The Argument Index
Debate potential by speaker, the highest-scored statement each year, and the companies with the most bearish calls on record. All of it clickable, all of it playable.
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Average debate potential by speaker
All 723 guests with 5 or more scored statements, ranked. 154 more have fewer than 5, too few for a fair average. Sort or filter below.
| # | Person | Avg debate potential | Statements scored |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yuval Noah Harari Professor of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | 3.57 | 23 |
| 2 | Alex Karp Co-founder & CEO, Palantir Technologies | 3.41 | 17 |
| 3 | Ice Cube Co-Founder and CEO, BIG3 | 3.4 | 5 |
| 4 | Bryan Caplan Professor of Economics, George Mason University | 3.25 | 32 |
| 5 | Bari Weiss Journalist & Author | 3.2 | 5 |
| 6 | Mike Masnick Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Techdirt | 3.2 | 5 |
| 7 | Oren Cass Founder & Chief Economist, American Compass | 3.14 | 14 |
| 8 | Sarah Rogers Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy, U.S. Government | 3.14 | 14 |
| 9 | Keith Rabois Managing Director, Khosla Ventures | 3.12 | 42 |
| 10 | Jim VandeHei Co-founder and CEO, Axios | 3.12 | 8 |
| 11 | Aubrey de Grey President and CSO, LEV Foundation | 3.1 | 10 |
| 12 | Alec Ross Author, The Industries of the Future | 3.08 | 13 |
| 13 | Balaji Srinivasan Founder, The Network School | 3.07 | 244 |
| 14 | Emmett Shear Co-founder and CEO, Softmax | 3.03 | 31 |
| 15 | AI Security Researcher | 3 | 6 |
| 16 | Mike Gallagher Head of Defense, Palantir Technologies | 3 | 22 |
| 17 | Adam Back Co-Founder and CEO, Blockstream | 3 | 11 |
| 18 | Kurt McMaster Founder & CEO, Playtron | 3 | 8 |
| 19 | Alex Stamos Chief Product Officer, Corridor | 3 | 6 |
| 20 | Andy Rachleff Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Wealthfront | 2.94 | 18 |
| 21 | Colin McCune Head of Government Affairs, a16z | 2.92 | 12 |
| 22 | Matt Perault Head of AI Policy, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.9 | 10 |
| 23 | Laila Janah Founder & CEO, Samasource | 2.9 | 21 |
| 24 | Gavin Baker Managing Partner & CIO, Atreides Management | 2.89 | 44 |
| 25 | Kieran Flanagan SVP of Marketing, HubSpot | 2.88 | 8 |
| 26 | Dennis Nazarov Founder, Kiosk | 2.88 | 8 |
| 27 | Andrew Mason Founder and CEO, Descript | 2.88 | 8 |
| 28 | Paul Krugman Distinguished Professor of Economics, CUNY Graduate Center | 2.88 | 17 |
| 29 | Phil Dayan Co-Founder, Flashbots | 2.87 | 15 |
| 30 | Noah Smith Economics Writer & Publisher, Noahpinion | 2.86 | 42 |
| 31 | Arthur Brooks Professor of the Practice, Harvard Kennedy School | 2.85 | 13 |
| 32 | Tyler Cowen Professor of Economics, George Mason University | 2.83 | 18 |
| 33 | Ed Felten Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Offchain Labs | 2.83 | 6 |
| 34 | Claire Kane Miller Reporter, The New York Times | 2.83 | 6 |
| 35 | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Director, National Institutes of Health | 2.82 | 34 |
| 36 | David Sacks Founding General Partner, Craft Ventures | 2.81 | 26 |
| 37 | Owen Jennings Business Lead, Block | 2.81 | 21 |
| 38 | Jack Soslow Co-Founder and CEO, Ciridae | 2.8 | 5 |
| 39 | David Sinclair Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School | 2.8 | 5 |
| 40 | Tim O'Reilly Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media | 2.8 | 10 |
| 41 | Russ Roberts Host, EconTalk | 2.8 | 5 |
| 42 | Russell Davies Marketing and Product Director, The Modern House | 2.8 | 10 |
| 43 | Blake Masters Board Member, The Thiel Foundation | 2.8 | 10 |
| 44 | Graham Allison Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School | 2.79 | 14 |
| 45 | Antonio García Martínez Director of Ads, Base (Coinbase) | 2.78 | 9 |
| 46 | Ben Horowitz Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.76 | 830 |
| 47 | Epoch AI Researcher Researchers, Epoch AI | 2.76 | 17 |
| 48 | Alexandr Wang Chief AI Officer, Meta Platforms | 2.76 | 25 |
| 49 | Dwarkesh Patel Host, Dwarkesh Podcast | 2.75 | 48 |
| 50 | Noam Shazeer AI Scientist, OpenAI | 2.75 | 16 |
| 51 | Michael Morell Former Deputy Director, CIA | 2.75 | 12 |
| 52 | Doug Burgum Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior | 2.73 | 15 |
| 53 | Ash Carter Former Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense | 2.72 | 18 |
| 54 | Marc Andreessen Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.71 | 1119 |
| 55 | Rick Rubin Record Producer and Author | 2.71 | 21 |
| 56 | Tom Standage Deputy Editor, The Economist | 2.71 | 7 |
| 57 | Emil Michael Under Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense | 2.71 | 17 |
| 58 | George Church Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School | 2.68 | 25 |
| 59 | Joel Mokyr Professor of Economics and History, Northwestern University | 2.68 | 19 |
| 60 | Emilie Choi President & COO, Coinbase | 2.67 | 15 |
| 61 | Safi Bahcall | 2.67 | 12 |
| 62 | Joel Monegro Founding Partner, Placeholder | 2.67 | 9 |
| 63 | Florian Leibert Co-Founder and General Partner, 468 Capital | 2.67 | 9 |
| 64 | Joshua Schenck CIO, LA County MTA Transport Authority | 2.67 | 6 |
| 65 | Hatem Shafiq Chief Operating Officer, Databricks | 2.67 | 6 |
| 66 | Carl Pope Principal Advisor, Inside Straight Strategies | 2.67 | 15 |
| 67 | Tom Davenport Distinguished Professor, Babson College | 2.67 | 9 |
| 68 | Mike Cannon-Brookes Co-Founder and CEO, Atlassian | 2.67 | 15 |
| 69 | Chris Power Founder & CEO, Hadrian | 2.66 | 56 |
| 70 | Chris Best Co-Founder and CEO, Substack | 2.65 | 17 |
| 71 | Geoffrey Woo Co-founder & Managing Partner, Anti Fund | 2.65 | 26 |
| 72 | Ashwin Sreenivas Co-Founder & CTO, Decagon | 2.65 | 20 |
| 73 | Vishal Misra Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University | 2.64 | 25 |
| 74 | George Sivulka Founder & CEO, Hebbia | 2.64 | 28 |
| 75 | Simon Khalaf Chief Executive Officer, WorkWhile | 2.64 | 11 |
| 76 | Neal Stephenson Co-Founder and Chairman, Lamina1 | 2.64 | 28 |
| 77 | Patrick Byrne Founder & CEO, Overstock.com | 2.64 | 14 |
| 78 | Adam Thierer Resident Senior Fellow, R Street Institute | 2.64 | 14 |
| 79 | Justin Mares Founder & CEO, Truemed | 2.62 | 29 |
| 80 | Brian Schimpf Co-Founder and CEO, Anduril Industries | 2.62 | 77 |
| 81 | Eddie Lazzarin CTO, a16z crypto.bio:Eddie Lazzarin is the CTO of a16z crypto. He discusses topics spanning American Dynamism, consumer tech, gaming, and crypto values. | 2.62 | 13 |
| 82 | Shyam Sankar CTO & EVP, Palantir Technologies | 2.62 | 48 |
| 83 | Nat Eliason Program Director of Founders School, Alpha School | 2.62 | 8 |
| 84 | Kevin Kelly Senior Maverick, Wired | 2.62 | 24 |
| 85 | Chris Berniske Partner & Co-Founder, Placeholder | 2.62 | 8 |
| 86 | Nadia Eghbal Community Programs, GitHub | 2.62 | 8 |
| 87 | Michelle Flournoy Managing Partner, WestExec Advisors | 2.62 | 13 |
| 88 | Chris Messina Product Consultant and Startup Investor | 2.62 | 8 |
| 89 | Garry Tan President & CEO, Y Combinator | 2.61 | 23 |
| 90 | Adam D'Angelo CEO and Co-founder, Quora | 2.6 | 40 |
| 91 | Chris Hayes Host, MSNBC | 2.6 | 15 |
| 92 | Isaac Bratzel Founder & CEO, AvatarOS | 2.6 | 5 |
| 93 | Nathaniel Gleicher Head of Security Policy, Meta | 2.6 | 5 |
| 94 | Jensen Harris CEO and Co-founder, Textio | 2.6 | 5 |
| 95 | Shaq (Shakil Khan) Founder, CoinDesk | 2.6 | 10 |
| 96 | Colonel Glover Director, Arizona Department of Public Safety | 2.6 | 5 |
| 97 | Sam Altman CEO, OpenAI | 2.59 | 41 |
| 98 | Roy Lee Co-founder & CEO, Cluely | 2.59 | 17 |
| 99 | Jesse Zhang Co-Founder and CEO, Decagon | 2.59 | 22 |
| 100 | Mark Cuban Co-founder, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company | 2.58 | 57 |
| 101 | Dr. Eric Topol Founder & Director, Scripps Research Translational Institute | 2.58 | 24 |
| 102 | Trevor McFedries Founder, Runner | 2.58 | 12 |
| 103 | Fred Wilson Partner & Co-founder, Union Square Ventures | 2.58 | 19 |
| 104 | Clayton Christensen Professor, Harvard Business School | 2.58 | 31 |
| 105 | Benjamin Wittes Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution | 2.58 | 12 |
| 106 | Marc Rowan Co-Founder and CEO, Apollo Global Management | 2.58 | 31 |
| 107 | Martin Casado General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.57 | 341 |
| 108 | Ash Ashatosh CEO, Pinecone | 2.57 | 7 |
| 109 | Danny Shader Founder and CEO, PayNearMe | 2.57 | 7 |
| 110 | Danielle Morrill CEO & Founder, Groupthink | 2.57 | 7 |
| 111 | Jared Isaacman Administrator, NASA | 2.57 | 23 |
| 112 | Katherine Boyle General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.56 | 41 |
| 113 | Philip Buckendorf Co-founder & CEO, Air Space Intelligence | 2.56 | 9 |
| 114 | Rajaie Batniji Co-Founder and CEO, Waymark | 2.56 | 9 |
| 115 | Hung Lee Editor & Curator, Recruiting Brainfood | 2.56 | 9 |
| 116 | Bob Tinker Managing Partner, Metamorph Partners | 2.56 | 9 |
| 117 | James Waters Head of R&D, VMware Tanzu, Broadcom | 2.56 | 16 |
| 118 | Jeff Kaditz Founder, CEO & CTO, Q Bio | 2.56 | 18 |
| 119 | Marc Benioff Chair, CEO & Co-Founder, Salesforce | 2.56 | 9 |
| 120 | Dylan Ayrey Co-Founder & CEO, Truffle Security | 2.56 | 18 |
| 121 | Amjad Masad Co-founder & CEO, Replit | 2.55 | 87 |
| 122 | Kevin Rose Venture Partner, True Ventures | 2.55 | 11 |
| 123 | Ezra Klein Columnist & Podcast Host, The New York Times | 2.55 | 11 |
| 124 | Dan Wang Research Fellow, Hoover Institution | 2.54 | 24 |
| 125 | Kim Malone Scott | 2.54 | 13 |
| 126 | Alex Fielding CEO and Chairman, Privateer | 2.53 | 15 |
| 127 | Arun Sundararajan Professor, NYU Stern School of Business | 2.53 | 15 |
| 128 | Garrett Langley Founder & CEO, Flock Safety | 2.52 | 23 |
| 129 | Salim Ismail Founder & Chairman, OpenExO | 2.52 | 27 |
| 130 | Aram Verdian Partner, Accolade Partners | 2.52 | 21 |
| 131 | Russ Fraden Founder, Larridin | 2.5 | 20 |
| 132 | Jeetu Patel President & CPO, Cisco | 2.5 | 28 |
| 133 | Kaz (Kaz Nejatian) CEO, Opendoor | 2.5 | 20 |
| 134 | Dylan Patel Founder & Chief Analyst, SemiAnalysis | 2.5 | 66 |
| 135 | Leo Kosinski Chief Strategy Officer, Air Space Intelligence | 2.5 | 8 |
| 136 | Adam Bry Co-Founder & CEO, Skydio | 2.5 | 26 |
| 137 | Jensen Huang Founder and CEO, NVIDIA | 2.5 | 14 |
| 138 | Brandon Tseng Co-Founder & President, Shield AI | 2.5 | 8 |
| 139 | Tony Robbins Chairman, Robbins Research International | 2.5 | 30 |
| 140 | W. Brian Arthur External Professor, Santa Fe Institute | 2.5 | 18 |
| 141 | Niels Provos Founder, Security Blueprints | 2.5 | 6 |
| 142 | Gokul Rajaram Founding Partner, Marathon Management Partners | 2.5 | 6 |
| 143 | Mark Levinson Historian, Economist, and Author | 2.5 | 16 |
| 144 | Jim Gilliam Founder & CEO, NationBuilder | 2.5 | 12 |
| 145 | Uma Valeti Founder and CEO, UPSIDE Foods | 2.5 | 8 |
| 146 | Evan Osnos Staff Writer, The New Yorker | 2.5 | 20 |
| 147 | Alan Knott Craig Founder & Chairman, Fibertime | 2.5 | 10 |
| 148 | Roman Stanek Founder & CEO, GoodData | 2.5 | 8 |
| 149 | Chris Granger Principal, Jump | 2.5 | 6 |
| 150 | Tom Lehman Co-founder, Ethscriptions and Facet | 2.5 | 8 |
| 151 | Ron Johnson Retail Executive | 2.5 | 14 |
| 152 | Ramana Jonnala CEO, Nstream | 2.5 | 6 |
| 153 | Brad Feld Partner & Co-Founder, Foundry | 2.5 | 8 |
| 154 | Anne Neuberger Head of Global Affairs, a16z | 2.5 | 8 |
| 155 | Ale Massa Chief Product & AI Officer, Kavak | 2.5 | 24 |
| 156 | Anish Acharya General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.48 | 156 |
| 157 | Scott Wu Co-founder & CEO, Cognition | 2.48 | 29 |
| 158 | Andrew Huberman Associate Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine | 2.48 | 23 |
| 159 | Aaron Levie Co-Founder & CEO, Box | 2.47 | 79 |
| 160 | Alex Miller CTO, United States Army | 2.47 | 15 |
| 161 | Dario Amodei Co-Founder and CEO, Anthropic | 2.47 | 15 |
| 162 | Nathan Labenz Host, The Cognitive Revolution | 2.46 | 26 |
| 163 | Martha Lane Fox Crossbench Life Peer, House of Lords | 2.46 | 13 |
| 164 | Adam Ludwin Founder, here.now | 2.46 | 24 |
| 165 | Elizabeth Stark CEO and Co-founder, Lightning Labs | 2.46 | 13 |
| 166 | Dr. Katherine Huff Assistant Secretary, Office of Nuclear Energy | 2.45 | 11 |
| 167 | Preethi Kasireddy Co-Founder, Ferta | 2.45 | 11 |
| 168 | Simon Moe Co-Founder & CEO, Inferact | 2.45 | 11 |
| 169 | Vitalik Buterin Co-founder and Core Researcher, Ethereum | 2.44 | 16 |
| 170 | Lily Liu President, Solana Foundation | 2.44 | 9 |
| 171 | Leo Polovets Co-founder & General Partner, Susa Ventures | 2.43 | 14 |
| 172 | Arthur Mensch Co-Founder & CEO, Mistral AI | 2.43 | 37 |
| 173 | Eliot Horowitz Founder & CEO, Viam | 2.43 | 14 |
| 174 | Carl Pei Founder & CEO, Nothing | 2.43 | 21 |
| 175 | Josh Browder Founder & CEO, DoNotPay | 2.43 | 21 |
| 176 | Mark Leslie Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Business | 2.43 | 14 |
| 177 | Elad Gil Founder, Gil Capital | 2.43 | 23 |
| 178 | Gregory Allen Founder & CEO, Decision Tree Research | 2.43 | 7 |
| 179 | Nicole Forsgren Senior Director of Developer Intelligence, Google | 2.43 | 7 |
| 180 | Juan Benet Founder & CEO, Protocol Labs | 2.43 | 21 |
| 181 | Jeffrey Lowe Partner, Averin | 2.43 | 7 |
| 182 | Annalise Saxenian | 2.43 | 7 |
| 183 | Greg Walden Chairman, Alpine Advisors LLC | 2.43 | 7 |
| 184 | Sarah Wang General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.42 | 24 |
| 185 | Dylan Field Co-founder and CEO, Figma | 2.42 | 12 |
| 186 | Nathaniel Popper Editor & Journalist, Bloomberg News | 2.42 | 12 |
| 187 | Orion Hindawi Co-Founder and CEO, Tanium | 2.41 | 37 |
| 188 | Bill Janeway Special Limited Partner, Warburg Pincus | 2.41 | 22 |
| 189 | Jonathan (Jonathan Trollin) Co-Founder and CEO, Function Health | 2.4 | 5 |
| 190 | Fay Rottenberg CEO & President, Firefly Health | 2.4 | 5 |
| 191 | Rob Frohwein Co-Founder and CEO, Keep Financial | 2.4 | 5 |
| 192 | Piff Marti Independent Musical Artist | 2.4 | 5 |
| 193 | Beyang Liu Co-founder & CTO, Sourcegraph | 2.4 | 5 |
| 194 | James Wu Founder, Calder | 2.4 | 5 |
| 195 | Shishir Mehrotra Chief Executive Officer, Superhuman | 2.4 | 5 |
| 196 | Erik Brynjolfsson Director, Stanford Digital Economy Lab | 2.4 | 5 |
| 197 | Herb Lynn Senior Research Scholar, Stanford University | 2.4 | 5 |
| 198 | Dr. Thomas Rando Director, UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center | 2.4 | 5 |
| 199 | William Mougayar Author & Investor | 2.4 | 20 |
| 200 | Taavet Hinrikus Partner, Plural | 2.4 | 15 |
| 201 | Jeff Lawson CEO, Inertia | 2.4 | 5 |
| 202 | Scott Weiss Former General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.4 | 10 |
| 203 | David Ulevitch General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.39 | 41 |
| 204 | Todd Young U.S. Senator (R-IN) | 2.39 | 18 |
| 205 | Alex Blania Co-Founder & CEO, Tools for Humanity | 2.39 | 18 |
| 206 | Patrick Hsu Co-Founder and Core Investigator, Arc Institute | 2.38 | 21 |
| 207 | Bob Sutton Professor Emeritus, Stanford University | 2.38 | 16 |
| 208 | Cameron Schuler Executive Director, Amii | 2.38 | 13 |
| 209 | Brian Grazer Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Imagine Entertainment | 2.38 | 8 |
| 210 | Michael Casey Chairman, Decentralized AI Society | 2.38 | 8 |
| 211 | Dan Warmenhoven Operating Partner, Lateral Investment Management | 2.38 | 8 |
| 212 | Jake Paul Co-Founder, Anti Fund | 2.38 | 16 |
| 213 | Ali Ghodsi Cofounder & CEO, Databricks | 2.37 | 38 |
| 214 | Mira Murati Founder & CEO, Thinking Machines Lab | 2.37 | 19 |
| 215 | Chris Dixon Founder & Managing Partner, a16z crypto | 2.36 | 370 |
| 216 | Christian Brose Chief Strategy Officer, Anduril | 2.36 | 14 |
| 217 | Devon Zuegel Founder & CEO, Esmeralda | 2.36 | 11 |
| 218 | Bruce Friedrich Founder and President, The Good Food Institute | 2.36 | 11 |
| 219 | Steven Sinofsky Board Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.35 | 314 |
| 220 | Joel de la Garza Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.35 | 43 |
| 221 | Jeff Schmidt Co-founder and CTO, Nous Research | 2.35 | 23 |
| 222 | Daniel Litt Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Toronto | 2.35 | 23 |
| 223 | Jen Kha Managing Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.33 | 6 |
| 224 | Greg Barbaccia Former Federal CIO, United States | 2.33 | 9 |
| 225 | Daniel Reid Cahn Co-Founder, Slingshot AI | 2.33 | 12 |
| 226 | Arianna Simpson General Partner, a16z crypto | 2.33 | 9 |
| 227 | Ian Cinnamon Co-Founder and CEO, Apex Space | 2.33 | 6 |
| 228 | Joon Sung Park Co-founder & CEO, Simile | 2.33 | 9 |
| 229 | Olaf Carlson-Wee Founder & CEO, Polychain Capital | 2.33 | 42 |
| 230 | Tan Nguyen | 2.33 | 6 |
| 231 | Atul Butte Distinguished Professor and Director, BCHSI at UCSF | 2.33 | 12 |
| 232 | Doug Ducey CEO, Citizens for Free Enterprise | 2.33 | 6 |
| 233 | Stacey D'Amico Operating Partner & COO, Growth, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.33 | 6 |
| 234 | Natasha Tiku Tech Culture Reporter, The Washington Post | 2.33 | 6 |
| 235 | Dan Siroker Co-Founder & CEO, Optimizely | 2.33 | 6 |
| 236 | Alexis Madrigal Co-host of Forum, KQED | 2.33 | 9 |
| 237 | Christina Mercando Director of Product Design, Instagram | 2.33 | 6 |
| 238 | Dino Mavrookas Co-Founder and CEO, Saronic Technologies | 2.33 | 6 |
| 239 | Matt Bornstein General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.32 | 34 |
| 240 | Vlad Tenev Co-Founder & CEO, Robinhood | 2.32 | 22 |
| 241 | Joe Schmidt Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.32 | 31 |
| 242 | Adam Grant Professor of Management, Wharton | 2.32 | 25 |
| 243 | Yoko Li Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.31 | 16 |
| 244 | Jakub Pachocki Chief Scientist, OpenAI | 2.31 | 13 |
| 245 | Anant Bhardwaj Founder & CEO, Instabase | 2.31 | 13 |
| 246 | Jiaming Song Former Chief Scientist, Luma AI | 2.31 | 16 |
| 247 | Peter Levine General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.31 | 104 |
| 248 | Peter Ludwig Co-founder & CTO, Applied Intuition | 2.31 | 13 |
| 249 | Michel Feaster CEO, Conexiom | 2.31 | 16 |
| 250 | David Lee CFO, WEBTOON Entertainment | 2.31 | 16 |
| 251 | Shaka Senghor President, Shaka Senghor, Inc. | 2.31 | 16 |
| 252 | Sten Tamkivi CEO and Co-founder, Teleport.org | 2.31 | 13 |
| 253 | Travis Kalanick CEO, Atoms | 2.31 | 45 |
| 254 | Alex Rampell General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.3 | 324 |
| 255 | Reid Hoffman Partner, Greylock | 2.3 | 23 |
| 256 | Matt Biilmann Co-Founder & CEO, Netlify | 2.3 | 20 |
| 257 | Doug Beck Senior Fellow, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs | 2.3 | 10 |
| 258 | Zach Wiener Co-founder and President, Overtime | 2.3 | 10 |
| 259 | Jez Humble Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic | 2.3 | 20 |
| 260 | John Collison Co-founder & President, Stripe | 2.3 | 10 |
| 261 | Ali Yahya General Partner, a16z crypto | 2.29 | 56 |
| 262 | Marty Chavez Vice Chairman & Partner, Sixth Street Partners | 2.29 | 14 |
| 263 | Peter Diamandis Executive Chairman, XPRIZE Foundation | 2.29 | 14 |
| 264 | Jesse Walden Founder & Managing Partner, Variant | 2.29 | 21 |
| 265 | John Hennessy Chairman, Alphabet | 2.29 | 35 |
| 266 | Nick Tomaino Founder and General Partner, 1confirmation | 2.29 | 14 |
| 267 | Ted Ullyot Head of Policy Team, a16z | 2.29 | 14 |
| 268 | Alison Pickens Founder and General Partner, Allison Pickens Ventures | 2.29 | 7 |
| 269 | Fred Ehrsam Co-Founder & CEO, Nudge | 2.29 | 17 |
| 270 | Adrian Cockcroft Cloud Architect, Netflix | 2.29 | 14 |
| 271 | Jeff Kindler CEO, Centrexion Therapeutics | 2.29 | 7 |
| 272 | Paula Long CEO & Founder, DataGravity intelligent data storage systems for modern datacenters. She is known for integrating analytics and security directly into enterprise-grade storage. | 2.29 | 7 |
| 273 | Kieran Snyder VP of Product, AI, Microsoft | 2.29 | 14 |
| 274 | Herman Narula CEO, Improbable | 2.29 | 14 |
| 275 | Andrew Bosworth Chief Technology Officer, Meta | 2.28 | 25 |
| 276 | Diogo Mónica Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Anchorage Digital | 2.28 | 18 |
| 277 | Peter Thiel Partner and Co-Founder, Founders Fund | 2.28 | 25 |
| 278 | David George General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.27 | 133 |
| 279 | Vijay Pande General Partner, a16z Bio + Health | 2.27 | 181 |
| 280 | Kathleen Hicks Distinguished Fellow, Chicago Council on Global Affairs | 2.27 | 15 |
| 281 | Jan Sramek Founder and CEO, California Forever | 2.27 | 11 |
| 282 | D'Arcy Coolican Angel Investor & Founder | 2.27 | 15 |
| 283 | Li Jin Co-founder and General Partner, Variant | 2.27 | 26 |
| 284 | David D'Amato Chief Information Security Officer, Citadel | 2.27 | 11 |
| 285 | Mike Hearn Founder & Lead Developer, Hydraulic Software | 2.27 | 11 |
| 286 | Ryan Chi Researcher, OpenAI | 2.27 | 26 |
| 287 | Qasar Younis Co-founder & CEO, Applied Intuition | 2.26 | 78 |
| 288 | Jim Collins | 2.26 | 19 |
| 289 | Eric Ries Founder & CEO, Long-Term Stock Exchange | 2.26 | 34 |
| 290 | Darren Murph Future of Work and AI Architect | 2.25 | 8 |
| 291 | Sanket Pathak Founder & CEO, Foundation | 2.25 | 16 |
| 292 | Bernard J. Tyson Former Chairman & CEO, Kaiser Permanente | 2.25 | 16 |
| 293 | Gabriel Ott Co-Founder and CEO, Dinari | 2.25 | 24 |
| 294 | Mintu Turakhia EVP & CMSO, iRhythm Technologies | 2.25 | 8 |
| 295 | Luis von Ahn Founder & CEO, Duolingo | 2.25 | 8 |
| 296 | Andrew McAfee (Andy) Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan | 2.25 | 8 |
| 297 | Christina Xu Co-founder, ROFLCon | 2.25 | 8 |
| 298 | David Oyelowo Co-Founder, Yoruba Saxon | 2.25 | 8 |
| 299 | Roman Mars Host, 99% Invisible | 2.25 | 12 |
| 300 | Gaurav Banga Founder & CEO, Balbix | 2.25 | 8 |
| 301 | Peter Yang Former Principal Product Lead, Roblox | 2.25 | 24 |
| 302 | Eugenia Kuyda Founder & CEO, Wabi | 2.24 | 29 |
| 303 | Anjney Midha Founder & CEO, AMP | 2.24 | 54 |
| 304 | Katie Haun Founder & CEO, Haun Ventures | 2.24 | 63 |
| 305 | Jesse Genet Former Founder & CEO, Lumi | 2.24 | 21 |
| 306 | Susan Rice Visiting Fellow, Stanford University | 2.23 | 13 |
| 307 | Ken Coleman Special Advisor, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.23 | 13 |
| 308 | Charles Koch Chairman & Co-CEO, Koch, Inc. | 2.23 | 13 |
| 309 | Zach Cohen Co-Founder and CEO, Ease Health | 2.22 | 23 |
| 310 | Steve Wozniak Co-Founder, Privateer Space | 2.22 | 9 |
| 311 | Prat Moghe CEO, Promethium | 2.22 | 9 |
| 312 | Max Krohn Co-Founder, Keybase | 2.22 | 9 |
| 313 | Ilan Zechory Psychotherapist & Executive Coach, Private Practice | 2.22 | 9 |
| 314 | Michael Jordan Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley | 2.22 | 9 |
| 315 | Mehtaab Sawhney Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI | 2.22 | 9 |
| 316 | Jonathan Swanson Founder & Chairman, Athena | 2.21 | 39 |
| 317 | Fei-Fei Li Co-Founder and CEO, World Labs | 2.21 | 42 |
| 318 | Daisy Wolf Partner, a16z Bio + Health | 2.21 | 24 |
| 319 | Sheriff Kevin McMahill Sheriff, LVMPD | 2.21 | 24 |
| 320 | Anarupa Ganguly Founder & CEO, Prisms VR | 2.21 | 14 |
| 321 | Brian McCullough Host, Techmeme Ride Home | 2.21 | 14 |
| 322 | John Markoff Distinguished Fellow, Stanford Institute for HAI | 2.21 | 28 |
| 323 | Turner Caldwell Cofounder & CEO, Mariana Minerals | 2.21 | 47 |
| 324 | Scott Clark Co-Founder and CEO, Distributional | 2.2 | 20 |
| 325 | Ryan Tseng President & Co-Founder, Shield AI | 2.2 | 10 |
| 326 | Brian C. Long CEO and Co-Founder, Adaptive Security | 2.2 | 15 |
| 327 | Sinead Bovell Founder, WAYE | 2.2 | 5 |
| 328 | Justin Kan General Partner, Goat Capital | 2.2 | 15 |
| 329 | Meg Whitman Former CEO, eBay and Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 2.2 | 10 |
| 330 | Heather Podesta Founder & CEO, Invariant | 2.2 | 10 |
| 331 | Gaurav Dhillon Founder & CEO, SnapLogic | 2.2 | 15 |
| 332 | Joel Spolsky Chairman of the Board, Stack Overflow | 2.2 | 5 |
| 333 | Nick Babayan Director, Devonly Ltd | 2.2 | 5 |
| 334 | Ilyas Khan Founder & CPO, Quantinuum | 2.2 | 15 |
| 335 | Mike Swartz CEO, deHaven Group, LLC | 2.2 | 10 |
| 336 | Ben Mildenhall Co-founder, World Labs | 2.2 | 5 |
| 337 | Raghu Raghuram General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.19 | 16 |
| 338 | Prabhav Jain CEO, 11x | 2.19 | 16 |
| 339 | Chief Mike Gennaro Assistant Sheriff, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department | 2.19 | 16 |
| 340 | Clay Shirky Vice Provost, New York University | 2.19 | 16 |
| 341 | Guido Appenzeller Partner, a16z | 2.18 | 65 |
| 342 | Ray Dalio Founder and Mentor, Bridgewater Associates | 2.18 | 17 |
| 343 | Chris Milk Co-Founder and CEO, Within | 2.18 | 17 |
| 344 | Shannon Callahan Operating Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.18 | 11 |
| 345 | Chandler Lujica Founder & CEO, Galadyne | 2.18 | 11 |
| 346 | Benedict Evans Independent Technology Analyst | 2.17 | 527 |
| 347 | Elliot Hershberg | 2.17 | 12 |
| 348 | Jennifer Li General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.17 | 6 |
| 349 | Ben Scharfstein Head of Product, Enterprise Applications, Scale AI | 2.17 | 29 |
| 350 | Alex Immerman General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.17 | 35 |
| 351 | Dmitri Dolgov Co-CEO, Waymo | 2.17 | 12 |
| 352 | Barry McArdle Co-founder and CEO, Hex | 2.17 | 6 |
| 353 | Alec Nielsen Co-founder and CEO, Asimov | 2.17 | 12 |
| 354 | Congressman Jared Polis Governor of Colorado, State of Colorado | 2.17 | 6 |
| 355 | Jennifer Tejada Executive Chair, PagerDuty | 2.17 | 12 |
| 356 | Max Levchin Founder & CEO, Affirm | 2.17 | 40 |
| 357 | Yoram Novak President & CEO, Zadara | 2.17 | 6 |
| 358 | F. Gary Gray Film Director and Producer, Fenix Studios | 2.17 | 6 |
| 359 | Parker Conrad Co-founder & CEO, Rippling | 2.17 | 6 |
| 360 | Seth Sternberg Co-Founder and CEO, Honor Technology | 2.17 | 6 |
| 361 | Kevin Fu | 2.17 | 12 |
| 362 | Kathryn McKinley Distinguished Software Engineer, Google | 2.17 | 6 |
| 363 | David Clark Chief Investment Officer, VenCap International | 2.17 | 6 |
| 364 | David Haber General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.16 | 37 |
| 365 | Sherwin Wu Head of Engineering, OpenAI Platform | 2.16 | 25 |
| 366 | Scott Kupor Director, United States Office of Personnel Management | 2.16 | 109 |
| 367 | Michael Lingelbach Founder & CEO, Hedra | 2.16 | 32 |
| 368 | Jason Feifer Editor-in-Chief, Entrepreneur Magazine | 2.15 | 20 |
| 369 | Brian Armstrong Co-Founder & CEO, Coinbase | 2.15 | 41 |
| 370 | Steven B. Johnson Editorial Director, NotebookLM, Google | 2.15 | 20 |
| 371 | Parag Khanna Founder & CEO, AlphaGeo | 2.15 | 20 |
| 372 | Reshma Sohoni Co-Founder, Seedcamp | 2.15 | 13 |
| 373 | Varun Krishna CEO, Rocket Companies | 2.14 | 7 |
| 374 | Lada Nuzhna Founder and CEO, General Control Biotechnologies | 2.14 | 29 |
| 375 | Anastasios Angelopoulos Co-Founder and CEO, Arena | 2.14 | 22 |
| 376 | Jonah Peretti Founder & CEO, BuzzFeed | 2.14 | 14 |
| 377 | Kate Darling Research Lead, RAI Institute | 2.14 | 21 |
| 378 | Stephanie Cohen Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudflare | 2.14 | 21 |
| 379 | Greg Lohman Principal, Compensia | 2.14 | 7 |
| 380 | Chris Wanstrath Co-founder & Former CEO, GitHub | 2.14 | 14 |
| 381 | Matt Spence Global Head of Venture Capital Banking, Barclays | 2.14 | 7 |
| 382 | Chad Rigetti Founder & CEO, Rigetti Computing | 2.14 | 14 |
| 383 | Ben Uretsky Co-founder & Former CEO, DigitalOcean | 2.14 | 14 |
| 384 | Matt Clifford Co-founder & Non-Executive Chair, Entrepreneur First | 2.14 | 7 |
| 385 | Murray Shanahan Principal Scientist, Google DeepMind | 2.14 | 14 |
| 386 | Nir Eyal Author & Consultant, Nir & Far | 2.14 | 7 |
| 387 | Naveen Rao Co-founder and CEO, Unconventional AI | 2.13 | 23 |
| 388 | Margit Wennmachers Partner Emeritus, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.13 | 106 |
| 389 | Jonathan Lai General Partner, a16z Games | 2.13 | 15 |
| 390 | Evan Burfield Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Washington Office | 2.13 | 15 |
| 391 | David Solomon CEO, Goldman Sachs | 2.12 | 8 |
| 392 | Vijay Balasubramaniyan Co-founder & CEO, Pindrop | 2.12 | 24 |
| 393 | Karen X. Cheng Founder & Creative Director, KarenXCheng Inc. | 2.12 | 32 |
| 394 | Lee Fan Chief Technology and AI Officer, Circle | 2.12 | 8 |
| 395 | Arianna Huffington Founder & CEO, Thrive Global | 2.12 | 8 |
| 396 | Eli Dorado Head of Strategic Investments, Astera Institute | 2.12 | 8 |
| 397 | Sukhinder Singh Cassidy CEO, Xero | 2.12 | 8 |
| 398 | Peter Rubin Head of Publishing, Automattic | 2.12 | 8 |
| 399 | Ryan McEntush Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.11 | 45 |
| 400 | Kim Branson SVP & Global Head of AI, GSK | 2.11 | 18 |
| 401 | Andy Milenius Former CTO, MakerDAO | 2.11 | 18 |
| 402 | Michael Ovitz Chairman, Treville Capital Group | 2.11 | 9 |
| 403 | Lisa Hawk Deputy General Counsel, Expel | 2.11 | 9 |
| 404 | Councilman Lee Kleinman Senior Advisor, Masterplan | 2.11 | 9 |
| 405 | Joe Okpaku Co-Founder and Principal, The Forest Consulting LLC | 2.11 | 9 |
| 406 | James Currier General Partner & Co-Founder, NFX | 2.11 | 9 |
| 407 | Tren Griffin Executive, Microsoft | 2.11 | 18 |
| 408 | Spencer Rascoff CEO, Match Group | 2.11 | 9 |
| 409 | Zachary Perret Co-founder & CEO, Plaid | 2.1 | 30 |
| 410 | Nand Mulchandani Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution | 2.1 | 10 |
| 411 | Stina Ehrensvärd Co-Founder & Chief Evangelist, Yubico | 2.1 | 20 |
| 412 | Adam Alter Professor of Marketing, NYU Stern | 2.1 | 10 |
| 413 | Reed Hastings Co-Founder, Netflix | 2.1 | 31 |
| 414 | Daniel Shapero Chief Executive Officer, LinkedIn | 2.1 | 20 |
| 415 | Liam Fedus Co-founder and CEO, Periodic Labs | 2.09 | 11 |
| 416 | Mark Chen Chief Research Officer, OpenAI | 2.09 | 11 |
| 417 | Mark Casey Equity Portfolio Manager, Capital Group | 2.09 | 22 |
| 418 | Doug E. Fresh Musician & Hip-Hop Artist | 2.09 | 11 |
| 419 | Zooko Wilcox Head of Product, Shielded Labs | 2.09 | 11 |
| 420 | Peter Leeson Professor of Economics and Law, George Mason University | 2.09 | 11 |
| 421 | Matthew Colford Managing Partner, Carpenter Capital | 2.09 | 11 |
| 422 | Christopher Nguyen Co-Founder and CEO, Aitomatic | 2.09 | 11 |
| 423 | Doug Bernauer Founder & CEO, Radiant | 2.08 | 13 |
| 424 | Julia Collins Founder & CEO, Planet FWD | 2.08 | 12 |
| 425 | Kim Milosevich CMO, a16z crypto | 2.08 | 12 |
| 426 | Malinka Walaliyadde Co-Founder & CEO, AKASA | 2.08 | 12 |
| 427 | Lars Dalgaard Founder and Investor, Luv Ventures | 2.08 | 36 |
| 428 | Evangelos Simudis Founder and Managing Director, Synapse Partners | 2.08 | 13 |
| 429 | Jamie McGurk Operating Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.08 | 12 |
| 430 | Kim Zetter Investigative Reporter, Wired Bio: Kim Zetter is a veteran cybersecurity investigative journalist and author of Countdown to Zero Day. She covers cyberwarfare, state-sponsored espionage, and the mechanics of major security incidents and digital threats. | 2.08 | 13 |
| 431 | Diane Greene Board Director, Stripe | 2.08 | 12 |
| 432 | Yubin Park Founder & CEO, mimilabs | 2.08 | 12 |
| 433 | Isa Fulford Researcher, OpenAI | 2.07 | 15 |
| 434 | Lisa Su Chair and CEO, AMD | 2.07 | 15 |
| 435 | Adena Hefets Co-founder & Former CEO, Divvy Homes | 2.07 | 14 |
| 436 | Darshan Shankar Founder and CEO, Bigscreen | 2.07 | 14 |
| 437 | Bryan Kim Founder, Mido Capital | 2.06 | 33 |
| 438 | Justin Johnson Co-founder, World Labs | 2.06 | 17 |
| 439 | Jyoti Bansal Co-Founder & CEO, Harness | 2.06 | 18 |
| 440 | Derek Thompson Contributing Writer, The Atlantic | 2.06 | 17 |
| 441 | Rob Reinhart Partner, Mars Bio | 2.06 | 16 |
| 442 | Casey Neistat Filmmaker and YouTube Creator | 2.06 | 18 |
| 443 | Mark Craney Chief Revenue Officer, LiveView Technologies | 2.05 | 21 |
| 444 | Erin Price-Wright General Partner, a16z | 2.04 | 27 |
| 445 | Daphne Koller Founder and CEO, insitro | 2.04 | 25 |
| 446 | Frank Chen Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.04 | 105 |
| 447 | Dapper Dan Founder, Dapper Dan of Harlem | 2.04 | 28 |
| 448 | Mark McClusky Author, Wired | 2.04 | 28 |
| 449 | Justine Moore Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.03 | 65 |
| 450 | Saswat Panigrahi Chief Product Officer, Waymo | 2.03 | 36 |
| 451 | Kyle Russell Product / Engineering, Valon | 2.03 | 37 |
| 452 | Lloyd Blankfein Senior Chairman, Goldman Sachs | 2.02 | 41 |
| 453 | Marc Andrusko Partner, a16z | 2 | 12 |
| 454 | Mark Zuckerberg Founder & CEO, Meta | 2 | 13 |
| 455 | Amin Vahdat Chief Technologist for AI & Infrastructure, Google | 2 | 12 |
| 456 | Seema Amble Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2 | 23 |
| 457 | David Mytton Founder & CEO, Arcjet | 2 | 14 |
| 458 | Bowen Liu Investing Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2 | 5 |
| 459 | Immad Akhund Co-founder & CEO, Mercury | 2 | 18 |
| 460 | Gregory Davis President, Raisbeck Engineering | 2 | 10 |
| 461 | Kevin Scott Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft | 2 | 8 |
| 462 | Shannon Schiltz Operating Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2 | 24 |
| 463 | Ryan Petersen Founder & CEO, Flexport | 2 | 8 |
| 464 | Sondre Rasch Co-founder and CEO, SafetyWing | 2 | 6 |
| 465 | Roger Batnigi Co-Founder and CEO, Waymark | 2 | 7 |
| 466 | John Riccitiello Co-owner & Investor, Gratz Pilates | 2 | 23 |
| 467 | Rahul Vohra Founder & CEO, Superhuman | 2 | 16 |
| 468 | Amy Abernethy | 2 | 30 |
| 469 | Ryan Caldbeck Founder & CEO, Waystation AI | 2 | 15 |
| 470 | Jonathan Lusthaus | 2 | 13 |
| 471 | Anil Sethi Founder and CEO, Selfiie | 2 | 10 |
| 472 | Prasad Akella Operating Partner, ReX Capital | 2 | 8 |
| 473 | Shannon Brayton Partner & CMO, Bessemer Venture Partners | 2 | 10 |
| 474 | Sharon Chang Partner, a16z | 2 | 22 |
| 475 | Matt Oberhardt Partner, Talent Network, Andreessen Horowitz | 2 | 11 |
| 476 | Martin Fischer | 2 | 12 |
| 477 | Christopher Rippingham Co-Leader of Construction Technology, DPR Construction | 2 | 6 |
| 478 | Greg Lynn Co-founder & CEO, Piaggio Fast Forward | 2 | 9 |
| 479 | Mike Snyder Professor of Genetics, Stanford University | 2 | 5 |
| 480 | Taggart Matheson Chief Product Officer, LogicMonitor | 2 | 7 |
| 481 | Rajiv Singh CEO, Smartsheet | 2 | 11 |
| 482 | Joe Spisak VP of Product, Reflection AI | 2 | 7 |
| 483 | Mike Curtis Board Member, Zendesk | 2 | 8 |
| 484 | Jace Wilson Founder and CEO, Ready | 2 | 5 |
| 485 | Ann Miura-Ko Co-Founding Partner, Floodgate | 2 | 5 |
| 486 | Ross Anderson Staff Writer, The Atlantic | 2 | 10 |
| 487 | Michael Beckerman Former Head of Americas Public Policy, TikTok | 2 | 5 |
| 488 | Kamala Harris Principal, The Office of Kamala D. Harris | 2 | 10 |
| 489 | Sarah Lombard Senior Digital Curator, US Holocaust Memorial Museum | 2 | 10 |
| 490 | Michael Rogers | 2 | 23 |
| 491 | Mike Matchett Principal Analyst & CEO, Small World Big Data | 2 | 5 |
| 492 | Anil Lakhani Venture Partner, Crane Venture Partners | 2 | 5 |
| 493 | Michael King Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2 | 9 |
| 494 | Brad Peterson EVP, CTO & CIO, Nasdaq | 2 | 6 |
| 495 | Luke Wroblewski Managing Director, Sutter Hill Ventures | 2 | 9 |
| 496 | Eddie Lim Co-Founder and CEO, Point | 2 | 5 |
| 497 | Patrick Collison Co-founder & CEO, Stripe | 2 | 6 |
| 498 | John Mena Former VP of Global Strategy, UPS | 2 | 5 |
| 499 | Todd Cranny Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Riverwood Strategies | 2 | 9 |
| 500 | Lawrence Levy Co-Founder, Juniper Foundation | 2 | 18 |
| 501 | Teresa Carlson Global Head of Public Sector, Anthropic | 2 | 11 |
| 502 | Joe Montana Hall of Fame NFL Quarterback & Investor, NFL / Self-Employed and Venture Capitalist, Self-Employed or Former San Francisco 49ers Quarterback, San Francisco 49ers / Venture Investor, Self-Employed or Former Quarterback, San Francisco 49ers | 2 | 5 |
| 503 | Stuart Butterfield Co-founder & Former CEO, Slack | 2 | 29 |
| 504 | Thibaut Scola Co-Founder, Fruition Sciences | 2 | 5 |
| 505 | Sid Gorham Former Co-founder & CEO, Granular | 2 | 9 |
| 506 | Julie Samuels President & CEO, Tech:NYC | 2 | 7 |
| 507 | David Pierce Editor-at-Large, The Verge | 2 | 7 |
| 508 | Zal Bilimoria Founding Partner, Refactor Capital | 2 | 7 |
| 509 | Boris Wertz Founding Partner, Version One Ventures | 2 | 9 |
| 510 | Michael Kasperzak Owner, Kasperzak Public Affairs | 2 | 5 |
| 511 | Muriel Bowser Mayor, Washington, D.C. | 2 | 5 |
| 512 | Steve Cheney Co-Founder, Estimote | 2 | 5 |
| 513 | Justin Bailey Director, SirTech Entertainment Corp. | 2 | 6 |
| 514 | Ron Gill Chief Financial Officer, Benchling | 2 | 10 |
| 515 | Dawn Lepore Chairman of the Board, Amperity | 2 | 6 |
| 516 | Amy Bohutinsky Operating Partner, TCV | 2 | 5 |
| 517 | Geri Elliott Independent Board Director, Whirlpool Corporation | 2 | 7 |
| 518 | Anne Winblad Founding Partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners | 2 | 7 |
| 519 | Bridgit Mendler CEO & Co-Founder, Northwood Space | 2 | 16 |
| 520 | Mark Selke Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI | 2 | 10 |
| 521 | Oliver Wang Principal Scientist, Google DeepMind | 1.96 | 24 |
| 522 | Sean Duffy Co-Founder and CEO, Omada Health | 1.96 | 46 |
| 523 | Vas Narasimhan CEO, Novartis | 1.96 | 26 |
| 524 | Zeno Rocha Founder & CEO, Resend | 1.95 | 21 |
| 525 | Ankit Kumar Co-founder & CTO, Sesame | 1.95 | 56 |
| 526 | Kunal Bahl Co-founder, Titan Capital | 1.95 | 19 |
| 527 | Michael Truell Co-founder & CEO, Anysphere | 1.94 | 16 |
| 528 | Connie Chan Former General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 1.94 | 142 |
| 529 | Chris Schroeder General Partner, Next Billion Ventures | 1.94 | 33 |
| 530 | Andre Iguodala Managing Partner, Mosaic General Partnership | 1.94 | 16 |
| 531 | Andrew Chen General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 1.93 | 71 |
| 532 | Guy Parsons Editor and Creator, It Does What Now? | 1.93 | 15 |
| 533 | Ben Fish CEO & Co-Founder, Espresso Systems | 1.93 | 15 |
| 534 | Dick Costolo Managing Partner & Co-Founder, 01 Advisors | 1.93 | 14 |
| 535 | Kristen Fortney Co-Founder & CEO, BioAge Labs | 1.93 | 28 |
| 536 | Caroline Moon Head of Financial Operations, a16z | 1.93 | 14 |
| 537 | Andy Walsh Director of High Performance, Red Bull | 1.93 | 14 |
| 538 | Tony James Chairman, Costco Wholesale Corporation | 1.93 | 46 |
| 539 | Olivia Moore Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 1.92 | 214 |
| 540 | Dr. Clarence B. Jones Founding Director Emeritus, USF Institute for Nonviolence | 1.92 | 13 |
| 541 | David Baszucki Co-founder & CEO, Roblox | 1.92 | 13 |
| 542 | Jared Ryle Executive Director, ICIJ | 1.92 | 12 |
| 543 | Jeff Cordova Interim Head of Software Engineering, Rigetti Computing | 1.92 | 12 |
| 544 | Tony Blinken Former U.S. Secretary of State | 1.92 | 13 |
| 545 | Will Gaybrick President of Product & Business, Stripe | 1.92 | 24 |
| 546 | Mina Song Co-founder & CEO, EliseAI | 1.91 | 22 |
| 547 | Jeff Jordan General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 1.91 | 138 |
| 548 | Ted Sarandos Co-CEO, Netflix | 1.91 | 33 |
| 549 | Tom Reichert Managing Partner, Angels for Agents | 1.91 | 11 |
| 550 | Dimitri Dadiomov Co-Founder & President, Modern Treasury | 1.9 | 10 |
| 551 | Sal Khan Founder & CEO, Khan Academy | 1.9 | 10 |
| 552 | Brian Koppelman Screenwriter, Director & Showrunner | 1.9 | 21 |
| 553 | Keller Rinaudo Cliffton Co-Founder & CEO, Zipline | 1.9 | 30 |
| 554 | Oprah Winfrey Chairwoman and CEO, Harpo Productions | 1.9 | 10 |
| 555 | Nazanin Daneshwar General Partner, Angel Invest | 1.9 | 10 |
| 556 | Linda Xie Co-Founder & Managing Director, Scalar Capital | 1.9 | 10 |
| 557 | Kimberly Tan Investing Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 1.89 | 19 |
| 558 | Dr. Moriba Jah Chief Scientist & Co-Founder, Privateer | 1.89 | 9 |
| 559 | Kevin Chou Managing Partner, SuperLayer | 1.89 | 19 |
| 560 | Alex Pruden Executive Director, Aleo Foundation | 1.89 | 9 |
| 561 | Jason Rosenthal Operating Partner, a16z crypto | 1.89 | 19 |
| 562 | Beau Cronin Product Manager, WeaveGrid | 1.89 | 9 |
| 563 | Tim Schafer Founder & CEO, Double Fine Productions | 1.89 | 9 |
| 564 | Todd McKinnon Co-Founder and CEO, Okta | 1.89 | 9 |
| 565 | Terry Angelos Chief Strategy Officer, Very Good Security | 1.89 | 9 |
| 566 | Andy McCall General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 1.89 | 18 |
| 567 | Stein Overtoom Co-founder & CEO, Lassie | 1.89 | 9 |
| 568 | Nicole Brichtova Group Product Manager, Google DeepMind | 1.88 | 8 |
| 569 | Tony Stoyanov Co-founder & CTO, EliseAI | 1.88 | 8 |
| 570 | Congressman David Schweikert U.S. Representative, U.S. House of Representatives | 1.88 | 8 |
| 571 | Lena Sergi Attar Founder & CEO, Karam Foundation | 1.88 | 8 |
| 572 | Mike Paulus Founder & CEO, PCM Encore | 1.88 | 8 |
| 573 | Ankit Jain Co-founder & CEO, Infinitus Systems | 1.87 | 23 |
| 574 | Christina Kim Researcher, OpenAI | 1.86 | 21 |
| 575 | Florian Otto Co-founder & CEO, Cedar | 1.86 | 7 |
| 576 | Jad Naus Deal Partner, a16z | 1.86 | 14 |
| 577 | David Reich Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School | 1.86 | 21 |
| 578 | Alex Le Chief Product Officer, Fizz | 1.86 | 7 |
| 579 | Drew Baglino Founder & CEO, Heron Power | 1.86 | 7 |
| 580 | Julie Yoo General Partner, a16z Bio + Health | 1.85 | 80 |
| 581 | Sriram Krishnan Host, The Good Time Show | 1.85 | 13 |
| 582 | Adam Neumann Founder and CEO, Flow | 1.84 | 43 |
| 583 | Dan Boneh Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University | 1.84 | 37 |
| 584 | Oliver Hsu Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 1.83 | 6 |
| 585 | John Fawcett Head of Equities Engineering, Citadel | 1.83 | 6 |
| 586 | Carlos Araya Founder, Tapanti.org | 1.83 | 6 |
| 587 | Jay Komarneni Founder and Chair, Human Dx | 1.83 | 6 |
| 588 | Azeem Azhar Founder, Exponential View | 1.83 | 6 |
| 589 | Mike Smith Co-Founder and General Partner, Footwork | 1.83 | 6 |
| 590 | Chris Ré | 1.83 | 12 |
| 591 | Feross Aboukhadijeh Founder and CEO, Socket | 1.83 | 6 |
| 592 | Devin Finzer Co-founder & CEO, OpenSea | 1.82 | 11 |
| 593 | Justin Fanelli CTO, U.S. Department of the Navy | 1.81 | 16 |
| 594 | John Gedmark Co-Founder and CEO, Astranis | 1.81 | 36 |
| 595 | Vineeta Agarwala General Partner, a16z Bio + Health | 1.8 | 5 |
| 596 | Nan Wang Co-Founder and CEO, Sleeper | 1.8 | 5 |
| 597 | Hendrick Pretorius Co-Founder and CEO, ImmiPartner | 1.8 | 10 |
| 598 | Susanna Fox Principal, Internet Geologist, LLC | 1.8 | 5 |
| 599 | Cal Turner, Jr. Chairman, Cal Turner Family Foundation | 1.8 | 5 |
| 600 | Gina Neff Executive Director, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy | 1.8 | 5 |
| 601 | Pete Buttigieg Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation | 1.8 | 5 |
| 602 | Adena Friedman Chair and CEO, Nasdaq | 1.8 | 20 |
| 603 | Scott Hassan President & CEO, Suitable Technologies | 1.8 | 5 |
| 604 | Elizabeth Weil Founder & Managing Partner, Scribble Ventures | 1.8 | 5 |
| 605 | Josh Bloom Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley | 1.8 | 10 |
| 606 | Mati Staniszewski Co-founder & CEO, ElevenLabs | 1.79 | 19 |
| 607 | Sajith Wickramasekara Co-founder & CEO, Benchling | 1.79 | 14 |
| 608 | Bobby Kotick CEO, Activision Blizzard | 1.79 | 14 |
| 609 | Augusto Marietti CEO & Co-Founder, Kong | 1.78 | 27 |
| 610 | Doğuş Çubuk | 1.78 | 9 |
| 611 | Emily Boschwitz Co-founder and CMO, POCA | 1.78 | 18 |
| 612 | Robin Rombach Co-founder & CEO, Black Forest Labs | 1.78 | 9 |
| 613 | Mitch Lee Co-founder & CEO, Arc Boats | 1.78 | 9 |
| 614 | Susan Plageman Former President, WME Fashion | 1.78 | 9 |
| 615 | Rachel Kalmar Principal Product Manager, Moderna | 1.78 | 9 |
| 616 | Purnima Padmanaban VP & GM, Tanzu, Broadcom | 1.78 | 9 |
| 617 | Jorge Conde General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 1.77 | 52 |
| 618 | Grant Lee Founder, Gamma | 1.77 | 31 |
| 619 | Deb Liu Co-Founder, Ember AI | 1.76 | 25 |
| 620 | Angela Strange General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 1.75 | 85 |
| 621 | Ting Ni Immigration Expert, ImmiPartner | 1.75 | 12 |
| 622 | Brandon Ballinger CEO, Cardiogram | 1.75 | 12 |
| 623 | David Rumsey Founder, David Rumsey Map Collection | 1.75 | 12 |
| 624 | Fred Benenson Founder & CEO, Breadwinner | 1.75 | 8 |
| 625 | Mellody Hobson Co-CEO and President, Ariel Investments | 1.75 | 20 |
| 626 | DJ Kleinbaum | 1.75 | 12 |
| 627 | Jack Parker-Holder Research Scientist, Google DeepMind | 1.73 | 11 |
| 628 | Grant Gregory Partner, Cantos | 1.73 | 15 |
| 629 | Waseem Daher Co-Founder and CEO, Pilot | 1.73 | 11 |
| 630 | Nate Chang Operating Partner, Playground Global | 1.73 | 11 |
| 631 | Wei Lowe VP of Strategy, Product and Operations, Cruise | 1.73 | 11 |
| 632 | Chandra Krintz Professor of Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara | 1.72 | 18 |
| 633 | Shlomi Fruchter Research Director, Google DeepMind | 1.71 | 7 |
| 634 | Marco Argenti Chief Information Officer, Goldman Sachs | 1.71 | 14 |
| 635 | Alvin Salehi Co-Founder and Chairman, Shef | 1.71 | 7 |
| 636 | Siqi Chen Founder & CEO, Runway | 1.71 | 7 |
| 637 | Renato Valdez-Olmos Founder, Noord | 1.71 | 7 |
| 638 | Benjamin Heinemann Co-creator, Apache Mesos | 1.71 | 7 |
| 639 | Keisha Cash Founder and General Partner, Impact America Fund | 1.71 | 7 |
| 640 | Duncan McIntyre Founder and CEO, Highland Electric Fleets | 1.7 | 10 |
| 641 | Penny Pritzker Founder and Chairman, PSP Partners | 1.7 | 20 |
| 642 | Boris Sofman Co-Founder and CEO, Bedrock Robotics | 1.69 | 16 |
| 643 | Mohsen Malayeri Co-founder, Avatech | 1.69 | 13 |
| 644 | Shonda Rhimes Founder and CEO, Shondaland | 1.68 | 25 |
| 645 | Priscilla Chan Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative | 1.67 | 9 |
| 646 | Ion Stoica Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley | 1.67 | 12 |
| 647 | Grant Jordan Founder & CEO, SkySafe | 1.67 | 6 |
| 648 | Jason Brown Former Founder & CEO, Tally Technologies | 1.67 | 9 |
| 649 | Jimmy Chen Founder & CEO, Propel | 1.67 | 9 |
| 650 | Alex Honnold Professional Rock Climber | 1.67 | 18 |
| 651 | Robin Weisman Board Member & Co-founder, Coin Center | 1.67 | 6 |
| 652 | Andrew Savage VP of Sustainability, Lime | 1.67 | 6 |
| 653 | James Rogers Founder & Board Member, Apeel Sciences | 1.67 | 24 |
| 654 | Dr. Christine Darden Former Aerospace Engineer & Executive, NASA | 1.67 | 21 |
| 655 | Brett Hagler Co-Founder & Board Member, New Story | 1.67 | 12 |
| 656 | Ben Kaufman Co-Founder and CEO, CAMP | 1.67 | 9 |
| 657 | Stacy Brown-Philpott COO, TaskRabbit | 1.67 | 6 |
| 658 | James Beshara Co-Founder, Magic Mind | 1.65 | 20 |
| 659 | Greg Ulrich Chief AI and Data Officer, Mastercard | 1.64 | 11 |
| 660 | Koki Hirasaki Managing Director, Ikigai BioVentures | 1.64 | 11 |
| 661 | Adrienne Mayer Historian of Science & Author | 1.64 | 14 |
| 662 | Eileen Burbage Founding Partner, Passion Capital | 1.64 | 11 |
| 663 | John Mather Senior Astrophysicist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | 1.63 | 19 |
| 664 | Michael Chime Co-Founder and CEO, Prepared | 1.62 | 16 |
| 665 | Gov. Wes Moore Governor, State of Maryland | 1.62 | 8 |
| 666 | Robin Guo Founder, LionBio | 1.62 | 8 |
| 667 | Jason Gardner Founder & Executive Chairman, Marqeta | 1.62 | 13 |
| 668 | Brandon Brown Assistant General Manager, New York Giants | 1.62 | 8 |
| 669 | Ushma Garg | 1.62 | 13 |
| 670 | Robert Stromberg Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, The Virtual Reality Company | 1.62 | 16 |
| 671 | Sakundala Pantharatna Director, Rationally Exuberant Media | 1.62 | 8 |
| 672 | Arnie Goldberg Non-Executive Director, Prosus | 1.62 | 8 |
| 673 | Steve Zhao Founder & CEO, Sandbox VR | 1.61 | 33 |
| 674 | Anu Hariharan Founder & Managing Partner, Avra | 1.61 | 33 |
| 675 | Burkay Gur Co-founder & CEO, Fal | 1.6 | 5 |
| 676 | Dave Turetsky Research Professor, Carnegie Mellon University | 1.6 | 5 |
| 677 | Loretta Sanchez Trustee, Chapman University | 1.6 | 5 |
| 678 | Grant LaFontaine Co-Founder & CEO, Whatnot | 1.6 | 15 |
| 679 | Earvin "Magic" Johnson Chairman and CEO, Magic Johnson Enterprises | 1.59 | 22 |
| 680 | Stéphane Bancel CEO, Moderna | 1.59 | 17 |
| 681 | Marco Mascorro AI Researcher & Roboticist | 1.57 | 7 |
| 682 | Chris Ellis Co-founder & CEO, Thatch | 1.57 | 14 |
| 683 | Kayvon Turanian Founder & CEO, Foundation | 1.57 | 14 |
| 684 | Reshma Saujani Founder & CEO, Moms First | 1.57 | 7 |
| 685 | Jay Rughani Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 1.56 | 9 |
| 686 | Jeff Sloan Advisor, Oak HC/FT | 1.56 | 9 |
| 687 | Que Gaskins President, THINK450 | 1.56 | 9 |
| 688 | Christina Lopez CEO and Co-founder, The One Health Company | 1.56 | 9 |
| 689 | Matthew Turk Professor Emeritus, UC Santa Barbara | 1.56 | 9 |
| 690 | Tracy Young Co-founder & CEO, TigerEye | 1.55 | 11 |
| 691 | Danny Postma Founder & CEO, HeadshotPro | 1.54 | 13 |
| 692 | Jason Mars | 1.54 | 13 |
| 693 | Jonathan Lim CEO & Co-Founder, Erasca | 1.5 | 10 |
| 694 | Ken Kocienda Co-Founder & CTO, Infactory | 1.5 | 24 |
| 695 | Jeffrey Katzenberg Founding Partner, WndrCo | 1.5 | 6 |
| 696 | Josh Levin Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, OpenInvest | 1.5 | 8 |
| 697 | Jeff Glueck Founder & CEO, Salvo Health | 1.5 | 6 |
| 698 | Bob Langer Institute Professor, MIT | 1.5 | 8 |
| 699 | Andy Tran Principal, Matrix Capital Management | 1.47 | 19 |
| 700 | Raluca Ada Popa Associate Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley | 1.47 | 17 |
| 701 | Matei Zaharia Co-Founder and CTO, Databricks | 1.46 | 13 |
| 702 | Seth Sivak VP of Product, Bad Robot Games | 1.45 | 20 |
| 703 | Tomer London Co-founder & Chief Product Officer, Gusto | 1.43 | 14 |
| 704 | Alex Bouaziz Co-Founder and CEO, Deel | 1.43 | 7 |
| 705 | Russ Heddleston Co-founder & CEO, Distill | 1.43 | 7 |
| 706 | Shelley Archambault | 1.43 | 7 |
| 707 | Rachel Goslins Director, Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building | 1.42 | 12 |
| 708 | Surya Ganguli Professor of Applied Physics, Stanford University | 1.4 | 10 |
| 709 | Jimmy Soni Author | 1.4 | 10 |
| 710 | Ryan Hoover Founder and General Partner, Weekend Fund | 1.4 | 10 |
| 711 | David Madden Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Omidyar Network | 1.4 | 5 |
| 712 | Wade Foster Co-founder & CEO, Zapier | 1.39 | 18 |
| 713 | Jenny Lee | 1.38 | 8 |
| 714 | Jeff Stump Head of Executive Talent, a16z | 1.38 | 8 |
| 715 | Jason Citrin Cofounder & CEO, Discord | 1.36 | 14 |
| 716 | Gabriel Vasquez Investment Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 1.29 | 7 |
| 717 | Tracy Sun Cofounder & SVP, Poshmark | 1.25 | 12 |
| 718 | Iman Abuzeid Co-founder & CEO, Incredible Health | 1.2 | 5 |
| 719 | Christina Cordova COO, Linear | 1.2 | 5 |
| 720 | Ryan Spoon President, Yahoo Media Group | 1.2 | 10 |
| 721 | Michael Copeland Technology Writer and Content Strategist | 1.17 | 6 |
| 722 | Ivan Linscott Senior Research Engineer, Stanford University | 1.12 | 16 |
| 723 | Kelsey Millard Chief Customer Officer, Midstream Health | 1.12 | 8 |
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The most bearish calls
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All 645 companies, funds and products with at least one bearish claim on the record.
Highest debate potential, by year
2026
Karp: Displacing jobs without supporting defense will lead to tech nationalization
“If Silicon Valley believes we are going to take away everyone's white collar job, Meaning primarily democratic shaped people met whom I grew up with, highly educated people who went to elite schools or went to schools that are almost elite who vote for one par…”
2025
Burgum: Losing AI race to China is existential threat, not climate change
“The existential threat is not a degree of temperature change in 2100. The existential threat was Iran getting a nuclear weapon, ah, and losing the AI arms race to China. Those are the two top order bits in terms of priorities.”
Balaji Srinivasan: AI will drive global professional wages toward $20K equilibrium
“If you've got, let's say, a lawyer who's making 200 K a year in the US or a doctor in the West, and then you've got somebody from the Philippines or India or anywhere in the world who's making currently 2000 dollars a year, maybe the converged wage with AI plu…”
2024
Horowitz: Big Tech's startup cloud deals involve illegal roundtripping accounting
“The big tech companies have done this thing which we thought was illegal because we observed it occur at AOL and people went to jail, but what they've done is they invest in startups, you know, huge amounts of money. Microsoft and Amazon and Google are all doi…”
2023
2022
Balaji Srinivasan: The FDA caused one million preventable COVID-19 deaths
“And you could have avoided like a million dead. That million dead is on the FDA's head, like, because challenge trials could have been done, you know?”
Balaji Srinivasan: Tech journalists act as hitmen for legacy inherited wealth
“A lot of these tech journalists are basically employees of some east coast nepotist Who's inherited millions of dollars and or a newspaper and is funding their whole operation. So they're meritless nepotous and or employees thereof who are attacking the self-m…”
2021
Kayvon Tehranian predicts the NFT movement will match the Renaissance's cultural impact
“I will go on the record and saying that I think it will be a similar era in terms of its impact given what we've seen in only just three months on foundation.”
Gluchowski: Hyper-Bitcoinization based solely on Bitcoin is utopian and impractical
“The idea of hyper Bitcoinization just based on Bitcoin is kind of utopia because of a lot of usability issues and a lot of issues with just general lack of functionality, which you need for a real financial system.”
2020
Strange: Nearly every company will become a financial services company
“And that's because in the not too distant future, nearly every company will be a financial services company and get a significant portion of their revenue from financial services.”
Rice: US tech sector needs a revolution of patriotism against China
“And I think, quite honestly, we really need a revolution of patriotism in business as well as in the tech sector, but as well as across the greater American public to recognize that, you know, we are unfortunately in a kind of Cold War type challenge.”
2019
Chen: Deep learning will outperform trained radiologists within five years
“It takes five years to train a radiologist, and in five years, deep learning will get better results than a trained radiologist, so we should stop training them right now.”
Harari: Superior algorithms will render democracy and free markets completely obsolete
“And once you have an external entity, An algorithm that knows me better than I know myself. This is the real turning point. This is the point when individualism as we've known, it doesn't make any sense when democracy in the free market become completely obsol…”
2018
Paul Krugman predicts most crypto projects will look like Pets.com by 2033
“My guess is, however, that I think I don't actually believe that we're at the dawn of a new age. I actually believe that we're at the that that most of this 10 years back, 15 years, 15 years from now, it will look a lot like Pets.com.”
Krugman: Significant probability Bitcoin's value eventually drops to zero
“Now, I'm not a hundred percent sure of that, but maybe, ah, ah, but I think that there's a certainly a, I would say a quite significant probability that the whole thing just drops to zero, ah, because I have not yet seen any reason why this has to be a valuabl…”
2017
Pande: Cancer could easily not exist in 10 years
“Cancer could easily just not exist in 10 years, and that's due to this change in how we think about things, and there's all these things on the back end.”
Geoffrey Hinton: Backpropagation is a dead end for reaching general intelligence
“He says, I think we need a reboot. I think the path that I set everybody on, and fundamentally an algorithm called backpropagation, I think that's a dead end. I think if we want general intelligence, we're going to need to invent a new technique. We're going t…”