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Paul Graham
Sarah Harlin · Public domain (as marked on Commons) · Source
Paul Graham speaking to founders at Y Combinator, summer 2009
Kevin Hale · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Source
Paul Graham at a computer, 2007
Gabor Cselle · CC BY 2.0 · Source
Sam Altman
Office of the Prime Minister of Japan · CC BY 4.0 · Source
Elon Musk
Gage Skidmore · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Jensen Huang
Anderseidesvik · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Patrick Collison
JD Lasica · CC BY 2.0 · Source
Andrej Karpathy
Gladwin Analytics · CC BY 3.0 · Source
Naval Ravikant
Elias Bizannes · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Source
Aaron Levie
TechCrunch · CC BY 4.0 · cropped · Source
Alexandr Wang
Meta Platforms, Inc. · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Aravind Srinivas
TechCrunch · CC BY 2.0 · Source
Arthur Mensch
Jan2342342423 · CC0 · cropped · Source
Ben Horowitz
TechCrunch · CC BY 2.0 · Source
Bill Gates
Bogdan Hoyaux / European Union · CC BY 4.0 · Source
Brian Armstrong
TechCrunch · CC BY 2.0 · Source
Brian Chesky
Celeste Sloman · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Daniel Ek
Lukasz Kobus/European Commission · CC BY 4.0 · Source
Dario Amodei
TechCrunch · CC BY 2.0 · Source
David Heinemeier Hansson
David Merrett from Daventry, England · CC BY 2.0 · Source
Demis Hassabis
John Sears · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Drew Houston
Web Summit · CC BY 2.0 · Source
Dylan Field
TechCrunch · CC BY 2.0 · Source
Fei-Fei Li
ITU Pictures · CC BY 2.0 · cropped · Source
Garry Tan
Web Summit · CC BY 2.0 · Source
Jack Ma
Foundations World Economic Forum · CC BY 2.0 · Source
Jeff Bezos
SECWAR · Public domain · Source
Jessica Livingston
TechCrunch · CC BY 2.0 · cropped · Source
John Collison
UK Prime Minister · CC BY 2.0 · Source
Justin Kan
TechCrunch · CC BY 2.0 · Source
Kevin Systrom
Christopher Michel from San Francisco, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Source
Larry Page
Stansfield PL · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
Marc Andreessen
JD Lasica · CC BY 2.0 · Source
Mark Zuckerberg
Anthony Quintano from Westminster, United States · CC BY 2.0 · Source
Masayoshi Son
European Communities, 2025 / EC - Audiovisual Service · CC BY 4.0 · Source
Max Levchin
TechCrunch · CC BY 2.0 · cropped · Source
Melanie Perkins
Melanie Perkins · CC BY-SA 2.0 · cropped · Source
Michael Seibel
TechCrunch · CC BY 2.0 · Source
Mustafa Suleyman
Christopher Wilson · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Palmer Luckey
Xuthoria · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Paul Buchheit
Robert Scoble from Half Moon Bay, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Source
Peter Thiel
Gage Skidmore · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
Ray Dalio
Web Summit · CC BY 2.0 · Source
Reed Hastings
re:publica from Germany · CC BY 2.0 · Source
Reid Hoffman
U.S. Secretary of Defense · CC BY 2.0 · Source
Sara Blakely
Gillian Zoe Segal · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Sergey Brin
The White House · Public domain · Source
Steve Jobs
Matthew Yohe · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
Stewart Butterfield
Web Summit · CC BY 2.0 · cropped · Source
Tobi Lütke
Benjamin Forrest · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Vinod Khosla
Jay Dixit · CC BY 4.0 · cropped · Source
Vitalik Buterin
John Phillips · CC BY 2.0 · Source
Whitney Wolfe Herd
TechCrunch · CC BY 2.0 · cropped · Source