De Silva

Co-founder and chief strategy officer

Manny Medina

Co-founder

Marc Benioff

Cofounder

Marc Boquet and Dan Gamito

Early team members

Marc Diouane

Global field operations leader, appointed 2014

Marc Ewing

Cofounder

Marc Romano

Co-founder

Marc Warner

CEO

Marco Palladino

Cofounder

Marcus Ryu

Cofounder and CEO in 2014

Marius Tîrcă

Co-founder and CTO

Mark Gainey

Co-founder

Mark Mader

CEO in the cited period

Mark Roberge

First salesperson; later sales leader

Martin Klenk

Co-founder and CTO

Mati Staniszewski

Co-founder and CEO

Matias Woloski

Cofounder and original CTO

Matt Biilmann and Chris Bach

Netlify co-founders named in its milestone history

Matt Bonde

Customer-facing success practitioner

Matt Epstein

Early CMO

Matt Inman

Early programmer

Matt Kixmoeller

Vice president, Products in the 2015 announcement

Matt MacInnis

COO

Matt Millen

Sales leader during scaling

Matt Plank

Early sales leader and later CRO

Matt Robenolt

First paying customer, later contributor involved in the company

Matt Wallach

Co-founder and president at the time of interview

Matthew Prince, Michelle Zatlyn and Lee Holloway

Cofounders

Max Junestrand

CEO with business and venture-capital experience

Max Levchin

Founder and CEO on the reviewed page

Max Lytvyn

Co-founder

Max and Lestat McCree

co-founders

May Habib

CEO

Melanie Perkins

Co-founder

Michael Balaban

Co-founder & CPO

Michael Gould

Founder

Michael Polelle

Chief Customer Officer from April 2014

Michael Pryor

Co-founder and CEO during the period

Michael Truell

Co-founder and CEO

Michael Xie

Co-founder and CTO

Michel Combes

CEO, from May 2026

Michele Catasta

President

Miguel Milano

CRO and co-owner from 2020

Mike Arntz

Field operations leader in the 2018 filing

Mike Cannon-Brookes

Co-founder and CEO interviewed

Mike Horvath

Co-founder

Mike Knoop

Co-founder

Mike Krieger

Cofounder and technical leader

Mike Volpe

Early marketing leader

Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar

co-founders, collaborators in University of Washington cloud research

Mohit Aron

Founder and CEO in the launch announcement

Moisey Uretsky

Cofounder

Nadir Izrael

Co-founder and CTO

Namnso Ukpanah

Designer advocate, Africa

Nancy Fairbank

Strategic Projects Lead

Nat Turner

Cofounder

Nathan Barry

Founder

Nathan Bashaw

Early designer and developer

Nathan Blecharczyk

Co-founder

Nathan St. Martin

Chief of staff in the 2015 account

Nicholas Warner

CRO from 2017; later COO

Nick Mehta

CEO from 2013

Nick Persico

Early sales and marketing operator; later revenue operations and product

Nick Rico

Customer-acquisition leader and article author

Nicolas Dessaigne and Julien Lemoine

Cofounders

Nicolas Sharp

CEO and co-founder, author of the launch announcement

Nicolas Vandenberghe

Cofounder

Nik Storonsky

Cofounder and CEO on the reviewed page

Nitin T Bhat

Executive author of the 2026 update

Noah Rolff

VP of Customer Success from 2026

Noam Lovinsky

CEO of first alpha customer SpringFul

Ofer Bengal and Yiftach Shoolman

Commercial-company founders

Oleg Shchegolev

Co-founder

Oli Gardner

Co-founder and educator

Oliver Sharp

Co-founder

Olly Thornton-Berry and Jack Bidgood

co-founders and school friends

Osvald Nitski and Bertie Vidgen

APEX coauthors

Parker Conrad

Co-founder and CEO

Parker Harris

Cofounder

Patrick Ryan and Mary Lin

co-founders named in Odin’s official company record

Patrick and John Collison

Paul Allen

Co-founder

Paul Biggar

Cofounder

Paul Copplestone

co-founder and author of the alpha launch postmortem

Paul Forster

CEO at launch

Paul Roiter

CEO

Pengfei Wan

Head of Visual Generation and Interaction Center

Peter Caputa IV and Carol Ortenberg

Early reseller/partner team

Peter Fenton

Early investor and board member

Peter Reinhardt

Cofounder; founding CEO

Phelim Bradley

co-founder and CEO

Phil Fernandez

Co-founder and CEO

Phil Libin

Early CEO

Philip Belamant

co-founder and CEO

Philipp

co-founder

Pierre Naudé

CEO during fiscal 2021

Pierre Omidyar

Founder

Piotr Dąbkowski

Co-founder; research and engineering

Pippa Begg

CEO named on the official company page

Pradeep Rathinam

Chief Customer Officer in the 2020 announcement

Pranav Ganesh

Author of self-serve Enterprise launch

Ragy Thomas

Founder

Rahul Vohra

Founder

Raj Dutt and Anthony Woods

Cofounders

Rand Fishkin

Co-founder; early CEO and educator

Ravi Thakur

Customer success and service delivery leader, 2016

Rian Gauvreau

Cofounder

Rich Pierson

Co-founder

Richie Cartwright

founder named in the company’s YC profile

Rick Perreault

Co-founder and CEO in historical interviews

Rick Stollmeyer

Cofounder; early GTM and service lead

Rob Bernshteyn

CEO during the scaling period

Rob Das

Cofounder named in the chapter

Rob Forman

Co-founder and president at the 2021 acquisition

Rob Tarkoff

Combined-company CEO, 2026

Rob Zuber

CTO at the time of the 2023 report

Robert

First paying user, as named in founder interview

Robert Brooks IV

Chief Commercial Officer

Robert Hohman

Cofounder and CEO at launch

Robert Muñoz

Co-founder

Robert Wahbe

Co-founder and former standalone CEO

Ross Moser

Former VP Customer Success and Operations; later CPO

Rowan Trollope and Benjamin Renaud

Executive and technical leaders in the 2025 change

Roy Mann

Co-founder and co-CEO

Roy Reznik

Co-founder

Rujul Zaparde

CEO

Russell Kaplan

Co-founder and president

Ryan Barretto

CEO; previously global sales and success leader

Ryan Engley

Early customer-success leader; later VP Product Marketing

Ryan Finley

Founder

Ryan Graves

Early general manager

Ryan Holmes

Founder

Ryan Hoover

Founder

Ryan King

Cofounder

Ryan Singer

Early designer and product practitioner

Ryan Smith

Co-founder and early CEO

Saji Wickramasekara

Cofounder and CEO; letter author

Salvatore Sanfilippo

Redis creator; later developer evangelist

Sam Liang

Co-founder and CEO

Sam Oh

Marketing leader in the 2024 account

Sam Pillar

Cofounder and CEO

Sam Wolk

MIT Sustainable Design Lab user

Sanjay Jeyakumar

Co-founder

Sanjit Biswas

Cofounder and CEO; letter author

Santiago Nestares

co-founder and CEO

Sarah Bird

CEO during 2016 refocus

Sarung Tripathi

VP Customer Experience in Pylon case study

Sasha Haco

CEO and co-founder

Scott Breitenother, Duncan Fraser, Danny Brown and Michelle Ballen

Early Casper practitioners

Scott Cook and Tom Proulx

founders named in the company history

Scott Farquhar

Co-founder

Scott Heiner

Early employee

Scott Johnston

Executive leading the 2019 refocus

Scott Wu

Co-founder and CEO

Sean Walters

CRO, former Medallia and IBM sales leader

Seb

co-founder with Secret Escapes operating experience

Sergie Magdalin

Co-founder

Shahed Khan

Co-founder

Shay Banon

Elasticsearch creator and Elastic co-founder, author of the retrospective

Shida Li

Co-founder

Shishir Mehrotra

Co-founder

Shiv Rao

Founder and CEO in the account

Shlomi Ben Haim

Cofounder

Simon Last

Co-founder

Simon Wistow

Cofounder

Solomon Hykes

Founder

Soumya Tulloss

SVP of Sales

Sridhar Vembu

Co-founder; early salesperson

Stan Vishnevskiy

Cofounder

Steli Efti

Co-founder and CEO

Stepan Pachikov

Original Evernote founder

Stephanie Carullo

COO appointment in the cited announcement

Stephen Balaban

Co-founder & CTO

Stephen Whitworth

founder and author of the US expansion explanation

Steve Ballmer

First business manager, hired 1980

Steve Cox

CEO of combined Clari and Salesloft

Steve Fredette

Co-founder

Steve Goldberg

CRO appointed in 2020

Steve Huffman

Co-founder

Steve Jobs

Co-founder

Steve Pace

CRO / worldwide sales leader in scaling period

Steve Rowland

President appointed in 2023

Steve Wozniak

Co-founder

Steven Hao and Walden Yan

Founding technical/product team

Steven Hunter

CEO and co-founder

Stewart Butterfield

Co-founder; CEO during the period studied

Sualeh Asif, Aman Sanger and Arvid Lunnemark

Co-founders

Sue Barsamian

HP senior vice president of indirect sales in the case study

Sundeep Jain

President

Surojit Chatterjee

CEO and founder

Surya Midha

Cofounder; COO at launch, later board chairman

Taavet

Cofounder named in the official story

Tao Zhang

Co-founder and chief product officer

Thomas Paul Mann

Co-founder and author of the Teams launch announcement

Thomas Wolf

Cofounder

Tien Tzuo

Founder and category evangelist

Tim Glaser

Cofounder and co-CEO

Tim Jenkins and Jose

Cofounders named in the interview

Tim Soulo

CMO and product adviser

Tim Zheng

Founder and CEO

Timo Rein

Co-founder

Tobi Lütke

Founder and CEO identified in the retrospective

Todd McKinnon

Cofounder and interview subject

Tom Gonser

Founder

Tom Lowry

Designer advocate

Tomer London

co-founder and CPO

Tomer Weingarten

Founder and CEO

Tony Thomas

Co-founder; early technical product builder

Tony Xu

Co-founder and CEO

Tooey Courtemanche

Founder and CEO in the interview

Tope Awotona

Founder

Torkel Ödegaard

Project creator and cofounder

Travis Kalanick

Co-founder and initial incubator

Tri Dao

Chief Scientist, appointed July 2023

Trish Webb

Chief Customer Officer at research date

Tristan Handy

Cofounder

Tuhin Srivastava

Co-founder & CEO

Udi Ledergor

Marketing leader; later chief evangelist

Vahe Kuzoyan

Cofounder and head of product in the memo

Valentin Neumann

CEO and co-founder

Venkat Rangan

Co-founder and CTO

Vinay Hiremath

Co-founder

Vipul Ved Prakash

Cofounder and CEO

Viral Bajaria

Technical co-founder

Vlad Magdalin

Co-founder

Vlad Yatsenko

Cofounder

Wade Foster

Co-founder and CEO

Wayne Pommen

Chief Revenue Officer on the reviewed page

Will Ahmed

Founder and CEO

Will Pearce and Ed Boulle

co-founders with space-industry backgrounds

William Falcon

Founder; creator of PyTorch Lightning

William Zeqiri

co-founder with Dubai Holding startup experience

Wilson Chan

founder and CEO

Winston Weinberg

Cofounder and CEO

Xiao Hong (Red)

Co-founder and CEO

Yerzat Dulat

Co-founder; technical leadership

Yevgeny Dibrov

Co-founder and CEO during startup growth

Yichao 'Peak' Ji

Co-founder and chief scientist

Yinon Costica

Co-founder

Yoav Landman and Fred Simon

Cofounders

Yun Jin

Head of AI Infrastructure, Fireworks — customer

Zach Nelson

CEO during the major independent scaling period

Zach Perret and William Hockey

Cofounders

Zach Weinberg

Cofounder

Zack Cable

CRO appointed in 2022

Zeb Evans

Founder and CEO