Entrepreneurs and business leaders from Stanford University

• Kurt Akeley, (MS, Ph.D.), co-founder of Silicon Graphics
• Jim Allchin, (MS) co-President of Microsoft
• Mukesh Ambani, (MBA candidate, dropped out) Reliance Industries Limited Chairman
• John Arrillaga, (A.B., MBA) - Silicon Valley real estate developer
• Steven A. Ballmer, (MBA candidate, dropped out in 1979) CEO, Microsoft
• Diosdado Banatao, (MS), venture capitalist; S3 Graphics, Chips and Technologies, Mostron co-founder.
• Craig Barrett, B.S., Ph.D. (1964) - past Chairman of Intel, former CEO of Intel (1998–2005). Former Stanford Professor of Materials Science (1964–1974).
• Andy Bechtolsheim (Ph.D CS/EE 1977-1982(Dropped Out), Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems.
• Jeffrey Bewkes (MBA 1977), Time Warner President and COO
• Len Bosack, (MS 1981), co-founder of Cisco Systems with his girlfriend (later wife), Sandy Lerner
• Sergey Brin, (MS), Google co-founder
• Orkut Büyükkökten , Founder of social networking service called Orkut
• Ray Dolby, audio engineer, founder of Dolby Labs
• Burton A. Dole, Jr., (BSME, MBA), President, CEO, and Chairman of Puritan Bennett
• Richard B. Evans, (MS Management 1978), Alcan, President & CEO
• Richard Fairbank, (A.B., MBA), co-Founder, Chairman, & CEO, Capital One
• David Filo, (MS), Yahoo! co-founder
• Carly Fiorina, (1976), CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 - 2005.
• Paul Flaherty, (M.S., Ph.D.) co-inventor of the AltaVista search engine
• Victor Grinich, (Ph.D. 1953) one of the "Traitorous Eight" that founded Fairchild Semiconductor
• Andrew Grove, (Lecturer) - founder and former CEO and Chairman of Intel
• Reed Hastings (M.S. 1988), Netflix founder
• Trip Hawkins, (MBA) - founder of Electronic Arts and 3DO
• Christopher Hedrick, (A.B. 1984) - President and CEO of Intrepid Learning Solutions
• William Hewlett (1934), Hewlett-Packard co-founder
• Mamoru Imura, CEO of Vita Craft Corporation and Vita Craft Japan, inventor of RFIQin.
• Guy Kawasaki - CEO of the venture capital firm Garage Technology Ventures
• Howard Kerzner - (MBA 1991) - former CEO of Kerzner International
• Vinod Khosla, (MBA), Sun Microsystems co-founder, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner
• Phil Knight, (MBA 1961), founder and former CEO, Nike
• Omid Kordestani, (MBA), Senior Vice President Google
• Sandy Lerner, (MS Stat & CS 1981), co-founder of Cisco Systems with her boyfriend (later husband), Len Bosack
• Richard Li, (College dropout) - founder of STAR TV (Asia) and Chairman of the largest Hongkong telecommunication carrier PCCW
• Victor Li, (BS, MS 1985) - Hong Kong businessman
• Mao Daolin, (MS in EESOR) former CEO of Sina.com
• Craig McCaw, (A.B.) Founder and CEO of McCaw Cellular, founder of Clearwire
• Henry McKinnell, (MBA, Ph.D.) - Chairman and former CEO of Pfizer
• Scott McNealy, (MBA) - Co-founder, Chairman, & former CEO, Sun Microsystems
• Hamid Moghadam, (MBA 1980) - Co-founder, Chairman & CEO, AMB Property Corporation
• Robert Mondavi, (A.B. 1937) Vintner
• John Morgridge, (MBA 1957), Cisco Systems Chairman
• Mark Oldman, Vault.com co-founder
• David Packard, (1934), Hewlett-Packard co-founder
• Larry Page, (M.S.), Google co-founder
• Azim Premji, founder and CEO of Wipro Technologies
• T.J. Rodgers, (Ph.D.) - founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor
• James Sachs, (A.M. 1979), IDEO co-founder
• John Turner Sargent, Jr., business associate of Doubleday (whose father was CEO) and CEO of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
• Charles R. Schwab, (1959, MBA 1961), founder, chairman, and CEO of Charles Schwab Corporation
• David E. Shaw, (Ph. D. 1980) - founder of D.E. Shaw & Co. and Chief Scientist of D.E. Shaw Research, LLC
• Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder, Clarium Capital founder
• Alan Tripp, (A.B. 1985, MBA 1989) founder of SCORE! Educational Centers and InsideTrack
• Jerry Yang, Yahoo! co-founder
• Lance Leelie, [Leelie Corp][1], founder
• Min Zhu, founder and former CTO of WebEx
• Hernán Kazah, co-founder of Mercadolibre.com
• Scott McGregor, President, Chief Executive Officer of Broadcom