Founders who were fired (or forced out) of their own companies:
Steve Jobs: Apple (1985)
Travis Kalanick: Uber (2017)
Sam Altman: OpenAI (2023, briefly)
Jack Dorsey: Twitter (2008)
Noah Glass: Twitter (2006)
Andrew Mason: Groupon (2013)
Adam Neumann: WeWork (2019)
Rob Kalin: Etsy (2011)
Jerry Yang: Yahoo (2009)
David Neeleman: JetBlue (2007)
Sandy Lerner: Cisco (1990)
Sean Rad: Tinder (2014)
Dov Charney: American Apparel (2014)
Jensen Huang: NVIDIA (2026)
Huang resigned today amid affair scandals; Colette Kress named interim CEO.