Notable Businesses From Former Employees
A number of companies have been started and founded by former Amazon employees.
- BankBazaar.com was founded by Arjun Shetty, a former senior product manager
- Findory was founded by Greg Linden
- Flipkart was founded by Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal
- Foodista was founded by Barnaby Dorfman
- Hulu is led by Jason Kilar, a former SVP
- Infibeam was founded by Vishal Mehta
- Inside Jobs was founded by Todd Edebohls
- Interviewstreet was co-founded by Vivek Ravisankar
- Jambool/SocialGold was co-founded by Vikas Gupta and Reza Hussein
- Nimbula was co-founded by Chris Pinkham, a former VP, and Willem Van Biljon, a former Product Manager
- Opscode was co-founded by Jesse Robbins, a former engineer and manager
- Pelago was co-founded by Jeff Holden, a former SVP, and Darren Vengroff, a former Principal Engineer
- Quora was co-founded by engineer Charlie Cheever
- TeachStreet was founded by Dave Schappell, an early product manager
- The Book Depository was founded by Andrew Crawford; acquired by Amazon in 2011.
- Trusera was founded by Keith Schorsch, an early Amazonian
- Twilio was founded by Jeff Lawson, a former Technical Product Manager
- Vittana was founded by Kushal Chakrabarti and Brett Witt
- Wikinvest was founded by Michael Sha
- Yellowleg.com was founded by Aashish Gupta
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