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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	303,650	4,686
2	Tim O'Reilly – Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media. Watching the alpha geeks, sharing their stories, helping the future unfold.	257,832	1,444
3	Benjamin P. Hardy – Email ben@benjaminhardy.com with subject “Genius Blogging” and get my 6-hour blogging training for free, immediately. This will teach you how to go pro.	251,412	1,731
4	Bernie Sanders – Sen. Bernie Sanders is the longest serving independent in congressional history.	220,237	606
5	Ev Williams – CEO of Medium, partner at Obvious Ventures, co-founder of Twitter, curious consumer of ideas	215,397	2,393
6	Jason Fried – Founder & CEO at Basecamp. Co-author of Getting Real, Remote, and REWORK. http://basecamp.com	213,106	166
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	208,415	3,517
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.	207,844	501
9	Larry Kim – CEO of MobileMonkey. Founder of WordStream. Top columnist @Inc ❤️ AdWords, Facebook Advertising, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Start-ups & Venture Capital ????	205,133	5,311
10	Biz Stone – Dad, husband, entrepreneur.	204,598	372
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.	203,780	202
12	Darius Foroux – Creator of the Stoic Letter (new letter comes out every Friday) \| Author of 7 books and 6 courses at dariusforoux.com	181,300	3,536
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	169,261	5,249
14	Umair Haque – vampire.	163,620	567
15	Sarah Cooper – Writer & Comedian	150,625	2,513
16	Chris Dixon – www.cdixon.org/about	150,581	2,529
17	Dave Pell – I write NextDraft, a quick and entertaining look at the day’s most fascinating news.	145,636	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	144,102	2,476
19	Wil Wheaton – Wizard. Time Lord. Fake geek girl. On a good day I am charming as fuck.	139,225	107
20	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.	131,102	106
21	Kevin Rose – Builder. Meditator. Husband of @summertomato, father to Zelda & Toaster.	128,385	525
22	Anil Dash – CEO of @Glitch. Trying to make tech more ethical & humane. (Also an advisor to Medium.) More: http://anildash.com/	127,181	2,595
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	115,330	1,109
24	Steven Levy – Writing for Wired, Used to edit Backchannel here. Just wrote Facebook: The Inside Story.	112,383	555
25	Eric Elliott – Make some magic. #JavaScript	105,435	7,048
26	Jason Calacanis – I angel invest in awesome startups... and try to build them myself. Be excellent to each other.	104,783	13,126
27	Jeff Goins – Writer. Speaker. Entrepreneur. Father of two. Bestselling author of 5 books. Read more at goinswriter.com.	99,873	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	99,321	711
29	Dave McClure –	93,896	10,358
30	Steve Blank – The Father of Modern Entrepreneurship	91,054	7
31	Hunter Walk – You’ll find me @homebrew , Seed Stage Venture Fund w @satyap . Previously made products at YouTube, Google & SecondLife. Married to @cbarlerin .	90,767	2,747
32	John Rampton – Entrepreneur, Writer, Online Marketing Guy, Blogger, Husband and Full Time Computer Nerd. Founder @Calendar and @Due	89,911	112,476
33	Mike Monteiro – English is my second language. You were my first.	89,803	551
34	Ben Horowitz – VC, Blogger, and Author of http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Ben-Horowitz/?isbn=9780062273208.	88,132	130
35	Chris Sacca – I love @crystale. Sometimes on @ABCSharkTank. Early investor: @Twitter @Uber @Twilio @Instagram. Now working to give back. https://chrissacca.com/	87,598	642
36	Kris Gage – Writer — www.krisgage.com reach me at krisgagemedium (at) gmail (dot) com	86,639	19
37	Addy Osmani – Eng. Manager at Google working on Chrome • Passionate about making the web fast.	85,874	886
38	Robert Scoble – Spatial Computing Research at Infinite Retina.	85,171	26,445
39	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.	84,665	1,081
40	Niklas Goeke – I tell stories to help you live better. I’ll treat you with respect and value your time. I promise. Join 80,000 others. ⤵	82,360	63
41	Eric Ries – Trying to change how startups are built.	81,274	549
42	Brianna Wiest – Writer. For my books and mentoring sessions, visit www.briannawiest.com, or reach me here: info@briannawiest.com.	80,243	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	75,226	3,051
44	Preethi Kasireddy – I do not publish on Medium any longer. You can find my latest writings here: www.preethikasireddy.com	72,120	316
45	Om Malik – Partner at True Ventures. Founder of GigaOM.	71,211	1,206
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.	71,205	681
47	Brian Chesky – Co-founder, CEO of Airbnb	69,378	379
48	Ethan Siegel – The Universe is: Expanding, cooling, and dark. It starts with a bang! #Cosmology Science writer, astrophysicist, science communicator & NASA columnist.	68,338	332
49	Nick Babich – Editor-in-chief of UX Planet (https://uxplanet.org). http://babich.biz	66,247	62
50	Todd Brison – An optimist who writes. www.toddbrison.com/infinite-ideas	65,292	416

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