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Elon Musk
CEO/Founder
CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, owner of X (formerly Twitter), frequently appears on podcasts like Joe Rogan and interviews
Sam Altman
CEO/Founder
CEO of OpenAI, frequent podcast guest and conference speaker on AI topics
Jensen Huang
CEO/Founder
CEO of NVIDIA, frequently speaks at AI conferences and tech events about GPUs and AI
Satya Nadella
CEO/Founder
CEO of Microsoft, regular conference speaker and media interview participant
Sundar Pichai
CEO/Founder
CEO of Alphabet (Google), regular at tech conferences and congressional testimonies
Tim Cook
CEO/Founder
CEO of Apple, frequent keynote speaker and interview guest on major media outlets
Mark Zuckerberg
CEO/Founder
CEO of Meta (Facebook), often appears in congressional hearings, tech conferences, and interviews
Andy Jassy
CEO/Founder
Amazon CEO, frequent cloud computing and enterprise conference speaker
Patrick Collison
CEO/Founder
CEO of Stripe, often appears on tech podcasts and startup conferences
John Collison
CEO/Founder
Stripe co-founder and president, frequent fintech conference speaker
Brian Chesky
CEO/Founder
CEO of Airbnb, regular conference speaker and interview participant
Dara Khosrowshahi
CEO/Founder
Uber CEO, frequent transportation and gig economy conference speaker
Daniel Ek
CEO/Founder
CEO of Spotify, regularly appears in European tech media and conferences
Eric Yuan
CEO/Founder
Zoom CEO, frequent video communications and remote work conference speaker
Tobias Lütke
CEO/Founder
CEO of Shopify, appears on e-commerce and tech podcasts
Aaron Levie
CEO/Founder
Box CEO, frequent enterprise cloud storage conference speaker and Twitter commentator
Marc Benioff
CEO/Founder
Salesforce CEO, frequent business software and philanthropy conference speaker
Frank Slootman
CEO/Founder
Snowflake CEO, frequent enterprise software and data conference speaker
Jack Dorsey
CEO/Founder
Twitter co-founder, Block (Square) founder, frequent fintech and social media speaker
Brian Armstrong
CEO/Founder
Coinbase CEO, frequent cryptocurrency and blockchain conference speaker
Reid Hoffman
CEO/Founder
Co-founder of LinkedIn, frequent podcast host and guest, venture capitalist
Kevin Systrom
CEO/Founder
Instagram co-founder, frequent speaker on social media and photography
Jan Koum
CEO/Founder
WhatsApp co-founder, occasional conference speaker on messaging and privacy
Drew Houston
CEO/Founder
CEO of Dropbox, appears on startup and tech podcasts
Stewart Butterfield
CEO/Founder
Slack co-founder, frequent workplace collaboration conference speaker
Melanie Perkins
CEO/Founder
Canva CEO and co-founder, frequent startup and design conference speaker
Logan Green
CEO/Founder
Lyft co-founder and former CEO, transportation and mobility conference speaker
Anthony Levandowski
CEO/Founder
Former Google/Uber autonomous vehicle engineer, controversial figure in self-driving space
Palmer Luckey
CEO/Founder
Oculus founder, Anduril founder, frequent VR and defense tech conference speaker
Josh Wolfe
CEO/Founder
Lux Capital co-founder, frequent deep tech and hard tech conference speaker
Nat Friedman
CEO/Founder
Former GitHub CEO, AI researcher, frequent developer tools conference speaker
Thomas Dohmke
CEO/Founder
Current GitHub CEO, frequent developer conference and AI coding tools speaker
Scott Farquhar
CEO/Founder
Atlassian co-founder, frequent enterprise software and remote work conference speaker
Mike Cannon-Brookes
CEO/Founder
Atlassian co-founder, climate tech investor, Australian tech conference speaker
Vlad Tenev
CEO/Founder
Robinhood CEO, frequent fintech and democratizing finance conference speaker
Aparna Chennapragada
CEO/Founder
Former Google executive, Robinhood CPO, frequent product management conference speaker
John Carmack
Programmer/Engineer
Legendary game programmer (id Software, Oculus), frequent conference keynote speaker
Linus Torvalds
Programmer/Engineer
Creator of Linux and Git, occasional conference speaker and interview participant
Guido van Rossum
Programmer/Engineer
Creator of Python programming language, appears at Python conferences and tech talks
Brendan Eich
Programmer/Engineer
Creator of JavaScript, founder of Brave Browser, tech conference speaker
Anders Hejlsberg
Programmer/Engineer
Creator of TypeScript and C#, Microsoft technical fellow, conference speaker
DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson)
Programmer/Engineer
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of Basecamp, frequent podcast guest and blogger
Rich Hickey
Programmer/Engineer
Creator of Clojure programming language, conference speaker on functional programming
Werner Vogels
Programmer/Engineer
Amazon CTO, frequent AWS and distributed systems conference speaker
Vitalik Buterin
Programmer/Engineer
Ethereum co-founder, frequent blockchain and cryptocurrency conference speaker
Ryan Dahl
Programmer/Engineer
Creator of Node.js and Deno, frequent JavaScript and runtime conference speaker
Graydon Hoare
Programmer/Engineer
Creator of Rust programming language, systems programming conference speaker
Rob Pike
Programmer/Engineer
Go programming language co-creator, former Google engineer, systems programming speaker
Ken Thompson
Programmer/Engineer
Unix co-creator, Go co-creator, legendary systems programmer, occasional speaker
Dennis Ritchie
Programmer/Engineer
Creator of C programming language, Unix co-creator (historical figure)
Bjarne Stroustrup
Programmer/Engineer
Creator of C++ programming language, frequent programming language conference speaker
James Gosling
Programmer/Engineer
Creator of Java programming language, frequent programming conference speaker
Larry Wall
Programmer/Engineer
Creator of Perl programming language, occasional programming conference speaker
Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz)
Programmer/Engineer
Creator of Ruby programming language, frequent Ruby conference keynote speaker
Brad Fitzpatrick
Programmer/Engineer
Creator of LiveJournal, memcached, Go contributor, systems programming speaker
Evan You
Programmer/Engineer
Creator of Vue.js, frequent frontend development conference speaker
Dan Abramov
Programmer/Engineer
React core team member, Redux creator, frequent React conference speaker
Sebastian McKenzie
Programmer/Engineer
Creator of Babel and Yarn, Rome tools founder, JavaScript tooling conference speaker
TJ Holowaychuk
Programmer/Engineer
Creator of Express.js and many Node.js libraries, occasional conference speaker
Fabrice Bellard
Programmer/Engineer
Creator of QEMU, FFmpeg, and QuickJS, legendary systems programmer, rare speaker
Daniel Stenberg
Programmer/Engineer
Creator of curl, frequent open source and HTTP conference speaker
Havoc Pennington
Programmer/Engineer
GNOME contributor, former Red Hat engineer, Linux desktop conference speaker
Miguel de Icaza
Programmer/Engineer
GNOME co-founder, Mono creator, Xamarin founder, .NET and open source speaker
Matthias Ettrich
Programmer/Engineer
KDE founder, Qt contributor, Linux desktop conference speaker
Jordan Walke
Programmer/Engineer
Creator of React at Facebook, frontend development conference speaker
Sophie Alpert
Programmer/Engineer
Former React team lead, frequent React and frontend conference speaker
Marc Andreessen
Investor/VC
Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, frequent Twitter commentator and podcast guest
Ben Horowitz
Investor/VC
Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, author, podcast guest on business topics
Peter Thiel
Investor/VC
Co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, investor, author, frequent interview participant
Naval Ravikant
Investor/VC
AngelList founder, philosopher-investor, popular podcast guest
Chamath Palihapitiya
Investor/VC
Former Facebook executive, SPAC investor, frequent podcast guest
Keith Rabois
Investor/VC
PayPal Mafia member, Founders Fund partner, active on Twitter and podcasts
Chris Dixon
Investor/VC
a16z crypto partner, frequent Web3 and blockchain conference speaker
Mary Meeker
Investor/VC
Venture capitalist, famous for annual Internet Trends report, conference speaker
Max Levchin
Investor/VC
PayPal co-founder, Affirm CEO, frequent fintech conference speaker
Paul Graham
Investor/VC
Y Combinator co-founder, essayist, occasional conference speaker and interview participant
Jessica Livingston
Investor/VC
Y Combinator co-founder, author of 'Founders at Work', startup conference speaker
Garry Tan
Investor/VC
Y Combinator president, former Posterous founder, frequent startup conference speaker
Elad Gil
Investor/VC
Serial entrepreneur and investor, author of 'High Growth Handbook', podcast guest
Balaji Srinivasan
Investor/VC
Former a16z partner, crypto advocate, frequent podcast guest and conference speaker
Cathie Wood
Investor/VC
ARK Invest CEO, disruptive innovation investor, frequent financial media guest
Bill Gurley
Investor/VC
Benchmark partner, former Uber board member, frequent conference speaker
Fred Wilson
Investor/VC
Union Square Ventures partner, prolific blogger (AVC), frequent conference speaker
Brad Feld
Investor/VC
Foundry Group partner, author, frequent entrepreneurship conference speaker
David Sacks
Investor/VC
Craft Ventures founder, former PayPal COO, frequent podcast guest
Jason Lemkin
Investor/VC
SaaStr founder, SaaS investor, frequent SaaS conference speaker
Kara Swisher
Writer/Journalist
Tech journalist, podcast host (Pivot, Sway), frequent interview show guest
Ben Thompson
Writer/Journalist
Stratechery newsletter author, Sharp Tech podcast, business strategy analyst
Casey Newton
Writer/Journalist
Tech journalist, Platformer newsletter, frequent podcast guest
Steven Levy
Writer/Journalist
Senior writer at Wired, author of multiple tech books, frequent interview participant
Walt Mossberg
Writer/Journalist
Veteran tech journalist, co-founder of Recode, frequent media appearances
Benedict Evans
Writer/Journalist
Independent tech analyst, newsletter author, frequent conference speaker
John Gruber
Writer/Journalist
Daring Fireball author, The Talk Show podcast host, Apple industry commentator
Om Malik
Writer/Journalist
Tech journalist, former GigaOm founder, frequent conference speaker
Dan Luu
Writer/Journalist
Systems engineer, technical blogger, occasional conference speaker on performance
Julia Evans
Writer/Journalist
Technical blogger (Julia Evans), frequent systems programming conference speaker
Jessie Frazelle
Writer/Journalist
Former Docker/Google engineer, technical blogger, containers conference speaker
Yuval Noah Harari
Philosopher/Academic
Historian and philosopher, author of 'Sapiens', frequent speaker on AI and humanity
Nick Bostrom
Philosopher/Academic
Oxford philosopher, expert on existential risks and AI safety, author of 'Superintelligence'
Stuart Russell
Philosopher/Academic
UC Berkeley AI professor, author of 'Human Compatible', expert on AI safety
Jaron Lanier
Philosopher/Academic
Computer scientist, author of 'Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts'
Sherry Turkle
Philosopher/Academic
MIT professor, expert on human-computer interaction, author, frequent media appearances
Cynthia Dwork
Philosopher/Academic
Harvard professor, pioneer in differential privacy, frequent academic conference speaker
Lina Khan
Philosopher/Academic
FTC Chair, antitrust expert focused on tech companies
Zeynep Tufekci
Philosopher/Academic
UNC professor, tech critic, frequent media commentator on social media effects
Cathy O'Neil
Philosopher/Academic
Author of 'Weapons of Math Destruction', algorithmic accountability expert
Safiya Noble
Philosopher/Academic
UCLA professor, author of 'Algorithms of Oppression', frequent AI bias conference speaker
Lex Fridman
Podcaster/Media
AI researcher and podcast host, interviews tech leaders and scientists
Jason Calacanis
Podcaster/Media
Angel investor and podcast host (This Week in Startups), frequent conference speaker
Tim Ferriss
Podcaster/Media
Author and podcast host (The Tim Ferriss Show), frequent productivity conference speaker
Joe Rogan
Podcaster/Media
Podcast host (Joe Rogan Experience), frequent long-form tech leader interviews
Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Podcaster/Media
Invest Like the Best podcast host, frequent tech investor interviews
Shane Parrish
Podcaster/Media
The Knowledge Project podcast host, decision-making and mental models expert
Cal Newport
Podcaster/Media
Computer science professor, author of 'Deep Work', productivity conference speaker
Tony Fadell
Product Leader
iPod creator, Nest founder, frequent product design and innovation speaker
Susan Wojcicki
Product Leader
Former YouTube CEO, frequent speaker on digital media and platform governance
Marissa Mayer
Product Leader
Former Yahoo CEO and Google VP, frequent conference speaker on product development
Julie Zhuo
Product Leader
Former Facebook VP of Product Design, author of 'The Making of a Manager'
April Dunford
Product Leader
Positioning expert, author of 'Obviously Awesome', frequent product marketing speaker
Des Traynor
Product Leader
Intercom co-founder, frequent product management and customer experience speaker
Jason Fried
Product Leader
Basecamp co-founder, author of 'ReWork', frequent remote work conference speaker
Bruce Schneier
Security Expert
Cryptographer and security technologist, author, frequent media commentator on cybersecurity
Edward Snowden
Security Expert
NSA whistleblower, privacy advocate, frequent remote conference speaker
Matthew Green
Security Expert
Johns Hopkins cryptographer, frequent security conference speaker and blogger
Dan Kaminsky
Security Expert
Security researcher, DNS vulnerability discoverer, frequent conference speaker (deceased 2021)
Katie Moussouris
Security Expert
Security researcher, bug bounty pioneer, frequent security conference speaker
Geoffrey Hinton
AI Researcher
Deep learning pioneer, former Google researcher, frequent speaker on AI development
Yann LeCun
AI Researcher
Meta AI Research director, NYU professor, frequent AI conference speaker
Andrew Ng
AI Researcher
AI researcher, Coursera co-founder, frequent educator and conference speaker
Demis Hassabis
AI Researcher
DeepMind CEO and co-founder, frequent speaker on AI and neuroscience
Fei-Fei Li
AI Researcher
Stanford AI professor, former Google Cloud AI chief scientist, frequent speaker
Yoshua Bengio
AI Researcher
Montreal AI researcher, Turing Award winner, frequent academic conference speaker
Timnit Gebru
AI Researcher
AI ethics researcher, former Google researcher, frequent speaker on AI bias
Ilya Sutskever
AI Researcher
OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist, frequent deep learning conference speaker
Andrej Karpathy
AI Researcher
Former Tesla AI director, OpenAI researcher, frequent AI conference speaker
Chris Lattner
AI Researcher
Creator of Swift and LLVM, former Apple/Tesla engineer, compiler conference speaker
Ian Goodfellow
AI Researcher
GAN inventor, former Google Brain researcher, frequent machine learning speaker
Oriol Vinyals
AI Researcher
DeepMind researcher, AlphaStar lead, frequent reinforcement learning conference speaker
Chelsea Finn
AI Researcher
Stanford AI professor, robotics and meta-learning researcher, conference speaker
Masayoshi Son
International Tech
SoftBank CEO, Vision Fund creator, frequent AI and investment conference speaker
Zhang Yiming
International Tech
ByteDance founder (TikTok), occasional tech conference appearances
Lei Jun
International Tech
Xiaomi founder and CEO, frequent Chinese tech conference speaker
Pony Ma (Ma Huateng)
International Tech
Tencent founder and CEO, occasional Chinese tech conference appearances
Robin Li
International Tech
Baidu founder and CEO, frequent AI and search conference speaker in China
Niklas Zennström
International Tech
Skype co-founder, Atomico founder, European tech conference speaker
Hiroshi Mikitani
International Tech
Rakuten founder and CEO, frequent Japanese e-commerce conference speaker
Mikko Hypponen
International Tech
F-Secure security expert, frequent cybersecurity conference speaker from Finland
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
International Tech
French photographer and environmentalist, occasional tech sustainability speaker
Gavin Wood
Crypto/Web3
Ethereum co-founder, Polkadot founder, frequent blockchain conference speaker
Changpeng Zhao (CZ)
Crypto/Web3
Former Binance CEO, frequent cryptocurrency conference speaker
Do Kwon
Crypto/Web3
Terra founder (controversial), former DeFi conference speaker
Sam Bankman-Fried
Crypto/Web3
Former FTX CEO (controversial), frequent crypto conference speaker until 2022
Andre Cronje
Crypto/Web3
DeFi developer, Yearn Finance creator, occasional conference speaker
Stani Kulechov
Crypto/Web3
Aave founder, frequent DeFi conference speaker
Hayden Adams
Crypto/Web3
Uniswap founder, frequent DEX and DeFi conference speaker
Silvio Micali
Crypto/Web3
MIT professor, Algorand founder, cryptography conference speaker
Mitchell Hashimoto
Developer Tools
HashiCorp co-founder, creator of Vagrant and Terraform, DevOps conference speaker
Solomon Hykes
Developer Tools
Docker founder, frequent containers and cloud-native conference speaker
Guillermo Rauch
Developer Tools
Vercel CEO, Next.js ecosystem, frequent frontend conference speaker
Zach Holman
Developer Tools
Former GitHub engineer, developer culture and remote work conference speaker
Mitchell Baker
Developer Tools
Mozilla CEO, open web and browser privacy conference speaker
Armon Dadgar
Developer Tools
HashiCorp co-founder and CTO, infrastructure automation conference speaker