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Bill Gates
Co-founder of Microsoft
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Tobias “Tobi” Lütke
CEO of Shopify
34
PG
Paul Graham
Co-founder of Y Combinator
32
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DHH
Creator of Ruby on Rails
23
PC
Patrick Collison
Co-founder & CEO of Stripe
21
EM
Elon Musk
CEO of Tesla & SpaceX
20
VK
Vinod Khosla
Founder of Khosla Ventures
18
AK
Andrej Karpathy
AI researcher, ex-OpenAI/Tesla
17
AM
Amjad Masad
CEO of Replit
12
RB
Richard Branson
Founder of Virgin Group
12
JD
Jack Dorsey
Co-founder of Twitter & Square
11
AC
Andrew Chen
General Partner at a16z
9
SA
Sam Altman
CEO of OpenAI
8
GT
Garry Tan
President & CEO of Y Combinator
7
MA
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
GK
Guy Kawasaki
Chief Evangelist at Canva
5
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Nat Friedman
Former CEO of GitHub
5
PD
Pedro Domingos
Machine learning researcher
5
RH
Reid Hoffman
Co-founder of LinkedIn
5
BH
Ben Horowitz
Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz
4
BA
Brett Adcock
Founder of Figure AI
4
ES
Eric Schmidt
Former CEO of Google
4
JD
Jeff Dean
Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind
4
LE
Larry Ellison
Co-founder of Oracle
4
MZ
Mark Zuckerberg
CEO of Meta
4
RH
Reed Hastings
Co-founder of Netflix
4
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Stephen Hawking
Theoretical physicist
4
SJ
Steve Jobs
Co-founder of Apple
4
TF
Tony Fadell
4
BS
Balaji Srinivasan
Entrepreneur, former Coinbase CTO
3
BC
Brian Chesky
Co-founder & CEO of Airbnb
3
DA
Dario Amodei
CEO of Anthropic
3
LP
Larry Page
Co-founder of Google
3
LF
Lex Fridman
AI researcher & podcast host
3
RS
Richard Stallman
Founder of the Free Software Foundation
3
TF
Tim Ferriss
Author & podcast host, The Tim Ferriss Show
3
VC
Vint Cerf
Co-creator of TCP/IP
3
YL
Yann LeCun
Chief AI Scientist, Meta
3
AW
Alexandr Wang
Founder of Scale AI
2
AN
Andrew Ng
Founder of DeepLearning.AI
2
BS
Bjarne Stroustrup
Creator of C++
2
BK
Bob Kahn
Co-creator of TCP/IP
2
DH
Demis Hassabis
CEO of Google DeepMind
2
GB
Greg Brockman
President of OpenAI
2
GR
Guido van Rossum
Creator of Python
2
JB
Jeff Bezos
Founder of Amazon
2
JH
Jensen Huang
CEO of Nvidia
2
JC
John Carmack
Co-founder of id Software
2
MD
Michael Dell
Founder of Dell
2
NR
Naval Ravikant
Co-founder of AngelList
2
PT
Peter Thiel
Co-founder of PayPal & Palantir
2
PL
Pieter Levels
Indie maker, founder of Nomad List
2
SN
Satya Nadella
Chairman and CEO of Microsoft
2
SB
Sergey Brin
Co-founder of Google
2
SP
Sundar Pichai
CEO of Google & Alphabet
2
WB
Warren Buffett
CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
2
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Aravind Srinivas
CEO of Perplexity
1
BA
Brian Armstrong
Co-founder & CEO of Coinbase
1
CS
Claude Shannon
Father of information theory
1
DE
Daniel Ek
Co-founder & CEO of Spotify
1
DH
Drew Houston
1
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Dylan Field
Co-founder & CEO of Figma
1
EG
Elad Gil
Entrepreneur & investor
1
EB
Eren Bali
Cofounder & CEO of Monogram AI
1
FL
Fei-Fei Li
AI researcher, Stanford
1
GB
Gagan Biyani
Co-founder of Udemy
1
GR
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
JG
James Gosling
Creator of Java
1
JM
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
SW
Steve Wozniak
Co-founder of Apple
1
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Ted Turner
Founder of CNN
1
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
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GB
MZ
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The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch
AS
GB
PC
SA
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
Reid Hoffman
BC
SA
VK
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
EM
SA
The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton M. Christensen
SA
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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Alice Munro
SA
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
Christopher Clark
SA
The Transit of Venus
Shirley Hazzard
SA