Entities

Co-founder and former CEO of WeWork. Forced to resign in 2019 after IPO collapsed, amid revelations of self-dealing, erratic governance, and unsustainable business model. SoftBank lost billions on WeWork investment.

Chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation and grandson of founder Kiichiro Toyoda. Served as CEO from 2009-2023, now Chairman. Faced record-low shareholder approval (72%) in 2024 amid safety certification scandals across Toyota Group companies.

CEO and co-founder of Palantir Technologies, a data analytics company specializing in government and defense contracts. Controversial due to surveillance technology and ICE contracts.

Israeli entrepreneur and computer scientist. Co-founded Mobileye (acquired by Intel for $15.3B) and OrCam Technologies. OrCam raised $86M and achieved unicorn status but collapsed 2022-2024, shrinking from 400+ employees to several dozen after abandoning vision assistance product for blind users.

British-American computer scientist, founder of Coursera and deeplearning.ai. Former VP and Chief Scientist at Baidu, founding lead of Google Brain. Prominent AI educator and researcher.

CEO of Amazon since July 2021, succeeding Jeff Bezos. Previously founded and led Amazon Web Services (AWS) from 2003-2021.

Welsh entrepreneur, founder and former CEO of Starling Bank. Resigned as CEO in June 2023 following investor disputes over valuation drop. Left board in July 2024 to focus on AI venture. Previously held senior roles at Allied Irish Banks, ABN Amro, and RBS. Made MBE in 2018 and CBE in 2022.

CEO and co-founder of Perplexity AI. Previously held research positions at OpenAI, Google Brain, and DeepMind. Named in TIME100 Most Influential in AI 2024.

CEO and co-founder of Mistral AI. Former research scientist at Google DeepMind Paris. Named in TIME100 innovators 2024. Appointed Knight of the National Order of Merit (France) in 2025.

CEO and Chairman of IBM since April 2020. Previously led IBM's Cloud and Cognitive Software division. Played key role in IBM's Red Hat acquisition.

Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz. Former CEO of Opsware. Shifted from Democratic donor to major Trump supporter in 2022.

Founder and CEO of Ola Electric and Ola Cabs. Known for controversial public exchanges on social media. Co-founded Ola with Ankit Bhati in 2010.

Co-founder of Microsoft and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. One of the world's wealthiest individuals and most influential philanthropists, focusing on global health, poverty, and education.

General Partner at Benchmark Capital. Early investor in Uber, Grubhub, Zillow, and other major consumer tech companies. Known for advocating against excessive VC valuations.

Former CEO of Activision Blizzard (1991-2023). Left after Microsoft acquisition. Tenure marked by workplace culture scandals, sexual harassment lawsuits, and labor disputes.

Creator of the JavaScript programming language and co-founder of Mozilla. Currently CEO of Brave Software, a privacy-focused browser company. Resigned as Mozilla CEO in 2014 after controversy over his 2008 donation supporting California Proposition 8.

Former Salesforce co-CEO (2021-2022) and OpenAI board chair (2023-2024). Co-creator of Google Maps. Currently CEO and co-founder of Sierra, an AI customer service company.

Founder of the Internet Archive with mission of 'universal access to all knowledge.' Previously co-founded WAIS and Alexa Internet. Serves on EFF board. Internet Hall of Fame inductee. Leading advocate for digital preservation and library rights.

Co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. Banned workplace political discussions in 2020. Net worth ~$11B. Removed from Giving Pledge in 2024.

Co-founder and CEO of Airbnb. Notably did not attend Trump's 2025 inauguration, citing that Airbnb's regulations are primarily at city and state level rather than federal.

Founder and former CEO of BYJU'S. Ousted by investors in 2024 amid governance failures. Subject of Enforcement Directorate lookout circular. $533 million in loan proceeds allegedly went missing under his leadership.

Chairman and CEO of TSMC since 2018. Ph.D. from Yale in Electrical Engineering. Oversaw TSMC's $100B+ US investment and expansion into Arizona. Named to Time's 100 most influential people in AI (2024).

Founder and CEO of Social Capital. Former Facebook executive. Known for 'All-In' podcast appearances and SPAC investments. Outspoken on tech and politics.

Creator of LLVM compiler infrastructure, Clang, Swift programming language, and MLIR. Co-founded Modular to build AI infrastructure and the Mojo programming language. Previously at Apple, Tesla (briefly), and Google Brain. Serves on LLVM Foundation board.

CEO of SAP since April 2020. Youngest CEO of a DAX company when appointed. Part of Trump administration's CEO roundtable in 2025.

CEO of Cisco since 2015. Also chairs the Business Roundtable since 2024. Has taken moderate positions on political issues, defending DEI while engaging with Trump administration.

Founder of Pinduoduo, Chinese e-commerce platform. Company had two employee deaths from overwork in early 2021 and fired whistleblower Wang Taixu who exposed extreme working conditions.

Co-founder of Augmental (MIT Media Lab spinoff developing tongue-controlled computer interfaces for people with paralysis). UC Berkeley graduate (CS and Cognitive Science). Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Impact 2023.

Co-founder of Spotify. Stepped down as CEO in September 2025 to become Executive Chairman. Major investor in Helsing, a military AI company.

Co-founder and President of Anthropic. Previously VP of Operations at OpenAI (2018-2021). Left OpenAI alongside her brother Dario Amodei over AI safety concerns.

CEO of Uber since 2017. Former CEO of Expedia. Was a vocal Trump critic in 2017-2018, opposing the travel ban and publicly criticizing Trump, before donating $1M personally to Trump's 2025 inauguration.

Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic. Former VP of Research at OpenAI. Leading voice on AI safety and responsible AI development.

Creator of Ruby on Rails web framework and CTO/co-founder of 37signals (Basecamp, HEY). Outspoken public figure on tech antitrust, workplace culture, and open source. Testified before US Congress on Apple App Store monopoly.

Venture capitalist, PayPal Mafia member, Craft Ventures founder. Appointed as White House AI and Crypto Czar by Trump in December 2024. Major Trump donor and fundraiser who hosted $12M fundraiser in June 2024.

British AI researcher and entrepreneur. Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind. Won 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold. UK Government AI Adviser. Co-authored blog post removing Google's AI weapons pledge.

Medical doctor and founder/CEO of GyroGear, developing hand-stabilizing devices for Parkinson's patients. Earned medical degree at Imperial College London, conducted research at Harvard Medical School and Harvard-MIT's Health Science and Technology Division. GyroGlove recognized by TIME's Best Inventions of 2024.

CEO and co-founder of Unmind. Clinical Psychologist, former NHS. Left NHS after experiencing burnout in his team, volunteered with Samaritans and Mind charity before founding Unmind.

Founder and CEO of Limbic. PhD in Computational Neuroscience. Built the only Class IIa certified mental health AI chatbot in the UK.

CEO of OrCam Technologies, assistive technology company that collapsed 2022-2024, laying off 90% of workforce and abandoning vision assistance products for blind users.

Founder and former CEO of Theranos. Convicted of wire fraud in January 2022 for defrauding investors about the capabilities of Theranos blood testing technology. Sentenced to 11+ years in federal prison.

CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. Owner of X (formerly Twitter). Co-founder of xAI. Major political donor and Trump administration advisor heading DOGE.

Former CEO and co-founder of Stability AI. Resigned in March 2024 amid investor pressure, credibility controversies, and financial mismanagement allegations. Gave up controlling shares by October 2024.

Former CEO of Google (2001-2011) and Executive Chairman of Alphabet (2011-2017). Major Democratic donor and advisor on AI policy to the Pentagon. Founded defense AI companies including White Stork and backs Rebellion Defense.

Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc. Known for limiting Trump's content on Snapchat in 2020, earning criticism from Trump campaign. Democratic donor.

Creator of Vue.js and Vite. Pioneer of sustainable independent open source development, funding his full-time work through community sponsorship since 2016. Founded VoidZero Inc in 2023 to build next-generation JavaScript tooling.

Chinese-American computer scientist, Stanford professor. Former VP and Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud. Known for ImageNet dataset and advocacy for human-centered AI.

Former Facebook product manager who leaked internal documents (the 'Facebook Papers') to the SEC and Wall Street Journal in 2021. Testified before US Congress and European Parliament about Meta's knowledge of platform harms. Previously worked at Google, Pinterest, and Yelp.

Co-founder and President of Valve Corporation, creator of Steam platform and Half-Life franchise. Known for private company structure and innovative gaming business model.

CEO of Y Combinator since January 2023. Previously co-founded Initialized Capital and was an early employee (#10) at Palantir. Active in San Francisco politics, funding moderate candidates and recall campaigns. Controversial for 2024 social media post directed at SF supervisors.

British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist known as the 'Godfather of AI'. Won 2018 Turing Award and 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on deep neural networks. Left Google in 2023 to warn about AI risks.