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Founder of Zynga, the social game company behind FarmVille.

Co-founder and chief executive of Meta.

Creator of Minecraft and founder of Mojang, which Microsoft bought in 2014.

Founder of Bolt, who started it at 19.

Investor famous for her Internet Trends reports, founder of Bond Capital.

Founder of SoftBank and its Vision Fund.

Creator of Apache Spark and co-founder of Databricks.

Co-founder and chief executive of Canva.

Co-founder of the ride-hailing company Tapsi.

Founder of Sabaidea, the company behind Aparat and Filimo.

Co-founder and chief executive of Careem.

DeepMind co-founder who now leads Microsoft AI.

Co-founder of Gojek and later Indonesia's education minister.

Infosys co-founder who led India's Aadhaar digital identity program.

Co-founder of Skype and founder of Atomico.

Co-founder and chief executive of Revolut.

Co-founder and head of the mortgage software company Blend.

Co-founder and chief executive of Zerodha.

Early Google business chief and former executive chairman of Twitter.

Founder of Oculus, which started on Kickstarter, and of the defence company Anduril.

Founder of Zenefits and Rippling.

Co-founder and chief executive of Stripe.

Co-founder of Y Combinator and essayist whose writing shaped startup culture.

Co-founder of Pear VC and early investor in Dropbox, who started out selling Persian rugs.

Co-founder of Kickstarter.

Founder of the XPRIZE Foundation and co-founder of Singularity University.

Co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, first outside investor in Facebook, author of Zero to One.

Founder of eBay and Omidyar Network, born in Paris to Iranian parents.

Solo founder known for building profitable products such as Nomad List alone.

Chief executive of Turquoise Partners, a Tehran investment firm for foreign investors.

Co-founder and former chief executive of Netflix.

Co-founder of LinkedIn, partner at Greylock and host of Masters of Scale.

Co-founder and former chief executive of King, maker of Candy Crush.

Founder of the hotel chain OYO, a Thiel Fellow.

Co-founder of Souq.com, which Amazon acquired.

Founder of Product Hunt and Weekend Fund.

Founder and chief executive of Plug and Play Tech Center and early investor in Google and PayPal.

Co-founder of Digikala alongside his brother Hamid.

Founder of Gumroad and author of The Minimalist Entrepreneur.

Founder of Khan Academy.

Early Google employee and former chief executive of YouTube.

Chief executive of OpenAI and former president of Y Combinator.

Founder of Spanx, who built the company without outside investors.

Chief executive of Microsoft since 2014.

Co-founder and former chief executive of Tinder.

Co-founder and chief executive of Klarna.

Founder of Udacity and Google X, pioneer of self-driving cars.

Co-founder of Google, born in Moscow.