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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	302,479	4,623
2	Tim O'Reilly – Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media. Watching the alpha geeks, sharing their stories, helping the future unfold.	256,935	1,435
3	Benjamin P. Hardy – Organizational Psychologist. Husband and father of 5 living in Orlando. New book: Personality Isn’t Permanent: https://benjaminhardy.com	244,238	1,556
4	Bernie Sanders – Sen. Bernie Sanders is the longest serving independent in congressional history.	219,909	606
5	Jason Fried – Founder & CEO at Basecamp. Co-author of Getting Real, Remote, and REWORK. http://basecamp.com	212,836	158
6	Ev Williams – CEO of Medium, partner at Obvious Ventures, co-founder of Twitter, thinker of thoughts	212,569	2,315
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	207,833	3,514
8	Biz Stone – Dad, husband, entrepreneur.	204,267	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.	203,967	494
10	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.	202,582	132
11	Larry Kim – CEO of MobileMonkey. Founder of WordStream. Top columnist @Inc ❤️ AdWords, Facebook Advertising, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Start-ups & Venture Capital ????	200,758	5,131
12	Thomas Oppong – Founder @AllTopStartups \| Contributor at Business Insider. I share tools for productivity, wealth, health and career growth at https://postanly.substack.com	189,984	26,633
13	Darius Foroux – Author of 7 books, including Think Straight. I write about productivity, habits, decision making, and wealth building: dariusforoux.com/	171,735	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. ????	167,416	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	167,196	5,172
16	Umair Haque – vampire.	152,841	521
17	Chris Dixon – www.cdixon.org/about	150,269	2,511
18	Sarah Cooper – Writer & Comedian	147,760	2,476
19	Dave Pell – I write NextDraft, a quick and entertaining look at the day’s most fascinating news.	143,336	511
20	Nir Eyal – Want to overcome distraction? Get my free 80-page guide to becoming “Indistractable” at: NirAndFar.com	140,985	2,029
21	Wil Wheaton – Wizard. Time Lord. Fake geek girl. On a good day I am charming as fuck.	136,585	97
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.	131,538	101
23	Kevin Rose – Builder. Meditator. Husband of @summertomato, father to Zelda & Toaster.	128,123	521
24	Anil Dash – CEO of @Glitch. Trying to make tech more ethical & humane. (Also an advisor to Medium.) More: http://anildash.com/	123,506	2,572
25	Seth Godin – Founder of altMBA, the Marketing Seminar etc. Daily blogger, teacher, speaker, 18 bestsellers as well...	121,131	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	114,946	1,102
27	Steven Levy – Writing for Wired, Used to edit Backchannel here. Just wrote Facebook: The Inside Story.	111,788	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	100,984	7,017
30	Jeff Goins – Writer. Speaker. Entrepreneur. Father of two. Bestselling author of 5 books. Read more at goinswriter.com.	99,017	12,435
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	98,318	686
32	Dave McClure –	93,933	10,320
33	Reid Hoffman – Entrepreneur. Investor. Strategist.	91,143	365
34	Steve Blank – The Father of Modern Entrepreneurship	90,093	7
35	John Rampton – Entrepreneur, Writer, Online Marketing Guy, Blogger, Husband and Full Time Computer Nerd. Founder @Calendar and @Due	89,397	112,094
36	Hunter Walk – Funding exciting startups via @Homebrew	88,870	2,707
37	Mike Monteiro – English is my second language. You were my first.	88,243	549
38	Ben Horowitz – VC, Blogger, and Author of http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Ben-Horowitz/?isbn=9780062273208.	87,325	129
39	Chris Sacca – I love @crystale. Sometimes on @ABCSharkTank. Early investor: @Twitter @Uber @Twilio @Instagram. Now working to give back. https://chrissacca.com/	87,096	640
40	Addy Osmani – Eng. Manager at Google working on Chrome • Passionate about making the web fast.	85,216	886
41	Robert Scoble – Spatial Computing Research at Infinite Retina.	84,958	26,413
42	Kris Gage – Writer — www.krisgage.com reach me at krisgagemedium@gmail.com	83,928	17
43	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.	83,867	1,051
44	Eric Ries – Trying to change how startups are built.	80,365	548
45	Brianna Wiest – Writer, poet. Sign up here: briannawiest.com/newsletter	76,594	51
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	74,808	3,041
47	Preethi Kasireddy – I do not publish on Medium any longer. You can find my latest writings here: www.preethikasireddy.com	71,605	212
48	Om Malik – Partner at True Ventures. Founder of GigaOM.	70,924	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.	70,799	674
50	Brian Chesky – Co-founder, CEO of Airbnb	68,352	177

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