Library

People

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.

2,307people

Showing 301–360 of 2,307

Former Fast Company founding editor and host of the Rapid Response podcast, focused on business leadership in fast-changing environments.

Bob Tisch / Larry Tisch

Brothers who co-built Loews Corporation into a diversified conglomerate; Larry Tisch also acquired and ran CBS as a value-focused operator.

President and CEO of NBC for over two decades under GE, overseeing its expansion into cable television through CNBC and MSNBC.

Bonnie Yi Zhang

Boris Groysberg

Management scholar whose research demonstrates that star performers' success is largely context-dependent, challenging the assumption that talent is fully portable across firms.

Botond Köszegi

Behavioral economist at CEU whose research on reference-dependent preferences and present bias extends prospect theory's applications to policy design.

Behavioural finance researcher best known for empirical studies showing that individual investors overtrade and that men trade more—and perform worse—than women.

Co-founder of Union Square Ventures alongside Fred Wilson, known for thesis-driven bets on large decentralised networks and open internet protocols.

Tech investor and Altimeter Capital founder who co-hosts the BG2 Pod, discussing public markets, technology, and policy with Bill Gurley.

Serial acquirer and capital allocator who built XPO Logistics into a global freight giant and launched QXO to roll up building-products distribution.

Economist specialising in global capital flows and balance-of-payments forensics, best known for tracing hidden FX-reserve accumulation by sovereign actors.

Technology lawyer and Microsoft President who co-authored 'Tools and Weapons', arguing that tech companies bear ethical responsibility for how their products are used.

Technology journalist and author of The Everything Store, the definitive account of Amazon's rise and Jeff Bezos's management philosophy.

Turned the one-person video-journalist model into an interview-driven, multi-channel educational YouTube network, and co-created the Hello Internet podcast with CGP Grey.

Software engineer and protocol designer who invented the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-transfer protocol and later founded Chia Network.

Branko Milanovic

Economist specialising in global income inequality and author of *Capitalism, Alone*, which analyses the two dominant forms of contemporary capitalism.

Software engineer and technical founder who co-created Kubernetes, the open-source container-orchestration system that became the backbone of cloud-native infrastructure.

Software engineer and entrepreneur who invented JavaScript in 1995 and co-founded Brave Software, a privacy-focused browser company.

Netflix and Oracle performance engineer who invented flame graphs and wrote *Systems Performance*, the field's standard reference for kernel-level analysis.

American academic, speaker and author

Creator of Double Your Freelancing and founder of RightMessage, known for email personalization and segmentation frameworks for online businesses.

Co-author of The Challenger Sale and distinguished VP at Gartner, who developed the insight-led challenger selling methodology.

CEO of Santiago Capital and creator of the Dollar Milkshake Theory, a macro framework predicting structural dollar strength amid global debt cycles.

American entrepreneur (born 1980)

CPython core developer and Microsoft engineer who has steered Python's import system and packaging strategy, and writes extensively on the language's evolution.

Science educator and host of the ToKcast podcast, known for explicating Karl Popper's epistemology and David Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity.

Brett & Kate McKay

Founders of The Art of Manliness blog and podcast, applying classical wisdom and practical mental models to everyday life and character development.

Interface designer and researcher who originated the 'explorable explanations' paradigm — interactive documents that let readers manipulate models rather than passively read text.

Brian Armstrong

Entrepreneur and CEO who built Coinbase into the dominant regulated fiat-to-crypto on-ramp and institutional custody platform in the US.

Economist and complexity theorist who pioneered the theory of increasing returns and path dependence, and founded the field of complexity economics.

Brian Arthur (Lock-in)

Complexity economist at the Santa Fe Institute who formalized increasing returns and technological lock-in as mechanisms of market dominance.

Brian Arthur (TechEvolution)

Complexity economist at the Santa Fe Institute whose book The Nature of Technology (2009) models how technologies evolve by combining existing components.

Growth strategist and founder of Reforge; creator of the four fits framework connecting market, product, channel, and model.

Brian Balfour → routed to Growth

Founder of Reforge and former VP of Growth at HubSpot, known for frameworks on growth loops, retention, and product-channel fit.

Brian Behlendorf

Brian Behlendorf is an American technologist, executive, computer programmer and leading figure in the open-source software movement.

Entrepreneur and CEO who co-founded Airbnb and pioneered 'founder mode' management and the '11-star experience' framework for product design.

Brian Christian

Author and science writer who translates computer-science algorithms into practical frameworks for human decision-making, principally through co-authoring Algorithms to Live By.

Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths

Authors of *Algorithms to Live By* (2016), which applies computer science concepts—optimal stopping, caching, scheduling—as practical decision heuristics for everyday life.

Content entrepreneur who built Copyblogger into a foundational content-marketing platform and now operates Further, a newsletter on midlife health and wealth.

Retail executive who repositioned Target as a fulfilment hub, driving same-day services and small-format urban stores to compete with e-commerce rivals.

SEO strategist and founder of Backlinko, creator of the Skyscraper Technique for scalable link-building.

Java Language Architect at Oracle and lead author of *Java Concurrency in Practice*, the definitive reference on concurrent and parallel programming in Java.

Co-creator of Project Jupyter (originally IPython), whose browser-based notebook architecture became the standard environment for interactive computing and data science.

Columbia University physicist and author of The Elegant Universe (1999), known for making string theory and extra dimensions accessible to general audiences.

Entrepreneur and HubSpot co-founder who coined the inbound marketing methodology, shifting B2B growth from outbound interruption to content-led attraction.

Brian Kernighan

Computer scientist and author who co-created foundational Unix tools and co-wrote 'The C Programming Language', the definitive guide to C.

Brian Morrissey

Media analyst and podcaster; founder of The Rebooting, a newsletter and podcast examining the business models sustaining modern media.

Media executive: architect of Comcast's NBCUniversal acquisition and the contested all-cash bid for Sky plc.

Brian Robertson

Creator of Holacracy and CEO of HolacracyOne, author of Holacracy (2015) introducing a constitution-based self-management operating system for organisations.

Defence-tech executive and engineer; co-founded Anduril Industries and serves as CEO, building autonomous defence systems anchored by the Lattice software platform.

Brian Singerman

Venture capitalist at Founders Fund known for high-conviction, concentrated bets in deep-tech and defence-adjacent companies.

Co-founder of Bonobos and founder of Trunk Club, two early direct-to-consumer men's apparel companies that helped establish the DTC retail playbook.

Sales trainer and author whose 'The Psychology of Selling' framework systematised the inner mental habits and step-by-step process behind consistent sales performance.

Resilience Alliance scientist and co-author of Resilience Thinking (2006), applying adaptive-cycle and panarchy frameworks to social-ecological systems management.

Bridget Gleason

Former CIO of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas and UTIMCO, known for his "best ideas" philosophy and disciplined long-horizon public-pension allocation.

Former VP of Europe at Twitter, host of the Eat Sleep Work Repeat podcast, and author of The Joy of Work (2019) on rebuilding healthy workplace culture.

CEO of Brookfield Asset Management; architect of one of the world's largest real-asset and alternative investment platforms built on perpetual capital structures.

Bruce Greenwald

Bruce Corman Norbert Greenwald is an American economist and professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business and an advisor at First Eagle Investment Management.

Bruce Henderson

Business strategist who founded BCG and developed the Growth-Share Matrix and Experience Curve, reshaping how firms allocate capital and price competitively.