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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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Venture investor; founded Haystack fund and popularised the solo-capitalist pre-seed model through systematic writing and public investor letters.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Behavioural economist who developed the scarcity framework, arguing that cognitive 'bandwidth tax' explains why poverty and time pressure impair decision-making.

Computer scientist and co-founder of Google, who pioneered the PageRank algorithm underpinning the world's dominant search engine.

Sergey Galitsky

Founder-operator who built Magnit from a single wholesaler into one of Russia's largest grocery retail chains by store count.

UC Berkeley professor leading the RAIL lab, known for research in deep reinforcement learning and robot learning.

Co-founder and CEO of Chainlink, the decentralized oracle network connecting blockchains to real-world data.

Banker and UBS Group CEO who returned to lead the emergency CHF 3bn acquisition of Credit Suisse in 2023 and the complex multi-year integration that followed.

Sergio Marchionne

CEO who simultaneously turned around Fiat and Chrysler, merging them into FCA and later taking Ferrari public as a standalone company.

Endowment investor; President of MITIMCo running a concentrated, manager-selection-driven portfolio that has consistently ranked among top-performing university endowments.

Author of "Purple Cow," "Linchpin," and 20+ marketing books; pioneer of permission marketing and the concept of the ideavirus.

American billionaire investor

CEO of Roche Group since 2016, leading one of the world's largest pharmaceutical and diagnostics companies.

Entrepreneur and podcaster who co-hosts My First Million, generating opportunity-spotting frameworks for identifying high-potential business ideas.

Writer and educator who founded Farnam Street, a platform synthesising mental models and decision-making frameworks drawn from multiple disciplines.

Sales trainer and author of "Heart and Sell," teaching frameworks that connect emotional intelligence to the consultative sales process.

Sharon Drew Morgen

Creator of the Buying Facilitation Method and author of "Selling with Integrity," reframing sales as buyer-centric change management.

Decision scientist and Columbia Business School professor who pioneered research on choice overload, showing that more options can reduce decision-making and satisfaction.

Value investor who built a multi-generational fortune in insurance stocks using the Davis Double Play, targeting simultaneous earnings and multiple expansion.

Sheryl Sandberg

Operator-executive who scaled Meta's advertising engine from startup to global dominance and authored the Lean In women-in-leadership movement.

Industrial engineer who developed SMED (Single-Minute Exchange of Die) and poka-yoke, two foundational tools of the Toyota Production System and lean manufacturing.

Founder of HCL Technologies and the broader HCL Group, one of India's largest IT services conglomerates.

Shoshana Zuboff

American scholar (born 1951)

Former product leader at Stripe, Twitter, and Google, widely followed for product management frameworks shared on social media.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Pulitzer Prize-winning oncologist and author of "The Emperor of All Maladies" and "The Gene," synthesizing biology for general readers.

Safety science professor and author of "The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error," advancing systemic explanations of accidents.

American economist

Co-founder and CEO of GitLab, building one of the first large all-remote software companies with an open-core business model.

Search fund investor and author of Sieva's Letter, focused on entrepreneurship through acquisition and small-business compounding.

MIT Sloan professor, former IMF chief economist, and co-winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics for work on institutions and prosperity.

Haskell runtime engineer at Meta and author of Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell, with core contributions to GHC's parallel runtime.

American author and speaker (born 1973)

Django co-creator and Datasette author who writes prolifically on LLM tooling, open-source data infrastructure, and developer practice.

Slime Mold Time Mold

Anonymous research collective known for long-form meta-analyses challenging scientific consensus, including a widely read series on the obesity epidemic.

Entrepreneur and engineer who built Honda Motor Co. through a shared-engine platform strategy and a disruptive low-cost entry into the US motorcycle market.

Software engineer and founder who created Docker, the open-source containerisation platform that standardised how applications are packaged and shipped.

Sonali De Rycker

Partner at a16z and former Accel London partner, known for backing Spotify, Kry, and other European consumer and enterprise technology companies.

Complexity practitioner and consultant who translates Cynefin framework principles and complexity science into practical tools for organisational leadership and change.

Educator and author who mainstreamed the Zettelkasten slip-box method for knowledge work through his book How to Take Smart Notes.

Founder of Nasty Gal, which grew from an eBay vintage clothing store into a $100M fashion brand, and author of #GIRLBOSS.

University of Washington professor and founder of EigenLayer, which introduced the restaking primitive to the Ethereum ecosystem in 2023.

Sriram Krishnan

General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and former senior executive at Twitter, Microsoft, and Yahoo, focused on consumer and enterprise investments.

Management cybernetician who developed the Viable System Model (VSM), applying cybernetic principles to organisational design and control.

DeFi entrepreneur and founder of Aave, the decentralised liquidity protocol that pioneered the money-market model for crypto lending and flash loans.

Stanley Druckenmiller

Macro investor who ran Duquesne Capital and managed Soros's Quantum Fund, famed for concentrated directional bets driven by liquidity analysis.

Macau casino tycoon who held the territory's gaming concession monopoly for four decades through SJM Holdings and its predecessors.

Stanley McChrystal

Military strategist and management theorist who developed the 'Team of Teams' framework for restructuring organisations into adaptive, networked units.

Stefano DellaVigna

UC Berkeley economics professor known for field experiments on inattention, persuasion, and behavioral economics applied to media and labor markets.

Business scholar and HBS professor who argues that systematic large-scale experimentation is a replicable business model, not merely an R&D tool.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

Founder of easyJet in 1995 who extended the Easy brand across hotels, car rental, and consumer services using low-cost, no-frills operating models.

Stephanie Kelton

Economist and author who popularised Modern Monetary Theory, arguing that sovereign currency issuers cannot involuntarily default and that deficits are misunderstood.

Stephanie Stuckey

CEO who revived her family's Stuckey's roadside pecan brand and hosts a podcast documenting the company's turnaround for business audiences.

Host of the Stephan Livera Podcast, one of Bitcoin's longest-running shows covering Austrian economics and Bitcoin technology, and Head of Education at Swan Bitcoin.

Business strategist and author who adapted Prussian military mission command (Auftragstaktik) into a practical framework for closing the gaps between strategy and execution.

Management educator and author who codified personal effectiveness into the seven-habits framework, one of the best-selling business books of the 20th century.

Sales methodologist and co-creator of Strategic Selling, the framework that introduced structured 'buying influence' mapping to complex B2B sales.

Stephen Jay Gould

Palaeontologist and science writer who co-developed punctuated-equilibrium theory and translated evolutionary biology into celebrated popular essays.

Founder of Lone Pine Capital, a Tiger Cub long/short equity hedge fund known for concentrated bets on high-quality global equities.

Stephen M.R. Covey

Leadership author and speaker who argues that trust is a measurable economic driver, best known for the framework in *The Speed of Trust* (2006).

Economist and former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, known for his US-China codependency thesis and 'The Next Asia' framework on emerging-market rebalancing.