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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	306,542	4,686
2	Tim O'Reilly – Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media. Watching the alpha geeks, sharing their stories, helping the future unfold.	258,812	1,447
3	Benjamin P. Hardy – I’m currently making daily videos on YouTube and you can connect with me here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC07WXGmXVbNrv3VMOp5DvDw?sub_confirmation=1	253,599	1,731
4	Darius Foroux – Creator of the Stoic Letter (new letter comes out every Friday, exclusively on Medium) \| Author of 7 books and 6 courses at dariusforoux.com	237,114	3,402
5	Larry Kim – CEO of MobileMonkey. Founder of WordStream. Top columnist @Inc ❤️ AdWords, Facebook Advertising, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Start-ups & Venture Capital ????	235,284	5,310
6	Bernie Sanders – Sen. Bernie Sanders is the longest serving independent in congressional history.	222,190	606
7	Ev Williams – CEO of Medium, partner at Obvious Ventures, co-founder of Twitter, aspiring motivational speaker ????‍♂️	221,856	2,674
8	Julie Zhuo – Currently: Inspirit. Former Product Design VP @ FB. Author of The Making of a Manager https://amzn.to/2PRwCyW. Find me @joulee. I love people, words, and food.	213,966	501
9	Jason Fried – Founder & CEO at Basecamp. Co-author of Getting Real, Remote, and REWORK. http://basecamp.com	213,829	166
10	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	209,497	3,517
11	Hillary Clinton – 2016 Democratic Nominee, SecState, Senator, hair icon. Mom, Wife, Grandma x3, lawyer, advocate, fan of walks in the woods & standing up for our democracy.	205,670	202
12	Biz Stone – Dad, husband, entrepreneur.	205,066	372
13	Umair Haque – vampire.	187,809	567
14	Nir Eyal – Posts may contain affiliate links to my two books, “Hooked” and “Indistractable.” Get my free 80-page guide to being Indistractable at: NirAndFar.com	182,016	2,493
15	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	170,519	5,248
16	Sarah Cooper – Writer & Comedian	152,731	2,513
17	Chris Dixon – www.cdixon.org/about	151,962	2,529
18	Dave Pell – I write NextDraft, a quick and entertaining look at the day’s most fascinating news.	151,647	528
19	Wil Wheaton – Wizard. Time Lord. Fake geek girl. On a good day I am charming as fuck.	148,142	108
20	Anil Dash – CEO of @Glitch. Trying to make tech more ethical & humane. (Also an advisor to Medium.) More: http://anildash.com/	133,713	2,597
21	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.	131,398	106
22	Kevin Rose – Builder. Meditator. Husband of @summertomato, father to Zelda & Toaster.	128,604	525
23	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	124,857	1,109
24	Ethan Siegel – The Universe is: Expanding, cooling, and dark. It starts with a bang! #Cosmology Science writer, astrophysicist, science communicator & NASA columnist.	115,998	332
25	Hunter Walk – You’ll find me @homebrew , Seed Stage Venture Fund w @satyap . Previously made products at YouTube, Google & SecondLife. Married to @cbarlerin .	115,405	2,765
26	Fabricio Teixeira – Designer at Work & Co, Founder of UX Collective — http://twitter.com/fabriciot	115,276	461
27	Steven Levy – Writing for Wired, Used to edit Backchannel here. Just wrote Facebook: The Inside Story.	112,600	557
28	Eric Elliott – Make some magic. #JavaScript	111,665	7,062
29	Jason Calacanis – I angel invest in awesome startups... and try to build them myself. Be excellent to each other.	104,907	13,126
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	101,436	711
31	Jeff Goins – Writer. Speaker. Entrepreneur. Father of two. Bestselling author of 5 books. Read more at goinswriter.com.	100,372	11,668
32	Jessica Wildfire – Unfluencer. \| Also on Substack: https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/ jessica.wildfire.writer@gmail.com	96,329	299
33	Steve Blank – The Father of Modern Entrepreneurship	94,456	7
34	Dave McClure –	93,858	10,388
35	John Rampton – Entrepreneur, Writer, Online Marketing Guy, Blogger, Husband and Full Time Computer Nerd. Founder @Calendar and @Due	92,765	112,474
36	Niklas Goeke – I write for dreamers, doers, and unbroken optimists. For my best articles & book updates, go here: https://niklasgoeke.com/	92,560	70
37	Mike Monteiro – English is my second language. You were my first.	90,904	552
38	Ben Horowitz – VC, Blogger, and Author of http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Ben-Horowitz/?isbn=9780062273208.	88,624	130
39	Kris Gage – Writer — www.krisgage.com reach me at krisgagemedium (at) gmail (dot) com	87,665	19
40	Chris Sacca – I love @crystale. Sometimes on @ABCSharkTank. Early investor: @Twitter @Uber @Twilio @Instagram. Now working to give back. https://chrissacca.com/	87,646	642
41	Addy Osmani – Eng. Manager at Google working on Chrome • Passionate about making the web fast.	86,941	887
42	Paul Ford – Co-founder, https://postlight.com, a digital product studio in NYC. Also writer, Medium advisor, programmer. Any port in a storm, especially ports 80 and 443.	85,332	1,120
43	Robert Scoble – Spatial Computing Research at Infinite Retina.	85,137	26,445
44	Brianna Wiest – Author of 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, The Mountain Is You and others. Visit briannawiest.com to find my books and more.	84,795	57
45	Eric Ries – Trying to change how startups are built.	81,557	549
46	Owen Williams – Fascinated by how code and design is shaping the world. I write about the why behind tech news. UX Manager @ Shopify. https://twitter.com/ow	79,601	1,044
47	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	75,961	3,061
48	Nick Babich – Editor-in-chief of UX Planet (https://uxplanet.org). http://babich.biz	72,649	62
49	Preethi Kasireddy – I do not publish on Medium any longer. You can find my latest writings here: www.preethikasireddy.com	72,572	323
50	Todd Brison – Write your book with me and Tim Denning https://badasseryacademy.teachable.com/p/amazon-books	71,921	431

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