What is the greatest co-founder duo in business history?

Garage partners, dorm-room roommates and one pair who sold ice cream from a gas station. Each duo built something bigger than either founder alone.

1. 1
   Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak

   Founded Apple in 1976: Wozniak built the Apple I and II, Jobs sold them and set the vision.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Brian Chesky & Joe Gebbia

   Design-school friends who rented air mattresses in their San Francisco flat and turned it into Airbnb.
   756pts
3. 3
   Larry Page & Sergey Brin

   Stanford PhD students who started Google as a research project in 1998.
   665pts
4. 4
   Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield

   School friends who opened an ice-cream shop in a Vermont gas station in 1978 and built Ben & Jerry's.
   596pts
5. 5
   Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger

   Ran Berkshire Hathaway together for almost 60 years as chairman and vice chairman.
   517pts
6. 6
   Robert Noyce & Gordon Moore

   Left Fairchild Semiconductor in 1968 to found Intel.
   423pts
7. 7
   Reed Hastings & Marc Randolph

   Founded Netflix in 1997 as a DVD-by-mail service before it moved to streaming.
   423pts
8. 8
   Bill Gates & Paul Allen

   Childhood friends from Seattle who founded Microsoft in 1975.
   310pts
9. 9
   Chad Hurley & Steve Chen

   Former PayPal colleagues who co-founded YouTube in 2005.
   310pts
10. 10
    Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger

    Stanford graduates who launched Instagram in 2010 and sold it to Facebook for 1 billion dollars two years later.
    310pts
11. 11
    Mark Zuckerberg & Eduardo Saverin

    Harvard roommates who launched Facebook from a dorm room in 2004.
    310pts
12. 12
    Jerry Yang & David Filo

    Stanford students whose list of favourite websites became Yahoo in 1994.
    0pts

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