Larry Page and Sergey Brin co-founded Google while they were studying at Stanford University in 1996.
Reed Hastings co-founded Netflix, the streaming entertainment service, while he was a graduate student at Stanford University.
Peter Thiel, a Stanford graduate, is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist.
Phil Knight, a Stanford graduate, co-founded Nike, one of the world's most recognized and successful athletic footwear and apparel companies.
Jerry Yang and David Filo, both Stanford alumni, co-founded Yahoo!, one of the earliest and most influential internet companies.
Vinod Khosla, a Stanford alum, is a prominent venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He co-founded Sun Microsystems, a leading technology company, and later founded Khosla Ventures.
Mary G. Ross, the first female Native American engineer, earned her master's degree in mathematics from Stanford University.
Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford to found Theranos, a now-defunct health technology company that claimed to have developed a revolutionary blood testing technology.