AI Leaders & Researchers

Alexander Embiricos

OpenAI Codex product lead. Built Sora Android app in 18 days. Shipped 20x growth since August.

Amanda Askell

Philosopher at Anthropic who shapes Claude's character. Works on AI alignment, model welfare, and what it means to build ethical AI.

Andrej Karpathy

Former Tesla AI Director and OpenAI founding member. YouTube educator who makes deep learning accessible. Creator of nanoGPT.

Anton Osika

Lovable co-founder and CEO. Built Europe's fastest growing startup - $17.5M ARR in 3 months, unicorn in 8 months. Building software for the 99% who can't code.

Ben Goertzel

Founder and CEO of SingularityNET. Pioneer of AGI research who coined the term 'Artificial General Intelligence' in 2005.

Ben Horowitz

A16Z co-founder. Investor in OpenAI, Cursor, Databricks. Author of 'The Hard Thing About Hard Things'. Runs toward fear.

Benedict Evans

Former a16z partner known for annual 'State of Tech' presentations. Applies historical platform shift frameworks to understand what's real vs. hype in AI.

Boris Cherny

Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic. Former Meta Principal Engineer. Author of 'Programming TypeScript'. Pioneer of AI-augmented development.

Claire Vo

Chief Product & Technology Officer at LaunchDarkly. Founder of ChatPRD. Host of the How I AI podcast.

Dario Amodei

Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic. Former VP of Research at OpenAI. Leading the race for safe, steerable AI.

Demis Hassabis

Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind. Nobel Prize laureate. The mind behind AlphaGo, AlphaFold, and Gemini.

Des Traynor

Co-founder of Intercom. Leading voice on SaaS-to-AI transformation. Famous for saying 'if your transformation wasn't brutal, you're not there yet.'

Dhanji Prasanna

Block CTO overseeing 3,500 people. Has AI watching his screen all day, opening PRs before he asks. Built Goose as open source.

Edwin Chen

Surge AI founder. $1B revenue, 70 people, no VC. Provides training data to every frontier lab. Says benchmarks are 'optimizing for tabloid buyers.'

Eoghan McCabe

Intercom co-founder and CEO. Led 40% employee turnover to transform a stagnating SaaS into fastest-growing AI agent company.

Ethan Mollick

Wharton professor studying AI's impact on work. NYT bestselling author of 'Co-Intelligence', named one of TIME's most influential people in AI.

Geoffrey Hinton

The 'Godfather of AI'. Turing Award and Nobel Prize laureate. Invented backpropagation, co-created AlexNet. Now warning about AI risks.

Greg Isenberg

CEO of Late Checkout, startup studio founder, and AI development educator. Former advisor to TikTok and Reddit. Built and sold 3 venture-backed community companies.

Ilya Sutskever

Co-founder of Safe Superintelligence Inc. Former OpenAI Chief Scientist and co-inventor of AlexNet. One of deep learning's founding figures.

Janet Adams

COO of SingularityNET and co-founder of Zarka. Former banking technology executive focused on AI regulation and enterprise deployment.

Jason Lemkin

Founder & CEO of SaaStr, the world's largest B2B SaaS community. Serial founder (EchoSign acquired by Adobe). Now evangelizing AI's transformation of GTM.

Jaspar Carmichael-Jack

Co-Founder & CEO of Artisan, the AI SDR platform. Built one of the fastest-growing AI GTM tools. Shares real metrics publicly - 21,000 messages, 7.5% response rate.

Jean Grosser

Vercel COO. Built Stripe's first sales team. Went from 10 SDRs to 1 in 6 weeks with AI agents. Invented the 'GTM engineer' role.

Jeff Dean

The 'Chuck Norris of Computer Science'. Built MapReduce, BigTable, TensorFlow. Now leading Google's TPU development and Gemini.

Jensen Huang

NVIDIA founder and CEO. The man who bet the company on AI. Now worth $100B+ as GPUs power the AI revolution.

John Schulman

OpenAI co-founder. Inventor of PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization). Led RL research at OpenAI. Now building Thinking Machines.

Julie Zhou

Former VP of Design at Facebook. Author of 'The Making of a Manager'. Now building Sundial and arguing everyone becomes a manager of AI agents.

Larry Fink

CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager. Influential voice on corporate governance, ESG investing, and technology's impact on finance.

Luis Garicano

LSE economist and former European Parliament member studying how AI disrupts professional training ladders and knowledge hierarchies.

Lukasz Kaiser

Transformer paper co-author and OpenAI researcher who led the development of O1 reasoning models—the only one of the 'Transformer Eight' still engineering at a lab.

Marc Andreessen

Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Netscape. The most influential venture capitalist in tech, now betting heavily on AI.

Marc Benioff

Salesforce founder who pioneered cloud enterprise software. Leading enterprise AI transformation through strategic partnerships with Anthropic.

Mati Staniszewski

ElevenLabs co-founder and CEO. $300M ARR in 3 years. Building the voice interface for AI. Former Palantir.

Mustafa Suleyman

Microsoft AI CEO. DeepMind co-founder. Spent a decade on 'the flat part of the exponential'. Created the Modern Turing Test.

Peter Diamandis

Founder of XPRIZE and Singularity University. Entrepreneur and futurist focused on exponential technologies and abundance.

Founder of PSPDFKit (1B+ devices). Creator of Moltbot (formerly Moltbot). Pioneer of 'closing the loop' agentic coding methodology.

Ray Kurzweil

Inventor, futurist, and author of 'The Singularity Is Near.' 86% prediction accuracy over 30 years. Predicted AGI by 2029 in 1999.

Sam Altman

Leading OpenAI's mission to build AGI. Former Y Combinator president, now steering ChatGPT to 800M+ weekly users.

Satya Nadella

CEO of Microsoft. Architect of the $13B+ OpenAI partnership. Leading Microsoft's transformation into an AI-first company.

Sergey Brin

Google co-founder. Led development of Google Glass. Back in the code writing Gemini. Worth $150B+.

Spencer Skates

Amplitude co-founder and CEO (YC W12, now public). AI skeptic until October 2024. Transformed company in 12 months with AI Week.

Teresa Torres

Author of Continuous Discovery Habits. Product discovery coach and speaker. Pioneer in applying Claude Code to non-technical knowledge work.

Vinod Khosla

Sun Microsystems co-founder. Legendary VC who made the largest initial investment in OpenAI. Predicting a billion bipedal robots by 2040.

Yann LeCun

Turing Award winner. Meta Chief AI Scientist. Pioneer of convolutional neural networks. Now betting on world models over LLMs.

Yejin Choi

MacArthur 'Genius Grant' recipient. Known for rigorous AI critiques and research on commonsense reasoning and AI limitations.

Yoshua Bengio

Turing Award winner. Pioneer of deep learning. Leading voice on AI safety and existential risk. Most-cited computer scientist.

Yuval Noah Harari

Historian and philosopher. Author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 Lessons. Leading voice on AI's impact on humanity and human identity.