Company · Technology · Software · founded 1998
Search and advertising company, now a subsidiary of Alphabet.
Of the 16 people here linked to Google, 3 are founders and 4 are still there. 4 of them also appear at Amazon. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
16 people at Google
Founder Still there
Role
Co-founder; CEO of Google 1997 to August 2001 and April 2011 to July 2015
Source
· high confidence. The source dates his first CEO term from 1997; this profile dates the company to its September 1998 incorporation.
Technology · Software · Artificial Intelligence 2 / 1
Larry Page
Co-founder, Google / Alphabet
comfortable academic · elite · graduate degree
Founder Still there
Role
Co-founder
Source
· high confidence. The source calls him a co-founder, controlling shareholder and board member of Alphabet today.
Technology 2 / 3
Sergey Brin
Co-founder, Google / Alphabet
academic refugee · elite · graduate degree
Executive Still there
Technology 5 / 8
Marian Croak
VoIP pioneer and inventor; VP of Engineering, Google (Responsible AI)
working-class · some · graduate degree
Board Still there
Role
Board member (Alphabet)
Source
· medium confidence. The page says he currently serves on the board of Alphabet and gives no start year. The 1999 investment is described on the Kleiner Perkins page as $12 million for a stake, not as his own board appointment.
Venture Capital · Technology 2 / 0
John Doerr
Venture capitalist; chairman of Kleiner Perkins
comfortable · well-connected · graduate degree
Board Past
Role
Board member, Google Public Sector, after stepping down as Mandiant CEO, 2024
Source
· medium confidence. The article says he will keep a Google Public Sector board seat and move into an advisory role; no source opened shows it is still held.
Cybersecurity 3 / 1
Kevin Mandia
Founder of Mandiant (originally Red Cliff Consulting); later CEO of FireEye/Mandiant through its acquisition by Google
middle-class · some · graduate degree
Investor Past
Role
Early investor ($250,000), 1998
Source
· medium confidence. Whether he still holds the stake is not established.
Technology 2 / 1
Jeff Bezos
Founder, Amazon
comfortable · elite · college degree
Employee Past
Technology 3 / 8
Jewel Burks Solomon
Founder of Partpic, acquired by Amazon; co-founder, Collab Capital
entrepreneurial middle-class · some · college degree
Employee Past
Role
Product marketer (Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Spreadsheets), 2006
Also at
Source
· high confidence. Wikipedia says about two years after he graduated in 2006; no exact end year given.
Technology · Software · Media 1 / 0
Kevin Systrom
Co-founder and former CEO of Instagram
affluent · elite · college degree
Employee Past
Role
Joined Google Ventures, 2014
Also at
Source
· medium confidence. The page says he joined Google Ventures in 2014 and does not give a title.
Technology · Software · Media 3 / 2
Steve Chen
Co-founder and former Chief Technology Officer of YouTube
immigrant middle-class · well-connected · some college
Employee Past
Role
Product management lead (Chrome, later Android from March 2013), 2004–2015
Source
· high confidence
Technology 5 / 5
Sundar Pichai
CEO, Alphabet and Google
middle-class · some · graduate degree
Joined by acquisition Past
Role
YouTube co-founder; company sold to Google for $1.65 billion, 2006
Also at
Source
· high confidence
Technology · Software · Media 3 / 0
Chad Hurley
Co-founder and former CEO of YouTube
middle-class · some · college degree
Joined by acquisition Past
Role
YouTube co-founder; company acquired by Google in 2006, 2006
Also at
Source
· medium confidence. The page describes the payout in Google shares and does not describe a role at Google.
Technology · Software 2 / 2
Jawed Karim
Co-founder of YouTube; posted the platform's first video
professional-class · some · graduate degree
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4 shared: Max Levchin, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, Steve Chen
Anthropic
2 shared: Dario Amodei, Tom Brown
AT&T
2 shared: Marian Croak, Andrew Ng
Baidu
2 shared: Andrew Ng, Dario Amodei
Meta Platforms
2 shared: Steve Chen, Kevin Systrom
OpenAI
2 shared: Dario Amodei, Tom Brown
37signals
1 shared: Jeff Bezos
Airbnb
1 shared: Jawed Karim
Foundstone
1 shared: Kevin Mandia
Instagram
1 shared: Kevin Systrom
Intel
1 shared: John Doerr
Kleiner Perkins
1 shared: John Doerr
Los Angeles FC
1 shared: Chad Hurley
The Coca-Cola Company
1 shared: Max Levchin
The Washington Post
1 shared: Jeff Bezos
Twitter / X
1 shared: John Doerr
Walmart
1 shared: Kevin Systrom
Yahoo
1 shared: Max Levchin
Yelp
1 shared: Max Levchin