Patrick Hanrahan

Co-Founder, Tableau

• Patrick Hanrahan cofounded data analytics company Tableau in 2003.
• Salesforce acquired Tableau in June 2019 in a $15.7 billion, all-stock deal.
• Net worth: $1.8 billion
• Hanrahan is a computer graphics and electrical engineering professor at Stanford University.
• Tableau was born out of research he and one of his cofounders were doing while analyzing and visualizing large databases of information at Stanford.
• He and his cofounders raised $15 million in venture capital before taking Tableau public on the New York Stock Exchange in May 2013.