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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	304,370	4,686
2	Tim O'Reilly – Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media. Watching the alpha geeks, sharing their stories, helping the future unfold.	257,974	1,446
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	252,242	1,731
4	Bernie Sanders – Sen. Bernie Sanders is the longest serving independent in congressional history.	221,561	606
5	Ev Williams – CEO of Medium, partner at Obvious Ventures, co-founder of Twitter, curious consumer of ideas	216,431	2,561
6	Jason Fried – Founder & CEO at Basecamp. Co-author of Getting Real, Remote, and REWORK. http://basecamp.com	213,290	166
7	Larry Kim – CEO of MobileMonkey. Founder of WordStream. Top columnist @Inc ❤️ AdWords, Facebook Advertising, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Start-ups & Venture Capital ????	211,020	5,311
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.	209,558	501
9	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	208,587	3,517
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.	205,218	202
11	Biz Stone – Dad, husband, entrepreneur.	204,668	372
12	Darius Foroux – Creator of the Stoic Letter (new letter comes out every Friday) \| Author of 7 books and 6 courses at dariusforoux.com	193,184	3,546
13	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	169,725	5,249
14	Umair Haque – vampire.	169,630	567
15	Sarah Cooper – Writer & Comedian	152,293	2,513
16	Chris Dixon – www.cdixon.org/about	150,687	2,529
17	Dave Pell – I write NextDraft, a quick and entertaining look at the day’s most fascinating news.	150,196	527
18	Nir Eyal – Author of “Hooked” and “Indistractable.” Want to overcome distraction? Get my free 80-page guide to becoming “Indistractable” at: NirAndFar.com	149,845	2,480
19	Wil Wheaton – Wizard. Time Lord. Fake geek girl. On a good day I am charming as fuck.	143,546	108
20	Anil Dash – CEO of @Glitch. Trying to make tech more ethical & humane. (Also an advisor to Medium.) More: http://anildash.com/	132,058	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.	131,169	106
22	Kevin Rose – Builder. Meditator. Husband of @summertomato, father to Zelda & Toaster.	128,389	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	118,994	1,109
24	Steven Levy – Writing for Wired, Used to edit Backchannel here. Just wrote Facebook: The Inside Story.	112,476	556
25	Eric Elliott – Make some magic. #JavaScript	107,023	7,051
26	Jason Calacanis – I angel invest in awesome startups... and try to build them myself. Be excellent to each other.	104,805	13,126
27	Jeff Goins – Writer. Speaker. Entrepreneur. Father of two. Bestselling author of 5 books. Read more at goinswriter.com.	99,992	11,668
28	Tobias van Schneider – Self-taught Designer & Maker. Un-Employed. Founder of https://www.semplice.com/ Formerly Spotify — More About me: http://www.vanschneider.com	99,641	711
29	Hunter Walk – You’ll find me @homebrew , Seed Stage Venture Fund w @satyap . Previously made products at YouTube, Google & SecondLife. Married to @cbarlerin .	95,587	2,759
30	Dave McClure –	93,893	10,369
31	Steve Blank – The Father of Modern Entrepreneurship	91,900	7
32	Mike Monteiro – English is my second language. You were my first.	90,317	552
33	John Rampton – Entrepreneur, Writer, Online Marketing Guy, Blogger, Husband and Full Time Computer Nerd. Founder @Calendar and @Due	90,121	112,475
34	Ben Horowitz – VC, Blogger, and Author of http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Ben-Horowitz/?isbn=9780062273208.	88,223	130
35	Chris Sacca – I love @crystale. Sometimes on @ABCSharkTank. Early investor: @Twitter @Uber @Twilio @Instagram. Now working to give back. https://chrissacca.com/	87,582	642
36	Kris Gage – Writer — www.krisgage.com reach me at krisgagemedium (at) gmail (dot) com	87,255	19
37	Niklas Goeke – I write for dreamers, doers, and unbroken optimists. For my best writing and book updates 1–2 times/month, you can be my email friend: https://niklasgoeke.com/	86,176	64
38	Addy Osmani – Eng. Manager at Google working on Chrome • Passionate about making the web fast.	86,149	887
39	Robert Scoble – Spatial Computing Research at Infinite Retina.	85,168	26,445
40	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.	85,046	1,114
41	Eric Ries – Trying to change how startups are built.	81,360	549
42	Brianna Wiest – Writer. For my books and more, visit briannawiest.com.	80,973	57
43	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	75,386	3,056
44	Ethan Siegel – The Universe is: Expanding, cooling, and dark. It starts with a bang! #Cosmology Science writer, astrophysicist, science communicator & NASA columnist.	72,280	332
45	Preethi Kasireddy – I do not publish on Medium any longer. You can find my latest writings here: www.preethikasireddy.com	72,193	317
46	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.	71,231	681
47	Om Malik – Partner at True Ventures. Founder of GigaOM.	71,195	1,206
48	Brian Chesky – Co-founder, CEO of Airbnb	70,454	379
49	Nick Babich – Editor-in-chief of UX Planet (https://uxplanet.org). http://babich.biz	67,253	62
50	Todd Brison – An optimist who writes. www.toddbrison.com/infinite-ideas	66,591	418

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