Entities

Co-founder of Intel Corporation and author of Moore's Law. Created the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which has donated over $5 billion to science, environmental conservation, and healthcare. Died March 24, 2023.

Co-founder and President of OpenAI. Previously CTO of Stripe. Major political donor and co-founder of the Leading the Future super PAC focused on AI policy.

Creator of the Python programming language. Served as Python's 'Benevolent Dictator for Life' until stepping down in 2018. Currently Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. Known advocate for diversity in tech and open source sustainability.

Swiss billionaire entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Checkout.com. Net worth approximately $7.8 billion. Moved residency from UK to Monaco in May 2025 to avoid tax changes. Known for strict return-to-office policy.

Founder and CEO of Vercel. Creator of Socket.IO and other open source projects. Argentine-American entrepreneur.

Founder, Chairman and CEO of Rakuten Group. Representative Director of Japan Association of New Economy (JANE). Withdrew Rakuten from Keidanren business federation in 2011. Donated $8.7M personally to Ukraine in 2022; banned from Russia in 2024.

Co-founder and CEO of Clearview AI. Australian-born entrepreneur who built a facial recognition system by scraping billions of images from the internet. Has defended the technology as a tool for law enforcement despite widespread privacy criticism.

CEO of Broadcom since 2006. Malaysian-American businessman. Third-highest-paid CEO in the US in 2023. Also serves on Meta's board of directors.

Co-founder and former Chief Scientist of OpenAI. Led the board's ouster of Sam Altman in November 2023. Left OpenAI in May 2024 to co-found Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), a company focused exclusively on AI safety.

Co-founder and CEO of Block (formerly Square), co-founder and former CEO of Twitter. Known for Bitcoin advocacy and libertarian political views. Has shifted from progressive to more libertarian political alignment.

Chinese business magnate, co-founder of Alibaba Group. Stepped back from public life after criticizing Chinese regulators in 2020. One of China's most prominent tech entrepreneurs.

AI safety researcher, former Head of Alignment and Superalignment co-lead at OpenAI. Resigned in May 2024 criticizing OpenAI's prioritization of 'shiny products' over safety. Now leads alignment research at Anthropic.

Founder and CEO of California Forever, the Silicon Valley-backed real estate development company that secretly purchased over 50,000 acres of farmland in Solano County through subsidiary Flannery Associates. Former Goldman Sachs trader.

Founder and executive chairman of Amazon. Owner of The Washington Post and Blue Origin aerospace company.

Co-founder of Twilio (CEO until 2024). Major Democratic donor ($7M+ in 2020 cycle). Co-founded DemocracyFirst PAC to oppose Trump-aligned candidates. Now owns The Onion.

Co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA. Taiwanese-American entrepreneur who built NVIDIA into the dominant AI chip supplier.

Co-founder of Y Combinator (2005). Known for her role in evaluating founder character and building YC's culture. Author of 'Founders at Work'. Founded the Female Founders Conference in 2013. Major Democratic donor. Married to YC co-founder Paul Graham.

Co-founder of Wikipedia and founder of the Wikimedia Foundation. Holds the Founder's Seat on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Known for advocacy on free knowledge, press freedom, and criticism of AI hallucination problems. British citizen since 2019.

CEO and co-founder of Wysa. Named World Economic Forum Top Innovator 2022. Built AI mental health platform used in 65 countries with 400M+ conversations.

Co-founder of Airbnb who still sits on the company's board. Joined Elon Musk's DOGE initiative in January 2025, revealed he voted for Trump, and attended RFK Jr's confirmation hearing. Airbnb distanced itself from his views.

Co-founder and President of Stripe. Brother of CEO Patrick Collison. Born in Ireland, became youngest self-made billionaire in 2016. Oversees Stripe's business operations and expansion.

Venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins. Early investor in Google, Amazon, Netscape, and many other major tech companies. One of the most successful VCs in Silicon Valley history.

Creator of jQuery, the most widely used JavaScript library. Chief Software Architect at Khan Academy since 2011, where he leads open source and engineering efforts for free education. Also created Ukiyo-e.org for digital humanities research.

General Partner at Founders Fund. Part of the PayPal Mafia. Previously executive at PayPal, LinkedIn, and Square. Major Republican donor and vocal supporter of Trump. Known for outspoken political views in tech.

Estonian billionaire entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Wise (formerly TransferWise). Founded the company in 2011 with Taavet Hinrikus. Previously worked at Deloitte and PwC. Fined by HMRC and FCA for tax default and failure to disclose regulatory issues.

Co-founder and CTO of Oracle, one of the world's wealthiest people. Close ally of Donald Trump, appeared at White House for Stargate AI announcement. Hosted Trump fundraiser in 2020.

Co-founder of Google and former CEO of Alphabet. Known for being extremely private, he stepped down from Alphabet in 2019 but remains a board member and controlling shareholder.

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary and Harvard University president. Served on OpenAI's board from November 2023 until resigning in November 2025 following revelations of extensive email communications with Jeffrey Epstein.

Executive Chairman of Samsung Electronics since 2022. Son of late Chairman Lee Kun-hee. Convicted of bribery in 2017, served 18 months in prison, and was pardoned by President Yoon in 2022. Leads Samsung's global semiconductor expansion.

Co-founder and former CEO of Dangdang.com, one of China's largest e-commerce book retailers. Notably one of the few Chinese tech CEOs who publicly opposed 996 work culture during 2019 protests.

Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (2021-2025). Youngest FTC chair in history. Pursued aggressive antitrust actions against Big Tech including challenging the Microsoft-Activision merger, Amazon Prime practices, and Meta's acquisitions. Author of influential 'Amazon's Antitrust Paradox' paper.

Creator of the Linux kernel and Git version control system. Employed by the Linux Foundation as principal developer of Linux. Known for direct communication style and as the archetype of the 'Benevolent Dictator for Life' open source governance model.

CEO of AMD since 2014. Taiwanese-American electrical engineer credited with AMD's turnaround. First woman to lead a major semiconductor company.

Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz. Created Mosaic and Netscape browsers. Major Trump donor and advisor spending 'half his time' at Mar-a-Lago.

Co-founder and CEO of Salesforce. Owner of Time magazine. Known for corporate activism on social issues. Historically a Democratic donor.

Former Yahoo CEO (2012-2017). Google employee #20, first female engineer at Google. Led Yahoo through massive data breaches, NSA surveillance controversy, and sale to Verizon. Known for work-from-home ban.

Co-founder and CEO of Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook). One of the world's wealthiest individuals.

Swedish programmer and video game designer, creator of Minecraft and founder of Mojang. Sold Mojang to Microsoft in 2014 for $2.5 billion. Subsequently became controversial for inflammatory social media posts, leading Microsoft to distance itself from him.

Estonian entrepreneur. Founder and CEO of Bolt. Europe's youngest self-made billionaire (age 27). Donated €220K+ to Estonian political parties while lobbying against EU worker protections. Strong Ukraine supporter.

Founder, Chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group. Known for early investment in Alibaba and creation of Vision Fund. Chairman of the Stargate Project AI infrastructure joint venture with OpenAI and Oracle.

Co-creator of WordPress and CEO of Automattic. Controls WordPress.org and the WordPress Foundation. Central figure in the 2024-2025 WP Engine legal dispute over open source governance and trademark control.

Former eBay CEO (1998-2008), HP/HPE CEO (2011-2018), Quibi CEO (2018-2020). US Ambassador to Kenya (2022-present). Ran for California Governor (2010), spending record $144M. Known for housekeeper scandal, mass HP layoffs.

Co-founder and CEO of Canva. Along with husband Cliff Obrecht, pledged 80% of equity (~$6B+) to philanthropy through Giving Pledge and Canva Foundation.

Y Combinator's first Black partner (2014), former Managing Director and CEO (2016-2024), now Partner Emeritus. Co-founded Justin.tv which became Twitch. Board member at Reddit and Dropbox. Known for significantly increasing diversity at YC.

Co-founder and Co-CEO of Atlassian. Major climate activist who became largest shareholder in AGL to accelerate coal plant closures. Named to TIME100 Climate 2023.

Former CTO of OpenAI (2018-2024). Served as interim CEO during Sam Altman's brief ouster in November 2023. Left OpenAI in September 2024 to start her own AI company.

Former CEO and Chair of Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation. Led Mozilla from 2005 to 2024. Stepped down as CEO in February 2024, left Mozilla entirely in February 2025. Her compensation ($6.9M in 2022) became controversial amid mass layoffs and Firefox's decline from 32% to under 3% market share.

Co-founder of HashiCorp, creator of Vagrant, Terraform, and other infrastructure tools. Served as CEO (2012-2016) then CTO (2016-2021). Departed HashiCorp in December 2023, four months after the controversial BSL license switch. Now an independent developer working on the Ghostty terminal emulator.

CEO of Microsoft AI. Co-founder of DeepMind (acquired by Google) and Inflection AI. Joined Microsoft in March 2024. Author of 'The Coming Wave' on AI risks.

Co-founder of AngelList. Influential angel investor in tech startups including Twitter, Uber, and crypto companies. Known for philosophical tweets on wealth and happiness.