Patrick Hanrahan

$2.49B

as of 02/18/25

About Patrick Hanrahan

Patrick Hanrahan cofounded data analytics company Tableau in 2003.

Salesforce acquired Tableau in June 2019 in a $15.7 billion, all-stock deal.

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.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Software

Residence

Portola Valley, California

Birth date

05/08/55 (age 69)

Education

Bachelor of Science, University of Wisconsin Madison; Ph.D, University of Wisconsin Madison

Self-made

self-made