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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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Patrick Collison

Irish entrepreneur (born 1988)

Founder of Altice, a telecom and media conglomerate built through leveraged buyouts of cable and broadband assets across Europe and the US.

Engineering leadership coach and author who formalized the Tech Lead role and writes on team structures and engineering management practice.

Patrick Lencioni

American author

Patrick McKenzie (patio11)

Fintech writer and former Stripe staff member who authors 'Bits about Money', a deep-dive newsletter on financial infrastructure and payments.

Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Podcast host and media entrepreneur who built the Colossus network, home to 'Invest Like the Best' and 'Business Breakdowns', focused on investor and operator interviews.

Patrick Pouyanné

Energy executive steering TotalEnergies' integrated-power strategy, repositioning an oil major across LNG, renewables, and electricity at scale.

Patrick Radden Keefe

American writer (born 1976)

Quality-moat burger operator who refused to franchise, refused to leave Texas, and refused to raise prices in line with the industry.

Patri Friedman / Balaji Srinivasan

Seasteading Institute founder (Friedman) and former Coinbase CTO (Srinivasan), known for network state and charter city frameworks as alternatives to conventional governance.

HR executive and culture strategist who co-created Netflix's Culture Deck, defining a 'freedom and responsibility' model that reshaped thinking on corporate talent management.

VP of Product at Intercom and author of 'Grouped', known for frameworks on social influence and designing products around networked human behaviour.

Former CIO of Bowdoin College's endowment, credited with sustained outperformance, later serving as CIO of Rockefeller University.

Paul Christiano

AI safety researcher and founder of the Alignment Research Center, known for pioneering reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and iterated amplification.

Sociologist and co-author of institutional isomorphism theory, explaining why organisations converge in form through mimetic, normative, and coercive pressures.

Neuroscientist and economist credited as a founding figure of neuroeconomics, integrating neural-level decision-making research with economic theory.

Venture investor and essayist who co-founded Y Combinator and popularised accelerator-model seed funding alongside influential startup frameworks like 'Do Things That Don't Scale'.

Nobel Prize-winning economist known for new trade theory, economic geography, and his long-running New York Times column on macroeconomic policy.

Economist who co-developed modern auction theory and mechanism design, shaping how governments and markets allocate spectrum, assets, and scarce resources.

Business executive who, as Unilever CEO, embedded long-term sustainability into corporate strategy via the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan.

Economist who formalised endogenous growth theory, demonstrating that ideas are nonrival goods that drive sustained economic expansion without diminishing returns.

Nobel Prize-winning economist who formalized the neoclassical synthesis and authored the most widely used introductory economics textbook of the 20th century.

Founder of Elliott Management, an activist hedge fund known for distressed debt investing and aggressive sovereign bond litigation against Argentina and others.

Decision scientist at the University of Oregon who developed the affect heuristic and the psychometric paradigm for studying risk perception.

Paul Tudor Jones

Macro trader and hedge fund founder recognised for systematic price-action discipline, including strict use of the 200-day moving average as a risk-management rule.

Central banker who broke the back of 1970s US inflation by engineering a sharp monetary tightening, establishing the template for independent, credibility-driven central banking.

Banker and environmental economist who led the TEEB initiative, developing frameworks to quantify ecosystem services and embed natural capital in business strategy.

Chairman and CEO of Hero MotoCorp, the world's largest two-wheeler manufacturer by volume, known for scaling production and distribution across emerging markets.

Product management coach and author of The Product Compass newsletter, known for practical frameworks on product strategy, prioritization, and outcome-based roadmapping.

Entrepreneur and founder who created ClassPass, the fitness marketplace that aggregates studio and gym classes into a single flexible membership.

Machine learning professor at the University of Washington, known for 'The Master Algorithm', a book unifying ML approaches for general audiences.

Founder of CXL Institute, a conversion rate optimization and marketing education platform known for data-driven growth and experimentation frameworks.

Peiter "Mudge" Zatko

Hacker and security executive known for L0pht, DARPA cybersecurity research, and a whistleblower disclosure about Twitter's security practices.

Co-founder of Pear VC, known for early-stage investments in Dropbox and DoorDash that he sourced while working as a rug merchant in Palo Alto.

American Tibetan Buddhist nun and author of 'When Things Fall Apart', known for translating contemplative practice into frameworks for working with uncertainty and difficulty.

Danish physicist who introduced self-organized criticality via the sandpile model, influencing complexity science across multiple disciplines.

Stanford CS professor and creator of the HELM benchmark, known for research on foundation models and rigorous language model evaluation and transparency.

Marketing consultant and author of '80/20 Sales and Marketing', applying the Pareto principle to advertising optimisation and sales funnel strategy.

Monetary economist known for the 'money view' framework, the hierarchy-of-money concept, and the theory of the central bank as dealer of last resort.

Software engineer who popularised React.js via his 2013 'Rethinking Best Practices' talk, challenging conventional separation-of-concerns doctrine.

Stanford CS professor and distributed systems researcher who founded Sisu Data, an analytics startup acquired by Salesforce in 2023.

Author and mental-model synthesiser best known for codifying Charlie Munger's multidisciplinary thinking framework in book form.

Peter Checkland

Systems thinker and academic who developed Soft Systems Methodology (SSM), a structured approach to tackling complex, ill-defined organisational problems.

Value investor: Canadian disciple of Benjamin Graham who hunted net-net bargains globally, chronicled in 'There's Always Something to Do'.

Economist who formalised search-and-matching theory in labour markets and co-developed foundational models of optimal taxation and Social Security.

American management consultant and author (1909–2005)

Editor and publisher who compiled Charlie Munger's latticework-of-mental-models framework into Poor Charlie's Almanack, the definitive Munger reference.

Fund manager and investor credited with popularising 'invest in what you know', tenbagger hunting, and story-driven GARP through his Magellan Fund tenure.

Peter McCormack

Host of What Bitcoin Did, one of the most widely followed Bitcoin-focused interview podcasts.

Co-founder of Adaptive Path and co-author of Org Design for Design Orgs, focused on scaling design teams within product organizations.

CEO of Euro Pacific Capital and Austrian-school economist known for predicting the 2008 housing crash and advocating gold over fiat currencies.

Futurist and scenario planner who popularised long-range strategic forecasting through his seminal 1991 book 'The Art of the Long View'.

Management theorist and systems thinker who introduced the 'learning organisation' framework in his landmark 1990 book, The Fifth Discipline.

Venture capitalist and entrepreneur who codified monopoly thinking and the 'last-mover advantage' framework in his book Zero to One.

Cognitive scientist and co-author of Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart, a foundational text on ecological rationality and fast-and-frugal decision heuristics.

Geopolitical strategist whose deglobalization thesis argues that the post-WWII American-led world order is unwinding, reshaping global trade, energy, and demography.

Product leadership coach and author of Strong Product People, focused on building and developing high-performing product management organizations.

Phebe Novakovic

Chairman and CEO of General Dynamics since 2013, overseeing one of the largest U.S.

Strategy consultant and theorist who argued that digital information economics would deconstruct traditional value chains, as set out in 'Blown to Bits'.

Investor and author who pioneered qualitative 'scuttlebutt' research and growth-at-quality stock selection, codified in Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits (1958).