The Careers of the Founders

What it does

How did the greatest entrepreneurs start out? What were their biggest successes? What failures did they have to overcome along the way? We’ve charted the careers of 33 inspirational company founders, from the man behind Heinz beans to the woman behind Ultimo bras, to show that there’s more than one path to success.

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  Founders at Work2015 · ▲208

  Stories of successful founders

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  Founders Origin Stories2020 · ▲129

  Learn from the life & origin stories of successful founders

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  Entrepreneur's Musings2020 · ▲183

  Personal lessons of an entrepreneur shared weekly

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  FoundersList – Looking for a cofounder or a new startup to work on?2020 · founderslist.com · ▲178
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  Entrepreneur List2021 · ▲162

  A curated directory of 700+ entrepreneurs to learn from

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  The YC Founder Directory2023 · ▲226

  Discover the 9,000 founders who went through YC

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  The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude▲703

  Life & fun · 10d ago · louisabraham.github.io

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  Articos▲385

  Launch with confidence, not gut instinct Discussion | Link

  Life & fun · 12d ago · producthunt.com

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  Nex▲351

  Claude Cowork for high-volume GTM workflows Discussion | Link

  Life & fun · 3d ago · producthunt.com

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  iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo▲329

  Photosynthesis fires two of your iPhone

  Life & fun · 29d ago · photosynthesis.camera

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  Creatium Coach▲320

  Your multimedia mentor that takes you from mid to great Discussion | Link

  Life & fun · 11d ago · producthunt.com

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  SoloUno▲310

  Take control of hair pulling, nail biting & skin picking

  Life & fun · 28d ago · solouno.io

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  Brain.fm▲955

  Music for the brain to improve focus, meditation & sleep

  AI · 2015 · brain.fm

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  Something pointless I made▲747

  Life & fun · 2015 · dn.ht

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  Parinfer – a simpler way to write Lisp▲674

  Life & fun · 2015 · shaunlebron.github.io

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  Motion AI▲628

  Easily build chatbots to do anything, on any platform!

  AI · 2015 · motion.ai

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  Fieldbook▲595

  Create a database, as easily as a spreadsheet

  Dev tools · 2015

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  f.lux for iOS▲590

  Auto adjust your iOS display based on the time of day

  Dev tools · 2015