Notable businesses founded by former employees

A number of companies have been started and founded by former Amazon employees.^[133]

• Findory was founded by Greg Linden
• Flipkart was founded by Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal^[134]
• Foodista.com was founded by Barnaby Dorfman
• Hulu was led by Jason Kilar, a former SVP
• Infibeam was founded by Vishal Mehta
• Instacart was founded by Apporva Mehta
• Jambool and SocialGold were co-founded by Vikas Gupta and Reza Hussein
• Jet.com was founded by Marc Lore
• 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
• Pro.com was founded by Matt Williams, former longtime Amazon executive and 'shadow' to Jeff Bezos^[135]
• 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