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Sam Altman
Samuel Harris Altman is an American entrepreneur who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of the AI company OpenAI since 2019.

Peter Thiel
Peter Andreas Thiel is a German and American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist. A co-founder of PayPal (1998), Palantir Technologies (2003), and Founders Fund (2005), he was also the first outside investor in Facebook (2004). According to The New York Times, as of December 2025, Thiel's estimated net worth stood at US$27.5 billion, placing him among the 100 richest individuals in the world.
Paul Graham
English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
Robert Tappan Morris
American computer scientist; creator of Morris Worm; associate professor at MIT
Paul Buchheit
American computer engineer; created Gmail
Alexis Ohanian
American businessman
Anne Wojcicki
American biotech analyst, biologist, businesswoman, and co-founder of 23andMe
Drew Houston
American Internet entrepreneur
Brian Chesky
American businessman & Co-founder and CEO of Airbnb
Ben Silbermann
American Internet entrepreneur
Emmett Shear
American businessperson
Jessica Livingston
American businesswoman and writer
Justin Kan
American internet entrepreneur
Patrick Collison
Irish entrepreneur
Joe Gebbia
American businessman and a co-founder of Airbnb

Trevor Blackwell
Canadian programmer
Andrew Mason
businessman
Holly Liu
American businesswoman
Dalton Caldwell
American businessman

Michael Seibel
American businessperson (1982-)