Internet entrepreneur

An Internet entrepreneur is an entrepreneur that applies innovation to create new businesses on the Internet.^[1]

Internet entrepreneurs are part of the more general category of digital entrepreneurs.

Most famous Internet entrepreneurs

• Bill Gates and Paul Allen (passed down to Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie from Bill Gates) - Microsoft - MSN
• Sergey Brin & Larry Page - Google
• Chad Hurley, Steve Chen (YouTube) and Jawed Karim - YouTube
• Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook
• Pierre Omidyar and John Donahoe - eBay
• Tom and Chris DeWolfe - Myspace
• Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia
• Jeff Bezos - Amazon.com
• Craig Newmark - Craigslist
• Jerry Yang and David Filo - Yahoo
• Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Luke Nosek - Paypal
• Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield -Flickr
• Reed Hastings - Netflix
• Jack Dorsey - Twitter
• Kevin Rose - Digg
• James H. Clark and Marc Andreessen - Netscape
• Joshua Schachter - del.icio.us
• Shawn Fanning - Napster
• Sky Dayton - EarthLink
• Bob Parsons - Go Daddy
• Tom Fulp - Newgrounds
• Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban - Broadcast.com
• Michael Arrington - TechCrunch
• Chris Pirillo - Lockergnome
• Arvind A. Raichur - AllLaw.com, Inc.
• Steffan Sondermark Fallesen - Servage Hosting
• Christopher Poole (moot) - 4chan.org
• Zach Klein - Vimeo
• Ashwin Navin - BitTorrent
• Trip Adler - Scribd
• Ask.com - Garrett Gruener
  David Warthen (Founders)
  Doug Leeds (CEO)

See also

• Entrepreneur

References

1. ^ "On Being an Internet Entrepreneur". http://radoff.com/blog/2009/11/28/on-being-an-internet-entrepreneur/. Retrieved 2009-11-30. 

Further reading

• Livingston, Jessica, Founders at work: stories of startups' early days, Berkeley, CA : Apress ; New York : Distributed to the book trade worldwide by Springer-Verlag New York, 2007. ISBN 9781590597149