Bill Gross is a technology entrepreneur who founded Idealab, a technology incubator launched in 1996 that held equity in startups and provided foundational startup services. Bill Gross's Twitter Score is 142 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #4,906 (top 5%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.
Bill Gross founded several companies through and alongside Idealab over the years. He founded GoTo.com, which pioneered sponsored search results and pay-per-click advertising and was later renamed Overture Services before being acquired by Yahoo. He also founded eSolar and TweetUp, and co-founded Energy Vault, an energy storage technology company, with Robert Piconi and Andrea Pedretti. Bill Gross founded Heliogen, a clean energy company that went public via a SPAC merger in 2021, though he resigned as CEO in 2023.
Bill Gross has accumulated 225,553 followers as of July 2026 on the platform and has published 17,953 posts. He has been mentioned by 333 accounts, with 1,506 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Bill Gross include 647 founders, 130 angel investors, 112 influencers and 92 VCs. Among his notable followers are Chris Dixon, Sam Altman, Nikita Bier, Chris Burniske, Anthony Pompliano and Kyle Samani.