41 Companies with Subscription-based Business Model
Learn from founders and CEOs who have built successful businesses using a Subscription-based business model

Raúl Vallecillo
General Manager and CEO
In this interview, Panini Latin America CEO Raúl Vallecillo explains the massive popularity of the FIFA World Cup 2026 sticker album. He discusses consumer demand, product distribution, licensing, player selection, collecting culture, and how Panini continues to turn a nostalgic hobby into a global community-driven experience enjoyed by millions of fans.

Dr Emil Kendziorra
Founder & CEO
In this interview, Tomorrow.Bio founder Emil Kendziora discusses the future of cryopreservation, longevity science, and life extension. He explains why he believes cryopreservation offers the best chance for people facing terminal illness, shares his entrepreneurial journey from medicine to startups, and outlines his vision for making cryostasis more accessible, affordable, and scientifically advanced.

Dana White
President and CEO
In this interview, UFC President Dana White reflects on building the UFC into a global sports powerhouse, overcoming early failures, managing growth, and maintaining an obsession with winning. He shares lessons on entrepreneurship, leadership, risk-taking, resilience, and why continuous improvement matters more than legacy.

Mark Bertolin
CEO
In this interview, Oscar Health CEO Mark Bertolini explains how technology, AI, and consumer choice can reshape the health insurance industry. He discusses the future of the ACA marketplace, personalized healthcare plans, cost transparency, and why empowering individuals instead of employers could create a more efficient and affordable healthcare system.

Sundar Pichai
CEO
In this interview, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai discusses how AI is reshaping Google, search, software development, and the future of work. He shares his leadership approach, explains Google's AI strategy, reflects on organizational change, and offers his perspective on AGI, innovation, and the responsibilities that come with building one of the world's most influential technologies.

Jensen Huang
CEO
Jensen Huang is the founder and CEO of Nvidia, one of the world's most influential technology companies. He is known for his long-term vision, relentless focus on innovation, and leadership philosophy centered on empowering people to do the work of their lives.

David Lee
Co-founder & CEO, Nex
David Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Nex, the company behind Nex Playground, a camera-based family gaming system redefining living-room play through active games, subscriptions, and thoughtful hardware design.

Garrett Lord
Co-founder & CEO, Handshake
Garrett Lord is the co-founder and CEO of Handshake, a career network powering millions of students and employers. He shares lessons on resilience, hiring, culture, scaling leadership, and building with Olympic-level standards.

Ryan Serhant
Founder and CEO, SERHANT.
Ryan Serhant is the founder CEO behind SERHANT., building a content to commerce real estate company powered by education and an AI operating system, while balancing public visibility with the private weight of leadership.

Neil Patel
Co-founder, NP Digital
Neil Patel is the marketer-turned-operator who rode the SEO wave early, built a $100M agency, and is now obsessed with practical ways to win in the AI gold rush with small, focused teams.

Sundar Pichai
CEO, Google
Sundar Pichai is the engineer-turned-CEO leading Google through what he calls an extraordinary AI inflection point, balancing trillion-dollar infrastructure bets with safety, climate, and long-term societal impact.

Dharmesh Shah
Co-founder & CTO, HubSpot
Dharmesh Shah is the engineer-founder who turned HubSpot into a multibillion SaaS platform while quietly blogging his way to the top of SEO. Now he is pushing the shift from search engine optimization to answer engine optimization, building agents, tools, and side projects with the same quiet, obsessive intensity.

Karan Virwani
MD & CEO, WeWork India
Karan Virwani is the second-generation entrepreneur who turned WeWork India into the country’s largest premium flexible workspace operator. He blends Embassy Group discipline with startup scrappiness, betting on metros, multinationals, and top-tier Indian companies while staying ruthless on unit economics, culture, and long-term demand.

Doug McMillon
President & CEO, Walmart Inc.
Doug McMillon is the long-time Walmart insider who turned the world’s largest retailer into a people-led, tech-powered giant. He pushes hard on culture, margins, and reinvention, betting billions on wages, e-commerce, and AI while still keeping prices low and growth steady.

Marc Boroditsky
Chief Revenue Officer, Nebius
Marc Boroditsky is the revenue leader behind Nebius’ explosive rise as a full-stack AI infrastructure company. He combines old-school enterprise discipline with startup hunger, pushing hard on margins, execution, and deep partnerships. His playbook is simple: win premium AI workloads, move faster than rivals on land and power, and let an elite engineering culture do the talking.

Satya Nadella
Chairman & CEO, Microsoft
Satya Nadella thinks in decades, not quarters. He sees AI as the next big platform shift after PC, web, mobile, and cloud, and is willing to invest tens of billions into a fungible AI fleet because Microsoft already earns at scale. His leadership mixes long-term vision, careful risk management, and a strong focus on inclusion and real-world impact.

David Baszucki
Founder & CEO, Roblox
David Baszucki turned a simple 3D physics experiment into Roblox, a global platform with hundreds of millions of users, by trusting his gut, chasing virality, and repeatedly rebuilding the product and himself as a leader.

Phong Lee
President & CEO
Phong Lee leads Strategy’s twin engines: a Bitcoin-backed capital stack and a mature enterprise analytics business. His playbook is simple: build for the customer first, ship with conviction, and let time do the compounding.

Ant Wilson
Co-founder & CTO
Ant Wilson is the co-founder and CTO of Supabase, a backend cloud built around a transactional SQL database with auth, storage, and real time. His rule is simple: everything is secondary to helping the customer right now.

Mani Vembu
CEO
Mani Vembu is the CEO of Zoho Corporation, a billion dollar SaaS company that remains proudly private after nearly three decades of innovation. Known for its culture of experimentation, long term thinking, and deep commitment to talent creation, Zoho has redefined what it means to scale responsibly while staying true to its roots in India.

Mati Staniszewski
Co-founder & CEO
Mati Staniszewski is the CEO and co-founder of ElevenLabs, a $6.6B voice AI company redefining how humans and machines communicate. With a background in technology and product innovation, Mati has built a voice ecosystem where anyone can clone their voice, create agents, and even earn passive income merging AI ethics, scalability, and creativity into a single frontier.

Sadi Khan
Co-founder & CEO
Sadi Khan, co-founder and CEO of Aven, is building a fintech that allows homeowners to access cheaper credit by combining home equity and credit card models. After leaving Facebook, he set out to attack America’s persistent credit card interest crisis with technology and conviction.

Rishi Das
Co-founder & CEO
Rishi Das is a serial entrepreneur who helped shape India’s talent story with CareerNet and later co-founded IndiQube to redefine flexible workspaces. His approach blends ecosystem thinking, employee-centric design, and frugal innovation, doing more with less while building sustainable growth across India’s tier-2 and tier-3 cities.

Marc Rowan
CEO & Co-Founder
Marc Rowan co-founded Apollo Global Management and grew it into one of the largest alternative investment firms in the world. He believes the future of investing is not only in equities but also in private markets, which now underpin most of the economy. His mission is to open these markets to individuals, create better diversification, and redefine wealth management.

Chetan Parikh
CEO & Founder
Chetan Parikh left a chemical engineering career to build applied AI for healthcare. After exiting EZDI, he founded RAAPID to bring neuro-symbolic and agentic AI to risk adjustment and coding, aiming for trustworthy automation, fewer audits, and coders working at top of license.

Roy Lee
CEO & Co-founder
Roy Lee built Cluely, a desktop AI that sits over your computer, listens to meetings, reads your screen, and feeds you answers in real time. He embraces the ‘cheat on everything’ framing as a marketing edge, pairs viral short-form growth with product speed, and hires like owners with a large option pool.

Dan Martell
Founder
Dan Martell built, scaled, and exited multiple SaaS companies, then reinvented himself as one of the leading coaches and investors for founders worldwide. His approach blends gratitude, flow, and systems with tactical growth strategies.

Jordan Welch
Founder
From MW2 video edits to seven figure exits: Jordan Welch built a durable creator operator career through YouTube, drop shipping, and his SaaS company Viral Vault, favoring slow, steady compounding over hype.

Sam Stoffel
Founder & CEO
Sam Stoffel built a multi million pound subscription business teaching match betting strategies, exited for £10M, and now leads Subspot Shopify for subscriptions. His playbook: ethics over easy volume, focus over distraction, and cash buffers over bravado.

Ben Mann
Tech Lead, Product Engineering
Ben, Tech Lead for Product Engineering at Anthropic, has played a pivotal role in scaling AI products with a deep focus on safety and alignment. From leaving OpenAI to co-founding Anthropic’s culture of mission driven growth, his journey is one of strategic leadership and foresight in a rapidly evolving industry.

Anne Mahlum
Founder & CEO
Anne Mahlum turned Solid Core into a fitness empire, scaling it from one location to over 100 nationwide, with a nine figure exit. From working with the homeless to building a thriving business, Anne’s story is one of resilience, leadership, and innovation.

Maor Shlomo
Founder & CEO
The founder of Goyaz built a thriving jewelry brand rooted in affordability and aspiration. Starting from a single store with family support, she scaled Goya into a 19-store empire across 5 Indian states in just over two years.

Steven Rinella
Founder & CEO
Steven is the founder and CEO of MeatEater, a media company and outdoor lifestyle brand. Known for his honest storytelling and conservationist ethos, Steven has grown MeatEater into a multi-channel powerhouse with books, shows, and gear for outdoor enthusiasts.

Verun Mohan
Co-Founder & CEO
Verun is the co-founder and CEO of Windsurf, an AI‑powered IDE that brings agentic capabilities to developers. Under Verun’s leadership, Windsurf has rapidly become a go‑to platform for building and iterating on code with AI.

Michael Truell
Co-Founder & CEO
Michael Truell is the co-founder and CEO of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor an AI native code editor built for professional developers. Under his leadership, Cursor became one of the fastest growing AI tools in devtech.

Zach Yadegari
Founder
How I built an AI-powered calorie tracking app that disrupted the fitness industry and scaled to $24M in yearly revenue.

Mike Cahill
Founder
Building a real-time price data network for DeFi applications.

Travis Kalanick
Co-founder & Former CEO
How I revolutionized transportation by digitizing the physical world and turning a simple idea into a global tech giant.

Morgan DeBaun
Founder
How I built a digital media powerhouse focused on Black culture and created a platform that amplifies diverse voices.

Harry Halpin
CEO and Co-founder
How I'm building privacy technology that protects users from surveillance while making it accessible to everyone, not just tech experts.

Mark Shapiro
President and CEO
How I'm building a sustainable winning culture in Major League Baseball through people-first leadership and data-driven decision making.