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Some of the people on the record

Members who answer for themselves, verified candidates, and public figures whose documented words we keep on the record. A–Z sample, not a leaderboard — 49 of 960 profiles worth meeting shown here.

49 people, A–Z Back to the directory
Alexis Ohanian

Co-founder of Reddit; founder of Seven Seven Six

1 answer United States b. 1983

Ali Abbasi

@aliabbasi

Lifetime learner

8 answers Bay Area, US

Andrew Ng

Co-founder of Coursera and of Google Brain; founder of DeepLearning.AI

2 answers United States b. 1976

Bill Gates

Co-founder of Microsoft; co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

3 answers United States b. 1955

Brian Chesky

Co-founder and chief executive of Airbnb

3 answers United States b. 1981

Daniel Ek

Co-founder and former chief executive of Spotify

2 answers Sweden b. 1983

David Vélez

Co-founder and chief executive of Nubank

20 answers Colombia

Demis Hassabis

Co-founder and chief executive of Google DeepMind; Nobel laureate in Chemistry

1 answer United Kingdom b. 1976

Drew Houston

Co-founder and chief executive of Dropbox

3 answers United States b. 1983

Elan Lee

Game designer; co-creator of Exploding Kittens

1 answer United States b. 1975

Fei-Fei Li

Professor of computer science at Stanford University; creator of ImageNet

2 answers United States b. 1976

Grace Hopper

United States Navy rear admiral; computer scientist; co-designer of COBOL

1 answer United States b. 1906

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Hiroshi Mikitani

Founder, chairman and chief executive of Rakuten

2 answers Japan b. 1965

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji

Co-founder of Andela and of Flutterwave; founding partner of Future Africa

2 answers Nigeria

JD
James Dyson

British inventor and businessman

6 answers United Kingdom b. 1947

Jeff Bezos

Founder and former chief executive of Amazon; founder of Blue Origin

3 answers United States b. 1964

Jensen Huang

Co-founder, president and chief executive of NVIDIA

3 answers United States b. 1963

Kevin Rose

Founder of Digg; investor and podcaster

1 answer United States b. 1977

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Kevin Systrom

American computer programmer and entrepreneur

1 answer United States b. 1983

Linus Torvalds

Creator of the Linux kernel and of Git

3 answers Finland b. 1969

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Lisa Su

Chair and chief executive of Advanced Micro Devices

2 answers United States b. 1969

Luis von Ahn

Co-founder and chief executive of Duolingo; co-inventor of CAPTCHA

1 answer Guatemala

Margaret Hamilton

Director of the Software Engineering Division, MIT Instrumentation Laboratory; lead developer of the Apollo onboard flight software

1 answer United States b. 1936

MZ
Mark Zuckerberg

Co-founder, chairman and chief executive of Meta Platforms

2 answers United States b. 1984

Marvin Minsky

Cognitive scientist; co-founder of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

2 answers United States 1927–2016

Melanie Perkins

Co-founder and chief executive of Canva

1 answer Australia b. 1987

Nithin Kamath

Co-founder and chief executive of Zerodha

3 answers India

Ory Okolloh

Co-founder of Ushahidi; lawyer and open-government activist

2 answers Kenya

Paul Graham

Co-founder of Viaweb and of the startup accelerator Y Combinator; essayist

1 answer United States b. 1964

Peter Thiel

Co-founder of PayPal and Palantir; venture capitalist

1 answer United States b. 1967

Randy Pausch

Professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design

5 answers United States 1960–2008

RK
Ray Kurzweil

Inventor and futurist; developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition system

1 answer United States b. 1948

Reid Hoffman

Co-founder of LinkedIn; partner at Greylock Partners

5 answers United States b. 1967

Satya Nadella

Chief executive of Microsoft

2 answers United States b. 1967

Sheryl Sandberg

Former chief operating officer of Facebook; founder of LeanIn.org

2 answers United States b. 1969

Simone Giertz

Inventor and product designer

1 answer Sweden b. 1990

Steve Jobs

Co-founder and chief executive of Apple; co-founder of NeXT; chief executive of Pixar

27 answers United States 1955–2011

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Sundar Pichai

Chief executive of Alphabet and Google

3 answers United States b. 1972

Susan Wojcicki

Chief executive of YouTube; Google's first marketing manager

3 answers United States

TC
Tim Cook

Chief executive of Apple

3 answers United States b. 1960

Tim O'Reilly

Founder and chief executive of O'Reilly Media

1 answer United States b. 1954

Tobias Lütke

Co-founder and chief executive of Shopify

2 answers Canada

Tony Fadell

Engineer and designer; led the iPod and iPhone teams at Apple, founder of Nest Labs

5 answers United States b. 1969

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Tristan Harris

American computer scientist and businessman

1 answer United States b. 1984

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Wes Lindamood

designer and immersive-storytelling producer at NPR

1 answer United States