Star Treatment
Does prominence change the questions? Every guest, plotted: their public prominence (rated 1–10 by an LLM, methodology below) against the host pushback they met, measured from every diarized word of their episodes.
An aggregate AI reading of public interviews: pushback per exchange, plotted against guest prominence. It describes questioning patterns across the whole catalogue, not any single guest, and every point opens to its episode. full disclaimer →
-0.03pushback per +1 prominence
1.5/10host pushback, prominence 8–10
1.8/10host pushback, prominence 1–4
871guests measured
dot size = rated episodes · gold line = average per prominence level · every dot links to the person
All guests, by prominence
| Guest | Prominence | Host pushback | Guest pushback | Eps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Earvin "Magic" Johnson Chairman and CEO, Magic Johnson Enterprises | 10 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| J.D. Vance Vice President of the United States | 10 | 0 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Kamala Harris Principal, The Office of Kamala D. Harris | 10 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ice Cube Co-Founder and CEO, BIG3 | 10 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mark Zuckerberg Founder & CEO, Meta | 10 | 0.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| 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 | 10 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Oprah Winfrey Chairwoman and CEO, Harpo Productions | 10 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jensen Huang Founder and CEO, NVIDIA | 10 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| David Sacks Founding General Partner, Craft Ventures | 9 | 0 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Lisa Su Chair and CEO, AMD | 9 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Steve Wozniak Co-Founder, Privateer Space | 9 | 0 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Palmer Luckey Founder, Anduril Industries | 9 | 0 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Travis Kalanick CEO, Atoms | 9 | 0 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Reid Hoffman Partner, Greylock | 9 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tony Robbins Chairman, Robbins Research International | 9 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Pete Buttigieg Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation | 9 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Reed Hastings Co-Founder, Netflix | 9 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tony Blinken Former U.S. Secretary of State | 9 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andre Iguodala Managing Partner, Mosaic General Partnership | 9 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Paul Krugman Distinguished Professor of Economics, CUNY Graduate Center | 9 | 1 | 5/10 | 3 |
| Jake Paul Co-Founder, Anti Fund | 9 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Andrew Huberman | 9 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ben Horowitz Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 9 | 1.4 | 1.9/10 | 91 |
| Mark Cuban Co-founder, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company | 9 | 1.5 | 3.5/10 | 2 |
| Marc Andreessen Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 9 | 1.8 | 2.1/10 | 88 |
| Sam Altman CEO, OpenAI | 9 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Shonda Rhimes Founder and CEO, Shondaland | 9 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Peter Thiel Partner and Co-Founder, Founders Fund | 9 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Rick Rubin Record Producer and Author | 9 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Mira Murati Founder & CEO, Thinking Machines Lab | 9 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Yuval Noah Harari Professor of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | 9 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Brian Grazer Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Imagine Entertainment | 9 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ray Dalio Founder and Mentor, Bridgewater Associates | 9 | 4 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Marc Benioff Chair, CEO & Co-Founder, Salesforce | 9 | 4 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Larry Summers President Emeritus, Harvard University | 9 | 4 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Charles Koch Chairman & Co-CEO, Koch, Inc. | 9 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| David Solomon CEO, Goldman Sachs | 8 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Doug Burgum Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior | 8 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jason Citrin Cofounder & CEO, Discord | 8 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Sal Khan Founder & CEO, Khan Academy | 8 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| David Baszucki Co-founder & CEO, Roblox | 8 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Joe Gebbia Founder, Samara | 8 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| F. Gary Gray Film Director and Producer, Fenix Studios | 8 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Lloyd Blankfein Senior Chairman, Goldman Sachs | 8 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Bridget Mendler | 8 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Adam Neumann Founder and CEO, Flow | 8 | 0.3 | 1.3/10 | 3 |
| Max Levchin Founder & CEO, Affirm | 8 | 0.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Priscilla Chan Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative | 8 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Arthur Mensch Co-Founder & CEO, Mistral AI | 8 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Dylan Field Co-founder and CEO, Figma | 8 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Neal Stephenson Co-Founder and Chairman, Lamina1 | 8 | 1 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Peter Diamandis Executive Chairman, XPRIZE Foundation | 8 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Carl Pei Founder & CEO, Nothing | 8 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bari Weiss Journalist & Author | 8 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Susan Rice Visiting Fellow, Stanford University | 8 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jonah Peretti Founder & CEO, BuzzFeed | 8 | 1 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Justin Kan General Partner, Goat Capital | 8 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bobby Kotick CEO, Activision Blizzard | 8 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jim Collins | 8 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dick Costolo Managing Partner & Co-Founder, 01 Advisors | 8 | 1 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Casey Neistat Filmmaker and YouTube Creator | 8 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Brad Feld Partner & Co-Founder, Foundry | 8 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Rubin CEO & Co-Founder, Illumio | 8 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Parker Conrad Co-founder & CEO, Rippling | 8 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alex Karp Co-founder & CEO, Palantir Technologies | 8 | 1 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Mike Cannon-Brookes Co-Founder and CEO, Atlassian | 8 | 1 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Garry Tan President & CEO, Y Combinator | 8 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Chen General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 8 | 1.4 | 1.4/10 | 11 |
| Balaji Srinivasan Founder, The Network School | 8 | 1.5 | 2.3/10 | 13 |
| Vlad Tenev Co-Founder & CEO, Robinhood | 8 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Keith Rabois Managing Director, Khosla Ventures | 8 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Chris Hayes Host, MSNBC | 8 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Fei-Fei Li Co-Founder and CEO, World Labs | 8 | 2 | 1.5/10 | 4 |
| Alexandr Wang Chief AI Officer, Meta Platforms | 8 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Noam Shazeer AI Scientist, OpenAI | 8 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dario Amodei Co-Founder and CEO, Anthropic | 8 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Meg Whitman Former CEO, eBay and Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 8 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jeffrey Katzenberg Founding Partner, WndrCo | 8 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Elad Gil Founder, Gil Capital | 8 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ezra Klein Columnist & Podcast Host, The New York Times | 8 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Mellody Hobson Co-CEO and President, Ariel Investments | 8 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Diane Greene Board Director, Stripe | 8 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jared Isaacman Administrator, NASA | 8 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Chris Dixon Founder & Managing Partner, a16z crypto | 8 | 2.2 | 1.5/10 | 55 |
| Brian Armstrong Co-Founder & CEO, Coinbase | 8 | 2.7 | 1.3/10 | 3 |
| Alex Honnold Professional Rock Climber | 8 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Fred Wilson Partner & Co-founder, Union Square Ventures | 8 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| John Collison Co-founder & President, Stripe | 8 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Patrick Collison Co-founder & CEO, Stripe | 8 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Vitalik Buterin Co-founder and Core Researcher, Ethereum | 8 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Adam Grant Professor of Management, Wharton | 8 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ted Sarandos Co-CEO, Netflix | 8 | 4.5 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Eric Ries Founder & CEO, Long-Term Stock Exchange | 8 | 5 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Ariana Huffington | 8 | 5 | 8/10 | 1 |
| Nyesha Arrington Mentor & Judge, Next Level Chef | 7 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Doug E. Fresh Musician & Hip-Hop Artist | 7 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Kevin Scott Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft | 7 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ryan Petersen Founder & CEO, Flexport | 7 | 0 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Dapper Dan Founder, Dapper Dan of Harlem | 7 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| David Sinclair Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School | 7 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Gokul Rajaram Founding Partner, Marathon Management Partners | 7 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| David Oyelowo Co-Founder, Yoruba Saxon | 7 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Reshma Saujani Founder & CEO, Moms First | 7 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Aileen Lee Founder and Managing Partner, Cowboy Ventures | 7 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Michael Jordan Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley | 7 | 0 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Catherine (Katie) Haun | 7 | 0 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Chris Wanstrath Co-founder & Former CEO, GitHub | 7 | 0.3 | 0.3/10 | 3 |
| Dan Boneh Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University | 7 | 0.5 | 0.8/10 | 4 |
| Ash Carter Former Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense | 7 | 0.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Katherine Boyle General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 7 | 0.7 | 1.5/10 | 16 |
| Zach Perret | 7 | 0.7 | 1.7/10 | 3 |
| Aaron Levie Co-Founder & CEO, Box | 7 | 1 | 1.9/10 | 7 |
| Chris Best Co-Founder and CEO, Substack | 7 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| David Ulevitch (Dee) General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 7 | 1 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Wade Foster Co-founder & CEO, Zapier | 7 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Robin Arzón VP of Fitness Programming, Peloton | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Daphne Koller Founder and CEO, insitro | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Katie Haun Founder & CEO, Haun Ventures | 7 | 1 | 1.6/10 | 5 |
| Sriram Krishnan Host, The Good Time Show | 7 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Jim VandeHei Co-founder and CEO, Axios | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andy Rachleff Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Wealthfront | 7 | 1 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Doug Ducey CEO, Citizens for Free Enterprise | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bob Langer Institute Professor, MIT | 7 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Congressman Jared Polis Governor of Colorado, State of Colorado | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Martha Lane Fox Crossbench Life Peer, House of Lords | 7 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Alex Stamos Chief Product Officer, Corridor | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Muriel Bowser Mayor, Washington, D.C. | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tim Schafer Founder & CEO, Double Fine Productions | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Todd McKinnon Co-Founder and CEO, Okta | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Spencer Rascoff CEO, Match Group | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Marc Rowan Co-Founder and CEO, Apollo Global Management | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Governor Wes Moore | 7 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ion Stoica Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley | 7 | 1.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Clayton Christensen Professor, Harvard Business School | 7 | 1.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Benedict Evans Independent Technology Analyst | 7 | 2 | 2.2/10 | 57 |
| Adam D'Angelo CEO and Co-founder, Quora | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Kevin Rose Venture Partner, True Ventures | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ali Ghodsi Cofounder & CEO, Databricks | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 3 |
| Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Director, National Institutes of Health | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Eric Topol Founder & Director, Scripps Research Translational Institute | 7 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Bosworth Chief Technology Officer, Meta | 7 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sean Duffy Co-Founder and CEO, Omada Health | 7 | 2 | 1.3/10 | 4 |
| John Riccitiello Co-owner & Investor, Gratz Pilates | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Brian Koppelman Screenwriter, Director & Showrunner | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Michael Ovitz Chairman, Treville Capital Group | 7 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Arthur Brooks Professor of the Practice, Harvard Kennedy School | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Luis von Ahn Founder & CEO, Duolingo | 7 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Stuart Butterfield Co-founder & Former CEO, Slack | 7 | 2 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Ruben Gallego U.S. Senator, United States Senate | 7 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Ryan Hoover Founder and General Partner, Weekend Fund | 7 | 2.3 | 2/10 | 3 |
| Kevin Kelly Senior Maverick, Wired | 7 | 2.5 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Fred Ehrsam Co-Founder & CEO, Nudge | 7 | 2.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| George Church Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School | 7 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ann Miura-Ko Co-Founding Partner, Floodgate | 7 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Adina Friedman | 7 | 3 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Tyler Cowen Professor of Economics, George Mason University | 7 | 3.7 | 3/10 | 3 |
| Emmett Shear Co-founder and CEO, Softmax | 7 | 4 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Penny Pritzker Founder and Chairman, PSP Partners | 7 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Joel Spolsky Chairman of the Board, Stack Overflow | 7 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Blake Masters Board Member, The Thiel Foundation | 7 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Matei Zaharia Co-Founder and CTO, Databricks | 7 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tim O'Reilly Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media | 7 | 5 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Kim Malone Scott | 7 | 5 | 1/10 | 1 |
| John Hennessy Chairman, Alphabet | 7 | 6 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Mason Founder and CEO, Descript | 7 | 6 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dwarkesh Patel Host, Dwarkesh Podcast | 7 | 7 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Marty Chavez Vice Chairman & Partner, Sixth Street Partners | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jan Sramek Founder and CEO, California Forever | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Robin Rombach Co-founder & CEO, Black Forest Labs | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| John Mather Senior Astrophysicist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 2 |
| Kate Ryder | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| People Pleaser Digital Artist promotional animation and the NFT Apes Strong Together. She focuses on digital artwork and decentralized autonomous organizations. | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Devin Finzer Co-founder & CEO, OpenSea | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Harry Shum Head of AI & Research, Microsoft | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Rahul Vohra Founder & CEO, Superhuman | 6 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Shishir Mehrotra Chief Executive Officer, Superhuman | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Derek Thompson Contributing Writer, The Atlantic | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Lawson CEO, Inertia | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Judy Smith Founder & CEO, Smith & Company | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ed Felten Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Offchain Labs | 6 | 0 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Matthew Green Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University | 6 | 0 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Corey Hawkins Actor | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Anne Winblad Founding Partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Chris Ré | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Tony James Chairman, Costco Wholesale Corporation | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Emil Michael Under Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Stéphane Bancel CEO, Moderna | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Emily Choi | 6 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| David Ulevitch General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 6 | 0.5 | 1.6/10 | 13 |
| Congressman Mike Gallagher | 6 | 0.5 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Packy McCormick Founder & Writer, Not Boring | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Naveen Rao Co-founder and CEO, Unconventional AI | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Julie Yoo General Partner, a16z Bio + Health | 6 | 1 | 0.8/10 | 12 |
| Sajith Wickramasekara Co-founder & CEO, Benchling | 6 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Immad Akhund Co-founder & CEO, Mercury | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Karen X. Cheng Founder & Creative Director, KarenXCheng Inc. | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Alex Bouaziz Co-Founder and CEO, Deel | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Deb Liu Co-Founder, Ember AI | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Aarthi Ramamurthy Founder & General Partner, Schema Ventures | 6 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Tracy Young Co-founder & CEO, TigerEye | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Chris Messina Product Consultant and Startup Investor | 6 | 1 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Adrian Fenty Founding Managing Partner, MaC Venture Capital | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Elizabeth Stark CEO and Co-founder, Lightning Labs | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Alex Blania Co-Founder & CEO, Tools for Humanity | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dmitry Dolgov | 6 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Angela Strange General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 6 | 1.1 | 1.1/10 | 20 |
| Connie Chan Former General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 6 | 1.4 | 1.4/10 | 23 |
| Amjad Masad Co-founder & CEO, Replit | 6 | 1.5 | 1.5/10 | 4 |
| Todd Young U.S. Senator (R-IN) | 6 | 1.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Steven B. Johnson Editorial Director, NotebookLM, Google | 6 | 1.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Herman Narula CEO, Improbable | 6 | 1.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Qasar Younis Co-founder & CEO, Applied Intuition | 6 | 1.6 | 1.6/10 | 5 |
| Alex Rampell General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 6 | 1.7 | 1.8/10 | 35 |
| Steven Sinofsky Board Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 6 | 1.7 | 1.9/10 | 44 |
| Brian Schimpf Co-Founder and CEO, Anduril Industries | 6 | 1.8 | 1.4/10 | 5 |
| Margit Wennmachers Partner Emeritus, Andreessen Horowitz | 6 | 1.9 | 1.8/10 | 11 |
| Peter Levine General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 6 | 1.9 | 1.6/10 | 25 |
| Martin Casado General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 6 | 2 | 1.8/10 | 59 |
| Jakub Pachocki Chief Scientist, OpenAI | 6 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Raghu Raghuram General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Antonio García Martínez Director of Ads, Base (Coinbase) | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Vijay Pande General Partner, a16z Bio + Health | 6 | 2 | 1.5/10 | 40 |
| Brian C. Long CEO and Co-Founder, Adaptive Security | 6 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Eliot Horowitz Founder & CEO, Viam | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kathleen Hicks Distinguished Fellow, Chicago Council on Global Affairs | 6 | 2 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Vas Narasimhan CEO, Novartis | 6 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Stina Ehrensvärd Co-Founder & Chief Evangelist, Yubico | 6 | 2 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Juan Benet Founder & CEO, Protocol Labs | 6 | 2 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Bob Sutton Professor Emeritus, Stanford University | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Michael Dearing Founder and General Partner, Harrison Metal | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Anthony Foxx Professor, Harvard Kennedy School | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Graham Allison Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Rohit Bansal Co-Founder, Snapdeal & Titan Capital | 6 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kunal Bahl Co-founder, Titan Capital | 6 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kristo Käärmann Co-founder and CEO, Wise | 6 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Reshma Sohoni Co-Founder, Seedcamp | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Matt Clifford Co-founder & Non-Executive Chair, Entrepreneur First | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Patrick Byrne Founder & CEO, Overstock.com | 6 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Adam Back Co-Founder and CEO, Blockstream | 6 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Nir Eyal Author & Consultant, Nir & Far | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Keller Rinaudo | 6 | 2 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Shyam Sankar CTO & EVP, Palantir Technologies | 6 | 2.5 | 3.5/10 | 2 |
| Rob Reinhart Partner, Mars Bio | 6 | 2.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Jez Humble Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic | 6 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Gaurav Dhillon Founder & CEO, SnapLogic | 6 | 3 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Luke Wroblewski Managing Director, Sutter Hill Ventures | 6 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Jenny Lee | 6 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| James Currier General Partner & Co-Founder, NFX | 6 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Parag Khanna Founder & CEO, AlphaGeo | 6 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Roman Mars Host, 99% Invisible | 6 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tristan Walker Founder, Heirloom Management Co. | 6 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Ron Johnson Retail Executive | 6 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Stacy Brown-Philpott COO, TaskRabbit | 6 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Christopher Mims Technology Columnist, The Wall Street Journal | 6 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Fred Upton Commissioner, Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense | 6 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Nicole Forsgren | 6 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tavit Henrikos | 6 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Bryan Caplan Professor of Economics, George Mason University | 6 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Joshua Browder | 6 | 4 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Noah Smith Economics Writer & Publisher, Noahpinion | 6 | 4.3 | 4.3/10 | 3 |
| Matt Biilmann Co-Founder & CEO, Netlify | 6 | 5 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Andrew McAfee (Andy) Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan | 6 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Eric Brynjolfsson | 6 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Chris Lyons General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Mati Staniszewski Co-founder & CEO, ElevenLabs | 5 | 0 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Piotr Dabkowski Co-founder & CTO, ElevenLabs | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jonathan Swanson Founder & Chairman, Athena | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Eugenia Kuyda Founder & CEO, Wabi | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kaz (Kaz Nejatian) CEO, Opendoor | 5 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Christian Brose Chief Strategy Officer, Anduril | 5 | 0 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Marco Argenti Chief Information Officer, Goldman Sachs | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Waseem Daher Co-Founder and CEO, Pilot | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Julia Collins Founder & CEO, Planet FWD | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Doug Hirsch Co-Founder and Board Member, GoodRx | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Alex Gluchowski (Alex G) Co-Founder & CEO, Matter Labs | 5 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Zooko Wilcox Head of Product, Shielded Labs | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Alan Schaaf Founder and former CEO, Imgur | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jennifer Tejada Executive Chair, PagerDuty | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Christine Darden Former Aerospace Engineer & Executive, NASA | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Russ Altman Professor of Bioengineering, Stanford University | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Shaka Senghor President, Shaka Senghor, Inc. | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| David Pierce Editor-at-Large, The Verge | 5 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ethan Zuckerman Director, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, UMass Amherst | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Laura Weidman Powers Operating Partner, Base10 Partners | 5 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Linda Xie Co-Founder & Managing Director, Scalar Capital | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 2 |
| Anne Neuberger Head of Global Affairs, a16z | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Will Gaybrick President of Product & Business, Stripe | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Amy Abernethy | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Arianna Simpson General Partner, a16z crypto | 5 | 0.3 | 0.3/10 | 3 |
| Garrett Langley Founder & CEO, Flock Safety | 5 | 0.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Chris Power Founder & CEO, Hadrian | 5 | 0.5 | 1.5/10 | 4 |
| Dan Siroker Co-Founder & CEO, Optimizely | 5 | 0.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| David Haber General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 5 | 0.7 | 1.1/10 | 13 |
| Li Jin Co-founder and General Partner, Variant | 5 | 0.7 | 1.3/10 | 3 |
| Erin Price-Wright General Partner, a16z | 5 | 0.8 | 1.2/10 | 9 |
| Ali Yahya General Partner, a16z crypto | 5 | 0.8 | 1.1/10 | 10 |
| Olivia Moore Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 5 | 1 | 0.9/10 | 15 |
| Matt Bornstein General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 5 | 1 | 1.9/10 | 8 |
| Varun Krishna CEO, Rocket Companies | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Liam Fedus Co-founder and CEO, Periodic Labs | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Adam Bry Co-Founder & CEO, Skydio | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 3 |
| Dr. Clarence B. Jones Founding Director Emeritus, USF Institute for Nonviolence | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tomer London Co-founder & Chief Product Officer, Gusto | 5 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Doug Beck Senior Fellow, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Congressman Jake Auchincloss U.S. Representative, U.S. House of Representatives | 5 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Jason Gardner Founder & Executive Chairman, Marqeta | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jason Feifer Editor-in-Chief, Entrepreneur Magazine | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Salim Ismail Founder & Chairman, OpenExO | 5 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Tracy Sun Cofounder & SVP, Poshmark | 5 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Congressman David Schweikert U.S. Representative, U.S. House of Representatives | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Michael Morell Former Deputy Director, CIA | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Bobby Franklin President & CEO, NVCA | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Atif Mian Professor of Economics, Princeton University | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Michelle Flournoy Managing Partner, WestExec Advisors | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tracy Chow Founder and CEO, Block Party | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sten Tamkivi CEO and Co-founder, Teleport.org | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dan Warmenhoven Operating Partner, Lateral Investment Management | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Lily Liu President, Solana Foundation | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Drew Baglino Founder & CEO, Heron Power | 5 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Sarah Wang General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 5 | 1.1 | 1.1/10 | 13 |
| Justine Moore Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 5 | 1.2 | 1.1/10 | 13 |
| David George General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 5 | 1.3 | 1.2/10 | 17 |
| Anjney Midha Founder & CEO, AMP | 5 | 1.3 | 1.3/10 | 12 |
| Orion Hindawi Co-Founder and CEO, Tanium | 5 | 1.3 | 2/10 | 3 |
| Scott Weiss Former General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 5 | 1.3 | 0.7/10 | 3 |
| Scott Kupor Director, United States Office of Personnel Management | 5 | 1.5 | 1.2/10 | 14 |
| Ryan Tseng President & Co-Founder, Shield AI | 5 | 1.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Brandon Tseng Co-Founder & President, Shield AI | 5 | 1.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| David Lee CFO, WEBTOON Entertainment | 5 | 1.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Jeff Jordan General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 5 | 1.6 | 1.4/10 | 18 |
| Anu Hariharan Founder & Managing Partner, Avra | 5 | 1.7 | 1.5/10 | 6 |
| Anish Acharya General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 5 | 1.8 | 1.5/10 | 17 |
| Mark Chen Chief Research Officer, OpenAI | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| George Sivulka Founder & CEO, Hebbia | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Simon Khalaf Chief Executive Officer, WorkWhile | 5 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Jonathan Lai General Partner, a16z Games | 5 | 2 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Trevor McFedries Founder, Runner | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Bernard J. Tyson Former Chairman & CEO, Kaiser Permanente | 5 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Partner & CMO, Shield AI | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Atul Butte Distinguished Professor and Director, BCHSI at UCSF | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Benjamin Wittes Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Carl Pope Principal Advisor, Inside Straight Strategies | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Chris Milk Co-Founder and CEO, Within | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Aubrey de Grey President and CSO, LEV Foundation | 5 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Eileen Burbage Founding Partner, Passion Capital | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tom Standage Deputy Editor, The Economist | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Laila Janah Founder & CEO, Samasource | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| John Markoff Distinguished Fellow, Stanford Institute for HAI | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Loretta Sanchez Trustee, Chapman University | 5 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Nathaniel Popper Editor & Journalist, Bloomberg News | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| 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. | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Seth Sternberg Co-Founder and CEO, Honor Technology | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Shelley Archambault | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Azim Azhar | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dylan Patel Founder & Chief Analyst, SemiAnalysis | 5 | 2.5 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Preethi Kasireddy Co-Founder, Ferta | 5 | 2.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| David Clark Chief Investment Officer, VenCap International | 5 | 2.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Olaf Carlson-Wee Founder & CEO, Polychain Capital | 5 | 2.7 | 2.7/10 | 3 |
| Michael Truell Co-founder & CEO, Anysphere | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Leo Polovets Co-founder & General Partner, Susa Ventures | 5 | 3 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Oren Cass Founder & Chief Economist, American Compass | 5 | 3 | 7/10 | 1 |
| Jyoti Bansal Co-Founder & CEO, Harness | 5 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Matt Flannery Co-Founder and CEO, Branch | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Russ Roberts Host, EconTalk | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Michael Rogers | 5 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Nadia Eghbal Community Programs, GitHub | 5 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Joel Mokyr Professor of Economics and History, Northwestern University | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Uma Valeti Founder and CEO, UPSIDE Foods | 5 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Adrian Cockcroft Cloud Architect, Netflix | 5 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Evan Osnos Staff Writer, The New Yorker | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tom Davenport Distinguished Professor, Babson College | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mike Masnick Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Techdirt | 5 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Ben Kaufman Co-Founder and CEO, CAMP | 5 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Greg Walden Chairman, Alpine Advisors LLC | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kieran Snyder VP of Product, AI, Microsoft | 5 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mike Hearn Founder & Lead Developer, Hydraulic Software | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Michael Casey Chairman, Decentralized AI Society | 5 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Lars Dalgaard Founder and Investor, Luv Ventures | 5 | 3.8 | 1.8/10 | 4 |
| W. Brian Arthur External Professor, Santa Fe Institute | 5 | 4 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Teresa Carlson Global Head of Public Sector, Anthropic | 5 | 4 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Clay Shirky Vice Provost, New York University | 5 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Bill Janeway Special Limited Partner, Warburg Pincus | 5 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Safi Bahcall | 5 | 5 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Karen Dunn Founding Partner, Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP | 5 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Alec Ross Author, The Industries of the Future | 5 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sukhinder Singh Cassidy CEO, Xero | 5 | 5 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alexis Madrigal Co-host of Forum, KQED | 5 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Claire Kane Miller Reporter, The New York Times | 5 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Nick Tomaino Founder and General Partner, 1confirmation | 5 | 6 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Oliver Hsu Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ian Cinnamon Co-Founder and CEO, Apex Space | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Justin Fanelli CTO, U.S. Department of the Navy | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Zeno Rocha Founder & CEO, Resend | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Katherine Huff Assistant Secretary, Office of Nuclear Energy | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Andreas Blattman Co-Founder, Black Forest Labs | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Robin Guo Founder, LionBio | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Alvin Salehi Co-Founder and Chairman, Shef | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Florian Otto Co-founder & CEO, Cedar | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Alex Fielding CEO and Chairman, Privateer | 4 | 0 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Dr. Moriba Jah Chief Scientist & Co-Founder, Privateer | 4 | 0 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Arif Nathoo Co-founder & CEO, Komodo Health | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Iman Abuzeid Co-founder & CEO, Incredible Health | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Kevin Chou Managing Partner, SuperLayer | 4 | 0 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Diogo Mónica Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Anchorage Digital | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Neha Narula Director, MIT Digital Currency Initiative | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mark Leslie Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Business | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Steve Cadigan Founder & CEO, Cadigan Talent Ventures | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jimmy Soni Author | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Adam Alter Professor of Marketing, NYU Stern | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Max Krohn Co-Founder, Keybase | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Derek Belch | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Raluca Ada Popa Associate Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Josh Bloom Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Grant LaFontaine Co-Founder & CEO, Whatnot | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jennifer Li General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 4 | 0.5 | 1.3/10 | 4 |
| Kristen Fortney Co-Founder & CEO, BioAge Labs | 4 | 0.7 | 1/10 | 3 |
| Justin Mares Founder & CEO, Truemed | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Anant Bhardwaj Founder & CEO, Instabase | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Vijay Balasubramaniyan Co-founder & CEO, Pindrop | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 3 |
| Kim Branson SVP & Global Head of AI, GSK | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nand Mulchandani Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution | 4 | 1 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Dimitri Dadiomov Co-Founder & President, Modern Treasury | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Nan Wang Co-Founder and CEO, Sleeper | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Que Gaskins President, THINK450 | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Nat Eliason Program Director of Founders School, Alpha School | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Adena Hefets Co-founder & Former CEO, Divvy Homes | 4 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Sondre Rasch Co-founder and CEO, SafetyWing | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Darren Murph Future of Work and AI Architect | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Danny Postma Founder & CEO, HeadshotPro | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sinead Bovell Founder, WAYE | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Chris Schroeder General Partner, Next Billion Ventures | 4 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 4 |
| Bob Tinker Managing Partner, Metamorph Partners | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| David Reich Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ken Coleman Special Advisor, Andreessen Horowitz | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Gina Neff Executive Director, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Greg Lynn Co-founder & CEO, Piaggio Fast Forward | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Glueck Founder & CEO, Salvo Health | 4 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Alison Pickens Founder and General Partner, Allison Pickens Ventures | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Matthew Olson Partner, WilmerHale | 4 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Nathaniel Gleicher Head of Security Policy, Meta | 4 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Alex Constantinople Partner and CMO, Greycroft | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Charlie Wurzel Staff Writer, The Atlantic | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ben Uretsky Co-founder & Former CEO, DigitalOcean | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 3 |
| Ilan Zechory Psychotherapist & Executive Coach, Private Practice | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tom Lehman Co-founder, Ethscriptions and Facet | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ryan Spoon President, Yahoo Media Group | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Annalise Saxenian | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Keisha Cash Founder and General Partner, Impact America Fund | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Justin Bailey Director, SirTech Entertainment Corp. | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ron Gill Chief Financial Officer, Benchling | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Gaurav Banga Founder & CEO, Balbix | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dawn Lepore Chairman of the Board, Amperity | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Amy Bohutinsky Operating Partner, TCV | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Feross Aboukhadijeh Founder and CEO, Socket | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Russ Hedleston | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Devon Zuegel Founder & CEO, Esmeralda | 4 | 1.2 | 1/10 | 6 |
| Vineeta Agarwala General Partner, a16z Bio + Health | 4 | 1.3 | 1/10 | 4 |
| Seema Amble Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 4 | 1.3 | 0.9/10 | 11 |
| Jimmy Chen Founder & CEO, Propel | 4 | 1.3 | 1.3/10 | 3 |
| James Rogers Founder & Board Member, Apeel Sciences | 4 | 1.3 | 1.3/10 | 4 |
| Ryan McEntush Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 4 | 1.4 | 1.6/10 | 5 |
| Guido Appenzeller Partner, a16z | 4 | 1.4 | 1.5/10 | 11 |
| Jason Rosenthal Operating Partner, a16z crypto | 4 | 1.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Bryan Kim Founder, Mido Capital | 4 | 1.6 | 1.4/10 | 7 |
| Jorge Conde General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 4 | 1.6 | 1.2/10 | 18 |
| Frank Chen Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 4 | 1.7 | 1.1/10 | 41 |
| Kim Milosevich CMO, a16z crypto | 4 | 1.8 | 2.3/10 | 4 |
| Gavin Baker Managing Partner & CIO, Atreides Management | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Nathan Labenz Host, The Cognitive Revolution | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| 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. | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Scott Wu Co-founder & CEO, Cognition | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rajaie Batniji Co-Founder and CEO, Waymark | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Justin Johnson Co-founder, World Labs | 4 | 2 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Kieran Flanagan SVP of Marketing, HubSpot | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Hung Lee Editor & Curator, Recruiting Brainfood | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kate Darling Research Lead, RAI Institute | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ken Kocienda Co-Founder & CTO, Infactory | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Stephanie Cohen Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudflare | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Gregory Allen Founder & CEO, Decision Tree Research | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mike Curtis Board Member, Zendesk | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Michael Beckerman Former Head of Americas Public Policy, TikTok | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Heather Podesta Founder & CEO, Invariant | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Gary Wolf Co-Founder, Quantified Self | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Robert Stromberg Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, The Virtual Reality Company | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| James Beshara Co-Founder, Magic Mind | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 3 |
| Jim Gilliam Founder & CEO, NationBuilder | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Jeff Kindler CEO, Centrexion Therapeutics | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Samuel Hammond Graduate Research Fellow | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nanjira Sambuli Nonresident Scholar, Carnegie Endowment | 4 | 2 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Alan Knott Craig Founder & Chairman, Fibertime | 4 | 2 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Shaq (Shakil Khan) Founder, CoinDesk | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Michelle You Co-founder & CEO, Supercritical | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Murray Shanahan Principal Scientist, Google DeepMind | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Joe Grundfest Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Elizabeth Weil Founder & Managing Partner, Scribble Ventures | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Danny Shader Founder and CEO, PayNearMe | 4 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Danielle Morrill CEO & Founder, Groupthink | 4 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Jamie McGurk Operating Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Sandy Jen Co-Founder and CTO, Honor Technology | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Geri Elliott Independent Board Director, Whirlpool Corporation | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Augusto Marietti CEO & Co-Founder, Kong | 4 | 2.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Alex Immerman General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 4 | 2.5 | 1.3/10 | 4 |
| Ted Ullyot Head of Policy Team, a16z | 4 | 2.6 | 1.8/10 | 5 |
| Elliot Hershberg | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dan Wang Research Fellow, Hoover Institution | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ryan Caldbeck Founder & CEO, Waystation AI | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Michel Feaster CEO, Conexiom | 4 | 3 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Laura Behrens-Wu Founder & CEO, Shippo | 4 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ram Palaniappan Founder & CEO, EarnIn | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Chad Rigetti Founder & CEO, Rigetti Computing | 4 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| AJ Shankar CEO & Founder, Everlaw | 4 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bruce Friedrich Founder and President, The Good Food Institute | 4 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ilyas Khan Founder & CPO, Quantinuum | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Adam Ludwin Founder, here.now | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Julie Samuels President & CEO, Tech:NYC | 4 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Tren Griffin Executive, Microsoft | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Christina Mercando Director of Product Design, Instagram | 4 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tyson Clark General Partner, GV | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Paul Vigna Managing Editor, American Banker | 4 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Terry Angelos Chief Strategy Officer, Very Good Security | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jeetu Patel President & CPO, Cisco | 4 | 3.5 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Anne Lee Skates Founder & General Partner, Parable VC | 4 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Brian McCullough Host, Techmeme Ride Home | 4 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Shannon Brayton Partner & CMO, Bessemer Venture Partners | 4 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ross Anderson Staff Writer, The Atlantic | 4 | 4 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Lawrence Levy Co-Founder, Juniper Foundation | 4 | 4 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Arun Sundararajan Professor, NYU Stern School of Business | 4 | 4 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Roman Stanek Founder & CEO, GoodData | 4 | 4 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Bill Macaitis Founder & CEO, SaaS CMO Pro | 4 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Craig Walker Co-Founder & CEO, Switch | 4 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Scott Hassan President & CEO, Suitable Technologies | 4 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Peter Yang Former Principal Product Lead, Roblox | 4 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Florian Leibert Co-Founder and General Partner, 468 Capital | 4 | 5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Natasha Tiku Tech Culture Reporter, The Washington Post | 4 | 5 | 8/10 | 1 |
| Alex Solomon Co-Founder, PagerDuty | 4 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Connie Guglielmo Editor at Large and AI Columnist, CNET | 4 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Surya Ganguli Professor of Applied Physics, Stanford University | 4 | 6 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Chris Berniske Partner & Co-Founder, Placeholder | 4 | 7 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Grant Lee Founder, Gamma | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jack Parker-Holder Research Scientist, Google DeepMind | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Michael Chime Co-Founder and CEO, Prepared | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Liz Young McNally Deputy Director, Commercial Operations, DIU | 3 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Alex Miller CTO, United States Army | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Greg Ulrich Chief AI and Data Officer, Mastercard | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Doug Bernauer Founder & CEO, Radiant | 3 | 0 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Romy Drucker Director of Education, Walton Family Foundation | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Piff Marti Independent Musical Artist | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Duncan McIntyre Founder and CEO, Highland Electric Fleets | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Gregory Davis President, Raisbeck Engineering | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Thomas Clozel Founder, Owkin | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jack Stoddard | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Mike Kopko | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Amanda Rees | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Seth Sivak VP of Product, Bad Robot Games | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alec Nielsen Co-founder and CEO, Asimov | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Alex Pruden Executive Director, Aleo Foundation | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Sep Kamvar Founder, Celo | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Sanket Pathak Founder & CEO, Foundation | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Adrienne Mayer Historian of Science & Author | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Mike Snyder Professor of Genetics, Stanford University | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rob Goodman Associate Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ivan Linscott Senior Research Engineer, Stanford University | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| David Madden Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Omidyar Network | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ima and Asha Christian Co-founders, STEMGuyana | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Sam Gerstenzhang Co-founder & Partner, Boulton & Watt | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Matthew Turk Professor Emeritus, UC Santa Barbara | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Giovanni Vigna Professor of Computer Science, UCSB | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jason Mars | 3 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kevin Fu | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Kathryn McKinley Distinguished Software Engineer, Google | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| DJ Kleinbaum | 3 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Rahul Sidhu VP of Aviation, Flock Safety | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Kimberly Tan Investing Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 3 | 0.2 | 0.4/10 | 5 |
| Yoko Li Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 3 | 0.5 | 2/10 | 4 |
| Sheriff Kevin McMahill Sheriff, LVMPD | 3 | 0.5 | 0/10 | 2 |
| Chandra Krintz Professor of Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara | 3 | 0.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Chris Granger Principal, Jump | 3 | 0.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Gabriel Vasquez Investment Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 3 | 0.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Megan Holston Alexander | 3 | 0.7 | 1.3/10 | 3 |
| Jay Rughani Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 3 | 0.7 | 0.3/10 | 3 |
| D'Arcy Coolican Angel Investor & Founder | 3 | 0.7 | 1.3/10 | 3 |
| Isa Fulford Researcher, OpenAI | 3 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Matt Shortal Principal Deputy Director & CCO, DIU | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jason Brown Former Founder & CEO, Tally Technologies | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jiaming Song Former Chief Scientist, Luma AI | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Sloan Advisor, Oak HC/FT | 3 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Brandon Brown Assistant General Manager, New York Giants | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Phil Dayan Co-Founder, Flashbots | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Robin Weisman Board Member & Co-founder, Coin Center | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| John Fawcett Head of Equities Engineering, Citadel | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Josh Levin Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, OpenInvest | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Krista Anderson-Copperman Operating Partner, TCV | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Caroline Horn Partner, a16z Executive Talent | 3 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| David Rumsey Founder, David Rumsey Map Collection | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mike Lempress Chief Risk and Trust Officer, Inveniam | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Eddie Lim Co-Founder and CEO, Point | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bailey Richardson Head of Community & Culture, OpenAI | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Russell Davies Marketing and Product Director, The Modern House | 3 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Brett Hagler Co-Founder & Board Member, New Story | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alexandria Lafci Founder & Managing Partner, Hometeam Ventures | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sid Gorham Former Co-founder & CEO, Granular | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| J.R. Rivers Senior Principal Engineer, Amazon Web Services | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| 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. | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mark McClusky Author, Wired | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Michael Kasperzak Owner, Kasperzak Public Affairs | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mohsen Malayeri Co-founder, Avatech | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Michelle Wilson Board Member, Wealthfront | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Shannon Callahan Operating Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tina Bhatnagar VP of Operations, Coinbase | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dylan Ayrey Co-Founder & CEO, Truffle Security | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Daniel Litt Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Toronto | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Boris Soffman | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Doge Cubuk | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jessie Genet | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| John Gedmark Co-Founder and CEO, Astranis | 3 | 1.3 | 1.3/10 | 3 |
| Joel de la Garza Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 3 | 1.4 | 1.4/10 | 8 |
| Marco Mascorro AI Researcher & Roboticist | 3 | 1.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Ushma Garg | 3 | 1.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Ash Ashatosh CEO, Pinecone | 3 | 1.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Turner Caldwell Cofounder & CEO, Mariana Minerals | 3 | 1.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Grant Jordan Founder & CEO, SkySafe | 3 | 1.7 | 1.3/10 | 3 |
| Sharon Chang Partner, a16z | 3 | 1.7 | 1.3/10 | 3 |
| Matt Perault Head of AI Policy, Andreessen Horowitz | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ankit Jain Co-founder & CEO, Infinitus Systems | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Roy Lee Co-founder & CEO, Cluely | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Emily Boschwitz Co-founder and CMO, POCA | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| David Mytton Founder & CEO, Arcjet | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Daisy Wolf Partner, a16z Bio + Health | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Anastasios Angelopoulos Co-Founder and CEO, Arena | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Wei-Lin Chiang Co-Founder & CTO, Arena | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sanjay Basu Co-Founder & Head of Clinical, Waymark | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| AJ Thomas Founder & CEO, The Troublemaker Lab | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Cal Turner, Jr. Chairman, Cal Turner Family Foundation | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Yogi Roth | 3 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Zach Wiener Co-founder and President, Overtime | 3 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Saurabh Ladha Founder & CEO, Doxel | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Darshan Shankar Founder and CEO, Bigscreen | 3 | 2 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Alex Le Chief Product Officer, Fizz | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Malinka Walaliyadde Co-Founder & CEO, AKASA | 3 | 2 | 1.7/10 | 6 |
| Mintu Turakhia EVP & CMSO, iRhythm Technologies | 3 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Brandon Ballinger CEO, Cardiogram | 3 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Peter Leeson Professor of Economics and Law, George Mason University | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Lee Fan Chief Technology and AI Officer, Circle | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jay Komarneni Founder and Chair, Human Dx | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rachel Goslins Director, Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Thomas Rando Director, UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jonathan Downey Founder & CEO, Airware | 3 | 2 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Jeff Kaditz Founder, CEO & CTO, Q Bio | 3 | 2 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Brad Peterson EVP, CTO & CIO, Nasdaq | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Christina Xu Co-founder, ROFLCon | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Michael Copeland Technology Writer and Content Strategist | 3 | 2 | 1.8/10 | 103 |
| Eli Dorado Head of Strategic Investments, Astera Institute | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Evan Burfield Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Washington Office | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mike Paulus Founder & CEO, PCM Encore | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alex Morkos Co-Founder, Chaincode Labs | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mike Smith Co-Founder and General Partner, Footwork | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tom Reichert Managing Partner, Angels for Agents | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 3 |
| Nazanin Daneshwar General Partner, Angel Invest | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Siki Chen | 3 | 2 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Matt Spence Global Head of Venture Capital Banking, Barclays | 3 | 2.3 | 2/10 | 8 |
| Matthew Colford Managing Partner, Carpenter Capital | 3 | 2.4 | 2/10 | 5 |
| Vishal Misra Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University | 3 | 2.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Scott Clark Co-Founder and CEO, Distributional | 3 | 2.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Peter Ludwig Co-founder & CTO, Applied Intuition | 3 | 2.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Rajiv Singh CEO, Smartsheet | 3 | 2.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Haoyuan 'H.Y.' Li | 3 | 2.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Jeff Woo | 3 | 2.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Kyle Russell Product / Engineering, Valon | 3 | 2.6 | 1.9/10 | 14 |
| Zal Bilimoria Founding Partner, Refactor Capital | 3 | 2.7 | 3/10 | 3 |
| Mark Craney Chief Revenue Officer, LiveView Technologies | 3 | 2.8 | 1.8/10 | 5 |
| Susanna Fox Principal, Internet Geologist, LLC | 3 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Christina Cordova COO, Linear | 3 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Niels Provos Founder, Security Blueprints | 3 | 3 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Mark Levinson Historian, Economist, and Author | 3 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jensen Harris CEO and Co-founder, Textio | 3 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Fred Benenson Founder & CEO, Breadwinner | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Julia Kirby Senior Editor, Harvard University Press | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| William Mougayar Author & Investor | 3 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andy Walsh Director of High Performance, Red Bull | 3 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Prat Moghe CEO, Promethium | 3 | 3 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Adam Thierer Resident Senior Fellow, R Street Institute | 3 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Peter Rubin Head of Publishing, Automattic | 3 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Benjamin Heinemann Co-creator, Apache Mesos | 3 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| James Loftus Chief Financial Officer, Pebl | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Boris Wurtz | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sherman Wu | 3 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Scott Cooper | 3 | 3.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Jesse Walden Founder & Managing Partner, Variant | 3 | 3.8 | 2.8/10 | 4 |
| Russ Fraden Founder, Larridin | 3 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Amin Vahdat Chief Technologist for AI & Infrastructure, Google | 3 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Patrick Hsu Co-Founder and Core Investigator, Arc Institute | 3 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jack Soslow Co-Founder and CEO, Ciridae | 3 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dennis Nazarov Founder, Kiosk | 3 | 4 | 3/10 | 3 |
| Dan Birkenstock Distinguished Research Fellow, Hoover Institution | 3 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Steve Smith Former Astronaut, NASA | 3 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Joe Spisak VP of Product, Reflection AI | 3 | 4 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Cameron Schuler Executive Director, Amii | 3 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Renato Valdez-Olmos Founder, Noord | 3 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Evangelos Simudis Founder and Managing Director, Synapse Partners | 3 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Roger Dickey Founder & Managing Partner, Untitled Capital | 3 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Matthew McCullough VP of Product Management, Android Developer, Google | 3 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Shan Sinha Co-Founder and CEO, Canopy | 3 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Michael Brandt Co-Founder and CEO, Ketone-IQ | 3 | 4 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Daniel Shapero Chief Executive Officer, LinkedIn | 3 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Steve Cheney Co-Founder, Estimote | 3 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Joe Okpaku Co-Founder and Principal, The Forest Consulting LLC | 3 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sam Arbesman Venture Partner, Lux Capital | 3 | 5 | 1/10 | 1 |
| John China Executive, Silicon Valley Bank (or null, context says: Silicon Valley Bank's John China -> Representative / Executive, Silicon Valley Bank or null. Let's check: null or just Silicon Valley Bank) | 3 | 5 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kurt McMaster Founder & CEO, Playtron | 3 | 5 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Ramana Jonnala CEO, Nstream | 3 | 5 | 6/10 | 1 |
| Bowen Liu Investing Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 3 | 6 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Joel Monegro Founding Partner, Placeholder | 3 | 7 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Fabrizio Zilibatti Professor of International and Development Economics, Yale University | 3 | 7 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Christopher Nguyen Co-Founder and CEO, Aitomatic | 3 | 7 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Greg Barbaccia Former Federal CIO, United States | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Shlomi Fruchter Research Director, Google DeepMind | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bryon Hargis Co-founder & CEO, Castelion | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Schmidt Co-founder and CTO, Nous Research | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Mark Casey Equity Portfolio Manager, Capital Group | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Grant Gregory Partner, Cantos | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Fay Rottenberg CEO & President, Firefly Health | 2 | 0 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Mitch Lee Co-founder & CEO, Arc Boats | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Justin Larkin Chief Product Officer, Sprinter Health | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Roger Batnigi Co-Founder and CEO, Waymark | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Chris Hogue | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Susan Plageman Former President, WME Fashion | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Christina Lopez CEO and Co-founder, The One Health Company | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jonathan Lusthaus | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Greg Lohman Principal, Compensia | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Brian Crowley Chief Executive Officer, Cove Soda | 2 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Caroline Moon Head of Financial Operations, a16z | 2 | 0 | 2/10 | 2 |
| John Stanfield Co-Founder & CEO, Local Motion | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Mark Ring | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Yubin Park Founder & CEO, mimilabs | 2 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Colonel Glover Director, Arizona Department of Public Safety | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dino Mavrookas Co-Founder and CEO, Saronic Technologies | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Honorable Duffy Under Secretary of Defense, Department of Defense | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Anjani Mitra | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| June Park | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ben Scharfstein Head of Product, Enterprise Applications, Scale AI | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Christina Kim Researcher, OpenAI | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jonathan (Jonathan Trollin) Co-Founder and CEO, Function Health | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Daniel Reid Cahn Co-Founder, Slingshot AI | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Zach Cohen Co-Founder and CEO, Ease Health | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Jonathan Lim CEO & Co-Founder, Erasca | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Philip Buckendorf Co-founder & CEO, Air Space Intelligence | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Leo Kosinski Chief Strategy Officer, Air Space Intelligence | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Anarupa Ganguly Founder & CEO, Prisms VR | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 2 |
| Saswat Panigrahi Chief Product Officer, Waymo | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Kayvon Turanian Founder & CEO, Foundation | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dave Turetsky Research Professor, Carnegie Mellon University | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Prasad Akella Operating Partner, ReX Capital | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Matt Oberhardt Partner, Talent Network, Andreessen Horowitz | 2 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Tan Nguyen | 2 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Hatem Shafiq Chief Operating Officer, Databricks | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Wei Lowe VP of Strategy, Product and Operations, Cruise | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Saku Panditaratne Author, Rationally Exuberant | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Arnie Goldberg Non-Executive Director, Prosus | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Purnima Padmanaban VP & GM, Tanzu, Broadcom | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Stump Head of Executive Talent, a16z | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bill Krauss Board Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sarah Rogers Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy, U.S. Government | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| FDA Chief Information Officer | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Preeti Casaretti | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Steve Zhao Founder & CEO, Sandbox VR | 2 | 1.3 | 1/10 | 3 |
| Shannon Schiltz Operating Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2 | 1.5 | 1.5/10 | 4 |
| Jeffrey Lowe Partner, Averin | 2 | 1.7 | 1.3/10 | 3 |
| Jeffrey Wu | 2 | 1.7 | 1.7/10 | 3 |
| Nicole Brichtova Group Product Manager, Google DeepMind | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Oliver Wang Principal Scientist, Google DeepMind | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Joe Schmidt Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 4 |
| Michael Lingelbach Founder & CEO, Hedra | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mina Song Co-founder & CEO, EliseAI | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Prabhav Jain CEO, 11x | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Chris Ellis Co-founder & CEO, Thatch | 2 | 2 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Adam Beckman | 2 | 2 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Zed Inam Co-Founder and Advisor, Cresta | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Barry McArdle Co-founder and CEO, Hex | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Guy Parsons Editor and Creator, It Does What Now? | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bennett Carrocchio Deal Analyst, a16z | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Martin Fischer | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Lisa Hawk Deputy General Counsel, Expel | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Savage VP of Sustainability, Lime | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Councilman Lee Kleinman Senior Advisor, Masterplan | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Joshua Schenck CIO, LA County MTA Transport Authority | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| James Wu Founder, Calder | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Taggart Matheson Chief Product Officer, LogicMonitor | 2 | 2 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Michael Temkin Chief Product Officer, Splash | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Matt Levy Partner, NU Advisory Partners | 2 | 2 | 1.3/10 | 3 |
| Jace Wilson Founder and CEO, Ready | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Adam Martin Chief Digital Officer, NMAAHC | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sarah Lombard Senior Digital Curator, US Holocaust Memorial Museum | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rachel Kalmar Principal Product Manager, Moderna | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Radin Co-founder & CEO, Aria Pharmaceuticals | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Beau Cronin Product Manager, WeaveGrid | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Laura Duke | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mike Swartz CEO, deHaven Group, LLC | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dwight Gaston VP, Portfolio Operations, Platinum Equity | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jesse Zhang Co-Founder and CEO, Decagon | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ashwin Sreenivas Co-Founder & CTO, Decagon | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Byung Liu | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Gina Gotthelf | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Epoch AI Researcher Researchers, Epoch AI | 2 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Lada Nuzhna Founder and CEO, General Control Biotechnologies | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ankit Kumar Co-founder & CTO, Sesame | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Satish Thaluri Founder & Angel Investor | 2 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Anil Sethi Founder and CEO, Selfiie | 2 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andy Milenius Former CTO, MakerDAO | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| James Waters Head of R&D, VMware Tanzu, Broadcom | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dave Jagoda Technical Talent Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Gabriel Ott Co-Founder and CEO, Dinari | 2 | 3.3 | 2/10 | 3 |
| Samit Singh Founder & Managing Partner, Worldbuild | 2 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Carlos Araya Founder, Tapanti.org | 2 | 4 | 2/10 | 2 |
| JD Moriarty CEO, ICR Capital | 2 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Yoram Novak President & CEO, Zadara | 2 | 4 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Michelle Volz Founder & Managing Partner, Pax Ventures | 2 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| David Mack Director of Public Affairs Campaigns, Meta | 2 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Erin Murphy Founding Partner, Clement & Murphy | 2 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kartik Rao CEO, Contentful | 2 | 5.5 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Owen Jennings Business Lead, Block | 2 | 6 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Kevin Zolman Professor of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University | 2 | 7 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Herb Lynn Senior Research Scholar, Stanford University | 2 | 7 | 4/10 | 1 |
| David D'Amato Chief Information Security Officer, Citadel | 2 | 7 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Marc Andrusko Partner, a16z | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 2 |
| Andrei Anissimov | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Tope Alabi Co-founder & CEO, Afriex | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Andy Tran Principal, Matrix Capital Management | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Hendrick Pretorius Co-Founder and CEO, ImmiPartner | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ting Ni Immigration Expert, ImmiPartner | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Idaho National Laboratory Official Director, Idaho National Laboratory | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andy McCall General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Burkay Gur Co-founder & CEO, Fal | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Chief Mike Gennaro Assistant Sheriff, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department | 1 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jad Naus Deal Partner, a16z | 1 | 1 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Ben Fish CEO & Co-Founder, Espresso Systems | 1 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jared Ryle Executive Director, ICIJ | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Daniel Chow Operating Partner, Palo Santo | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Lena Sergi Attar Founder & CEO, Karam Foundation | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Thibaut Scola Co-Founder, Fruition Sciences | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alex Roeder General Partner and Managing Director, Moxxie Ventures | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Zach Buchman Co-Founder, OpenGov | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ale Massa Chief Product & AI Officer, Kavak | 1 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| AI Security Researcher | 1 | 1.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Colin McCune Head of Government Affairs, a16z | 1 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tony Stoyanov Co-founder & CTO, EliseAI | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Troy Kirwin Investing Partner, a16z Games | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Brandon Cherry Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Isaac Bratzel Founder & CEO, AvatarOS | 1 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nate Chang Operating Partner, Playground Global | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Koki Hirasaki Managing Director, Ikigai BioVentures | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Christopher Rippingham Co-Leader of Construction Technology, DPR Construction | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dominic Schein Chief Information Officer, WPP | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| John Mena Former VP of Global Strategy, UPS | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Todd Cranny Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Riverwood Strategies | 1 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sakundala Pantharatna Director, Rationally Exuberant Media | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Nick Babayan Director, Devonly Ltd | 1 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nikki Locker | 1 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Chandler Lujica Founder & CEO, Galadyne | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Simon Moe Co-Founder & CEO, Inferact | 1 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Frederick Schrader Co-founder, Lassie | 1 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Stein Overtoom Co-founder & CEO, Lassie | 1 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Darcy Kulikin | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rob Frawein | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Cordova Interim Head of Software Engineering, Rigetti Computing | 1 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mike Matchett Principal Analyst & CEO, Small World Big Data | 1 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Steve McDermott Managing Director, Venture Investing, Emerson Collective | 1 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Doug McCracken Chief Marketing Officer, Coverstar | 1 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Stacey D'Amico Operating Partner & COO, Growth, Andreessen Horowitz | 1 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Anil Lakhani Venture Partner, Crane Venture Partners | 1 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Michael King Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 1 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kelsey Millard Chief Customer Officer, Midstream Health | 1 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
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