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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
RB
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
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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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The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
AK
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LT
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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan
PG
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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
Ben R. Rich
AC
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The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
Sebastian Mallaby
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A Book of Curves
E. H. Lockwood
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A Mathematician's Apology
G. H. Hardy
PG
A Short History of Scientific Ideas
Charles Singer
PG
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
Eric Newby
PG
A Time of Gifts
Patrick Leigh Fermor
PG
Civilisation
Kenneth Clark
PG
Dr. No
Ian Fleming
PG
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Jessica Livingston
PG
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
PG
I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography
Paul Halmos
PG
Jeeves in the Offing
P. G. Wodehouse
PG
Medieval Technology and Social Change
Lynn White Jr.
PG
My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell
PG
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
PG
The Code of the Woosters
P. G. Wodehouse
PG
The Conquest of Gaul
Julius Caesar
PG
The Consolation of Philosophy
Boethius
PG
The Copernican Revolution
Thomas Kuhn
PG
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
PG
The Defeat of the Spanish Armada
Garrett Mattingly
PG
The Irish R.M. Complete
Somerville and Ross
PG
The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350
Robert Bartlett
PG
The Odyssey
Homer
PG
The Quest for El Cid
Richard Fletcher
PG
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
PG
The World of Jeeves
P. G. Wodehouse
PG
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein
PG
Wing Leader
J. E. Johnson
PG