Calendar
On this day
Founders' birthdays and the days their companies began, from the dates Wikidata records.
January
- 1Jonah Peretti was born in United States, 1974
- 1Max Levchin founded Affirm, 2012
- 8Daniel Ek founded Spotify Technology, 2007
- 13Andy Jassy was born in Scarsdale, 1968
- 13Dario Amodei was born in San Francisco, 1983
- 17Dan Gilbert was born in Detroit, 1962
- 19Bob Young was born in Hamilton, 1954
- 24Chad Hurley was born in Reading, 1977
- 26Dario Amodei founded Anthropic, 2021
- 31Vitalik Buterin was born in Kolomna, 1994
February
- 4Dustin Moskovitz founded Facebook, 2004
- 4Eduardo Saverin founded Facebook, 2004
- 8Michael Morhaime founded Blizzard Entertainment, 1991
- 11Jared Isaacman was born in Westfield, 1983
- 14Chad Hurley founded YouTube, 2005
- 14Steve Chen founded YouTube, 2005
- 20Roger Penske was born in Shaker Heights, 1937
- 20Peter Molyneux founded 22Cans, 2012
- 21Daniel Ek was born in Vantörs parish, 1983
- 21Morris Chang founded TSMC, 1987
- 24Sid Meier was born in Sarnia, 1954
- 24Jan Koum was born in Kyiv, 1976
- 25Jean Todt was born in Pierrefort, 1946
- 28Ehud Shapiro was born in Israel, 1955
March
- 1Ahmet Çalık was born in Malatya, 1958
- 3Michael Widenius was born in Helsinki, 1962
- 10Liu Qiangdong was born in Suqian, 1973
- 16Sanford I. Weill was born in Brooklyn, 1933
- 19Eduardo Saverin was born in São Paulo, 1982
- 22Tony Elumelu was born in Jos, 1963
- 23James H. Clark was born in Plainview, 1944
- 26Xavier Niel founded 42, 2013
- 27Bob Young founded Red Hat, 1993
April
- 1Zhang Yiming was born in Longyan, 1983
- 4James H. Clark founded Netscape, 1994
- 4Marc Andreessen founded Netscape, 1994
- 5Chris Malachowsky founded Nvidia, 1993
- 6John Sculley was born in New York City, 1939
- 6Andy Hertzfeld was born in Philadelphia, 1953
- 14Bobbi Brown was born in Chicago, 1957
- 16Alexey Pajitnov was born in Moscow, 1955
- 18Andrew Ng was born in London, 1976
- 19Jack Dorsey founded Twitter, Inc., 2007
- 23Daniel Ek founded Spotify, 2006
- 24Alexis Ohanian was born in Brooklyn, 1983
- 25Adam Neumann was born in Beersheba, 1979
- 26Xavier Niel founded Free, 1999
- 29Marc Randolph was born in Chappaqua, 1958
- 30Tony Fernandes was born in Kuala Lumpur, 1964
May
- 2James Dyson was born in Cromer, 1947
- 2Chris Malachowsky was born, 1959
- 3Akio Toyoda was born in Nagoya, 1956
- 3Zhang Yiming founded ByteDance, 2016
- 5Peter Molyneux was born in Guildford, 1959
- 11Bill Ackman was born in Chappaqua, 1966
- 12Robert Bigelow was born in United States, 1945
- 12Nerius Numa was born in Šilalė, 1967
- 13Melanie Perkins was born in Perth, 1987
- 15Martin Eberhard was born in Berkeley, 1960
- 22Dustin Moskovitz was born in Gainesville, 1984
- 28Trip Hawkins founded Electronic Arts, 1982
June
July
- 1Martin Eberhard founded Tesla, 2003
- 2Christian von Koenigsegg was born in Stockholm, 1972
- 4Richard Garriott was born in Cambridge, 1961
- 6Marc Andreessen founded Andreessen Horowitz, 2009
- 9Marc Andreessen was born in Cedar Falls, 1971
- 10Morris Chang was born in Ningbo, 1931
- 11Max Levchin was born in Kyiv, 1975
- 14Shiv Nadar was born in Thoothukudi, 1945
- 16Dan Bricklin was born in Philadelphia, 1951
- 19Bobby Murphy was born in Manila, 1988
- 24Kalanithi Maran was born in Tamil Nadu, 1964
- 24Xavier Niel founded Free Mobile, 2007
- 29Dustin Moskovitz founded Meta Platforms, 2004
- 29Eduardo Saverin founded Meta Platforms, 2004
- 30Vitalik Buterin founded Ethereum, 2015
August
- 1Ray Dalio was born in Jackson Heights, 1949
- 2Ken Kutaragi was born in Tokyo, 1950
- 5Sachin Bansal was born in Chandigarh, 1981
- 6Nat Friedman was born, 1977
- 6John Collison was born in Limerick, 1990
- 8Chad Hurley founded MixBit, 2013
- 8Steve Chen founded MixBit, 2013
- 11Masayoshi Son was born in Tosu, 1957
- 13Domenico Dolce was born in Polizzi Generosa, 1958
- 14Sergey Galitsky was born in Sochi, 1967
- 18Steve Chen was born in Taipei, 1978
- 25Xavier Niel was born in Maisons-Alfort, 1967
- 26Chris Boardman was born in Hoylake, 1968
- 27Daphne Koller was born in Jerusalem, 1968
- 28George Church was born in MacDill Air Force Base, 1954
- 29Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner was born in Seltjarnarnes, 1967
- 29Marc Randolph founded Netflix, Inc., 1997
- 30Xavier Niel founded Scaleway, 2000
September
- 3Chamath Palihapitiya was born in Colombo, 1976
- 3Masayoshi Son founded SoftBank Group, 1981
- 3Pierre Omidyar founded eBay, 1995
- 5Nikhil Kamath was born in Shimoga, 1970
- 9Patrick Collison was born in Limerick, 1988
- 10Charles Simonyi was born in Budapest, 1948
- 11Carl Pei was born in Beijing, 1989
- 12Trip Hawkins founded The 3DO Company, 1991
- 13Eric Lefkofsky was born in West Bloomfield Township, 1969
- 15Renzo Rosso was born in Brugine, 1955
- 16Bobby Murphy founded Snap Inc., 2011
- 16Evan Spiegel founded Snap Inc., 2011
- 22Bram Cohen founded Rainberry ,Inc., 2004
- 25Josh Harris founded Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, 2017
- 30Thomas Peterffy was born in Budapest, 1944
October
- 4Garrett Camp was born in Calgary, 1978
- 11Jeffrey Peterson was born in Santa Barbara, 1972
- 12Bram Cohen was born in New York City, 1975
- 15Ken Griffin was born in Daytona Beach, 1968
- 16Tatyana Kim was born in Grozny, 1975
- 19Nat Friedman founded Ximian, 1999
- 19Miguel de Icaza founded Ximian, 1999
- 25Ren Zhengfei was born in Zhenning Buyei and Miao Autonomous County, 1944
- 29Carl Pei founded Nothing Technology Ltd., 2020
November
- 1Rich Skrenta founded blekko, 2010
- 3Michael Morhaime was born, 1967
- 6Jerry Yang was born in Taipei, 1968
- 9James H. Clark founded Silicon Graphics, 1981
- 11Yuri Milner was born in Moscow, 1961
- 12Shiv Nadar founded HCL Enterprise, 1991
- 14Stefano Gabbana was born in Milan, 1962
- 15Ken Kutaragi founded Sony Interactive Entertainment, 1993
- 19Jack Dorsey was born in St. Louis, 1976
- 20Dan Gilbert founded 100 Thieves, 2017
- 22Michael Morhaime founded Dreamhaven, 2020
- 23Miguel de Icaza was born in Mexico City, 1972
- 25Masayoshi Son founded SoftBank Vision Fund, 2016
December
- 2Ron Dennis founded McLaren Technology Group, 1985
- 2Ron Dennis founded McLaren Automotive, 1985
- 5Morris Chang founded Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation, 1994
- 6Craig Newmark was born in Morristown, 1952
- 12Greg Lansky was born in Paris, 1982
- 15Xavier Niel founded Mediawan, 2015
- 15Patrick Collison founded Arc Research Institute, 2021
- 16Dustin Moskovitz founded Asana Inc., 2008
- 17Carl Pei founded OnePlus, 2013
- 23Ilya Sherbovich was born in Vladimir, 1974
- 28Trip Hawkins was born in Pasadena, 1953
- 29Josh Harris was born in Chevy Chase, 1964