Number of founders - statistics

I've done some research on how many founders successful technology companies have. Here are the numbers for 100 publicly traded companies +--------------------+-----------+ | number of founders | frequency | +--------------------+-----------+ | 1 | 40 | | 2 | 31 | | 3 | 17 | | 4 | 6 | | 5 | 2 | | 6 | 1 | | 7 | 1 | | 8 | 1 | | 13 | 1 | +--------------------+-----------+ Some caveats The number of sole founder companies is probably slightly exaggerated because sometimes one person is so much more prominent that the others are never mentioned. I did a little double checking though. Another important thing is that some companies were omitted because I knew only that they had several founders but I wasn't able to find out exactly how many. I suspect there are more companies with 4, 5, 6 or more founders. Unfortunately without numbers about failed companies we still don't know the success rati

Kind

startup

Status

Shut down

Inventor

fauigerzigerk

Ended

2007

Source

hackernews