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62 ex-YC founders

Of the 3,256 Y Combinator founders who left the company they started, 62 work at OpenAI today — employment read from public LinkedIn as of July 2026, part of After YC, a census of 11,220 YC founders.

AF
Abe Fetterman
Member of Technical Staff
Nomiku W15
in ↗
AD
Abhijeet Dwivedi
Special Projects
ZeroDown W19
in ↗
AS
Abhinav Swaminathan
FDE
Matcha F24
in ↗
AM
Adam Michalski
GTM
Partnered W21
in ↗
AK
Alexei Karpenko
Member of Technical Staff
Midnox W12
in ↗
AC
Amey Chaugule
Member of Technical Staff
Denormalized S22
in ↗
AA
Andrew Ambrosino
Catch W19
in ↗
AC
Andrew Chen
Satchel S18
in ↗
AD
Andrew Duberstein
Data Scientist
Mercator S22
in ↗
AA
Anish Agrawal
Member of Technical Staff
Chatter S23
in ↗
AV
Arun Vijayvergiya
Member Of Technical Staff
Fabric S16
in ↗
AD
Axel Delafosse
Goosebump S17
BB
Benjamin Bolte
Engineer
K-Scale Labs W24
in ↗
BC
Bill Chen
RiskAngle S24
in ↗
BM
Bobby Meelu
Member of Technical Staff
Prompt S19
in ↗
BM
Brad Murray
Member of Technical Staff
Beeper S21
in ↗
BB
Brian Brunner 2× YC
Member of Technical Staff
Cheddar S14
in ↗
BF
Brian Fioca
Applied Evals
RescueTime W08
in ↗
CC
Cadran Cowansage
Member of Technical Staff
Elpha S19
in ↗
CS
Can Sar
Value Voting S17
in ↗
CA
Carly Allen
Creative Producer
Almond S22
in ↗
CM
Carter McClellan
Applied AI
supercontrast F24
in ↗
CG
Charlie Guo
Developer Experience Engineer
FanHero S13
in ↗
CB
Christopher Berner
Distinguished Engineer
Carsabi W12
in ↗
CH
Christopher Hesse
Member of Technical Staff
Pushbullet W14
DG
Dan Gillespie
Member of Technical Staff
Redspread W16
in ↗
DS
Dane Schneider
Member of Technical Staff
EnvKey W18
in ↗
DH
Darren Hwang
Member of Technical Staff
Kura AI S24
in ↗
DF
David Ferris
Member of Technical Staff
Phonic W20
in ↗
EP
Elfred Pagan
Member of Technical Staff
Stackq S09
in ↗
EC
Enoch Cheung
Member of Technical Staff
Prelay W20
in ↗
EZ
Eric Zhang
Member of Technical Staff
Flotype W11
in ↗
FM
Fouad Matin
Member of Technical Staff
StrongIntro W16
in ↗
GL
Gary Lin
Member of Forward Deployed Staff
Explo W20
in ↗
IG
Ishaan Gulrajani
Watchsend S13
in ↗
JZ
James Zhang
Member of Technical Staff
Polly S17
in ↗
JP
Jared Pochtar
Member of Technical Staff
Pagedraw W18
in ↗
JC
Jesse Chand
Product Designer
Capture W19
in ↗
JG
Joe Gershenson
Member of Technical Staff
GazeHawk S10
in ↗
JC
John Coogan 2× YC
Soylent S12
in ↗
JW
Josh Wright
Member of Technical Staff
Apollo S21
in ↗
JB
Justin Bleuel
Avenue W21
in ↗
KP
Kelsey Pedersen
Codex
CAPSULE S22
in ↗
KL
Kevin Lin
Member of Technical Staff
Nimbus W21
in ↗
KB
Kulapradip Bharali
AI Deployment Engineer
Gobillion S21
in ↗
KK
Kundan Kumar
Member of Technical Staff
Lyrebird S17
in ↗
MB
Matthew Bryant
OffSec Engineer
LunaSec S19
in ↗
MD
Melissa Du
Compute & Infrastructure
Cadence W20
in ↗
MD
Michael DAngelo
Member of Technical Staff
Arthena W17
in ↗
MP
Michael Petrov
Member Of Technical Staff
Couple W12
in ↗
NG
Nanki Grewal
FDE
Ecliptor W24
in ↗
NF
Nick Fiacco
Member of Technical Staff
Demospace W23
in ↗
RM
Rohan Mehta
Member of Technical Staff
Arcane W24
in ↗
SM
Sai Mandhan
Applied AI
Remedy F25
in ↗
SA
Sam Altman
CEO
Loopt S05
SK
Sam Kramer
Forward Deployed Software Engineer
Invaria S24
in ↗
SL
Spike Lu
Member of Technical Staff
BricksAI S22
in ↗
ST
Sridatta Thatipamala
Member of Technical Staff
Flotype W11
in ↗
SS
Stefan Stokic
Applied AI
Slik S17
in ↗
TL
Tanooj Luthra 2× YC
Member of Technical Staff
Streem S12
in ↗
TC
Trevor Creech
Member of Technical Staff
Tinker S14
in ↗
YZ
Yansen Zhou
Member of Technical Staff
Hippo Scribe W23
in ↗