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Bill Gates
Co-founder of Microsoft
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Tobias “Tobi” Lütke
CEO of Shopify
34
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Paul Graham
Co-founder of Y Combinator
32
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Creator of Ruby on Rails
23
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Patrick Collison
Co-founder & CEO of Stripe
21
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Elon Musk
CEO of Tesla & SpaceX
20
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Vinod Khosla
Founder of Khosla Ventures
18
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Andrej Karpathy
AI researcher, ex-OpenAI/Tesla
17
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Amjad Masad
CEO of Replit
12
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Richard Branson
Founder of Virgin Group
12
JD
Jack Dorsey
Co-founder of Twitter & Square
11
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Andrew Chen
General Partner at a16z
9
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Sam Altman
CEO of OpenAI
8
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Garry Tan
President & CEO of Y Combinator
7
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Marc Andreessen
Co-founder of Netscape & a16z
6
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist
6
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Palmer Luckey
Founder of Oculus & Anduril
6
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Guy Kawasaki
Chief Evangelist at Canva
5
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Nat Friedman
Former CEO of GitHub
5
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Pedro Domingos
Machine learning researcher
5
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Reid Hoffman
Co-founder of LinkedIn
5
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Ben Horowitz
Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz
4
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Brett Adcock
Founder of Figure AI
4
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Eric Schmidt
Former CEO of Google
4
JD
Jeff Dean
Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind
4
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Larry Ellison
Co-founder of Oracle
4
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Mark Zuckerberg
CEO of Meta
4
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Reed Hastings
Co-founder of Netflix
4
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Stephen Hawking
Theoretical physicist
4
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Steve Jobs
Co-founder of Apple
4
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Tony Fadell
4
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Balaji Srinivasan
Entrepreneur, former Coinbase CTO
3
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Brian Chesky
Co-founder & CEO of Airbnb
3
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Dario Amodei
CEO of Anthropic
3
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Larry Page
Co-founder of Google
3
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Lex Fridman
AI researcher & podcast host
3
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Richard Stallman
Founder of the Free Software Foundation
3
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Tim Ferriss
Author & podcast host, The Tim Ferriss Show
3
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Vint Cerf
Co-creator of TCP/IP
3
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Yann LeCun
Chief AI Scientist, Meta
3
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Alexandr Wang
Founder of Scale AI
2
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Andrew Ng
Founder of DeepLearning.AI
2
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Bjarne Stroustrup
Creator of C++
2
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Bob Kahn
Co-creator of TCP/IP
2
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Demis Hassabis
CEO of Google DeepMind
2
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Greg Brockman
President of OpenAI
2
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Guido van Rossum
Creator of Python
2
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Jeff Bezos
Founder of Amazon
2
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Jensen Huang
CEO of Nvidia
2
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John Carmack
Co-founder of id Software
2
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Michael Dell
Founder of Dell
2
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Naval Ravikant
Co-founder of AngelList
2
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Peter Thiel
Co-founder of PayPal & Palantir
2
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Pieter Levels
Indie maker, founder of Nomad List
2
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Satya Nadella
Chairman and CEO of Microsoft
2
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Sergey Brin
Co-founder of Google
2
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Sundar Pichai
CEO of Google & Alphabet
2
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Warren Buffett
CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
2
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Aravind Srinivas
CEO of Perplexity
1
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Brian Armstrong
Co-founder & CEO of Coinbase
1
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Claude Shannon
Father of information theory
1
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Daniel Ek
Co-founder & CEO of Spotify
1
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Drew Houston
1
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Dylan Field
Co-founder & CEO of Figma
1
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Elad Gil
Entrepreneur & investor
1
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Eren Bali
Cofounder & CEO of Monogram AI
1
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Fei-Fei Li
AI researcher, Stanford
1
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Gagan Biyani
Co-founder of Udemy
1
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Guillermo Rauch
CEO of Vercel
1
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Ilya Sutskever
Co-founder of OpenAI & SSI
1
JM
Jack Ma
Co-founder of Alibaba
1
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James Gosling
Creator of Java
1
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John McCarthy
Coined "AI", created Lisp
1
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Linus Torvalds
Creator of Linux & Git
1
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Phil Knight
Co-founder of Nike
1
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Ray Kurzweil
Futurist, inventor
1
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Steve Wozniak
Co-founder of Apple
1
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Ted Turner
Founder of CNN
1
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