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Top Founder Rankings
Current Founder leaders ranked by latest published Leadership Rating.
Leadership Ratings are interpretive research ratings, not investment, employment, or legal advice.
| Rank | Leader | Company | Title | Leadership Rating | Status | Dimensions | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chris Malachowsky | NVIDIA | Founder and NVIDIA Fellow | 8.0 | Published | LEADERSHIP PRESENCE 8.1 · DECISION MAKING 8.0 · EXECUTION ORIENTATION 8.0 | 6/5/2026 |
| 2 | Sam Altman | OpenAI | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 3 | Greg Brockman | OpenAI | Co-Founder and President | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 4 | Elon Musk | xAI | Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 5 | Jack Clark | Anthropic | Co-Founder and Head of Policy | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 6 | Chris Olah | Anthropic | Co-Founder and Interpretability Researcher | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 7 | Dario Amodei | Anthropic | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 8 | Daniela Amodei | Anthropic | Co-Founder and President | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 9 | Jared Kaplan | Anthropic | Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 10 | Mark Zuckerberg | Meta Platforms | Founder, Chairman and CEO | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 11 | Mike Cannon-Brookes | Atlassian | Co-Founder and CEO | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 12 | Marc Benioff | Salesforce | Chair and CEO | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 13 | Tobi Lütke | Shopify | Founder and CEO | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 14 | Eric Yuan | Zoom | Founder and CEO | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 15 | Matthew Prince | Cloudflare | Co-Founder and CEO | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 16 | Drew Houston | Dropbox | Co-Founder and CEO | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 17 | Aaron Levie | Box | Co-Founder and CEO | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 18 | Kristo Käärmann | Wise | Co-Founder and CEO | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 19 | David Vélez | Nubank | Founder and CEO | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 20 | Wang Chuanfu | BYD | Founder, Chairman and President | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 21 | Robin Zeng | CATL | Founder and Chairman | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 22 | Michael Hsing | Monolithic Power Systems | Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 23 | Michael Intrator | CoreWeave | Co-Founder, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 24 | Alex Karp | Palantir | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 25 | Alexandr Wang | Scale AI | Founder and Director | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 26 | Aravind Srinivas | Perplexity | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 27 | Arthur Mensch | Mistral AI | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 28 | Aidan Gomez | Cohere | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 29 | Clement Delangue | Hugging Face | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 30 | Cristobal Valenzuela | Runway | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 31 | Arvind Jain | Glean | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 32 | May Habib | Writer | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 33 | Winston Weinberg | Harvey | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 34 | Brian Schimpf | Anduril Industries | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 35 | Jagdeep Singh | QuantumScape | Co-Founder and Chairman | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 36 | Tim Holme | QuantumScape | Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 37 | Qichao Hu | SES AI | Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 38 | Enric Asunción | Wallbox | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 39 | Eduard Castañeda | Wallbox | Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 40 | Wu Gang | Goldwind | Founder and Chairman | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 41 | Li Zhenguo | LONGi Green Energy | Founder and President | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 42 | Gao Jifan | Trina Solar | Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 43 | Shawn Qu | Canadian Solar | Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 44 | Jin Baofang | JA Solar | Founder and Chairman | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 45 | Raghu Belur | Enphase Energy | Co-Founder and Chief Products Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 46 | KR Sridhar | Bloom Energy | Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 47 | RJ Scaringe | Rivian | Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 48 | William Li | NIO | Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 49 | Qin Lihong | NIO | Co-Founder and President | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 50 | He Xiaopeng | XPeng | Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 51 | Xia Heng | XPeng | Co-Founder | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 52 | Li Xiang | Li Auto | Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 53 | Chris A. Malachowsky | NVIDIA | Founder and NVIDIA Fellow | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 54 | Masayoshi Son | Arm | Board Chair / Controlling Founder Representative | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 55 | Aart de Geus | Synopsys | Founder and Executive Chair | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 56 | Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli | Cadence Design Systems | Board-level Founder / Director | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 57 | Toshio Sekiya | Disco Corporation | Founder / Board-level legacy signal | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 58 | Chen Tianshi | Cambricon Technologies | Founder, Chairman and General Manager | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 59 | Zhang Wen | Biren Technology | Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer / General Manager | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 60 | Xu Lingjie | Biren Technology | Co-Founder and Chief Scientist | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 61 | Hong Zhou | Biren Technology | Co-Founder / Senior Executive | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 62 | Andrew Feldman | Cerebras Systems | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 63 | Jean-Philippe Fricker | Cerebras Systems | Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 64 | Gary Lauterbach | Cerebras Systems | Co-Founder and President | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 65 | Jonathan Ross | Groq | Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 66 | Ali Ghodsi | Databricks | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 67 | Matei Zaharia | Databricks | Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 68 | Reynold Xin | Databricks | Co-Founder and Chief Architect | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 69 | Brian Venturo | CoreWeave | Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 70 | Peter Salanki | CoreWeave | Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 71 | Peter Thiel | Palantir | Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 72 | Stephen Cohen | Palantir | Co-Founder, President and Secretary | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 73 | Benoit Dageville | Snowflake | Co-Founder and President of Product | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 74 | Denis Yarats | Perplexity | Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 75 | Timothee Lacroix | Mistral AI | Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 76 | Guillaume Lample | Mistral AI | Co-Founder and Chief Scientist | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 77 | Nick Frosst | Cohere | Co-Founder | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 78 | Ivan Zhang | Cohere | Co-Founder | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 79 | Julien Chaumond | Hugging Face | Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 80 | Thomas Wolf | Hugging Face | Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 81 | David Holz | Midjourney | Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 82 | Anastasis Germanidis | Runway | Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 83 | Alejandro Matamala | Runway | Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 84 | Victor Riparbelli | Synthesia | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 85 | Steffen Tjerrild | Synthesia | Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 86 | Matthias Niessner | Synthesia | Co-Founder | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 87 | Mati Staniszewski | ElevenLabs | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 88 | Piotr Dabkowski | ElevenLabs | Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 89 | Andrew Mason | Descript | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 90 | Dave Rogenmoser | Jasper | Co-Founder and Executive Chairman | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 91 | Piyush Prahladka | Glean | Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 92 | Tony Gentilcore | Glean | Co-Founder | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 93 | T. R. Vishwanath | Glean | Co-Founder | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 94 | Waseem AlShikh | Writer | Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 95 | Gabriel Pereyra | Harvey | Co-Founder and President | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 96 | Shiv Rao | Abridge | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 97 | Eric Lefkofsky | Tempus AI | Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 98 | Chris Gibson | Recursion Pharmaceuticals | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 99 | Alex Zhavoronkov | Insilico Medicine | Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 100 | Thomas Clozel | Owkin | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 101 | Gilles Wainrib | Owkin | Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 102 | Andrew Hopkins | Exscientia | Founder | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 103 | Thomas M. Siebel | C3.ai | Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 104 | Keyvan Mohajer | SoundHound AI | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 105 | Tomer Weingarten | SentinelOne | Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 106 | George Kurtz | CrowdStrike | Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 107 | Palmer Luckey | Anduril Industries | Founder | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 108 | Trae Stephens | Anduril Industries | Co-Founder and Executive Chairman | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 109 | Matt Grimm | Anduril Industries | Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 110 | Ryan Tseng | Shield AI | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 111 | Brandon Tseng | Shield AI | Co-Founder and President | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 112 | Gundbert Scherf | Helsing | Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 113 | Torsten Reil | Helsing | Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 114 | Niklas Koehler | Helsing | Co-Founder and President | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 115 | Qasar Younis | Applied Intuition | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 116 | Peter Ludwig | Applied Intuition | Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |
| 117 | Jensen Huang | NVIDIA | Jensen Huang is the founder, president and chief executive officer of NVIDIA. | Not Rated | Not Rated | No published Leadership Rating yet | 6/5/2026 |