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  1. Aaron Swartz→Reddit

    Early team member (by 2006)

    worked atDate not recorded
  2. Accel→Facebook

    Participated in the $25 million round

    invested in2006
  3. Ada Lovelace→Charles Babbage

    Corresponded about the Analytical Engine and her notes

    collaboratedDate not recorded
  4. Alan Turing→Alonzo Church

    Doctoral advisor

    studied with1936–1938
  5. Alan Turing→Bletchley Park

    Recruited to the Government Code and Cypher School

    joined1939
  6. Alan Turing→Princeton University

    Doctoral studies

    studied at1936–1938
  7. Albert Einstein→Institute for Advanced Study

    Original faculty

    joined1933
  8. Alex Krizhevsky→DNNresearch

    Co-founded the Toronto neural-network company

    founded2012
  9. Alex Krizhevsky→Geoffrey Hinton

    Co-authored ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (AlexNet)

    coauthored2012
  10. Alex Krizhevsky→Geoffrey Hinton

    Graduate researcher supervised by Hinton, documented in the acquisition announcement

    studied with2013
  11. Alex Krizhevsky→Google

    Joined Google following the DNNresearch acquisition

    joined2013
  12. Alex Krizhevsky→Ilya Sutskever

    Co-authored ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (AlexNet)

    coauthored2012
  13. Alexis Ohanian→Reddit

    Co-founded

    founded2005
  14. Alonzo Church→Princeton University

    Faculty member

    worked at1929–1967
  15. Amazon→Anthropic

    Announced $4 billion additional investment, bringing its cumulative total to $8 billion; remained a minority investor

    invested in2024
  16. American Totalisator→Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation

    Provided financing

    invested in1948
  17. Andrej Karpathy→OpenAI

    Named founding team member

    founding member2015
  18. Andrew Ng→Google Brain

    Founding lead of the team started in 2011

    founded2011
  19. Andy Bechtolsheim→Google

    Wrote the initial $100,000 investment check

    invested in1998
  20. Andy Bechtolsheim→Sun Microsystems

    Co-founded

    founded1982
  21. Arash Ferdowsi→Dropbox

    Co-founded

    founded2007
  22. Aydin Senkut→Felicis

    Founded

    foundedDate not recorded
  23. Aydin Senkut→Google

    First product manager

    worked atDate not recorded
  24. Aydin Senkut→Silicon Graphics

    Worked for Georges Harik

    worked atDate not recorded
  25. Ben Horowitz→Andreessen Horowitz

    Co-founded

    founded2009
  26. Ben Horowitz→Loudcloud / Opsware

    Co-founded

    founded1999
  27. Ben Horowitz→Netscape

    Joined in product marketing

    joined1995
  28. Bill Gates→Microsoft

    Co-founded

    founded1975
  29. Bill Hewlett→Hewlett-Packard

    Co-founded

    founded1939
  30. Bill Joy→Sun Microsystems

    Co-founded

    founded1982
  31. Bjorn Liencres→Juniper Networks

    Co-founded

    founded1996
  32. Bjorn Liencres→Sun Microsystems

    Alumnus before Juniper

    worked atThrough 1996
  33. Bob Miner→Oracle

    Co-founded

    founded1977
  34. Brian Acton→WhatsApp

    Co-founded

    founded2009
  35. Brian Chesky→Airbnb

    Co-founded

    founded2008
  36. Brian Kernighan→Dennis Ritchie

    The C Programming Language

    coauthored1978
  37. Chad Hurley→PayPal

    Early employee; met future YouTube co-founders

    worked atDate not recorded
  38. Chad Hurley→YouTube

    Co-founded

    founded2005
  39. Chris Hughes→Facebook

    Co-founded

    founded2004
  40. Chris Malachowsky→NVIDIA

    Co-founded

    founded1993
  41. Chris Malachowsky→Sun Microsystems

    Engineering alumnus

    worked atThrough 1993
  42. Chris Olah→Anthropic

    Co-founded Anthropic; company publicly operating in 2021

    founded2021
  43. Chris Olah→Google Brain

    Research associate, then research scientist

    worked at2015–2018
  44. Chris Olah→OpenAI

    Joined technical staff and led the interpretability team

    joined2018
  45. Chris Sacca→Google

    Head of Special Initiatives

    worked atDate not recorded
  46. Chris Sacca→Lowercase Capital

    Founded

    foundedDate not recorded
  47. Chris Slowe→Reddit

    Founding engineer

    joined2005
  48. Christopher Monroe→IonQ

    Co-founded

    founded2015
  49. Claude Shannon→Bell Labs

    Joined the mathematical research department

    joined1941
  50. Claude Shannon→Institute for Advanced Study

    Research fellowship

    worked at1940–1941
  51. Claude Shannon→MIT

    Research assistant

    joined1936
  52. Claude Shannon→MIT

    Appointed professor of communications and mathematics

    worked at1957
  53. Condé Nast→Reddit

    Acquired

    acquired2006
  54. Curtis Priem→NVIDIA

    Co-founded

    founded1993
  55. Curtis Priem→Sun Microsystems

    Engineering alumnus

    worked atThrough 1993
  56. Daniela Amodei→Anthropic

    Co-founded Anthropic; company publicly operating in 2021

    founded2021
  57. Dario Amodei→Anthropic

    Co-founded Anthropic; company publicly operating in 2021

    founded2021
  58. Dario Amodei→Google Brain

    Senior research scientist before OpenAI

    worked atDate not recorded
  59. Dario Amodei→Ilya Sutskever

    Co-authored Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (GPT-3)

    coauthored2020
  60. Dario Amodei→OpenAI

    Vice president of research before Anthropic

    worked atDate not recorded
  61. Dave Moellenhoff→Salesforce

    Co-founded

    founded1999
  62. Dave Packard→Hewlett-Packard

    Co-founded

    founded1939
  63. David Boggs→Xerox PARC

    Developed Ethernet

    worked at1973
  64. David Filo→Yahoo

    Co-founded

    founded1995
  65. David Krane→Google

    Joined as employee number 84

    joined2000
  66. David Krane→GV

    Chief executive and managing partner

    partner atDate not recorded
  67. David Rumelhart→Geoffrey Hinton

    Co-authored Learning representations by back-propagating errors

    coauthored1986
  68. David Rumelhart→Ronald Williams

    Co-authored Learning representations by back-propagating errors

    coauthored1986
  69. David Rumelhart→University of California San Diego

    Listed affiliation in the backpropagation paper

    research affiliation1986
  70. David Sacks→Craft Ventures

    Co-founded

    foundedDate not recorded
  71. David Sacks→PayPal

    First product leader and chief operating officer

    worked atDate not recorded
  72. David Sacks→Yammer

    Co-founded

    foundedDate not recorded
  73. David Weiden→Khosla Ventures

    Co-founded

    founded2004
  74. DCVC→TypeSafe AI

    Led the announced $40 million seed round; amount is the total round

    invested in2026
  75. DeepMind→Google DeepMind

    Combined into Google DeepMind

    combined into2023
  76. Demis Hassabis→DeepMind

    Co-founded DeepMind

    founded2010
  77. Demis Hassabis→Google DeepMind

    Named leader of the combined unit

    led2023
  78. Dennis Ferguson→Juniper Networks

    Co-founded

    founded1996
  79. Dennis Ritchie→Bell Labs

    Joined

    joined1967
  80. Dennis Ritchie→Bell Labs

    Unix research

    worked at1969
  81. Diogo Almeida→Google Brain

    Previous role, according to the TypeSafe company biography; dates unspecified

    worked atDate not recorded
  82. Diogo Almeida→John Schulman

    Co-authored Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback (InstructGPT)

    coauthored2022
  83. Diogo Almeida→OpenAI

    InstructGPT coauthor affiliated with OpenAI

    research affiliation2022
  84. Diogo Almeida→OpenAI

    Former researcher, described in Almeida’s launch essay; dates unspecified

    worked atDate not recorded
  85. Diogo Almeida→TypeSafe AI

    Co-founded TypeSafe AI

    founded2024
  86. Don Valentine→Fairchild Semiconductor

    Sales and marketing alumnus

    worked atDate not recorded
  87. Don Valentine→Sequoia Capital

    Co-founded

    founded1972
  88. Dorothy Vaughan→Katherine Johnson

    Initial supervisor in West Area Computing

    managed1953
  89. Dorothy Vaughan→Mary Jackson

    West Area Computing supervisor

    managed1951–1953
  90. Dorothy Vaughan→NASA Langley

    Joined NACA Langley

    joined1943–1971
  91. Doug McIlroy→Ken Thompson

    Unix pipes: proposal and implementation

    collaborated1973
  92. Drew Houston→Dropbox

    Co-founded

    founded2007
  93. Durk Kingma→OpenAI

    Named founding team member

    founding member2015
  94. Dustin Moskovitz→Anthropic

    Participated in the Series A

    invested in2021
  95. Dustin Moskovitz→Facebook

    Co-founded

    founded2004
  96. eBay→PayPal

    Acquired

    acquired2002
  97. Ed Oates→Oracle

    Co-founded

    founded1977
  98. Eduardo Saverin→Facebook

    Co-founded

    founded2004
  99. Elon Musk→OpenAI

    Founding co-chair

    founded2015
  100. Elon Musk→PayPal

    Co-founded through predecessor X.com and its merger

    foundedDate not recorded
  101. Elon Musk→SpaceX

    Chief executive, chief technology officer and chairman

    led2002
  102. Elon Musk→Tesla

    Joined board

    board member2004
  103. Elon Musk→Tesla

    Became chief executive

    led2008
  104. Eric Bina→NCSA

    Developed Mosaic

    worked at1993
  105. Eric Bina→Netscape

    Recruited from the Mosaic team

    joined1994
  106. Erik Gafni→Freenome

    Early employee, according to the TypeSafe biography

    worked atDate not recorded
  107. Erik Gafni→Invitae

    Early employee, according to the TypeSafe biography

    worked atDate not recorded
  108. Erik Gafni→Ravel

    Founder, according to the TypeSafe biography; date unspecified

    foundedDate not recorded
  109. Erik Gafni→TypeSafe AI

    Co-founded TypeSafe AI

    founded2024
  110. Eugene Kleiner→Amelco

    Co-founded

    founded1961
  111. Eugene Kleiner→Fairchild Semiconductor

    Co-founded

    founded1957
  112. Eugene Kleiner→Kleiner Perkins

    Co-founded

    founded1972
  113. Eugene Kleiner→Shockley Semiconductor

    Research staff before founding Fairchild

    worked atThrough 1957
  114. Facebook→Instagram

    Acquired

    acquired2012
  115. Facebook→WhatsApp

    Acquired

    acquired2014
  116. Founders Fund→SpaceX

    First venture investment led by Luke Nosek

    invested in2008
  117. Frank Dominguez→Salesforce

    Co-founded

    founded1999
  118. Fred Terman→Bill Hewlett

    Encouraged the founders to start a company

    mentoredDate not recorded
  119. Fred Terman→Dave Packard

    Encouraged the founders to start a company

    mentoredDate not recorded
  120. Geoffrey Hinton→Carnegie Mellon University

    Assistant then associate professor

    worked at1982–1987
  121. Geoffrey Hinton→DNNresearch

    Co-founded the Toronto neural-network company

    founded2012
  122. Geoffrey Hinton→Google

    Joined Google following the DNNresearch acquisition

    joined2013
  123. Geoffrey Hinton→Ronald Williams

    Co-authored Learning representations by back-propagating errors

    coauthored1986
  124. Geoffrey Hinton→University of Toronto

    Professor, first Toronto appointment

    worked at1987–1998
  125. Geoffrey Hinton→University of Toronto

    Returned as professor before emeritus appointment

    worked at2001–2013
  126. Georges Harik→Aydin Senkut

    Engineering manager at Silicon Graphics

    managedDate not recorded
  127. Georges Harik→Google

    Employee number seven

    worked atDate not recorded
  128. Georges Harik→Silicon Graphics

    Engineering manager

    worked atDate not recorded
  129. Gigafund→SpaceX

    Began investing

    invested in2017
  130. Google→DeepMind

    Acquired DeepMind, as recorded by co-founder Shane Legg

    acquired2014
  131. Google→DNNresearch

    Acquired DNNresearch; financial terms were not disclosed

    acquired2013
  132. Google→Slide

    Acquired

    acquired2010
  133. Google→YouTube

    Acquired

    acquired2006
  134. Google Brain→Google DeepMind

    Combined into Google DeepMind

    combined into2023
  135. Gordon Moore→Fairchild Semiconductor

    Co-founded

    founded1957
  136. Gordon Moore→Intel

    Co-founded

    founded1968
  137. Gordon Moore→Shockley Semiconductor

    Research staff before founding Fairchild

    worked atThrough 1957
  138. Grace Hopper→Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation

    Joined

    joined1949
  139. Grace Hopper→Harvard University

    Computation Laboratory

    worked atThrough 1949
  140. Grace Hopper→Howard Aiken

    Wartime computation at Harvard

    collaboratedDate not recorded
  141. Greg Brockman→OpenAI

    Founding chief technology officer

    founded2015
  142. Greg Brockman→Stripe

    Chief technology officer before OpenAI; dates not supplied

    worked atDate not recorded
  143. Greg Corrado→Andrew Ng

    Co-authored Building high-level features using large scale unsupervised learning

    coauthored2011
  144. Greg Corrado→Chris Olah

    Hosted Olah’s Google Brain internship

    mentored2015
  145. Greg Corrado→Google Brain

    Founding member and co-technical lead

    founded2011
  146. Greg Corrado→Jeff Dean

    Co-authored Building high-level features using large scale unsupervised learning

    coauthored2011
  147. Greylock→Facebook

    Led the $25 million round

    invested in2006
  148. Guglielmo Marconi→Marconi Company

    Co-founded

    founded1897
  149. Guglielmo Marconi→William Preece

    Introduced in England

    met1896
  150. GV→IonQ

    Co-led Series B

    invested in2017
  151. Hermann Weyl→Institute for Advanced Study

    Original faculty

    joined1933
  152. Hewlett-Packard→Loudcloud / Opsware

    Acquired Opsware for $1.6 billion

    acquired2007
  153. Ilya Sutskever→DNNresearch

    Co-founded the Toronto neural-network company

    founded2012
  154. Ilya Sutskever→Geoffrey Hinton

    Co-authored ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (AlexNet)

    coauthored2012
  155. Ilya Sutskever→Geoffrey Hinton

    Named Hinton as his doctoral advisor in the 2013 PhD thesis

    studied with2013
  156. Ilya Sutskever→Google

    Joined Google following the DNNresearch acquisition

    joined2013
  157. Ilya Sutskever→OpenAI

    Founding research director

    founded2015
  158. Ilya Sutskever→Oriol Vinyals

    Co-authored Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks

    coauthored2014
  159. Ilya Sutskever→Quoc Le

    Co-authored Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks

    coauthored2014
  160. J. Presper Eckert→Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation

    Co-founded

    founded1946
  161. J. Presper Eckert→Philo Farnsworth

    Worked for Farnsworth while in high school

    worked withDate not recorded
  162. J. Presper Eckert→University of Pennsylvania

    ENIAC chief engineer

    worked at1943–1946
  163. Jaan Tallinn→Anthropic

    Led the $124 million Series A; amount is the total round

    invested in2021
  164. Jack Clark→Anthropic

    Co-founded Anthropic; company publicly operating in 2021

    founded2021
  165. Jack Clark→OpenAI

    Policy director before Anthropic

    worked atDate not recorded
  166. James Alexander→Institute for Advanced Study

    Original faculty

    joined1933
  167. Jan Koum→WhatsApp

    Co-founded

    founded2009
  168. Jared Kaplan→Anthropic

    Co-founded Anthropic; company publicly operating in 2021

    founded2021
  169. Jared Kaplan→Dario Amodei

    Co-authored Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models

    coauthored2020
  170. Jared Kaplan→Johns Hopkins University

    Physics faculty and machine-learning collaborator

    research affiliationDate not recorded
  171. Jared Kaplan→OpenAI

    Collaborated on scaling-law research

    research collaborator2020
  172. Jared Kaplan→Sam McCandlish

    Co-authored Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models

    coauthored2020
  173. Jared Kaplan→Tom Brown

    Co-authored Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models

    coauthored2020
  174. Jawed Karim→PayPal

    Early employee; met future YouTube co-founders

    worked atDate not recorded
  175. Jawed Karim→YouTube

    Co-founded

    founded2005
  176. Jay Last→Amelco

    Co-founded

    founded1961
  177. Jay Last→Fairchild Semiconductor

    Co-founded

    founded1957
  178. Jay Last→Shockley Semiconductor

    Research staff before founding Fairchild

    worked atThrough 1957
  179. Jean Hoerni→Amelco

    Co-founded

    founded1961
  180. Jean Hoerni→Fairchild Semiconductor

    Co-founded

    founded1957
  181. Jean Hoerni→Shockley Semiconductor

    Research staff before founding Fairchild

    worked atThrough 1957
  182. Jeff Bezos→Amazon

    Co-founded

    founded1994
  183. Jeff Bezos→Blue Origin

    Co-founded

    foundedDate not recorded
  184. Jeff Dean→Andrew Ng

    Co-authored Building high-level features using large scale unsupervised learning

    coauthored2011
  185. Jeff Dean→Chris Olah

    Hosted Olah’s Google Brain internship

    mentored2014
  186. Jeff Dean→Google Brain

    Led and described the team’s large-scale neural-network experiments

    worked at2012
  187. Jensen Huang→NVIDIA

    Co-founded

    founded1993
  188. Jeremy Stoppelman→PayPal

    Vice president of engineering

    worked atDate not recorded
  189. Jeremy Stoppelman→Yelp

    Co-founded

    founded2004
  190. Jerry Yang→Yahoo

    Co-founded

    founded1995
  191. Jessica Livingston→OpenAI

    Named launch supporter; part of a collective funding commitment

    pledged support2015
  192. Jessica Livingston→Y Combinator

    Co-founded

    founded2005
  193. Jim Clark→Netscape

    Co-founded

    founded1994
  194. Jim Clark→Silicon Graphics

    Co-founded

    founded1982
  195. Joe Gebbia→Airbnb

    Co-founded

    founded2008
  196. John Bardeen→Bell Labs

    Transistor research group

    worked at1945
  197. John Bardeen→Walter Brattain

    Transistor research

    collaborated1947
  198. John Collison→Stripe

    Co-founded

    founded2010
  199. John Logie Baird→Baird Television

    Founded the television company

    foundedDate not recorded
  200. John Logie Baird→BBC

    Television broadcasts using the BBC transmitter

    collaborated1929
  201. John Mauchly→Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation

    Co-founded

    founded1946
  202. John Mauchly→J. Presper Eckert

    Designed and built ENIAC

    collaborated1943–1946
  203. John Mauchly→University of Pennsylvania

    Joined the Moore School

    joined1942–1946
  204. John Schulman→OpenAI

    Named founding team member

    founding member2015
  205. John von Neumann→Institute for Advanced Study

    Original faculty

    joined1933
  206. Julius Blank→Fairchild Semiconductor

    Co-founded

    founded1957
  207. Julius Blank→Shockley Semiconductor

    Research staff before founding Fairchild

    worked atThrough 1957
  208. Jungsang Kim→IonQ

    Co-founded

    founded2015
  209. Jurgen Schmidhuber→IDSIA

    Listed affiliation in the LSTM paper

    research affiliation1997
  210. Katherine Johnson→NASA Langley

    Joined NACA Langley

    joined1953–1986
  211. Ken Howery→Founders Fund

    Co-founded

    foundedDate not recorded
  212. Ken Thompson→Bell Labs

    Unix research

    worked at1969
  213. Ken Thompson→Dennis Ritchie

    Developed Unix

    collaborated1969
  214. Kevin Systrom→Instagram

    Co-founded

    founded2010
  215. Kumar Malavalli→Brocade

    Co-founded

    founded1995
  216. Kunihiko Fukushima→NHK Broadcasting Science Research Laboratories

    Listed research affiliation in the Neocognitron paper

    research affiliation1980
  217. Larry Ellison→Oracle

    Co-founded

    founded1977
  218. Larry Page→Google

    Co-founded

    founded1998
  219. Leonard Bosack→Cisco

    Co-founded

    founded1984
  220. Luke Nosek→Founders Fund

    Co-founded

    foundedDate not recorded
  221. Luke Nosek→Gigafund

    Co-founded

    founded2017
  222. Luke Nosek→PayPal

    Co-founded

    founded1998
  223. Luke Nosek→SpaceX

    Joined the board

    board member2008
  224. Luke Nosek→SpaceX

    Led first venture investment

    invested in2008
  225. Marc Andreessen→Andreessen Horowitz

    Co-founded

    founded2009
  226. Marc Andreessen→Eric Bina

    Co-developed Mosaic

    collaborated1993
  227. Marc Andreessen→Loudcloud / Opsware

    Co-founded

    founded1999
  228. Marc Andreessen→NCSA

    Developed Mosaic

    worked at1993
  229. Marc Andreessen→Netscape

    Co-founded

    founded1994
  230. Marc Benioff→Oracle

    Executive before founding Salesforce

    worked atDate not recorded
  231. Marc Benioff→Salesforce

    Co-founded

    founded1999
  232. Margaret Hamilton→MIT Instrumentation Laboratory

    Led the Apollo flight software team (documented 1969)

    worked at1969
  233. Mark Zuckerberg→Facebook

    Co-founded

    founded2004
  234. Mary Jackson→NASA Langley

    Joined NACA Langley

    joined1951–1985
  235. Max Born→University of Göttingen

    Professor

    joined1921
  236. Max Levchin→Affirm

    Co-founded

    founded2012
  237. Max Levchin→PayPal

    Co-founded

    founded1998
  238. Max Levchin→Slide

    Co-founded

    foundedDate not recorded
  239. Meritech Capital Partners→Facebook

    Participated in the $25 million round

    invested in2006
  240. Microsoft→OpenAI

    Announced a $1 billion investment and computing partnership

    invested in2019
  241. Mike Krieger→Instagram

    Co-founded

    founded2010
  242. MIT Instrumentation Laboratory→NASA

    Apollo guidance-system contract

    contracted with1961
  243. Mustafa Suleyman→DeepMind

    Co-founded DeepMind

    founded2010
  244. Mustafa Suleyman→Google

    Left DeepMind for a new Google role

    joined2019
  245. Nathan Blecharczyk→Airbnb

    Co-founded

    founded2008
  246. New Enterprise Associates→IonQ

    Co-led Series B

    invested in2017
  247. Oracle→Sun Microsystems

    Completed acquisition

    acquired2010
  248. Oriol Vinyals→Quoc Le

    Co-authored Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks

    coauthored2014
  249. Oswald Veblen→Institute for Advanced Study

    Original faculty

    joined1933
  250. Pamela Vagata→OpenAI

    Named founding team member

    founding member2015
  251. Parker Harris→Salesforce

    Co-founded

    founded1999
  252. Patrick Collison→Stripe

    Co-founded

    founded2010
  253. Paul Allen→Microsoft

    Co-founded

    founded1975
  254. Paul Bonderson→Brocade

    Co-founded

    founded1995
  255. Paul Bonderson→Sun Microsystems

    Alumnus before Brocade

    worked atThrough 1995
  256. Paul Graham→Viaweb

    Co-founded

    founded1995
  257. Paul Graham→Y Combinator

    Co-founded

    founded2005
  258. Peter Thiel→Facebook

    First outside investor

    invested inDate not recorded
  259. Peter Thiel→Facebook

    Participated in the $25 million round

    invested in2006
  260. Peter Thiel→Founders Fund

    Co-founded

    foundedDate not recorded
  261. Peter Thiel→Founders Fund

    Partner

    partner atDate not recorded
  262. Peter Thiel→OpenAI

    Named launch supporter; part of a collective funding commitment

    pledged support2015
  263. Peter Thiel→Palantir

    Co-founded

    foundedDate not recorded
  264. Peter Thiel→PayPal

    Co-founded

    founded1998
  265. Philo Farnsworth→Baird Television

    Television development collaboration

    collaborated1934–1936
  266. Pierre Omidyar→eBay

    Founded as AuctionWeb

    founded1995
  267. Pradeep Sindhu→Juniper Networks

    Co-founded

    founded1996
  268. Quoc Le→Andrew Ng

    Co-authored Building high-level features using large scale unsupervised learning

    coauthored2011
  269. Quoc Le→Andrew Ng

    Doctoral advisor at Stanford

    studied withDate not recorded
  270. Quoc Le→Google Brain

    Early intern and later research scientist; biography does not give the full employment range

    worked atDate not recorded
  271. Quoc Le→Greg Corrado

    Co-authored Building high-level features using large scale unsupervised learning

    coauthored2011
  272. Quoc Le→Jeff Dean

    Co-authored Building high-level features using large scale unsupervised learning

    coauthored2011
  273. Reid Hoffman→Greylock

    Joined as an investor

    joined2009
  274. Reid Hoffman→LinkedIn

    Co-founded

    founded2003
  275. Reid Hoffman→OpenAI

    Named launch supporter; part of a collective funding commitment

    pledged support2015
  276. Reid Hoffman→PayPal

    Executive vice president and founding board member

    worked atDate not recorded
  277. Remington Rand→Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation

    Acquired

    acquired1950
  278. Robert Cailliau→CERN

    Joined

    joined1974
  279. Robert Kahn→BBN

    Researcher before joining ARPA

    worked atThrough 1972
  280. Robert Kahn→DARPA

    Joined ARPA

    joined1972
  281. Robert Metcalfe→David Boggs

    Developed Ethernet

    collaborated1973
  282. Robert Metcalfe→Xerox PARC

    Developed Ethernet

    worked at1973
  283. Robert Morris→Viaweb

    Co-founded

    founded1995
  284. Robert Morris→Y Combinator

    Co-founded

    founded2005
  285. Robert Noyce→Fairchild Semiconductor

    Co-founded

    founded1957
  286. Robert Noyce→Intel

    Co-founded

    founded1968
  287. Robert Noyce→Shockley Semiconductor

    Research staff before founding Fairchild

    worked atThrough 1957
  288. Roelof Botha→Instagram

    Sequoia investment partner

    invested in2012
  289. Roelof Botha→PayPal

    Chief financial officer

    worked atDate not recorded
  290. Roelof Botha→Sequoia Capital

    Joined

    joined2003
  291. Roelof Botha→YouTube

    Sequoia investment partner

    invested in2005
  292. Ron Wayne→Apple

    Co-founded

    founded1976
  293. Ronald Williams→University of California San Diego

    Listed affiliation in the backpropagation paper

    research affiliation1986
  294. Russel Simmons→PayPal

    Employee before Yelp

    worked atDate not recorded
  295. Russel Simmons→Yelp

    Co-founded

    founded2004
  296. Sam Altman→OpenAI

    Founding co-chair

    founded2015
  297. Sam McCandlish→Anthropic

    Co-founded Anthropic; company publicly operating in 2021

    founded2021
  298. Sam McCandlish→Dario Amodei

    Co-authored Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (GPT-3)

    coauthored2020
  299. Sam McCandlish→Dario Amodei

    Co-authored Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models

    coauthored2020
  300. Sam McCandlish→Ilya Sutskever

    Co-authored Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (GPT-3)

    coauthored2020
  301. Sam McCandlish→OpenAI

    Listed research affiliation on the GPT-3 paper

    research affiliation2020
  302. Sam McCandlish→Tom Brown

    Co-authored Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models

    coauthored2020
  303. Samir Kaul→Khosla Ventures

    Co-founded

    founded2004
  304. Sandy Lerner→Cisco

    Co-founded

    founded1984
  305. Sasha Sheng→Meta FAIR

    Former research engineer, according to TypeSafe; dates unspecified

    worked atDate not recorded
  306. Sasha Sheng→TypeSafe AI

    Co-founded TypeSafe AI

    founded2024
  307. Scott Cook→Amazon

    Appointed to board

    board member1997
  308. Scott Cook→Intuit

    Co-founded

    founded1983
  309. Scott McNealy→Sun Microsystems

    Co-founded

    founded1982
  310. Sepp Hochreiter→Jurgen Schmidhuber

    Co-authored Long Short-Term Memory

    coauthored1997
  311. Sepp Hochreiter→Jurgen Schmidhuber

    Listed as a former doctoral student

    studied withDate not recorded
  312. Sepp Hochreiter→Technical University of Munich

    Listed affiliation in the LSTM paper

    research affiliation1997
  313. Sequoia Capital→Airbnb

    Led seed financing

    invested in2009
  314. Sequoia Capital→Dropbox

    First partnership

    invested in2007
  315. Sequoia Capital→Instagram

    First partnership

    invested in2012
  316. Sequoia Capital→Stripe

    First partnership

    invested in2010
  317. Sequoia Capital→WhatsApp

    First partnership

    invested in2011
  318. Sequoia Capital→YouTube

    First investment

    invested in2005
  319. Sergey Brin→Google

    Co-founded

    founded1998
  320. Seth Neiman→Brocade

    Co-founded

    founded1995
  321. Seth Neiman→Sun Microsystems

    Alumnus before Brocade

    worked atThrough 1995
  322. Shane Legg→DeepMind

    Co-founded DeepMind

    founded2010
  323. Shane Legg→IDSIA

    Began doctoral research at IDSIA

    studied at2003
  324. Shane Legg→Jurgen Schmidhuber

    Doctoral co-advisor at the 2008 defense

    studied with2008
  325. Shane Legg→Marcus Hutter

    Doctoral research advisor at the 2008 defense

    studied with2008
  326. Sheldon Roberts→Amelco

    Co-founded

    founded1961
  327. Sheldon Roberts→Fairchild Semiconductor

    Co-founded

    founded1957
  328. Sheldon Roberts→Shockley Semiconductor

    Research staff before founding Fairchild

    worked atThrough 1957
  329. Stephen Oskoui→Gigafund

    Co-founded

    founded2017
  330. Steve Chen→PayPal

    Early employee; met future YouTube co-founders

    worked at1999
  331. Steve Chen→YouTube

    Co-founded

    founded2005
  332. Steve Huffman→Reddit

    Co-founded

    founded2005
  333. Steve Jobs→Apple

    Co-founded

    founded1976
  334. Steve Wozniak→Apple

    Co-founded

    founded1976
  335. Susan Wojcicki→Google

    Employee number 16; hosted first office

    worked atDate not recorded
  336. Tim Berners-Lee→CERN

    Joined

    joined1984–1994
  337. Tim Berners-Lee→Robert Cailliau

    Developed the World Wide Web together

    collaborated1990
  338. Tom Brown→Anthropic

    Co-founded Anthropic; company publicly operating in 2021

    founded2021
  339. Tom Brown→Dario Amodei

    Co-authored Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (GPT-3)

    coauthored2020
  340. Tom Brown→Dario Amodei

    Co-authored Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models

    coauthored2020
  341. Tom Brown→Ilya Sutskever

    Co-authored Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (GPT-3)

    coauthored2020
  342. Tom Brown→OpenAI

    Listed research affiliation on the GPT-3 paper

    research affiliation2020
  343. Tom Brown→Sam McCandlish

    Co-authored Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (GPT-3)

    coauthored2020
  344. Tom Perkins→Kleiner Perkins

    Co-founded

    founded1972
  345. Trevor Blackwell→OpenAI

    Named founding team member

    founding member2015
  346. Trevor Blackwell→Y Combinator

    Co-founded

    founded2005
  347. Vicki Cheung→OpenAI

    Named founding team member

    founding member2015
  348. Victor Grinich→Fairchild Semiconductor

    Co-founded

    founded1957
  349. Victor Grinich→Shockley Semiconductor

    Research staff before founding Fairchild

    worked atThrough 1957
  350. Vinod Khosla→Khosla Ventures

    Co-founded

    founded2004
  351. Vinod Khosla→Kleiner Perkins

    Joined as a general partner

    joined1986
  352. Vinod Khosla→Sun Microsystems

    Co-founded

    founded1982
  353. Vint Cerf→DARPA

    Led Internet-related research

    worked at1976–1982
  354. Vint Cerf→Google

    Vice president and chief Internet evangelist

    joined2005
  355. Vint Cerf→MCI

    Vice president of MCI Digital Information Services

    worked at1982–1986
  356. Vint Cerf→Robert Kahn

    Designed internetworking protocols

    collaborated1973
  357. Vint Cerf→Stanford University

    Assistant professor during TCP/IP collaboration

    worked at1973
  358. Vladimir Zworykin→Boris Rosing

    Was a student of

    studied withDate not recorded
  359. Vladimir Zworykin→RCA

    Electronic television research

    worked atDate not recorded
  360. Vladimir Zworykin→Westinghouse

    Electronic television research

    worked atDate not recorded
  361. Walter Brattain→Bell Labs

    Transistor research group

    worked at1945
  362. Werner Heisenberg→Max Born

    Research assistant

    worked with1923
  363. Werner Heisenberg→Niels Bohr

    Research collaboration in Copenhagen

    worked with1924–1925
  364. Werner Heisenberg→University of Copenhagen

    Lecturer in theoretical physics

    joined1926
  365. Werner Heisenberg→University of Göttingen

    Assistant to Max Born

    joined1923
  366. Wernher von Braun→NASA Marshall

    Director

    led1960–1970
  367. William Shockley→Bell Labs

    Transistor research group

    worked at1945
  368. William Shockley→Shockley Semiconductor

    Founded laboratory

    founded1956
  369. Wojciech Zaremba→OpenAI

    Named founding team member

    founding member2015
  370. Yahoo→Viaweb

    Acquired; became Yahoo Store

    acquired1998
  371. Yann LeCun→Bell Labs

    Joined AT&T Bell Laboratories

    joined1988
  372. Yann LeCun→Geoffrey Hinton

    Co-authored Deep learning

    coauthored2015
  373. Yann LeCun→Geoffrey Hinton

    Postdoctoral researcher in Hinton’s group

    studied withDate not recorded
  374. Yann LeCun→Meta FAIR

    Joined Facebook to lead AI research in December

    joined2013
  375. Yann LeCun→New York University

    Joined as professor

    joined2003
  376. Yann LeCun→Yoshua Bengio

    Co-authored Deep learning

    coauthored2015
  377. Yoshua Bengio→Geoffrey Hinton

    Co-authored Deep learning

    coauthored2015
  378. Yoshua Bengio→Mila

    Founded the research laboratory that became Mila

    founded1993
  379. Yoshua Bengio→OpenAI

    Named scientific advisor at launch

    advised2015
  380. Yoshua Bengio→University of Montreal

    Listed university affiliation in Deep learning

    research affiliation2015