Founder Stories — Foundry
Articles about founder stories from the best founders and investors.
28 articles
Jeff Bezos Built Amazon Because Bookstores Had a Math Problem
— Jeff Bezos
The Real Founding Story of Tesla (It Started Over Lunch)
— Elon Musk
Jeff Bezos Paid Himself $80K for 27 Years and Never Took More Amazon Stock
— Jeff Bezos
Steve Jobs Built Heathkits as a Kid. It Destroyed the Illusion That Things Are Magic.
— Steve Jobs
Jensen Huang Started NVIDIA With a 1-Year-Old and a 2-Year-Old at Home
— Jensen Huang
Jack Dorsey: Great Companies Don't Have One Founding Moment. They Have Many.
— Jack Dorsey
Nikita Bier: 15 Failed Apps, a Lawyer Call to Dissolve, Then a $30 Million Exit
— Nikita Bier
How Two Google Engineers Built 'Did You Mean?' in Their Spare Time
Max Levchin Shipped a Bug That Almost Killed PayPal One Year Before IPO
— Max Levchin
Aaron Levie: Start With Something So Simple It Looks Stupid
— Aaron Levie
Brian Chesky: Design for One Person Until They Love It. Then Get the Second Person.
— Brian Chesky
Jack Dorsey: Twitter Didn't Solve a Problem. It Was Something We Wanted to Exist.
— Jack Dorsey
Jack Dorsey Almost Became a Massage Therapist. Then He Went Back to Programming.
How Jack Dorsey Came Up with the Name Twitter
— Jack Dorsey
How Mark Zuckerberg Crushed the Competition
— Mark Zuckerberg
Cruise founder's Playbook for Winning
— Kyle Vogt
Elon Musk's Darkest Moment at Tesla & SpaceX
— Elon Musk
How Jeff Bezos Came Up with the Idea for Amazon
— Jeff Bezos
Palmer Luckey Considered Three Companies After Oculus. One Was a Nonprofit Prison. One Was Petroleum Cheese.
— Palmer Luckey
Why Elon Musk Became a Founder
— Elon Musk
How a Narrow Idea Built Yelp
— Jeremy Stoppelman
Eric Schmidt: The Great Founders Are Frugal
— Eric Schmidt
Steve Blank Invented the Lean Startup. Here Is What Everyone Gets Wrong.
— Steve Blank
Jack Dorsey Built Square by Accident. A Glassblower Showed Him the Way.
— Jack Dorsey
Eric Schmidt: The Greatest Products Were Built for the People Building Them
— Eric Schmidt
Steve Jobs: Everything Around You Was Made Up by People No Smarter Than You
— Steve Jobs
Jim Clark Built Netscape Because America Accepts Change Faster Than Anyone
— Jim Clark
Nolan Bushnell Had Four Sheriffs in the Atari Lobby. He Kept Going.
— Nolan Bushnell