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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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Saifedean Ammous

Economist and author of The Bitcoin Standard, making the case for Bitcoin as a sound monetary system grounded in Austrian economics.

Software engineering leader and newsletter writer whose essays cover engineering management, technical career growth, and org design for practitioners.

Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez)

Italian programmer who created Redis and documented its design decisions through his widely read antirez.com engineering blog.

Tech executive and investor: scaled OpenAI into the dominant generative-AI company and codified early-stage startup thinking via the Startup Playbook.

Email marketing strategist specializing in conversion-focused email sequences for eCommerce and Shopify brands.

Sam Bankman-Fried

Founder of FTX and Alameda Research whose cryptocurrency exchange collapsed in 2022 in one of the largest financial frauds in US history.

American neuroscientist and philosopher (born 1967)

Founder of Pavilion, a global membership community for go-to-market executives, and host of the Pavilion Podcast on revenue leadership.

Crypto entrepreneur and co-founder of Frax Finance, the protocol that pioneered fractional-algorithmic stablecoin design with the FRAX token.

Software architect and author who defined mainstream microservices practice through his O'Reilly book 'Building Microservices'.

Founder of Bismarck Analysis and developer of Great Founder Theory, studying how institutions form, sustain, and lose practical knowledge.

Entrepreneur and podcaster who co-hosts My First Million, dissecting bootstrapped business models and unconventional startup ideas.

Samuel Arbesman

Complexity scientist and author who quantified how knowledge expires ('half-life of facts') and analysed why modern technological systems exceed human comprehension.

American business magnate (1918–1992)

Real estate investor and contrarian capital allocator famed for buying deeply distressed assets — a strategy he called 'grave dancing'.

Growth-equity investor; heads General Atlantic's Asia business, deploying the firm's global growth-equity playbook across India and broader Asian markets.

Sandeep Nailwal

Co-founder of Polygon (formerly Matic Network), the Ethereum Layer 2 scaling platform, and a prominent advocate for Web3 infrastructure.

Sander van der Leeuw

ASU archaeologist and complexity scientist studying long-term socio-environmental systems and the deep history of human sustainability challenges.

Software developer and educator best known for authoring 'Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby', the definitive guide to OOP principles for practising programmers.

Sangeet Paul Choudary

Business theorist and author who developed the platform stack framework and wrote 'Platform Scale', defining how network-effect businesses are architected.

Co-founder of Terminus and author of MOVE, who popularized account-based marketing as a structured go-to-market strategy for B2B companies.

American businesswoman (born 1971)

Sales educator and content creator, formerly a top-performing SDR at Gong, known for practical LinkedIn frameworks on prospecting and B2B sales skill development.

Sarah Constantin

Independent researcher and essayist known for technically rigorous long-form writing synthesizing biology, AI, and economics.

Engineering director at Google and former Netlify VP known for Vue.js expertise and writing on developer experience and engineering management.

Co-founder of Amazing If and co-host of the Squiggly Careers podcast, focused on non-linear career development frameworks and coaching.

Bloomberg technology journalist and author of No Filter, the reported account of Instagram's founding, rise, and acquisition by Facebook.

Sarah Lichtenstein

Decision researcher who co-discovered preference reversals, showing systematic inconsistencies between people's choices and their monetary valuations.

Director of Cohere For AI and author of The Hardware Lottery, arguing that hardware constraints systematically bias machine learning research directions.

General Partner at Benchmark and creator of the Hierarchy of Engagement framework for evaluating consumer product retention and growth.

Saras Sarasvathy

American academic

Chairman and CEO of Biglari Holdings, activist value investor who controls Steak 'n Shake.

Early-stage investor and author of the Startupy newsletter, covering consumer tech and startup strategy.

Essayist and author known for writing on clear thinking, habits, and the psychology of chess.

Cornell Tech professor and creator of The Annotated Transformer, known for making NLP research accessible.

Satoshi Nakamoto

Pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin and author of the 2008 whitepaper establishing the first decentralized digital currency.

Indian-american business executive (born 1967)

Venture capitalist and co-founder of Homebrew, a seed-stage fund known for concentrated portfolio construction and candid writing on seed-investing strategy.

Co-founder of LocalGlobe, a London-based seed VC firm; previously partner at Index Ventures.

Co-author of "Start-Up Nation," examining the policy and cultural frameworks behind Israel's innovation economy.

Princeton researcher and co-author of "AI Snake Oil," systematically debunking overstated AI claims.

Scott Alexander

Blogger and psychiatrist whose Slate Star Codex / Astral Codex Ten synthesises rationalism, psychology, and social science into widely cited mental-model essays.

Managing partner at Innosight and author of multiple books on innovation strategy, including "The Little Black Book of Innovation."

Marketing technologist who created the annual Marketing Technology Landscape supergraphic and coined Martec's Law on the pace of technology vs organisational change.

Co-founder of GitHub and author of "Pro Git," the widely used open-source reference on Git version control.

NYU Stern professor, co-host of the Pivot podcast, and author of "The Four" on big tech's market dominance.

Author and learning strategist who systematised self-directed skill acquisition into the 'Ultralearning' framework of aggressive, project-based deep learning.

Fixed-income investor and CIO of Guggenheim Partners, known for bold macro-credit cycle calls spanning monetary policy, spreads, and asset bubbles.

Complexity scientist and economist who formalised how cognitive diversity improves collective problem-solving and advocates using many models to reason about complex systems.

Monetary economist who popularised nominal GDP-level targeting as a monetary policy rule and helped launch the Market Monetarist school via his blog.

Theoretical physicist and philosopher of science who synthesises quantum mechanics, cosmology, and naturalistic philosophy through the Mindscape podcast and popular books.

Growth strategist who coined the term 'growth hacking', created the PMF survey metric, and founded the GrowthHackers community platform.

Sebastian Bubeck

Microsoft Research VP and lead author of "Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence," the landmark GPT-4 capability evaluation paper.

Sebastian Mallaby

Financial journalist and historian who chronicled hedge funds in *More Money Than God* and venture capital in *The Power Law*.

Sebastian Markbåge

Software engineer on the React core team; principal architect of concurrent rendering and React's Fiber reconciler.

Sebastian Marshall

Founder of Ultraworking and author of "Gateless," known for frameworks on high performance and strategic discipline.

Sebastian McKenzie

Software engineer who created Babel, the JavaScript compiler, and later initiated the Rome/Biome unified JS toolchain project.

Sebastian Raschka

ML researcher and educator known for hands-on books that teach deep learning and LLM construction from first principles, notably 'Build a Large Language Model from Scratch'.

Sebastian Ruder

NLP researcher at Google DeepMind and author of the NLP News newsletter, known for foundational transfer learning survey work.

Sebastian Siemiatkowski

Fintech founder-CEO who built Klarna into Europe's largest BNPL platform and is known for unusually candid public writing on AI, hiring, and company strategy.