🏆Hall of Fame
Various figures I follow
🏆Hall of Fame
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Entrepreneur
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Founder of Amazon. Transformed retail through e-commerce and cloud computing. Long-term thinking pioneer.
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Entrepreneur
EntrepreneurInvestorVenture Capitalist
Co-founder of PayPal and early investor in Facebook. Known for contrarian thinking and the "Zero to One" philosophy.
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Computer Scientist
AcademicEngineer
American computer scientist, co-creator of the Self programming language — which directly influenced JavaScript and modern language design. In Stanford, he taught programming languages and computer architecture, from 1985 to 1990. In 1991, he joined Sun Microsystems and became a distinguished engineer. In 2006 he was recognized as an ACM Distinguished Engineer and in 2010 a Fellow.[1] From 2007 to 2017, he worked at IBM Research, where he was a member of the Dynamic Optimization Group, and investigated new paradigms including ensemble and subjective programming. From 2017 to 2022, he worked at Apple, where he sped up Swift language compilation. Currently retired, he builds apps for his personal use on various Apple platforms.
Ungar holds over 20 US patents.
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Investor
AcademicInvestor
Father of value investing and Warren Buffett's mentor. Developed the concepts of intrinsic value and margin of safety.
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Entrepreneur
Business ExecutiveEntrepreneur
Co-founder of Apple. Revolutionized personal computing and mobile phones. Master of product design.
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Entrepreneur
Business Executive
CEO of JPMorgan Chase. Known for leadership during financial crises. Runs the largest bank in the USA.
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Investor
Business ExecutiveInvestor
The most successful investor of all time. Known for value investing, buying excellent businesses at a fair price and long-term thinking.
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Investor
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Legendary fund manager who achieved 29% annual returns for 13 years managing the Magellan Fund.
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Investor
Business ExecutiveInvestor
Warren Buffett's long-time partner. Known for multidisciplinary thinking and the mental models approach to decision making.
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Engineer
Engineer
The engineer who designed the Apple I and Apple II. Electronics genius who made computers accessible to everyone.
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Entrepreneur
Business ExecutiveEntrepreneur
Founder of Walmart. Revolutionized retail through everyday low prices and supply chain mastery.
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Entrepreneur
Business ExecutiveEntrepreneur
Turned McDonald's into the world's largest fast food chain through franchising and systematization.
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Entrepreneur
Business Executive
Transformed IBM into a global technology giant. Known for the "THINK" philosophy and corporate culture.
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Entrepreneur
EngineerEntrepreneurInvestorVenture Capitalist
Co-creator of Netscape browser. Co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
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Investor
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Famous for shorting the British pound in 1992. Known for macro trading strategies.
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Legendary stock trader from the early 20th century. Famous for market timing and trading psychology.
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YouTube Channel
Steve Eisman's YouTube channel. A very smart man who appears bored since retirement. His explanations of what's happening in markets and interviews with market professionals are genuinely insightful.
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Investor
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Co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management. Expert in risk management and market cycles.
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Investor
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Achieved 30% annual returns for 30 years without a losing year. Worked with Soros at Quantum Fund.
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Podcast
A podcast by billionaires connected to Silicon Valley tech. This group has an inside view of what's happening in the Valley. Chamath is particularly interesting — super smart but one to listen to critically.
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Engineer
AcademicEngineer
One of the fathers of modern computing. Invented object-oriented programming and the GUI concept at Xerox PARC.
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AI Researcher
Engineer
Co-founder of OpenAI and key architect behind GPT. One of the most influential researchers in deep learning.
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AI Researcher
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Godfather of deep learning. Turing Award winner for his work on neural networks. Left Google in 2023.
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Engineer
Engineer
Inventor of the World Wide Web. Made the internet accessible to everyone through HTTP and HTML.
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Engineer
Engineer
Creator of the Linux kernel and Git. One of the most impactful figures in modern software.
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Engineer
Engineer
Creator of Extreme Programming, JUnit, and Test-Driven Development. Foundational figure in the Smalltalk and software-patterns community.
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Engineer
AcademicEngineer
Chief AI Scientist at Meta and Turing Award laureate. Pioneer of convolutional neural networks and deep learning.
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Engineer
Engineer
Former Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks. Authority on software architecture, refactoring, and microservices. His landmark books shaped a generation of engineers.
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Author
Wrote my favorite book of all time, Lonesome Dove.
Larry Jeff McMurtry was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas. During a career spanning six decades, he wrote more than thirty novels, numerous essays and memoirs, and approximately fifty screenplays.
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AcademicEconomist
was an English economist whose writings are considered the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics, as well as its various offshoots.[7] Originally trained in mathematics, he built on and refined earlier work on the causes of business cycles.[8] His ideas, further developed after his death as New Keynesianism, are seen as foundational to mainstream macroeconomics. He has been referred to as the "father of macroeconomics"[9] and is considered one of the most influential economists of the 20th century.
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AcademicEconomist
was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy.[4] With George Stigler, Friedman was among the intellectual leaders of the Chicago school of economics, a neoclassical school of economic thought associated with the faculty at the University of Chicago that rejected Keynesianism in favor of monetarism before shifting their focus to new classical macroeconomics in the mid-1970s.
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AcademicEconomist
Thomas Sowell (/soʊl/ SOHL; born June 30, 1930) is an American economist, economic historian, and social theorist. With widely published commentary and books—and as a guest on TV and radio—he is a well-known voice in the American conservative movement as a prominent black conservative.[1][2][3] He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution[4][5] and was a recipient of the National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush in 2002.[6][a]