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10 Amazon alumni who founded companies

Each of these Amazon alumni who founded companies worked at Amazon, in executive, engineering, product, security and AI roles, before starting the company they run now as founder or co-founder. A reader can learn how people who worked at Amazon went on to build companies, from the founders themselves.

10 professionals10 companiesData retrieved October 25, 2026

Professionals to explore

  1. Brad Porter

    Experience: Founder and CEO · Cobot

    Brad Porter was Vice President and Distinguished Engineer, Robotics at Amazon from 2017 to 2020, and has been Founder and CEO of Cobot since 2022.

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  2. Brendan Falk

    Experience: Founder / CEO · Hercules

    Brendan Falk was Global lead, GenAI, Private Equity at Amazon Web Services (AWS) from 2024 to 2025, and has been Founder / CEO of Hercules since 2025. Brendan Falk describes Hercules as making it easy to build apps and websites by chatting with AI.

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  3. Dave Clark

    Experience: Founder and CEO · Auger

    Dave Clark was CEO Worldwide Consumer at Amazon from 2021 to 2022, and has been Founder and CEO of Auger since 2024.

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  4. Eric North

    Experience: CEO, Co-Founder · Arthos AI

    Eric North was in Product Management - AI & Data Science at Amazon from 2014 to 2025, and has been CEO, Co-Founder of Arthos AI since 2026.

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  5. Frank Genister

    Experience: Founder and CEO · EasyWorld

    Frank Genister was Senior Vice President at Amazon from 2015 to 2017, and has been Founder and CEO of EasyWorld since 2017.

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  6. Gaurav Singhal

    Experience: Founder & CEO · APX Labs

    Gaurav Singhal was Principal Security Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) from 2020 to 2025, and has been Founder & CEO of APX Labs since 2025.

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  7. Lawrence Antony Kunnuvilla

    Experience: Founder & CEO · AskLexy

    Lawrence Antony Kunnuvilla was Principal, AI/ML at Amazon Web Services (AWS) from 2022 to 2025, and has been Founder & CEO of AskLexy since 2025. The profile describes AskLexy as a language learning company.

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  8. Scott Wofford

    Experience: Co-Founder & CEO · Luthien

    Scott Wofford was Principal Product Manager, Tech - Purchase Experience at Amazon from 2023 to 2025, and has been Co-Founder & CEO of Luthien since 2025. Scott Wofford describes the work as building open-source AI control software.

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  9. Shariq Siddiqui

    Experience: Founder & CEO · Veeve Inc.

    Shariq Siddiqui was Head of Product at Amazon in 2018, after serving as Senior Product Manager there from 2012 to 2017, and has been Founder & CEO of Veeve Inc. since 2019. Shariq Siddiqui describes Veeve as a shopper engagement platform.

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  10. Steve Brodie

    Experience: Founder & CEO · Stax

    Steve Brodie was WW GM, AWS Technology Solutions at Amazon Web Services (AWS) from 2024 to 2026, and has been Founder & CEO of Stax since 2026. Steve Brodie describes Stax as a social travel savings app.

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Match the person's role at Amazon, such as operations leadership, engineering, product or AWS go-to-market, to the part of the path from employee to founder you want to understand. Check when each company was started to judge how recent the person's experience of the early stage is.

Questions to take into the conversation

  1. 01Which Amazon habits or mechanisms did you keep when you started your own company, and which did you drop?
  2. 02How did you decide what problem your company would work on?
  3. 03What did you have to learn quickly that your Amazon role had not prepared you for?

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