itppl
pronounced "it people"
the it index · wed · jun 24 · mmxxvi
things change fast.
these are the people worth keeping an eye on.
- 1·Noam Shazeer88.2main character
noam shazeer helps shape how language models think, whether at google or anthropic or the next place that needs him
- 2·Aidan Gomez64.5
aidan gomez argues that countries choosing foreign ai over homegrown tools risk becoming digital colonies
- 3·Peter Thiel61.5
peter thiel quietly builds networks across finance, defense, and startups while his secret clubs occasionally leak their strangest details
- 4·Demis Hassabis58.6
demis believes the real ai transformation happens in biology and creativity, not in the hype cycle we're living through today
- 5·Reid Hoffman56.6
reid hoffman calls out the gap between ai hype and actual execution while quietly funding the companies he thinks might close it
- 6↑3Tim Cook55.8
tim cook steers apple through supply chain chaos while warning that our own data weaponization threatens us all
- 7·Yann LeCun55.8
yann lecun warns that the ai industry's trillion-dollar ambitions are outpacing what the technology can actually deliver
- 8↑6Greg Brockman55.8
greg brockman builds the full stack for ai—from chips to regulation—with the steady hand of someone who's done this before
- 9↓3Adam D'Angelo55.7
adam d'angelo builds knowledge infrastructure while wrestling with the weight that comes with platforming human intelligence
- 10↑2Sam Altman54.8
sam altman builds the infrastructure that lets everyone else argue about whether ai needs manners
- 11↓1Jeff Dean54.8it-curious
- 12↓1Eric Schmidt54.2
- 13·Ray Kurzweil54.2
- 14↑1Andrew Ng54.0
- 15↑1Geoffrey Hinton53.3
- 16↓8Liang Wenfeng53.2
- 17↑3Fei-Fei Li52.5
- 18·Mira Murati52.3
- 19·Eliezer Yudkowsky52.2
- 20↑4Ilya Sutskever52.1
- 21↓4Patrick Collison51.3
- 22↑1Satya Nadella50.4
- 23↓2Lex Fridman50.3
- 24↓2Nick Bostrom49.9
- 25↑1Mustafa Suleyman49.8
- 26↓1Marc Andreessen49.5
- 27↑3Mark Zuckerberg49.3
- 28↓1Naval Ravikant49.2
- 29·Ian Goodfellow48.5
- 30↓2Aravind Srinivas47.8
- 31↑4Dario Amodei46.9
- 32↓1Stuart Russell46.7
- 33↓1Vinod Khosla46.6
- 34↓1Sundar Pichai46.2
- 35↑1Jensen Huang45.8
- 36↓2Yoshua Bengio45.7
- 37·Larry Page45.1
- 38·Andrej Karpathy44.2
- 39·Bill Gates43.4
- 40·Elon Musk40.7
- 1newJanet Yellen81.4main character
yellen warns that american debt is spiraling while the fed's independence faces pressure from all sides
- 2newJerome Powell68.7first time it
jerome powell navigated the fed through pandemic chaos and inflation storms, handing off a complicated inheritance to his successor
- 3newDoug McMillon66.9first time it
doug mcmillon spent twelve years steering walmart through the digital revolution, then gracefully handed the wheel to the next chapter
- 4newBob Iger66.8first time it
bob iger navigates the impossible middle ground between creative voices and corporate pressure with the weary grace of someone who's made peace with disappointing everyone
- 5newBrian Chesky66.7first time it
brian chesky built airbnb into a global hospitality empire by convincing strangers to welcome strangers into their homes
- 6newAlbert Bourla65.5first time it
albert bourla charts pfizer's pivot toward american growth while wrestling with the cost-control demands reshaping global pharma
- 7newWarren Buffett64.3first time it
the 94-year-old oracle of omaha still moves markets by quietly betting on boring fundamentals while everyone else chases trends
- 8newLina Khan64.0first time it
antitrust scholar who took on big tech as the youngest ftc chair, now pivoting to hospitality marketing in saudi arabia
- 9newMary Barra63.9first time it
mary barra steers general motors through the collision of legacy manufacturing and electric futures, built on a chevette's worth of humble engineering roots
- 10newTed Sarandos63.9first time it
ted sarandos treats netflix like a steamship captain navigates the ocean—plotting global expansion while keeping everyone fed and watching
- 11newLarry Fink63.6it-curious
- 12newAndy Jassy62.3
- 13newChristine Lagarde62.2
- 14newDaniel Ek61.5
- 15newBrian Niccol61.3
- 16newJamie Dimon60.7
- 17newStephen Schwarzman59.5
- 18newMark Cuban59.3
- 19newReed Hastings58.2
- 20newCathie Wood57.0
- 21newDavid Solomon55.8
- 22newJeff Bezos55.4
- 23newLisa Su55.2
- 24newBernard Arnault54.0
- 25newJane Fraser53.8
- 26newLinda Yaccarino53.3
- 1newMaggie Haberman92.5main character
maggie haberman chronicles trump's interior life with the precision of someone who's learned that furniture tells stories presidents won't
- 2newTucker Carlson81.4first time it
tucker carlson questions trump's iran ambitions from the right, testing whether loyalty to the man trumps loyalty to the movement
- 3newEzra Klein76.2first time it
ezra klein talks through america's political gridlock and cultural fractures with the patience of someone who actually believes understanding matters
- 4newAnderson Cooper66.9first time it
anderson cooper anchors the night's news while his personal life occasionally becomes the subplot everyone's actually discussing
- 5newDavid Muir66.5first time it
david muir brings the world's breaking moments into american living rooms with the steady presence of someone who's actually been there
- 6newBret Stephens65.1first time it
bret stephens writes conservative foreign policy columns that cringe at american power while defending it against its worst impulses
- 7newMaureen Dowd65.0first time it
maureen dowd skewers power with wit sharp enough to make presidents squirm and philosophers reconsider their premises
- 8newCasey Newton64.9first time it
casey newton turns the machinery of tech accountability into conversation, whether through platformer's investigations or hard fork's live audiences
- 9newRachel Maddow64.5first time it
rachel maddow excavates the architecture of power with the precision of someone who actually reads the footnotes
- 10newKara Swisher63.8first time it
kara swisher corners tech's most powerful figures to ask what they're actually doing with all that power
- 11newAndrew Ross Sorkin63.2it-curious
- 12newChristiane Amanpour62.8
- 13newMegyn Kelly62.5
- 14newLester Holt62.4
- 15newSean Hannity62.3
- 16newJake Tapper62.3
- 17newNorah O'Donnell60.2
- 18newDavid Brooks60.0
- 19newWalter Isaacson59.7
- 20newGreg Gutfeld59.1
- 21newJoe Rogan57.5
- 22newRonan Farrow57.3
- 23newMaria Bartiromo54.1
- 24newBari Weiss49.8