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	Name	Followers	Following
1	Gary Vaynerchuk – Family first! But after that, businessman. CEO of @vaynermedia. Host of #DailyVee & The #AskGaryVee Show. A dude who loves The Hustle @Winelibrary & the @NYJets	300,341	4,623
2	Tim O'Reilly – Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media. Watching the alpha geeks, sharing their stories, helping the future unfold.	256,579	1,434
3	Benjamin P. Hardy – Want to achieve more in 2020 than you did since 2010? Watch this: https://www.ampmentoring.com/your-best-year-ever-2020	235,977	1,552
4	Bernie Sanders – Sen. Bernie Sanders is the longest serving independent in congressional history.	219,814	606
5	Jason Fried – Founder & CEO at Basecamp. Co-author of Getting Real, Remote, and REWORK. http://basecamp.com	212,138	158
6	Ev Williams – CEO of Medium, partner at Obvious Ventures, co-founder of Twitter, thinker of thoughts	210,305	2,276
7	Marc Andreessen – 'Andreessen is the quintessential guy who is wrong with corporate America...Hard to hear, talks with a squeaky voice that only a dog can understand.'–Carl Icahn	207,459	3,514
8	Biz Stone – Co-founder of Twitter, Medium, and Jelly. Dad, husband, author, and inventor.	204,053	365
9	Hillary Clinton – Wife, mom, grandma, women+kids advocate, FLOTUS, Senator, SecState, hair icon, pantsuit aficionado, 2016 presidential candidate.	202,456	132
10	Julie Zhuo – Product design VP @ Facebook. Author of The Making of a Manager https://amzn.to/2PRwCyW. Find me @joulee. I love people, words, and food.	200,381	494
11	Larry Kim – CEO of MobileMonkey. Founder of WordStream. Top columnist @Inc ❤️ AdWords, Facebook Advertising, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Start-ups & Venture Capital ????	199,081	5,127
12	James Altucher – For some reason, I’ve turned myself inside out and all my guts have spilled onto my blog. One day I’ll run out of stuff but not yet. http://bit.ly/2blmiaG	166,318	5,171
13	M.G. Siegler – General Partner @ GV (née Google Ventures). In past lives I wrote at TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and ParisLemon. A man of few words. Except when writing. ????	166,197	1,330
14	Darius Foroux – A new article comes out every Monday and Thursday. I write about productivity, habits, decision making, and personal finance http://dariusforoux.com/	161,374	3,404
15	Thomas Oppong – Founder at AllTopStartups \| Author \| Creator of Thinking in Models and Kaizen Habits \| Featured at Inc. Magazine, Business Insider, Forbes, Entrepreneur, etc.	160,771	26,617
16	Chris Dixon – www.cdixon.org/about	150,029	2,511
17	Sarah Cooper – Writer & Comedian	144,613	2,476
18	Dave Pell – I write NextDraft, a quick and entertaining look at the day’s most fascinating news.	142,685	508
19	Nir Eyal – Author of “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products” and “Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.” Blogging at: NirAndFar.com	139,467	2,020
20	Wil Wheaton – Wizard. Time Lord. Fake geek girl. On a good day I am charming as fuck.	135,543	94
21	Umair Haque – vampire.	132,765	521
22	DHH – Creator of Ruby on Rails, Founder & CTO at Basecamp (formerly 37signals), NYT Best-selling author of REWORK and REMOTE, and Le Mans class-winning racing driver.	130,917	101
23	Kevin Rose – Builder. Meditator. Husband of @summertomato, father to Zelda & Toaster.	128,054	521
24	Anil Dash – CEO of @Glitch. Trying to make tech more ethical & humane. (Also an advisor to Medium.) More: http://anildash.com/	123,325	2,573
25	Seth Godin – Founder of altMBA, the Marketing Seminar etc. Daily blogger, teacher, speaker, 18 bestsellers as well...	119,950	1
26	Mark Suster – 2x entrepreneur. Sold both companies (last to salesforce.com). Turned VC looking to invest in passionate entrepreneurs — I’m on Twitter at @msuster	113,457	1,102
27	Steven Levy – Writing for Wired, Used to edit Backchannel here. Just wrote Facebook: The Inside Story.	111,294	552
28	Jason Calacanis – I angel invest in awesome startups... and try to build them myself. Be excellent to each other.	104,423	12,928
29	Jeff Goins – Writer. Speaker. Entrepreneur. Father of two & husband to Ashley. Bestselling author of 5 books. Read more at goinswriter.com.	97,605	12,436
30	Tobias van Schneider – Self-taught Designer & Maker. Un-Employed. Founder of https://www.semplice.com/ Formerly Spotify — More About me: http://www.vanschneider.com	97,266	686
31	Eric Elliott – Make some magic. #JavaScript	96,025	7,000
32	Dave McClure –	93,941	10,301
33	Reid Hoffman – Entrepreneur. Investor. Strategist.	90,691	365
34	John Rampton – Entrepreneur, Writer, Online Marketing Guy, Blogger, Husband and Full Time Computer Nerd. Founder @Calendar and @Due	89,189	112,096
35	Steve Blank – The Father of Modern Entrepreneurship	88,791	7
36	Hunter Walk – Funding exciting startups via @Homebrew	87,873	2,687
37	Mike Monteiro – English is my second language. You were my first.	87,438	547
38	Chris Sacca – I love @crystale. Sometimes on @ABCSharkTank. Early investor: @Twitter @Uber @Twilio @Instagram. Now working to give back. https://chrissacca.com/	87,072	639
39	Ben Horowitz – VC, Blogger, and Author of http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Ben-Horowitz/?isbn=9780062273208.	86,926	129
40	Robert Scoble – Spatial Computing Research at Infinite Retina.	84,977	26,401
41	Addy Osmani – Eng. Manager at Google working on Chrome • Passionate about making the web fast.	84,169	885
42	Paul Ford – CEO, https://postlight.com, a digital product studio in NYC. Also writer, Medium advisor, programmer. Any port in a storm, especially ports 80 and 443.	83,616	1,045
43	Eric Ries – Trying to change how startups are built.	80,228	548
44	Kris Gage – Writer — www.krisgage.com reach me at krisgagemedium@gmail.com	80,088	19
45	Jeffrey Zeldman – studio.zeldman. Designing With Web Standards. A List Apart magazine. An Event Apart design conference. A Book Apart publications. The Big Web Show. zeldman.com	74,625	3,037
46	Preethi Kasireddy – I do not publish on Medium any longer. You can find my latest writings here: www.preethikasireddy.com	71,391	210
47	Om Malik – Partner at True Ventures. Founder of GigaOM.	70,953	1,206
48	Brad Feld – I'm a managing director at Foundry Group. I live in Boulder, Colorado, invest in software and Internet companies around the US, run marathons, and read a lot.	70,508	665
49	Brian Chesky – Co-founder, CEO of Airbnb	67,527	177
50	Ethan Siegel – The Universe is: Expanding, cooling, and dark. It starts with a bang! #Cosmology Science writer, astrophysicist, science communicator & NASA columnist.	63,141	322

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