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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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Wojciech Zaremba

Co-founder of OpenAI leading its coding and robotics research, previously a researcher at Google Brain and Facebook AI.

W. Richard Scott

Stanford sociologist who developed neo-institutional theory in organizational analysis, best known for Institutions and Organizations.

Wright Thompson

American journalist

Yancey Strickler

Co-founder of Kickstarter and author of This Could Be Our Future, now building Metalabel as a platform for creative collectives.

Physicist and founder of NECSI known for multiscale analysis of complex systems, applied to public health, conflict, and financial markets.

Yanis Varoufakis

Greek economist and former Finance Minister of Greece, author of The Global Minotaur, known for political economy critique and eurozone debt analysis.

ML researcher and YouTuber who explains AI research papers on his deep-learning-focused channel with over 400k subscribers.

Chief AI Scientist at Meta, Turing Award laureate, and pioneer of convolutional neural networks who advocates the JEPA world-model architecture.

Yasir Al-Rumayyan

Governor of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) since 2017, directing one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds with over $700B in assets under management.

Yassine Elmandjra

ARK Invest's lead crypto analyst known for Bitcoin valuation research and long-term digital asset investment frameworks.

Co-creator of Ember.js, member of the Rust and TC39 core teams, and co-founder of Tilde Inc., known for open-source framework design.

AI researcher formerly at Google Brain, known for contributions to large language model scaling and efficient transformer architectures, later co-founder at Reka AI.

Yngve Slyngstad

Former CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management who oversaw Norway's Government Pension Fund Global, one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds.

NLP researcher at Bar-Ilan University and the Allen Institute for AI, author of Neural Network Methods for Natural Language Processing.

Harvard Law professor who theorized commons-based peer production in The Wealth of Networks, influencing open-source and platform economics.

Université de Montréal professor, 2018 Turing Award winner, and Mila co-founder who pioneered deep learning and advocates for AI safety research.

Israeli entrepreneur and angel investor who co-founded Mirabilis (ICQ) and champions the founder-density thesis on Israel's tech ecosystem.

Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto

Creator of the Ruby programming language, built around developer happiness as its guiding principle and a longtime advocate for expressive language design.

DST Global founder who made landmark early investments in Facebook and Twitter via a systematic late-stage internet investing framework.

Yuval Noah Harari

Israeli historian and author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 Lessons, exploring humanity's trajectory under technology and capitalism.

INSEAD Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management known for research on multinational strategy, alliance management, and the metanational corporation.

University of Lausanne professor who co-created the Business Model Canvas and co-authored Business Model Generation with Alexander Osterwalder.

Founder of Patagonia who built a values-driven outdoor apparel brand and in 2022 transferred company ownership to a climate-focused trust.

CMU Machine Learning professor and Approximately Correct blogger known for deep learning research and pointed critiques of ML research norms.

ByteDance founder who built TikTok and Toutiao into a global media empire through AI-driven content recommendation at scale.

American sales trainer and author of Secrets of Closing the Sale who built a career teaching integrity-based persuasion and motivation.

Former Credit Suisse strategist who mapped shadow-banking plumbing and authored the Bretton Woods III framework on commodity-backed currency realignment.