absorb.md

Mega-wikis compiled from everything a person has said, written, or posted.

AllFoundersResearchersResearch EngAcademicAI SafetyExecsInvestorsEngineersOpen SourceCreatorsPolicy
Jack Dorsey
#1 Jack Dorsey
@jack
Founders

Co-founder Twitter and Block. Funded Bluesky. Open protocols advocate.

95 citation rank / 58 entries
Elon Musk
#2 Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Founders

Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, X. Reusable rockets, electric cars, AI, neural interfaces, Mars. The firehose.

80 citation rank / 97 entries
Sam Altman
#3 Sam Altman
@sama
Founders

CEO OpenAI. Former president Y Combinator.

70 citation rank / 86 entries
AN
#4 Andrew Ng
@andrewyng
Founders

Founder of DeepLearning.AI and Coursera, leading AI educator.

65 citation rank / 17 entries
Greg Brockman
#5 Greg Brockman
@gdb
Founders

President and Co-founder of OpenAI. Former CTO of Stripe. One of the most important voices on frontier model development, scaling, and AI safety.

53 citation rank / 81 entries
Tobi Lütke
#6 Tobi Lütke
@tobi
Founders

CEO of Shopify. Issued the famous internal memo declaring AI non-optional across Shopify in April 2025. Operator perspective.

52 citation rank / 129 entries
Aravind Srinivas
#7 Aravind Srinivas
@AravSrinivas
Founders

Co-founder and CEO Perplexity. AI-powered answer engine.

47 citation rank / 77 entries
Dario Amodei
#8 Dario Amodei
@DarioAmodei
Founders

Co-founder and CEO Anthropic. Former VP Research OpenAI. AI safety researcher.

44 citation rank / 85 entries
Demis Hassabis
#9 Demis Hassabis
@demishassabis
Founders

Co-founder and CEO Google DeepMind. Nobel laureate for AlphaFold.

42 citation rank / 118 entries
Ilya Sutskever
#10 Ilya Sutskever
@ilyasut
Founders

Co-founder of Safe Superintelligence Inc. Formerly Chief Scientist at OpenAI. Co-author of the seminal AlexNet paper. Possibly the most consequential ML researcher alive.

34 citation rank / 15 entries
Aaron Levie
#11 Aaron Levie
@levie
Founders

CEO and co-founder of Box, the enterprise cloud content management platform increasingly powered by AI. Active commentator on startup strategy, cloud computing, AI productivity tools, and spatial computing trends.

30 citation rank / 66 entries
Amjad Masad
#12 Amjad Masad
@amasad
Founders

CEO of Replit. Pioneered AI-native coding with Replit Agent.

24 citation rank / 106 entries
Patrick Collison
#13 Patrick Collison
@patrickc
Founders

Co-founder and CEO Stripe. Progress Studies co-founder.

24 citation rank / 77 entries
FL
#14 Fei-Fei Li
@drfeifei
Founders

Stanford professor, co-director of HAI, pioneer in computer vision education.

20 citation rank / 11 entries
Reid Hoffman
#15 Reid Hoffman
@reidhoffman
Founders

LinkedIn co-founder, Greylock partner, host of Masters of Scale. Author of Blitzscaling, The Startup of You. Now one of the most active AI investors and thinkers.

16 citation rank / 53 entries
Andrew Ng
#16 Andrew Ng
@AndrewYNg
Founders

Founder DeepLearning.AI and Landing AI. Co-founder Coursera. Stanford adjunct professor.

168 entries / 10 tweets / 37 videos / 82 papers / 12 articles
Palmer Luckey
#17 Palmer Luckey
@palmerluckey
Founders

Founder of Oculus VR, which popularized modern consumer virtual reality (acquired by Facebook). Founded Anduril Industries to build AI-powered autonomous defense systems and spatial computing technologies.

114 entries / 26 tweets / 16 videos
Guillermo Rauch
#18 Guillermo Rauch
@rauchg
Founders

CEO of Vercel. Creator of Next.js, V0. Best product-design thinker in the developer-AI space.

111 entries / 35 tweets / 7 videos / 28 articles
Vitalik Buterin
#19 Vitalik Buterin
@vitalikbuterin
Founders

Co-creator of Ethereum, the leading smart contract blockchain platform. Shapes Web3, decentralized finance, governance, and explores intersections between crypto, AI, and scalable decentralized systems.

68 entries / 27 tweets / 18 videos
S
#20 sam
@samsamoa
Founders
21 entries
Mira Murati
#21 Mira Murati
@miramurati
Founders

Former CTO of OpenAI. Key AI leader Scoble tracks in his AI founders and influencers lists.

15 entries
JH
#22 Jeremy Howard
@jeremyphoward
Founders

Co-founder of fast.ai, educator democratizing deep learning.

10 entries
BT
#23 Benjamin Todd
@ben_j_todd
Founders
8 entries
E
#24 Emad
@emostaque
Founders
8 entries
HM
#25 Hilary Mason
@hmason
Founders
8 entries
RP
#26 Ryan Petersen
@typesfast
Founders
7 entries
MR
#27 Max Roser
@maxcroser
Founders
6 entries
BT
#28 Bret Taylor
@btaylor
Founders
5 entries
JL
#29 Jessica Livingston
@jesslivingston
Founders
5 entries
BA
#30 Brett Adcock
@adcock_brett
Founders
5 entries
RU
#31 Raquel Urtasun
@raquelurtasun
Founders
5 entries
AG
#32 Aditya Grover
@adityagrover_
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5 entries
MP
#33 mark pincus
@markpinc
Founders
5 entries
TB
#34 Tom Brown
@nottombrown
Founders
5 entries
AB
#35 Alexander Berger
@albrgr
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5 entries
DM
#36 Dustin Moskovitz
@moskov
Founders
5 entries
DL
#37 Daniel Levy
@daniellevy__
Founders
5 entries
JJ
#38 Justin Johnson
@jcjohnss
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5 entries
DP
#39 Deepak Pathak
@pathak2206
Founders
4 entries
SE
#40 Stefano Ermon
@stefanoermon
Founders
4 entries
TW
#41 Thomas Wolf
@thom_wolf
Founders
4 entries
ED
#42 Ekin Dogus Cubuk
@ekindogus
Founders
4 entries
AM
#43 Arthur Mensch
@arthurmensch
Founders
4 entries
DK
#44 Douwe Kiela
@douwekiela
Founders
4 entries
RR
#45 Robin Rombach
@robrombach
Founders
4 entries
DF
#46 Dylan Field
@zoink
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3 entries
D
#47 David
@davidsholz
Founders
3 entries
AV
#48 Ashish Vaswani
@ashvaswani
Founders
3 entries
DY
#49 Denis Yarats
@denisyarats
Founders
3 entries
AW
#50 Alexandr Wang
@alexandr_wang
Founders
3 entries
TZ
#51 Tony Zhao
@tonyzzhao
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3 entries
CM
#52 Chenlin Meng
@chenlin_meng
Founders
3 entries
AG
#53 Anna Goldie
@annadgoldie
Founders
3 entries
DP
#54 Dylan Patel
@dylan522p
Founders
3 entries
SF
#55 Stanislav Fort
@stanislavfort
Founders
3 entries
AG
#56 Aidan Gomez
@aidangomez
Founders
2 entries
JC
#57 John Collison
@collision
Founders
2 entries
MZ
#58 Matei Zaharia
@matei_zaharia
Founders
2 entries
ST
#59 Sebastian Thrun
@sebastianthrun
Founders
2 entries
LP
#60 Lerrel Pinto
@lerrelpinto
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2 entries
PG
#61 Paul Graham
@paulg
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2 entries
BA
#62 Brian Armstrong
@brian_armstrong
Founders
1 entries
GL
#63 Guillaume Lample @ NeurIPS 2024
@guillaumelample
Founders
1 entries
MN
#64 Mohammad Norouzi
@mo_norouzi
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1 entries
NF
#65 Nick Frosst
@nickfrosst
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1 entries
DH
#66 Drew Houston
@drewhouston
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1 entries
JB
#67 Jimmy Ba
@jimmybajimmyba
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1 entries
EZ
#68 Eric Zelikman
@ericzelikman
Founders
1 entries
ML
#69 Misha Laskin
@mishalaskin
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1 entries
YP
#70 Yash Patil
@ypatil125
Founders
1 entries
RS
#71 Richard Socher
@richardsocher
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1 entries
KL
#72 Kai-Fu Lee
@kaifulee
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0 entries
ML
#73 Max Levchin
@mlevchin
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0 entries
AH
#74 Ariel Herbert-Voss
@adversariel
Founders
0 entries
NR
#75 Naveen Rao
@naveengrao
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0 entries
BS
#76 Blake Scholl 🛫
@bscholl
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0 entries
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#77 Kanjun 🐙
@kanjun
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0 entries
JC
#78 Julien Chaumond
@julien_c
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0 entries
RD
#79 Ray Dalio
@raydalio
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0 entries
MB
#80 Marc Benioff
@benioff
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0 entries
CL
#81 Chris Lattner
@clattner_llvm
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0 entries
JB
#82 Jeff Bezos
@jeffbezos
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0 entries
RT
#83 Rachel Thomas
@math_rachel
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0 entries
RB
#84 Rodney Brooks
@rodneyabrooks
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0 entries
DA
#85 Dario Amodei
@darioamodei
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0 entries
VK
#86 Volodymyr Kuleshov 🇺🇦
@volokuleshov
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0 entries
RN
#87 Robert Nishihara
@robertnishihara
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0 entries
TO
#88 Tim O'Reilly
@timoreilly
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0 entries
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#89 Teknium 🪽
@teknium
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0 entries
D
#90 DHH
@dhh
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0 entries
DK
#91 Daphne Koller
@daphnekoller
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0 entries
AC
#92 Alexis Conneau
@alex_conneau
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0 entries
MT
#93 Michael Truell
@mntruell
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0 entries
BC
#94 Brian Chesky
@bchesky
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0 entries
GH
#95 George Hotz 🌑
@realgeorgehotz
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0 entries
AD
#96 Adam D'Angelo
@adamdangelo
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0 entries
H
#97 hardmaru
@hardmaru
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0 entries
B
#98 benahorowitz.eth
@bhorowitz
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0 entries
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#99 clem 🤗
@clementdelangue
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0 entries
LF
#100 Liam Fedus
@liamfedus
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0 entries
DG
#101 Demi Guo
@demi_guo_
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0 entries
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#102 anton 🇺🇸
@atroyn
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0 entries