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Every person who appears on a Top-100 list. Click through to see their lists, frameworks attributed to them, and who they tend to appear alongside.

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Python core developer, creator of the Black code formatter, and the first CPython Developer in Residence, funded by the Python Software Foundation.

Long-time Bitcoin Core developer and maintainer of Bitcoin Knots, known for a conservative, minimalist approach to Bitcoin protocol governance.

Macro analyst; founder of FFTT whose petrodollar-erosion and fiscal-dominance theses argue the dollar reserve system is structurally unwinding in favour of hard assets.

Luke Wroblewski

Product designer and author who coined the 'Mobile First' design strategy and wrote the definitive text on web form design.

Lulu Cheng Meservey

Former VP of Communications at Substack and Activision, and author of the Flack newsletter on narrative strategy for founders and executives.

Independent macro investment strategist and founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, known for research on fiscal policy, monetary systems, and Bitcoin.

Professor at London Business School and co-author of The 100-Year Life, known for research on the future of work and longer working lives.

Evolutionary biologist who proposed symbiogenesis as the origin of eukaryotic cells and co-developed the Gaia hypothesis with James Lovelock.

Lyn Ulbricht / Roger Ver

Mid-century Abilene restaurateur who ran multiple concepts off a single commissary; cited by Patrick Terry as the operating blueprint for P. Terry's.

Madhavan Ramanujam

Partner at Simon-Kucher & Partners and co-author of Monetizing Innovation, advising companies on pricing strategy and product commercialization.

Product leader and podcaster who built Drift's 'Build' PM podcast into a widely followed resource for product-coaching frameworks and career development.

Sales consultant and co-author of Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play, a consultative selling framework developed within FranklinCovey.

Development economist who conceived the Human Development Index (HDI) and annual Human Development Report, reframing progress around people rather than GDP.

GTM strategist and author who systematised go-to-market motion frameworks for startups and scale-ups into a practitioner-focused methodology.

Malcolm Gladwell

Canadian journalist and author (born 1963)

Political economist who showed why rational individuals under-provide public goods and how entrenched interest groups cause national economic decline.

Co-founder and CEO of Poshmark, the social commerce marketplace that pioneered peer-to-peer secondhand fashion resale in the US.

Indian economist and statesman who liberalized India's economy as Finance Minister in 1991 and served two terms as Prime Minister (2004–2014).

Manuel Castells

Sociologist and urban theorist who developed the 'network society' thesis and the 'space of flows' concept to explain how informational capitalism reorganises power and space.

Marathon Asset Mgmt (Capital Returns)

London-based investment firm whose book Capital Returns, edited by Edward Chancellor, articulates the capital cycle framework for global equity investing.

Marc Andreessen

American businessman (born 1971)

Entrepreneur and operator who built Salesforce into the dominant cloud CRM and codified the V2MOM internal alignment framework.

Distributed-systems engineer at AWS whose technical blog distils rigorous thinking on retries, timeouts, and correctness in large-scale systems.

Brazilian co-founder of 3G Capital, architect of zero-based budgeting-driven acquisitions including AB InBev and Kraft Heinz.

Swiss investor and publisher of the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report, known for contrarian macro views on Asian markets and commodity cycles.

Epidemiologist whose mathematical models of infectious disease transmission shaped pandemic preparedness policy and COVID-19 response strategy.

Serial e-commerce founder-operator who built Diapers.com (Quidsi), sold it to Amazon, then built Jet.com and sold it to Walmart for ~$3.3 bn.

Harvard Business School professor and co-author of Competing in the Age of AI, specializing in digital strategy and AI business models.

Marcos Galperin

Founder-operator who built MercadoLibre into Latin America's dominant e-commerce marketplace and scaled its fintech arm, MercadoPago, into a regional payments platform.

Co-founder and CEO of Apollo Global Management, a leading alternative asset manager known for credit-focused strategies and large-scale buyouts.

Marc Rubinstein

Finance writer and newsletter author covering the economics and business models of financial institutions via his weekly publication Net Interest.

Marcus Buckingham

Management theorist and author who pioneered strengths-based management through large-scale Gallup research and the bestseller First, Break All the Rules.

British IMF economist who co-developed the Mundell-Fleming model describing monetary and fiscal policy under open-economy conditions.

Margaret Heffernan

Business author and former CEO who coined the organisational-psychology concept of 'wilful blindness' and its consequences for leadership and institutions.

Margaret Mitchell

AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face and co-creator of the Model Cards framework for documenting machine learning model capabilities and limitations.

Margaret Wheatley

Organisational theorist and author who applied principles from quantum physics and chaos theory to leadership and management in 'Leadership and the New Science'.

Co-founder and Managing Partner of Pear VC, a seed-stage venture firm known for systematic founder-market fit evaluation at the pre-product stage.

Maria Konnikova

Psychologist and author applying behavioural science to deception and decision-making, best known for *The Confidence Game* and *The Biggest Bluff*.

Mariana Mazzucato

UCL economist and author of The Entrepreneurial State, known for her mission-oriented innovation framework and critique of passive-state narratives.

Bulgarian writer

American life coach

SEO consultant and founder of Marie Haynes Consulting, specializing in Google algorithm analysis, penalty recovery, and E-E-A-T quality guidance.

Value investor and founder of Gabelli Funds, known for the private-market-value (PMV) with a Catalyst framework for identifying undervalued equities.

Newsletter operator and essayist; founder of The Generalist, producing long-form VC and technology analysis for a large subscriber base.

Social media strategist recognised as the foremost authority on Facebook marketing, known for codifying organic reach and community-growth tactics during the platform's peak era.

Scottish political economist at Brown University and author of Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, critiquing fiscal consolidation doctrine.

Macro trader and former IMF/Treasury economist who applies behavioural finance to global macro, treating positioning and price action as primary signals.

Macroeconomist best known for co-developing the financial accelerator framework, which models how credit-market frictions amplify economic downturns.

Mark Granovetter

Sociologist whose 'strength of weak ties' theory and concept of social embeddedness reshaped how networks are understood in both sociology and economics.

Macro hedge fund manager at Corriente Advisors, known for sovereign tail-risk trades and a long-running thesis on significant RMB devaluation.

Sales trainer and author who codified a discipline-focused prospecting methodology centred on targeting high-value buyers rather than chasing volume.

Business model strategist who developed the four-box business model framework and authored 'Reinvent Your Business Model'.

Co-founder of FSG and co-creator, with Michael Porter, of the Shared Value framework linking corporate strategy to measurable social impact.

Founder and CEO of Constellation Software, a serial acquirer of vertical market software businesses known for disciplined capital allocation.

Social psychologist who demonstrated the overjustification effect, showing that external rewards can undermine intrinsic motivation for inherently enjoyable activities.

British investor (born 1966)

Author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, a bestselling self-help book reframing personal development around accepting limitations.

Network scientist and physicist at the University of Michigan, known for foundational research on complex networks and author of Networks: An Introduction.

Macro strategist at Clocktower Group who developed the constraint framework for translating geopolitical risk into investable macro calls.