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Jane Helwig
Jane T. Helwig was one of the four co-founders of SAS Institute, the private software company incorporated in 1976, and co-authored A User's Guide to SAS-76.
Jason Boehmig
Jason Boehmig is an American technology founder and former corporate attorney who co-founded Ironclad, a San Francisco contract lifecycle management company, in 2014 and led it as CEO until 2025.
Jason Kapalka
Jason Kapalka is a Canadian game designer and entrepreneur who co-founded the Seattle casual-game studio PopCap Games in 2000, co-created Bejeweled, and later founded Blue Wizard Digital.
Jason Rubin
Jason Rubin is an American video game designer who co-founded Naughty Dog, creator of Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter, and later led virtual reality content at Oculus and Meta.
Jason West
Jason West is a video game designer who co-created the Call of Duty franchise at Infinity Ward, then co-founded Respawn Entertainment with Vince Zampella in 2010.
Jay Patel
Jay Patel is a video game programmer who was part of Interplay Productions' founding team in 1983, programming titles like Battle Chess, and later worked at Blizzard Entertainment.
JB Straubel
JB Straubel is an American engineer who co-founded Tesla and served as its chief technology officer from 2005 to 2019, then founded Redwood Materials, a Nevada battery recycling company, in 2017.
Jeff Skoll
Jeff Skoll is a Canadian engineer and eBay's first president and full-time employee, who left in 2001 and founded the Skoll Foundation and Participant Media.
Jeff Spangenberg
Jeff Spangenberg is an American video game industry executive and studio founder, best known for founding Iguana Entertainment, maker of NBA Jam and Turok, and Retro Studios in Austin, Texas.
Jenny Chang
Jenny Chang (陳怡蓁) is a Taiwanese business executive who co-founded the Tokyo-headquartered cybersecurity company Trend Micro in 1988 with her husband Steve Chang and sister Eva Chen.
Jim Levy
Jim Levy is a business executive who co-founded Activision in 1979 and led it as chairman and CEO until 1986, growing it to over $157 million in annual sales.
John Cullinane
John Cullinane is an American software entrepreneur who founded Cullinane Corporation, later Cullinet Software, in Massachusetts in 1968, the first software company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
John Moores (BMC Software co-founder)
John Moores is an American software entrepreneur who founded BMC Software in Houston, Texas, in 1980, served as its first CEO, and later founded Peregrine Systems and JMI Equity.
John Sall
John Sall is an American software developer and businessman who co-founded SAS Institute in 1976, owns one-third of the analytics company, and founded and leads its JMP statistics subsidiary.
John Vechey
John Vechey is an American games entrepreneur who co-founded PopCap Games in Seattle in 2000, sold to Electronic Arts in 2011 for up to $1.3 billion.
Johnny Ho
Johnny Ho is an American technology executive, cofounder and chief strategy officer of the San Francisco artificial-intelligence answer engine Perplexity, which he cofounded in 2022.
Jon Burton
Jon Burton is a British video game developer who co-founded Traveller's Tales in 1989, built it into the LEGO game maker TT Games, and sold it to Warner Bros. in 2007.
Jonathan Chey
Jonathan Chey, also credited as Jon Chey, is a video game developer who co-founded Irrational Games in 1997 with Ken Levine, managed System Shock 2, and founded Blue Manchu.
Jonathan Levin (economist)
Jonathan Levin is an economist and entrepreneur who co-founded the blockchain data platform Chainalysis in New York in 2014, serving as Chief Strategy Officer before becoming CEO in 2024.
Joseph J. DePaolo
Joseph J. DePaolo is an American banker who co-founded Signature Bank in 2001 and served as its president and CEO for 22 years until New York regulators closed it in March 2023.
Joseph Taub
Joseph Taub was an American businessman who co-founded Automatic Data Processing (ADP), the payroll services company, with his brother Henry Taub, starting in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1949.
Junglee Corp.
Junglee Corp. was a Sunnyvale, California software company founded in 1996 that developed virtual database technology for comparison shopping and job search, acquired by Amazon in 1998.
Justin Maier
Justin Maier is an American technology founder and CEO of Civitai, an open-source AI model-sharing platform he built in 2022 in Meridian, Idaho, backed by Andreessen Horowitz.
Kailei Zhang
Kailei Zhang (张凯磊) is a Chinese education technology entrepreneur who founded the tutoring platform Xuebajun and now leads the AI children's reading product Miss Dora.
Karim Atiyeh
Karim Atiyeh is a Lebanese-born technology entrepreneur who co-founded the New York financial operations company Ramp in 2019, serving as CTO before becoming co-CEO in 2026.
Karol Hausman
Karol Hausman is a robotics researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded Physical Intelligence in 2024 to build foundation models for robots, after working as a Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and teaching at Stanford.
Katrina Leslie
Katrina Leslie is an Australian technology founder and the founder and chairman of Swipejobs, a Dallas-based AI talent platform that made $1.3 billion in revenue in 2025.
Ken Sharma
Ken Sharma was an Indian-born American executive who co-founded the supply chain software company i2 Technologies in Dallas and served as its vice chairman until his death in 1999.
Ken Williams (software entrepreneur)
Ken Williams (born 1954) is an American software entrepreneur who co-founded the game company On-Line Systems, later Sierra On-Line, with his wife Roberta in 1979.
Kevin Bruner
Kevin Bruner is an American game developer and executive who co-founded Telltale Games, the studio behind The Walking Dead's episodic adventure games, and led it as chief executive from 2015 to 2017.