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 →
-0.02pushback per +1 prominence
1.7/10host pushback, prominence 8–10
2.3/10host pushback, prominence 1–4
323guests 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Zuckerberg Founder & CEO, Meta | 10 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Satya Nadella Chairman and CEO, Microsoft | 9 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sam Altman CEO, OpenAI | 9 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Marc Andreessen Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 9 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Drew Houston Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Dropbox | 8 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andrej Karpathy Founder, Eureka Labs | 8 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Eric Ries Founder & CEO, Long-Term Stock Exchange | 8 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Priscilla Chan Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative | 8 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Greg Brockman President & Co-founder, OpenAI | 8 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Bret Taylor CEO & Co-Founder, Sierra | 8 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Fei-Fei Li Co-Founder and CEO, World Labs | 8 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Matei Zaharia Co-Founder and CTO, Databricks | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Dean Co-founder & CEO, Discovery Loop | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dylan Field Co-founder and CEO, Figma | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mike Krieger Chief Product Officer, Anthropic | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Aaron Levie Co-Founder & CEO, Box | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Chris Lattner Co-founder and CEO, Modular | 7 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Solomon Hykes Co-founder & CEO, Dagger | 7 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Dharmesh Shah Co-Founder and CTO, HubSpot | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| George Hotz Founder, Tiny Corp | 7 | 4 | 6/10 | 1 |
| Qasar Younis Co-founder & CEO, Applied Intuition | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Nathan Lambert Founder, Interconnects AI | 6 | 0.8 | 2.3/10 | 4 |
| Sarah Guo Founder & General Partner, Conviction | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Scott Wu Co-founder & CEO, Cognition | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kevin Weil Operator in Residence, Scribble Ventures | 6 | 1.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Harrison Chase Co-founder & CEO, LangChain | 6 | 1.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Jeremy Howard Co-Founder, Answer.AI | 6 | 1.7 | 3.7/10 | 3 |
| Anima Anandkumar Bren Professor, Caltech | 6 | 2 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Zico Kolter Professor and Department Head, Carnegie Mellon University | 6 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Stefano Ermon Associate Professor, Stanford University | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Noam Brown Research Scientist, OpenAI | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Chris Manning Professor of Machine Learning, Stanford University | 6 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Soumith Chintala CTO, Thinking Machines Lab | 6 | 3 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Martin Casado General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 6 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Max Welling Co-Founder & CTO, CuspAI | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Graham Neubig Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Joscha Bach Founder & Executive Director, CIMC | 5 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Reynold Xin Co-founder & Chief Architect, Databricks | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mark Chen Chief Research Officer, OpenAI | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Guillaume Lample Chief Scientist | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| comfyanonymous (Comfy) | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mikey Shulman Co-Founder & CEO, Suno | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| David Hsu Founder & CEO, Retool | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tri Dao Assistant Professor, Princeton University | 5 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dylan Patel Founder & Chief Analyst, SemiAnalysis | 5 | 1.5 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Eugene Yan Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic | 5 | 1.6 | 1.4/10 | 5 |
| Jim Zemlin CEO, Linux Foundation | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Vivek Ravisankar Co-founder and CEO, HackerRank | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Feldman Co-Founder and CEO, Cerebras Systems | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Stephanie Palazzolo AI Reporter, The Information | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Varun Mohan CEO & Co-Founder, Windsurf | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Nathan Sobo | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Michael Swix (Swyx) Co-host, Latent Space | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Romain Huet Head of Developer Experience, OpenAI | 5 | 2 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Hamel Husain Founder & AI Consultant, Parlance Labs | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Thomas Scialom Senior Staff Research Scientist, Meta AI | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ben Firshman Co-founder & CEO, Replicate | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Erik Bernhardsson Founder and CEO, Modal Labs | 5 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| David Luan Founder, Adept | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Suhail Doshi Founder & CEO, Playground | 5 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Shawn "swyx" Wang | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andy Konwinski Co-Founder, Databricks | 5 | 2.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Steve Yegge Head of Engineering, Sourcegraph | 5 | 2.5 | 3.5/10 | 2 |
| Mikhail Parakhin CTO, Shopify | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Yi Tay Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind | 5 | 3 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Quinn Slack CEO, Amp | 5 | 3 | 4/10 | 2 |
| Lance Martin Software Engineer & Educator, LangChain | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Olivia Moore Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Justine Moore Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Logan Kilpatrick Product Lead, Google DeepMind | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Josephine Teo Minister, Ministry of Digital Development and Information | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Adam Wiggins General Manager of Platform, The Browser Company | 5 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jerry Liu Co-founder & CEO, LlamaIndex | 5 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Anjney Midha Founder & CEO, AMP | 5 | 4 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Deedy Das Partner, Menlo Ventures | 5 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Greg Kamradt President, ARC Prize Foundation | 5 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Emil Eifrem Co-Founder & CEO, Neo4j | 5 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Alex Lieberman Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Morning Brew | 5 | 5 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Dan Fu Assistant Professor, UC San Diego | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Loubna Ben Allal Researcher, Hugging Face | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Heather Kulik Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jared Palmer VP of Engineering, Cognition | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Thomas Paul Mann | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Steve Ruiz Founder & CEO, tldraw | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Joon Sung Park Co-founder & CEO, Simile | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Eiso Kant Co-Founder & CTO, Poolside | 4 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Kyle Daigle COO, GitHub | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Simon Last Co-founder, Notion | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Huber Co-founder & CEO, Chroma | 4 | 2 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Doug O'Laughlin President, SemiAnalysis | 4 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Joubin Mirzadegan Co-Founder & CEO, Roadrunner | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Joseph Nelson CEO, Roboflow | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Shreya Rajpal Co-founder & CEO, Guardrails AI | 4 | 2 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Brendan Falk Co-founder & CEO, Hercules | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ari Morcos Co-Founder and CEO, DatologyAI | 4 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Hsu Co-founder & CTO, Speak | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Boris Cherny Head of Claude Code, Anthropic | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Erik Schluntz Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Shunyu Yao Researcher, OpenAI | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Olivier Godement Head of Product, Platform, OpenAI | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Josh Albrecht Co-founder & CTO, Imbue | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jonathan Frankle Chief AI Scientist, Databricks | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jason Liu Developer Experience Engineer, OpenAI | 4 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Ce Zhang Co-founder & CTO, Together AI | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Vipul Ved Prakash Co-founder and CEO, Together AI | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sean Lie Co-founder & CTO, Cerebras Systems | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Evan Feinberg Co-founder & CEO, Genesis Molecular AI | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Omar Sanseviero Developer Experience Lead, Google DeepMind | 4 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Yaroslav Azhnyuk Founder & CEO, The Fourth Law | 4 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| David Singleton Co-founder & CEO, Dreamer | 4 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ashu Garg General Partner, Foundation Capital | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Andrew White Co-founder & Head of Science, FutureHouse | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sarah Catanzaro General Partner, Amplify Partners | 4 | 3 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Pliny the Liberator Leader, BT6 | 4 | 3 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Justin Johnson Co-founder, World Labs | 4 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Thorsten Ball Amp Dictator, Sourcegraph | 4 | 3 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Ben Holmes DevEx Lead, Warp | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Rita Kozlov VP, Developers & AI, Cloudflare | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sunil Pai Principal Systems Engineer, Cloudflare | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Itamar Friedman Co-founder & CEO, Qodo | 4 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Eric Simons Co-Founder & CEO, StackBlitz | 4 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Florent Crivello Founder & CEO, Lindy | 4 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Lin Qiao Co-Founder & CEO, Fireworks AI | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Stanislas Polu Co-founder, Dust | 4 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Wei-Lin Chiang Co-Founder & CTO, Arena | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nicholas Carlini Research Scientist, Anthropic | 4 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Andreas Stuhlmüller Co-founder & CEO, Elicit | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jungwon Byun | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kanjun Qiu Co-Founder and CEO, Imbue | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Alex Rives Head of Science, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub | 4 | 4 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Matt Pocock Founder & Educator, AI Hero | 4 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Samuel Colvin Founder & CEO, Pydantic | 4 | 4 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Sarah Wang General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 4 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Johannes (Johannes Landgraf) Gitpod | 4 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Dax Reed Co-founder, OpenCode | 4 | 4 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Bo Wang Chief AI Scientist, Xaira Therapeutics | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Peter Ludwig Co-founder & CTO, Applied Intuition | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Jasper Zhang Co-Founder and CEO, Hyperbolic | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ahmad Awais Founder & CEO, CommandCode.ai | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Alex Lupsasca Theoretical Physicist, OpenAI | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Simon Eskildsen Co-founder & CEO, turbopuffer | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Gabriele Corso | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kevin Hou | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Wang Team Member, Windsurf | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Akshay Agrawal Co-Founder and CEO, Marimo | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Nikhil Abraham Co-Founder & CEO, CloudChef | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sam Julien Director of Product, CopilotKit | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mike Conover Co-Founder and CEO, Brightwave | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Beyang Liu Co-founder & CTO, Sourcegraph | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Shreya Shankar Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University | 3 | 1.7 | 1.3/10 | 3 |
| Matt Fredrikson CEO & Co-Founder, Gray Swan | 3 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Ivan Burazin CEO & Co-Founder, Daytona | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Walden Yan Co-founder & CPO, Cognition | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jake Cooper Founder & CEO, Railway | 3 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Felix Rieseberg Engineering Lead, Anthropic | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sam Whitmore Software Engineer, Cursor | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Benjamin Eysenbach Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| David Soria Parra MCP Lead, Anthropic | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nikhila Ravi Director, Meta Superintelligence Labs | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Quentin Anthony VP of AI Engineering, Zyphra | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jessica Rumbelow CEO & Co-founder, Leap Labs | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Emily Glassberg Sands Head of Information, Stripe | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sherwin Wu Head of Engineering, OpenAI Platform | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Thomas Sohmers Co-Founder and CTO, Positron AI | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Anshul Ramachandran Head of Product and Strategy, Codeium | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Emmanuel Ameisen Interpretability Researcher, Anthropic | 3 | 2 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Silas Alberti SVP of Research, Cognition | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Shrestha Basu Mallick Product Lead, Google DeepMind | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Josh Ma Engineer, OpenAI | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alexander Embiricos Product Lead for Codex, OpenAI | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Antonio Scandurra Co-founder, Zed Industries | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kwindla Hultman Kramer Co-founder & CEO, Daily | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Evan Conrad Co-Founder and CEO, SF Compute | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Guy Gur-Ari Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Augment Code | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sujay Jayakar Co-founder & Chief Scientist, Convex | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Misha Laskin Co-founder & CEO, Reflection AI | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Eugene Cheah CEO & Co-founder, Featherless.ai | 3 | 2 | 1.8/10 | 5 |
| Artem Keydunov Co-founder & CEO, Cube | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Michael Royzen Co-Founder & CEO, Phind | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mia Glaese VP of Research, OpenAI | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Pratyush Maini Founding Member of Technical Staff, DatologyAI | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Micah Hill-Smith Co-Founder and CEO, Artificial Analysis | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ashvin Nair AI Researcher, Meta | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Pim de Witte CEO & Co-founder, General Intuition | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mike Merrill Co-Creator, Terminal-Bench | 3 | 3 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Kyle Corbitt Co-founder, OpenPipe | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jack Morris AI Researcher | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Zach Lloyd Founder & CEO, Warp | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jo Kristian Bergum | 3 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Charles Packer | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Karina Nguyen Former AI Researcher, OpenAI | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Anastasios Angelopoulos Co-Founder and CEO, Arena | 3 | 3.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Ankur Goyal Founder & CEO, Braintrust | 3 | 3.5 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Rafa Gomez-Bombarelli Co-founder & CSO, Lila Sciences | 3 | 4 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andy Beam CTO, Lila Sciences | 3 | 4 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Stay Sassy PM Co-creator and Writer, Stay SaaSy | 3 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Stay Sassy EM Co-creator and Writer, Stay SaaSy | 3 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dhravya Shah Founder & CEO, Supermemory | 3 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Brian Fioca Engineer, OpenAI | 3 | 4 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Batuhan Taskaya Head of Engineering, fal.ai | 3 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Chris (Christian Weichel) Creator, Gitpod | 3 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Malte Ubl CTO, Vercel | 3 | 4.5 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Arman Hezarkhani Co-Founder, Tenex | 3 | 5 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Rohit Agarwal Co-founder & CEO, Portkey | 3 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sander Schulhoff CEO, InventoryQuant | 3 | 6 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Sam D'Amico Founder & CEO, Impulse Labs | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dex Horthy Founder and CEO, HumanLayer | 2 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Matthias Wagner Co-Founder and CEO, Flux | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Roger Jin | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Rob Haisfield | 2 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Vibhu Sapra | 2 | 0.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Will Brown Research Lead, Prime Intellect | 2 | 0.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| David Hershey Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic | 2 | 0.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| RJ Honicky Co-founder & CTO, MiraOmics | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dan Biderman Co-founder & CEO, Engram | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ethan He AI Researcher & Engineer | 2 | 1 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Ryan Lopopolo Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Pavan Kumar Reddy Voxtral Lead | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jeremy Wohlwend | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Victor Powell Product Lead on Prism, OpenAI | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jack Merullo Research Scientist, Goodfire | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alex Duffy Co-Founder & CEO, Good Start Labs | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jack Hopkins Creator, Factorio Learning Environment | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Yining Zhang Senior Director, Inference, Together AI | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Raiza Martin Co-Founder and CEO, Huxe | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Damien Murphy Founding Engineer, Bench Computing | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Philip Kiely Engineer & Head of AI Education, Baseten | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Gavriel Cohen Co-founder & CEO, NanoCo | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Cole Murray Creator, OpenInspect | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Janie Lee VP of Product, Abridge | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Chai Asawa Engineering Lead, Abridge | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Yasser Elsaid Founder & CEO, Chatbase | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sarah Sachs Head of AI Engineering, Notion | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jonas Nelle Engineering Lead, Cursor | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mark Bissell Member of Technical Staff, Goodfire AI | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Kevin Wang Chief Product Officer, Braze | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Pengchuan Zhang SAM 3 Researcher, Meta | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ian Webster CEO and Co-founder, Promptfoo | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Christina Huang Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mitesh Agrawal CEO, Positron AI | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Soham Ganatra Co-founder & CEO, Composio | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Karan Vaidya Co-founder & CTO, Composio | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Pratik Bhavsar AI Engineer, Cisco / Splunk | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| David Kirkos Co-founder, Quadratic | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Matan Grinberg Co-Founder and CEO, Factory | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Eno Reyes Co-Founder & CTO, Factory | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kat Wu | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Vasek Mlejnsky Co-founder & CEO, E2B | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Rishabh Agarwal Researcher, Periodic Labs | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ethan Sutin Co-founder & CTO, Bee AI | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Aymeric (Emmerich) Engineer, HuggingFace | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Shawn Lewis | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mark Huang Co-founder & Chief Architect, Gradient | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Michelle Pokrass Post-Training Research Lead, OpenAI | 2 | 2.7 | 1.7/10 | 3 |
| Brandon Anderson Staff Scientist, Atomic AI | 2 | 2.8 | 2.4/10 | 5 |
| Fan-yun Sun | 2 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Olivia Watkins Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jaya Gupta Partner, Foundation Capital | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Myra Deng Head of Product, Goodfire AI | 2 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| James Reggio CTO, Brex | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| George Cameron Co-Founder & CPO, Artificial Analysis | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| John Yang PhD Student, Stanford University | 2 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Josh McGrath Post-Training Researcher, OpenAI | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Loïc Houssier CTO, Superhuman | 2 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alex Shaw Founding Member of Technical Staff, Laude Institute | 2 | 3 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Barak Lenz CTO, AI21 Labs | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Elie Bakouch Pre-training Lead, Hugging Face | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Saoud (Saud) Rizwan Founder & CEO, Cline | 2 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Will Bryk Founder, ExaAI | 2 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| James Brady | 2 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sid Bendre | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nader Khalil Director of Developer Technology, NVIDIA | 2 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kyle Kranen Engineering Leader and Architect, NVIDIA | 2 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Joel Becker Researcher, METR | 2 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Bill Chen Applied AI Engineer, OpenAI | 2 | 4 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Raaz Dwivedi Co-founder, Traversal | 2 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Anish Agarwal Co-Founder, Traversal | 2 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Gorkem Yurtseven Cofounder, Fal.ai | 2 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dylan Davis Founder, Gradient Labs | 2 | 4 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mukund Sridhar Tech Lead, Google DeepMind | 2 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| William Beauchamp Founder & CEO, Chai AI | 2 | 4 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Alex Krentsel PhD Researcher, UC Berkeley | 2 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Carina Hong Founder & CEO, Axiom Math | 2 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Nina Lopatina | 2 | 5 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ci Chu Chief Discovery Officer | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Isaac Robinson Research Lead, Roboflow | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Peter Robicheaux Roboflow | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Vik Korupati Co-founder & CTO, Moondream | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Pranav Reddy Partner, Conviction | 1 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sarah Chieng Head of Developer Experience, Cerebras Systems | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Karan Malhotra | 1 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Luca Soldani | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ronak Malde Co-founder & CEO, Trajectory | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Diego Bachman Co-founder & CEO, Manifest AI | 1 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Brendan Fortuna Head of Engineering, Ambience Healthcare | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Usama Shafqat Lead AI Engineer, Google NotebookLM | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Umar Jamil Researcher, Mistral AI | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alistair Pullen Co-founder & CEO, Cosine | 1 | 1.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Ali Taha Team Member, Baseten | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Akshay Nathan Head of Core Product Engineering, OpenAI | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Akshat Bubna CTO and Co-founder, Modal | 1 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Lukas Petersson Co-founder & CEO, Andon Labs | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Axel Backlund Co-founder & CTO, Andon Labs | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Nick Cooper / Brad Technical Leads, AAIF | 1 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Robert McCloy Co-founder, Scrunch AI | 1 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nikunj Handa Product Lead, OpenAI | 1 | 2 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dan McAteer Author, Attention Heads | 1 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ben Hillock | 1 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jesse Hu Co-Founder, Abundant | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ilan Biggio Developer Experience Engineer, OpenAI | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Youssef Rizk Co-Founder, Wondercraft | 1 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Benedikt Jenik Co-Founder, Accelerated Understanding | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| RJ Haneke | 1 | 2.8 | 2/10 | 9 |
| Sergei Yudinov CTO, Genesis Molecular AI | 1 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Danielle Perszyk Head of HCI, Amazon AGI Lab | 1 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| John V Leader, BT6 | 1 | 3 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Jed Borovik Product Lead, Google Labs | 1 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kevin Ben-Smith Co-founder & CEO, Snipd | 1 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Paul Klein Founder & CEO, Browserbase | 1 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Matt McPartlon Co-Founder, Chai Discovery | 1 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Neil Patil Head of Product and Platform Engineering, Chai Discovery | 1 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Arush Sehgal Lead Product Manager, Gemini Deep Research-Google/DeepMind-or-similar-not-specified -> Lead Product Manager, Gemini Deep Research | 1 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Joseph Krause Co-Founder and CEO, Radical AI | 1 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
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