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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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Independent strategy consultant who writes about consulting practice, organizational dynamics, and SEO through his blog and newsletter.

Co-creator of Ember.js and co-founder of Tilde, known for foundational contributions to JavaScript framework design.

Product executive and CPO of LinkedIn, known for distilling product-craft principles and building professional-network products at global scale.

UX researcher and author of Validating Product Ideas, known for lean research methods applied to product development.

Investor and executive: Co-CEO of Markel Group, running the insurer's equity portfolio on a Berkshire Hathaway-style compounding model.

UX designer and author who wrote 'Articulating Design Decisions', a practical guide to helping designers communicate and defend their work to stakeholders.

Cognitive scientist at Princeton and co-author of Algorithms to Live By, applying computational thinking to human decision-making.

Sales trainer and author of How to Master the Art of Selling, one of the most widely read sales educators of the 20th century.

Co-founder of Tweedy Browne and one of Benjamin Graham's original net-net practitioners, applying strict deep-value discipline for decades.

Crypto strategist and co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors, known for pioneering Bitcoin valuation frameworks used by institutional investors.

Software developer and writer, creator of Simple Statistics, known for open-source mapping tools and thoughtful essays on web development.

Editor of The McClellan Market Report and co-developer of the McClellan Oscillator, a widely used market breadth indicator.

Carnegie Mellon professor and author of the foundational Machine Learning textbook, known for early contributions to decision trees and NLP.

CEO of Capital Cities/ABC, regarded as one of the great capital allocators and held up by Warren Buffett as a model acquirer-operator.

Co-founder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, one of Silicon Valley's pioneering venture firms, backing Genentech and Tandem Computers.

Management theorist and author who co-created the McKinsey 7S Framework and co-wrote 'In Search of Excellence', reshaping how organisations think about strategy and culture.

Tom Preston-Werner

Software entrepreneur and open-source author who co-founded GitHub and created the Jekyll static site generator.

Managing member at Gardner Russo & Quinn known for the capacity-to-suffer principle and concentrated long-term positions in global consumer brands.

Business historian and journalist who reframes technology and social history through everyday objects, best known for *A History of the World in 6 Glasses*.

Venture capitalist who codified the SaaS metrics canon—ARR, net dollar retention, and the magic number—into standard operator and investor vocabulary.

Author and educator who popularised mind mapping as a visual thinking tool for note-taking, learning, and brainstorming.

Hardware product executive who led the iPod's creation at Apple and founded Nest Labs, pioneering the consumer smart-home category.

Malaysian entrepreneur (born 1964)

Founder of TG Macro and former Goldman Sachs trader, publishing macro research focused on commodities and global risk themes.

Entrepreneur and author who pioneered culture-as-competitive-strategy, documented in his 2010 memoir *Delivering Happiness* about building Zappos.

B2B sales author and speaker, known for The Joshua Principle and Combo Prospecting, focused on complex enterprise sales methodology.

Private equity and credit investor; co-founder of Ares Management, one of the world's largest credit-focused alternative asset managers.

Built the modern large-scale seminar and coaching business model through Robbins Research International, then parlayed his peak-performance brand into an operator/investor portfolio of dozens of privately held companies.

Creator of Outcome-Driven Innovation and a key architect of Jobs-to-be-Done theory, and founder of strategy consultancy Strategyn.

Co-founder and CEO of DoorDash, scaling it from a Stanford class project to the leading U.S.

Early Bitcoin investor and host of the Bitcoin Knowledge Podcast, among the first public advocates for Bitcoin as a monetary asset.

Financial journalist and co-host of Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast, known for deep-dive coverage of market structure, macro, and financial plumbing.

Co-founder of defense technology company Anduril Industries and partner at Founders Fund, investing in national security startups.

Travis Kalanick

Entrepreneur and operator who co-founded Uber and scaled it into a global ride-hailing platform through aggressive growth tactics and a combative regulatory strategy.

Travis Oliphant

Creator of NumPy and co-founder of Anaconda, whose work is foundational to the Python scientific computing and data science ecosystem.

Writer and mental-model curator who runs the blog 25iq, cataloguing investor and business frameworks drawn from figures such as Charlie Munger.

Trevor Blackwell

Co-founder of Y Combinator alongside Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston, and founder of robotics company Anybots.

Stanford AI researcher and creator of FlashAttention, an efficient attention algorithm that accelerates training of large language models.

Founder of The Bridge Group and author of The Sales Development Playbook, a practitioner guide to scaling inside sales teams.

Founder and CEO of Walker & Company Brands (maker of Bevel), a health and beauty company for people of color acquired by Procter & Gamble in 2018.

Writer of the SatPost by Trung Phan newsletter on Substack, covering business history and technology with data-driven analysis and humor.

General partner at Banana Capital and author of The Peel newsletter, focusing on consumer technology, startups, and venture capital trends.

Managing partner at Multicoin Capital, a crypto-focused venture and hedge fund investing in blockchain protocols and decentralized applications.

Bitcoin analyst and founding partner at Adamant Capital, known for early bullish Bitcoin research and macroeconomic analysis of the crypto asset class.

Writer and researcher known for essays on interpersonal frameworks and applied mental models, published across EA-adjacent and rationalist venues.

Economist at George Mason University, co-author of the Marginal Revolution blog and newsletter, and host of the Conversations with Tyler podcast.

Founder of Calm Company Fund (formerly Earnest Capital), which backs bootstrapped and indie SaaS founders, and a prominent voice on sustainable startup models.

Founder and former CEO of Kotak Mahindra Bank, one of India's largest private-sector banks, and among India's most prominent business leaders.

Chief Evangelist at Wiz and former CMO at Gong, known for B2B marketing strategies that helped scale Gong from startup to unicorn.

Ulrike Malmendier

Professor of finance and economics at UC Berkeley Haas, known for behavioral finance research on CEO overconfidence and how personal experience shapes economic decisions.

Italian semiotician and novelist at the University of Bologna, author of "The Name of the Rose" and known for applying semiotic theory to culture and media.

Czech-Canadian professor emeritus at the University of Manitoba, prolific author on energy, food systems, and technology whose books have influenced Bill Gates and many strategists.

Email marketing strategist and former customer advocate at ConvertKit, known for SaaS email onboarding optimization and lifecycle marketing in the B2C and B2B space.

Co-founder of Framework Ventures, a crypto venture firm focused on DeFi protocols and Web3 infrastructure investments.

President and CIO of Hoisington Investment Management, known for a decades-long deflationary thesis and advocacy for long-duration U.S.

CEO of Novartis since 2018, leading the company's transformation into a focused medicines business and championing data-science-driven drug development.

Writer behind the Ribbonfarm blog and Breaking Smart newsletter, known for long-form essays on technology, organizations, and strategic thinking.

Founder of Entrepreneurs' Organization and author of "Scaling Up," a widely used growth framework for mid-market companies built on Rockefeller Habits principles.

Machine learning engineer and writer known for practical essays on ML engineering, data science, and the realities of working in the AI industry.

President and CEO of Occidental Petroleum, known for the $38 billion Anadarko acquisition and Oxy's strategy around carbon capture and sequestration.