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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	304,960	4,686
2	Tim O'Reilly – Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media. Watching the alpha geeks, sharing their stories, helping the future unfold.	258,217	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	252,612	1,731
4	Bernie Sanders – Sen. Bernie Sanders is the longest serving independent in congressional history.	221,746	606
5	Ev Williams – CEO of Medium, partner at Obvious Ventures, co-founder of Twitter, curious consumer of ideas	217,963	2,588
6	Larry Kim – CEO of MobileMonkey. Founder of WordStream. Top columnist @Inc ❤️ AdWords, Facebook Advertising, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Start-ups & Venture Capital ????	215,658	5,310
7	Jason Fried – Founder & CEO at Basecamp. Co-author of Getting Real, Remote, and REWORK. http://basecamp.com	213,458	166
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.	210,876	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	208,811	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.	205,388	202
11	Biz Stone – Dad, husband, entrepreneur.	204,727	372
12	Darius Foroux – Author of 7 books, including Think Straight \| My online course, Wealth Strategies, is now free: dariusforoux.com/wealth-strategies	203,888	3,403
13	Umair Haque – vampire.	175,255	567
14	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	170,046	5,248
15	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	157,179	2,483
16	Sarah Cooper – Writer & Comedian	152,417	2,513
17	Chris Dixon – www.cdixon.org/about	150,843	2,529
18	Dave Pell – I write NextDraft, a quick and entertaining look at the day’s most fascinating news.	150,730	527
19	Wil Wheaton – Wizard. Time Lord. Fake geek girl. On a good day I am charming as fuck.	144,314	108
20	Anil Dash – CEO of @Glitch. Trying to make tech more ethical & humane. (Also an advisor to Medium.) More: http://anildash.com/	133,361	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.	131,245	106
22	Kevin Rose – Builder. Meditator. Husband of @summertomato, father to Zelda & Toaster.	128,422	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	119,884	1,109
24	Steven Levy – Writing for Wired, Used to edit Backchannel here. Just wrote Facebook: The Inside Story.	112,470	556
25	Eric Elliott – Make some magic. #JavaScript	108,082	7,052
26	Jason Calacanis – I angel invest in awesome startups... and try to build them myself. Be excellent to each other.	104,830	13,126
27	Hunter Walk – You’ll find me @homebrew , Seed Stage Venture Fund w @satyap . Previously made products at YouTube, Google & SecondLife. Married to @cbarlerin .	101,152	2,760
28	Jeff Goins – Writer. Speaker. Entrepreneur. Father of two. Bestselling author of 5 books. Read more at goinswriter.com.	100,074	11,668
29	Tobias van Schneider – Self-taught Designer & Maker. Un-Employed. Founder of https://www.semplice.com/ Formerly Spotify — More About me: http://www.vanschneider.com	100,013	711
30	Dave McClure –	93,884	10,375
31	Steve Blank – The Father of Modern Entrepreneurship	92,512	7
32	John Rampton – Entrepreneur, Writer, Online Marketing Guy, Blogger, Husband and Full Time Computer Nerd. Founder @Calendar and @Due	90,925	112,474
33	Mike Monteiro – English is my second language. You were my first.	90,596	552
34	Niklas Goeke – I write for dreamers, doers, and unbroken optimists. For my best articles & book updates, go here: https://niklasgoeke.com/	90,273	65
35	Ben Horowitz – VC, Blogger, and Author of http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Ben-Horowitz/?isbn=9780062273208.	88,340	130
36	Chris Sacca – I love @crystale. Sometimes on @ABCSharkTank. Early investor: @Twitter @Uber @Twilio @Instagram. Now working to give back. https://chrissacca.com/	87,607	642
37	Kris Gage – Writer — www.krisgage.com reach me at krisgagemedium (at) gmail (dot) com	87,357	19
38	Addy Osmani – Eng. Manager at Google working on Chrome • Passionate about making the web fast.	86,365	887
39	Robert Scoble – Spatial Computing Research at Infinite Retina.	85,157	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.	85,130	1,116
41	Ethan Siegel – The Universe is: Expanding, cooling, and dark. It starts with a bang! #Cosmology Science writer, astrophysicist, science communicator & NASA columnist.	82,263	332
42	Brianna Wiest – Author of 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think and six other collections. Visit briannawiest.com to shop for books and more.	81,501	57
43	Eric Ries – Trying to change how startups are built.	81,402	549
44	Fabricio Teixeira – Designer at Work & Co, Founder of UX Collective — http://twitter.com/fabriciot	76,230	458
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	75,568	3,059
46	Jessica Wildfire – Unfluencer. jessica.wildfire.writer@gmail.com	73,024	419
47	Preethi Kasireddy – I do not publish on Medium any longer. You can find my latest writings here: www.preethikasireddy.com	72,284	318
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.	71,260	681
49	Om Malik – Partner at True Ventures. Founder of GigaOM.	71,180	1,206
50	Brian Chesky – Co-founder, CEO of Airbnb	70,653	379

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