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The people whose ideas everyone was debating in tech in 2026, as nominated by their peers
9Simon Willison
Independent open source developer building tools for data journalism, SQLite, and large language models
9Nathan Lambert
Co-founder and Executive Director of Trillium Labs
9Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸
Cofounder and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
8Jasmine Sun
Writer on AI, technology, and culture
8𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫
Independent writer and researcher at Gwern.net
8Katherine Boyle
General Partner, a16z American Dynamism
8Anish Acharya
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz
7Noah Smith
Economist and writer at Noahpinion
7Matthew Yglesias
Founder and writer, Slow Boring; journalist covering American politics and public policy
7Dwarkesh Patel
Host of the Dwarkesh Podcast; angel investor
7Theo Jaffee
Co-founder and host at MTS
7Tina He
Partner at Pace Capital
6Kevin Kelly
Co-founder, Founding Executive Editor, and Senior Maverick at WIRED
6Alex Danco
Editor-at-Large at a16z; writer and former Shopify product leader.
5Ethan Mollick
Associate Professor at Wharton studying AI, work, education, and entrepreneurship
5Ezra Klein
New York Times opinion columnist and host of The Ezra Klein Show
5Robin Hanson
Economist and prediction-market pioneer
5rohit
Writer of Strange Loop Canon
5Nathan Labenz
AI Scout and Host, The Cognitive Revolution
5Signüll
Founder of Signull Labs, building Skye
5Stewart Brand
Co-founder and Board Member at The Long Now Foundation
5Ann Miura-Ko
Co-founder and Partner at Floodgate
4Patrick Collison
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe; angel investor
4Scott Alexander
Writer at Astral Codex Ten and psychiatrist at Lorien Psychiatry
4Derek Thompson
Writer, podcaster, and author; founder and host of Plain English; contributing writer at The Atlantic.
4Ben Thompson
Author and founder of Stratechery, covering the strategy and business of technology and media.
4Zvi Mowshowitz
Writer of Don't Worry About the Vase
4Samo Burja
Founder and President of Bismarck Analysis
4Roon
AI and technology commentator
4Glen Weyl
Founder and Research Lead, Plural Technology Collaboratory at Microsoft Research
4Mike Solana
Chief Marketing Officer at Founders Fund and founder of Pirate Wires
4Nat Friedman
AI products and applied research at Meta; former GitHub CEO
3Tyler Cowen
Chairman and Faculty Director at Mercatus Center at George Mason University
3Balaji Srinivasan
Author of the Network State. Founder of the Network School.
3Steven Pinker
Psychology professor and author at Harvard
3Henry Williams
Special projects at OpenAI Strategic Futures
2Nadia Asparouhova
Publisher at Asterisk Magazine
2Anna-Sofia Lesiv
Partner at Humba; author of Second Nature
2Daniel Kokotajlo
Executive Director, AI Futures Project
1Byrne Hobart
Founder and Writer, The Diff
1Dean W. Ball
Head of Strategic Futures at OpenAI; founder of Hyperdimensional
1Andrej Karpathy
AI researcher and educator; former OpenAI researcher and Tesla AI director
1Molly White
Independent researcher, writer, and software engineer
1nostalgebraist
1Ben Horowitz
Cofounder and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
1John Gannon
Annie Holmes, DPS (hon)
0Tim Urban
Co-founder and writer at Wait But Why
0Dan Romero
Go-to-market lead at Tempo
0Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)
Director of Ads at Base