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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	302,146	4,623
2	Tim O'Reilly – Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media. Watching the alpha geeks, sharing their stories, helping the future unfold.	256,870	1,434
3	Benjamin P. Hardy – Organizational Psychologist. Husband and father of 5 living in Orlando. New book: Personality Isn’t Permanent: https://benjaminhardy.com	242,900	1,556
4	Bernie Sanders – Sen. Bernie Sanders is the longest serving independent in congressional history.	219,900	606
5	Jason Fried – Founder & CEO at Basecamp. Co-author of Getting Real, Remote, and REWORK. http://basecamp.com	212,664	158
6	Ev Williams – CEO of Medium, partner at Obvious Ventures, co-founder of Twitter, thinker of thoughts	212,030	2,312
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	207,778	3,514
8	Biz Stone – Dad, husband, entrepreneur.	204,239	367
9	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.	203,433	494
10	Hillary Clinton – Wife, mom, grandma, women+kids advocate, FLOTUS, Senator, SecState, hair icon, pantsuit aficionado, 2016 presidential candidate.	202,458	132
11	Larry Kim – CEO of MobileMonkey. Founder of WordStream. Top columnist @Inc ❤️ AdWords, Facebook Advertising, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Start-ups & Venture Capital ????	200,498	5,130
12	Thomas Oppong – Founder @AllTopStartups \| Featured at Forbes, BI, etc. I share practical tools for productivity, wealth, health and happiness at https://postanly.substack.com	187,188	26,633
13	Darius Foroux – Grab my free Growth Kit: 6 resources with proven tips for optimizing your life and work dariusforoux.com/growth-kit	170,749	3,422
14	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. ????	167,109	1,331
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	167,065	5,172
16	Chris Dixon – www.cdixon.org/about	150,222	2,511
17	Umair Haque – vampire.	149,762	521
18	Sarah Cooper – Writer & Comedian	147,261	2,476
19	Dave Pell – I write NextDraft, a quick and entertaining look at the day’s most fascinating news.	143,222	511
20	Nir Eyal – Want to overcome distraction? Get my free 80-page guide to becoming “Indistractable” at: NirAndFar.com	140,738	2,029
21	Wil Wheaton – Wizard. Time Lord. Fake geek girl. On a good day I am charming as fuck.	136,145	96
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.	131,423	101
23	Kevin Rose – Builder. Meditator. Husband of @summertomato, father to Zelda & Toaster.	128,109	521
24	Anil Dash – CEO of @Glitch. Trying to make tech more ethical & humane. (Also an advisor to Medium.) More: http://anildash.com/	123,476	2,572
25	Seth Godin – Founder of altMBA, the Marketing Seminar etc. Daily blogger, teacher, speaker, 18 bestsellers as well...	120,931	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	114,760	1,102
27	Steven Levy – Writing for Wired, Used to edit Backchannel here. Just wrote Facebook: The Inside Story.	111,736	553
28	Jason Calacanis – I angel invest in awesome startups... and try to build them myself. Be excellent to each other.	104,461	12,931
29	Eric Elliott – Make some magic. #JavaScript	99,976	7,017
30	Jeff Goins – Writer. Speaker. Entrepreneur. Father of two. Bestselling author of 5 books. Read more at goinswriter.com.	98,908	12,436
31	Tobias van Schneider – Self-taught Designer & Maker. Un-Employed. Founder of https://www.semplice.com/ Formerly Spotify — More About me: http://www.vanschneider.com	98,195	686
32	Dave McClure –	93,941	10,318
33	Reid Hoffman – Entrepreneur. Investor. Strategist.	91,089	365
34	Steve Blank – The Father of Modern Entrepreneurship	89,949	7
35	John Rampton – Entrepreneur, Writer, Online Marketing Guy, Blogger, Husband and Full Time Computer Nerd. Founder @Calendar and @Due	89,335	112,095
36	Hunter Walk – Funding exciting startups via @Homebrew	88,740	2,707
37	Mike Monteiro – English is my second language. You were my first.	88,139	548
38	Ben Horowitz – VC, Blogger, and Author of http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Ben-Horowitz/?isbn=9780062273208.	87,277	129
39	Chris Sacca – I love @crystale. Sometimes on @ABCSharkTank. Early investor: @Twitter @Uber @Twilio @Instagram. Now working to give back. https://chrissacca.com/	87,086	639
40	Addy Osmani – Eng. Manager at Google working on Chrome • Passionate about making the web fast.	85,048	886
41	Robert Scoble – Spatial Computing Research at Infinite Retina.	84,956	26,410
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.	83,822	1,049
43	Kris Gage – Writer — www.krisgage.com reach me at krisgagemedium@gmail.com	83,469	18
44	Eric Ries – Trying to change how startups are built.	80,344	548
45	Brianna Wiest – I write for people who are ready to transform their lives. Sign up for more here: briannawiest.com/subscribe	75,348	47
46	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	74,777	3,041
47	Preethi Kasireddy – I do not publish on Medium any longer. You can find my latest writings here: www.preethikasireddy.com	71,592	212
48	Om Malik – Partner at True Ventures. Founder of GigaOM.	70,930	1,206
49	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.	70,759	672
50	Brian Chesky – Co-founder, CEO of Airbnb	68,247	177

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