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David Holz

Founder & CEO at Midjourney

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Biography

Founder and CEO of Midjourney, the bootstrapped AI image generation company with $200M+ in annual revenue and no external funding. Former co-founder of Leap Motion and NASA researcher.

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Holz is the anti-Silicon Valley AI founder — no venture capital, no hype cycles, no fundraising announcements, just a profitable product that millions of people pay for. Building $200M+ in revenue through a Discord bot while competitors burned billions in VC money is one of the most impressive business-building feats in the AI era. His refusal to play the valuation game gives him a strategic freedom that Stability AI, which took the opposite approach, never had.

Updated May 2026
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Midjourney
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Leap Motion
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NASA
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