Startup Founders Directory

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Pieter Levels

followers 981.7K

Nomads, Remote OK, Photo AI. Projects, revenue, experiments and public debates.

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Alexander Isora

followers 10.6K

Unicorn Platform, the cash-and-stock exit, and lessons from selling software.

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John Rush

followers 117.9K

Unicorn Platform, DevHunt, co-makers and building distribution.

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Marc Lou

followers 412.2K

ShipFast, DataFast and TrustMRR. Public revenue, rapid launches and the security dispute.

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Danny Postma

followers 187.6K

Headlime’s seven-figure exit, HeadshotPro, AI pivots and the business behind the portraits.

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Dagobert Renouf

followers 131K

Logology, startup memes and LaunchDay. Five years of bootstrapping—and a sponsored wedding.

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David Heinemeier Hansson

followers 927.6K

Rails, Basecamp and HEY. Cloud costs, company conflicts and a Le Mans class win.

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Arvid Kahl

followers 210K

FeedbackPanda’s $55k MRR, Podscan’s $4k monthly gap, and the 2026 acquisition.

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Rob Walling

followers 37.2K

HitTail’s 10× turnaround, Drip’s sale, and the difficult first version of TinySeed.

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Nathan Barry

followers 151K

Kit’s $50m ARR, the Seva reversal, a $0.68 payout and a ghost-town investment.

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Pat Walls

followers 142.9K

Starter Story’s $74k month, the HubSpot acquisition, and the business he neglected while building another.

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Tony Dinh

followers 205.3K

TypingMind’s first million, a $128k forced sale, and $2k of ads that sold nothing.

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Courtland Allen

followers 70.8K

A $750 first sponsor, six years at Stripe, and the unusual return to $0 MRR.

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Justin Jackson

followers 38.3K

An $85k shop failure, a 50/50 partnership, and the long road to a SaaS salary.

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Daniel Vassallo

followers 205.6K

A $511k job, a $400-MRR software bet, and the cash-versus-options anatomy of a $3.6m deal.

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Adam Robinson

followers 20K

A $10m Robly exit, $10m ARR at RB2B, and the churn behind the growth.

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Peter Steinberger

Peter Steinberger created OpenClaw, the open-source personal AI agent, after bootstrapping the PDF developer-tools company PSPDFKit. He joined OpenAI in February 2026. His Lex Fridman interview traces the agent’s growth, rebrands and security problems.

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Michael Truell

Michael Truell co-founded Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, with Aman Sanger, Arvid Lunnemark and Sualeh Asif. The four founders appeared together on Lex Fridman’s podcast. SpaceX acquired Cursor in August 2026.

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Anton Osika

Anton Osika started the open-source GPT Engineer project and co-founded Lovable with Fabian Hedin. Lovable turns prompts into working web apps. On Lenny’s Podcast, Osika explained how a team of 15 reached its first reported $10 million in annual recurring revenue.

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Amjad Masad

Amjad Masad co-founded Replit, a browser-based coding and deployment platform that grew from an online programming environment into an AI app builder. He demonstrated Replit Agent on Lenny’s Podcast and discussed the company’s early years on 20VC.