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Paul Guyett, Managing Director at Leffler Leather
Retail

Paul Guyett

Managing Director at Leffler Leather

$1M+
4.8

Paul Guyett leads Leffler Leather, a multi-generation business built on quality, knowledge, and adaptation. He focuses on craftsmanship, education, and long-term value across the leather industry.

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Vikram Pandit, Former CEO, Citigroup at Citigroup
Finance

Vikram Pandit

Former CEO, Citigroup at Citigroup

$1M+
4.7

Vikram Pandit is a global finance leader and former CEO of Citigroup, known for leading large institutions through crisis, transformation, and long-term restructuring.

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Kate O’Neill, Founder & CEO, KO Insights at KO Insights
Technology

Kate O’Neill

Founder & CEO, KO Insights at KO Insights

$100K–$500K
4.8

Kate O’Neill is a tech humanist, author, and CEO of KO Insights, advising global leaders on human-centered technology, ethical AI, and future-ready strategy.

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Pärtel Tomberg, CEO & Co-founder, Bondora at Bondora
Finance

Pärtel Tomberg

CEO & Co-founder, Bondora at Bondora

$1M+
4.6

Pärtel Tomberg is the CEO and co-founder of Bondora, a European fintech company focused on simple investing, fair consumer credit, and long-term financial stability.

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Howard Chan, CEO & CIO, Kurv at Kurv
Finance, Technology

Howard Chan

CEO & CIO, Kurv at Kurv

$1M+
4.7

Howard Chan is CEO of Kurv, an investment firm known for active option income strategies that focus on NAV stability, disciplined risk management, and sustainable income.

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Tom Halverson, CEO, CoBank at CoBank
Finance, Agriculture, Infrastructure

Tom Halverson

CEO, CoBank at CoBank

$1M+
4.6

Tom Halverson is CEO of CoBank and a member of the Brookings–AEI Commission on Rural Prosperity, bringing decades of global finance experience to strengthening rural America.

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David Lee, Co-founder & CEO, Nex at Nex
Technology, AI, Sports, Entertainment

David Lee

Co-founder & CEO, Nex at Nex

$1M+
4.7

David Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Nex, the company behind Nex Playground, a camera-based family gaming system redefining living-room play through active games, subscriptions, and thoughtful hardware design.

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Garrett Lord, Co-founder & CEO, Handshake at Handshake
SaaS, Education, Technology, AI

Garrett Lord

Co-founder & CEO, Handshake at Handshake

$1M+
4.8

Garrett Lord is the co-founder and CEO of Handshake, a career network powering millions of students and employers. He shares lessons on resilience, hiring, culture, scaling leadership, and building with Olympic-level standards.

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Kaveh Ofogh, Founder & CEO, Medico at Medico
Health & Wellness, Technology

Kaveh Ofogh

Founder & CEO, Medico at Medico

$1M+
4.7

Kaveh Ofogh is a physician-founder leading Medico with a mission to deliver constitutionally sound, proactive correctional healthcare. He shares insights on staffing, leadership, accountability, and how strong management systems improve outcomes for patients, employees, and communities.

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Salim Ramji, CEO, Vanguard at Vanguard
Finance, Technology, AI

Salim Ramji

CEO, Vanguard at Vanguard

$1M+
4.8

Salim Ramji leads Vanguard into a new era focused on technology, client-first investing, and long-term value creation. He shares insights on modernizing asset management, responsible AI adoption, leadership transitions, and preserving trust while innovating at massive scale.

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Jeremy Allaire, Co-founder and CEO, Circle at Circle
Finance, Cryptocurrency, Technology, AI

Jeremy Allaire

Co-founder and CEO, Circle at Circle

$1M+
4.9

Jeremy Allaire leads Circle in building internet-native financial infrastructure through USDC and programmable digital money. He shares lessons on long-term vision, regulation, leadership, and how stablecoins, AI, and software platforms are reshaping the global financial system.

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Brian Schimpf, Co-founder and CEO, Anduril Industries at Anduril Industries
Technology, AI, Defense, Manufacturing

Brian Schimpf

Co-founder and CEO, Anduril Industries at Anduril Industries

$1M+
4.9

Brian Schimpf leads Anduril through rapid scale, doubling revenue year over year while reshaping defense around autonomy, speed, and software-driven production. He shares lessons on leadership, talent, accountability, and building systems designed for the future battlefield.

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Fred Thiel, Chairman and CEO, MARA Holdings at MARA Holdings
Cryptocurrency, AI, Technology, Finance

Fred Thiel

Chairman and CEO, MARA Holdings at MARA Holdings

$1M+
4.8

Fred Thiel leads MARA with a power-first mindset: treat land and electrons as a portfolio of assets. He explains why Bitcoin sold off in a risk-off cascade, how leverage and whale moves amplify fear, and why miners should earn optionality by pairing low-cost energy with modular infrastructure for Bitcoin and inference AI.

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Alice Bentinck, Co-founder and CEO, Entrepreneurs First at Entrepreneurs First
Technology, Finance, Edu

Alice Bentinck

Co-founder and CEO, Entrepreneurs First at Entrepreneurs First

$1M+
4.8

Alice Bentinck runs Entrepreneurs First like a product company, built on investing in people before they have an idea. She shares how EF survived early uncertainty, why co-founder productivity matters more than likability, and how moving fundraising to San Francisco doubled valuations and sped up revenue by forcing a faster customer-driven pace.

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James Dyson, Founder, Dyson at Dyson
Technology, Production, Retail

James Dyson

Founder, Dyson at Dyson

$1M+
4.8

James Dyson built Dyson by turning repeated failure into a prototyping system. He explains how engineering-first decisions, strong IP, and manufacturing discipline create premium products, and why long-term category leadership comes from solving real problems, not chasing trends.

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Patrick Kelleher, CEO, GXO Logistics at GXO Logistics
Technology, AI, Retail

Patrick Kelleher

CEO, GXO Logistics at GXO Logistics

$1M+
4.8

Patrick Kelleher leads GXO Logistics with a sharp focus on organic growth, North America expansion, and tech-driven execution. He explains why GXO’s pure-play model moves faster, how automation and AI increase productivity and stickiness, and why performance culture and feedback habits matter when scaling 1200+ operations across global markets.

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Fabricio Bloisi, CEO, Prosus and Naspers at Prosus
AI, eCommerce, Marketplace, Technology, Finance, Edu, Health & Wellness

Fabricio Bloisi

CEO, Prosus and Naspers at Prosus

$1M+
4.8

Fabricio Bloisi leads Prosus and Naspers with a founder mindset focused on building the next Tencent, scaling consumer platforms across Europe, India, and Latin America, and using AI to move faster, serve more partners, and create new global tech leaders outside the US and China.

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Robert Kyncl, CEO, Warner Music Group at Warner Music Group
AI, Creators, Technology, Production, Marketing

Robert Kyncl

CEO, Warner Music Group at Warner Music Group

$1M+
4.8

Robert Kyncl is the CEO of Warner Music Group, bringing an operator mindset to music as pricing shifts, AI accelerates change, and scale becomes a bigger advantage for artists and rights holders.

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Ryan Serhant, Founder and CEO, SERHANT. at SERHANT.
AI, Production, Agencies, Creators, Technology

Ryan Serhant

Founder and CEO, SERHANT. at SERHANT.

$1M+
4.9

Ryan Serhant is the founder CEO behind SERHANT., building a content to commerce real estate company powered by education and an AI operating system, while balancing public visibility with the private weight of leadership.

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Neil Patel, Co-founder, NP Digital at NP Digital
AI, Marketing, Agencies

Neil Patel

Co-founder, NP Digital at NP Digital

$1M+
4.9

Neil Patel is the marketer-turned-operator who rode the SEO wave early, built a $100M agency, and is now obsessed with practical ways to win in the AI gold rush with small, focused teams.

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Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google at Google
AI, Technology

Sundar Pichai

CEO, Google at Google

$1M+
4.9

Sundar Pichai is the engineer-turned-CEO leading Google through what he calls an extraordinary AI inflection point, balancing trillion-dollar infrastructure bets with safety, climate, and long-term societal impact.

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Eric Siu, Founder & CEO, Leveling Up at Leveling Up
Agencies, Marketing

Eric Siu

Founder & CEO, Leveling Up at Leveling Up

$500K–$1M
4.9

Eric Siu is the gamer-turned-operator who took over a failing SEO shop, almost shut it down, then rebuilt it into Leveling Up – a multi-million dollar marketing and education company. He now runs multiple businesses under the Leveling Up brand, hosts two podcasts, and treats entrepreneurship as a long-term game.

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Deepak Shukla, Founder & CEO, Pearl Lemon Group at Pearl Lemon Group
Agencies, Marketing, SEO

Deepak Shukla

Founder & CEO, Pearl Lemon Group at Pearl Lemon Group

$100K–$500K
4.8

Deepak Shukla is the ex-Deloitte consultant who backpacked, fought Muay Thai, and then bootstrapped Pearl Lemon from his mum’s house into a global, remote-first agency group. He treats discomfort as a growth tool and people as the core leverage in business, obsessing over hiring, training, and building intense, high-velocity teams.

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Dharmesh Shah, Co-founder & CTO, HubSpot at HubSpot
SaaS, Marketing, AI, Technology

Dharmesh Shah

Co-founder & CTO, HubSpot at HubSpot

$1M+
4.9

Dharmesh Shah is the engineer-founder who turned HubSpot into a multibillion SaaS platform while quietly blogging his way to the top of SEO. Now he is pushing the shift from search engine optimization to answer engine optimization, building agents, tools, and side projects with the same quiet, obsessive intensity.

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Karan Virwani, MD & CEO, WeWork India at WeWork India
Retail, Technology

Karan Virwani

MD & CEO, WeWork India at WeWork India

$1M+
4.8

Karan Virwani is the second-generation entrepreneur who turned WeWork India into the country’s largest premium flexible workspace operator. He blends Embassy Group discipline with startup scrappiness, betting on metros, multinationals, and top-tier Indian companies while staying ruthless on unit economics, culture, and long-term demand.

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Doug McMillon, President & CEO, Walmart Inc. at Walmart
Retail, Technology, AI

Doug McMillon

President & CEO, Walmart Inc. at Walmart

$1M+
4.9

Doug McMillon is the long-time Walmart insider who turned the world’s largest retailer into a people-led, tech-powered giant. He pushes hard on culture, margins, and reinvention, betting billions on wages, e-commerce, and AI while still keeping prices low and growth steady.

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Marc Boroditsky, Chief Revenue Officer, Nebius at Nebius
Technology, AI

Marc Boroditsky

Chief Revenue Officer, Nebius at Nebius

$1M+
4.8

Marc Boroditsky is the revenue leader behind Nebius’ explosive rise as a full-stack AI infrastructure company. He combines old-school enterprise discipline with startup hunger, pushing hard on margins, execution, and deep partnerships. His playbook is simple: win premium AI workloads, move faster than rivals on land and power, and let an elite engineering culture do the talking.

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Satya Nadella, Chairman & CEO, Microsoft at Microsoft
Technology, AI

Satya Nadella

Chairman & CEO, Microsoft at Microsoft

$1M+
4.9

Satya Nadella thinks in decades, not quarters. He sees AI as the next big platform shift after PC, web, mobile, and cloud, and is willing to invest tens of billions into a fungible AI fleet because Microsoft already earns at scale. His leadership mixes long-term vision, careful risk management, and a strong focus on inclusion and real-world impact.

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John Nunziato, Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Little Big Brands at Little Big Brands
Agencies, Marketing

John Nunziato

Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Little Big Brands at Little Big Brands

$500K–$1M
4.8

John Nunziato walked away from big agencies and timesheets after 9/11 to build Little Big Brands, a 25-year independent shop that puts brand first, ego last. He grew a one-man package design studio into a full brand and advertising partner that evolves global CPGs, keeps clients for decades, and treats asset consistency, long-term relationships, and honest feedback as real competitive edges.

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Greg Marcus, President & CEO, The Marcus Corporation at The Marcus Corporation
Retail, Production

Greg Marcus

President & CEO, The Marcus Corporation at The Marcus Corporation

$1M+
4.8

Greg Marcus grew up in a 90-year-old family business and helped steer The Marcus Corporation through streaming, pandemics, and generational change by holding to Ben’s commandments, owning real estate, betting on community, and turning moviegoing into a two-hour vacation with recliners, burgers, and a familiar face on the screen.

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David Baszucki, Founder & CEO, Roblox at Roblox Corporation
Technology, Creators, Marketplace

David Baszucki

Founder & CEO, Roblox at Roblox Corporation

$1M+
4.9

David Baszucki turned a simple 3D physics experiment into Roblox, a global platform with hundreds of millions of users, by trusting his gut, chasing virality, and repeatedly rebuilding the product and himself as a leader.

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Garry Ridge, Chairman Emeritus, Former CEO & Founder of The Learning Moment at WD-40 Company
Retail, Production

Garry Ridge

Chairman Emeritus, Former CEO & Founder of The Learning Moment at WD-40 Company

$1M+
4.9

Garry Ridge led WD-40 Company for 25 years, turning a simple blue-and-yellow can into a multi-billion-dollar global brand and a 93% engagement “tribe,” using servant leadership, learning moments, and radical humility as his playbook.

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Anthony Denier, Group President & U.S. CEO at Webull Corporation
Finance, Technology

Anthony Denier

Group President & U.S. CEO at Webull Corporation

$1M+
4.8

Anthony Denier is leading Webull through its first years as a public company, building an AI-enabled global brokerage for sophisticated retail investors while trying to stay nimble, transparent, and close to the everyday trader.

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Tan Su Shan, Group CEO & Director at DBS Group
Banking, AI, Finance

Tan Su Shan

Group CEO & Director at DBS Group

$1M+
4.8

Tan Su Shan is leading DBS through a volatile macro cycle, pushing diversification, AI-enabled banking, and digital assets while trying to keep the bank dependable and human at the same time.

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Dave Ricks, Chair & CEO at Eli Lilly and Company
Pharmaceuticals, AI, Health & Wellness

Dave Ricks

Chair & CEO at Eli Lilly and Company

$1M+
4.8

Dave Ricks is leading Eli Lilly through the GLP-1 boom and an AI-powered R&D shift, trying to compress drug discovery timelines while keeping a hard focus on safety, access, and real-world outcomes.

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Alex Karp, Co-founder & CEO at Palantir
Technology, AI, Defense

Alex Karp

Co-founder & CEO at Palantir

$1M+
4.9

Alex Karp has spent two decades building Palantir as a “freak show” that breaks every playbook: flat hierarchy, radical meritocracy, deep ties to the U.S. military, and a culture that treats product building more like art than enterprise software.

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Vlad Tenev, Co-founder & CEO at Robinhood
Finance, Technology, Cryptocurrency

Vlad Tenev

Co-founder & CEO at Robinhood

$1M+
4.9

Vlad Tenev is turning Robinhood into a financial super app by staying on the frontier of 24-hour equities, crypto as infrastructure, prediction markets, and AI tools like Cortex, while keeping revenue growing fast and costs under control.

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Dan Moorehead, Founder & CEO at Pantera Capital
Technology, Finance, Cryptocurrency

Dan Moorehead

Founder & CEO at Pantera Capital

$1M+
4.9

Dan Moorehead runs a crypto-first macro shop. His method is simple: find asymmetric trades, size so you can hold through 85% drawdowns, and let time and network effects do the compounding.

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Phong Lee, President & CEO at Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy)
Technology, SaaS, AI, Finance, Cryptocurrency

Phong Lee

President & CEO at Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy)

$1M+
4.9

Phong Lee leads Strategy’s twin engines: a Bitcoin-backed capital stack and a mature enterprise analytics business. His playbook is simple: build for the customer first, ship with conviction, and let time do the compounding.

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Patrick Soderlund, Founder & CEO at Embark Studios
Technology, Gaming

Patrick Soderlund

Founder & CEO at Embark Studios

N/A
4.8

Patrick Soderlund is the founder and CEO of Embark Studios (Nexon-owned), the team behind The Finals and Arc Raiders. He’s candid about hard calls, respects player time, and focuses on depth, iteration, and efficient tooling over brute-force scaling.

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Ant Wilson, Co-founder & CTO at Supabase
Technology, SaaS, AI

Ant Wilson

Co-founder & CTO at Supabase

$500K–$1M
4.9

Ant Wilson is the co-founder and CTO of Supabase, a backend cloud built around a transactional SQL database with auth, storage, and real time. His rule is simple: everything is secondary to helping the customer right now.

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Krishna Rangasayee, Founder & CEO at SiMa.ai
Technology, AI, Production

Krishna Rangasayee

Founder & CEO at SiMa.ai

$500K–$1M
4.9

Krishna Rangasayee is the founder of SiMa.ai, building a full-stack platform for “physical AI.” His focus is clear: run multimodal AI on a single chip under 10 watts, with easy software and strong security so real-world machines can see, hear, and reason at the edge.

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Dhanush Radhakrishnan, Founder & CEO at Clone Robotics
Technology, AI, Production

Dhanush Radhakrishnan

Founder & CEO at Clone Robotics

$100K–$500K
4.8

Dhanush Radhakrishnan is the founder of Clone Robotics, building musculoskeletal androids driven by fluidic artificial muscles. His thesis is simple: copy human anatomy one to one, pair it with modern deep learning, and you get human level strength, speed, and dexterity in a soft body at a cost that can scale.

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Mani Vembu, CEO at Zoho Corporation
SaaS, Technology, AI

Mani Vembu

CEO at Zoho Corporation

$1B+
4.9

Mani Vembu is the CEO of Zoho Corporation, a billion dollar SaaS company that remains proudly private after nearly three decades of innovation. Known for its culture of experimentation, long term thinking, and deep commitment to talent creation, Zoho has redefined what it means to scale responsibly while staying true to its roots in India.

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Mati Staniszewski, Co-founder & CEO at ElevenLabs
AI, Technology, Marketplace

Mati Staniszewski

Co-founder & CEO at ElevenLabs

$1M+
4.9

Mati Staniszewski is the CEO and co-founder of ElevenLabs, a $6.6B voice AI company redefining how humans and machines communicate. With a background in technology and product innovation, Mati has built a voice ecosystem where anyone can clone their voice, create agents, and even earn passive income merging AI ethics, scalability, and creativity into a single frontier.

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Sadi Khan, Co-founder & CEO at Aven
Finance, Technology

Sadi Khan

Co-founder & CEO at Aven

$1M+
4.9

Sadi Khan, co-founder and CEO of Aven, is building a fintech that allows homeowners to access cheaper credit by combining home equity and credit card models. After leaving Facebook, he set out to attack America’s persistent credit card interest crisis with technology and conviction.

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Rishi Das, Co-founder & CEO at IndiQube
Technology, Production

Rishi Das

Co-founder & CEO at IndiQube

$1M+
4.8

Rishi Das is a serial entrepreneur who helped shape India’s talent story with CareerNet and later co-founded IndiQube to redefine flexible workspaces. His approach blends ecosystem thinking, employee-centric design, and frugal innovation, doing more with less while building sustainable growth across India’s tier-2 and tier-3 cities.

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Christine Hutter, CEO & Founder at Moritz Grossmann
Production, Technology, Luxury

Christine Hutter

CEO & Founder at Moritz Grossmann

$1M+
4.9

Christine Hutter, a trained watchmaker and entrepreneur, founded Moritz Grossmann in Glashütte. She built the brand from scratch into one of the most respected independent watch manufacturers in Germany, combining traditional craftsmanship with useful innovation. Her leadership philosophy blends patience, independence, and a deep respect for horological heritage.

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Marc Rowan, CEO & Co-Founder at Apollo Global Management
Finance, Investment, Technology

Marc Rowan

CEO & Co-Founder at Apollo Global Management

$1M+
4.9

Marc Rowan co-founded Apollo Global Management and grew it into one of the largest alternative investment firms in the world. He believes the future of investing is not only in equities but also in private markets, which now underpin most of the economy. His mission is to open these markets to individuals, create better diversification, and redefine wealth management.

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Chetan Parikh, CEO & Founder at RAAPID
AI, SaaS, Technology, Health & Wellness

Chetan Parikh

CEO & Founder at RAAPID

$100K-$500K
4.9

Chetan Parikh left a chemical engineering career to build applied AI for healthcare. After exiting EZDI, he founded RAAPID to bring neuro-symbolic and agentic AI to risk adjustment and coding, aiming for trustworthy automation, fewer audits, and coders working at top of license.

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Roy Lee, CEO & Co-founder at Cluely
AI, SaaS, Technology, Creators

Roy Lee

CEO & Co-founder at Cluely

$500K–$1M
4.8

Roy Lee built Cluely, a desktop AI that sits over your computer, listens to meetings, reads your screen, and feeds you answers in real time. He embraces the ‘cheat on everything’ framing as a marketing edge, pairs viral short-form growth with product speed, and hires like owners with a large option pool.

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Dan Martell, Founder at Martell Ventures
SaaS, Marketing, Agencies, Edu

Dan Martell

Founder at Martell Ventures

$1M+
4.9

Dan Martell built, scaled, and exited multiple SaaS companies, then reinvented himself as one of the leading coaches and investors for founders worldwide. His approach blends gratitude, flow, and systems with tactical growth strategies.

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Jordan Welch, Founder at Viral Vault
eCommerce, SaaS, Creators, Marketing, Technology, SEO

Jordan Welch

Founder at Viral Vault

$100K–$500K
4.9

From MW2 video edits to seven figure exits: Jordan Welch built a durable creator operator career through YouTube, drop shipping, and his SaaS company Viral Vault, favoring slow, steady compounding over hype.

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David Mizrahi, Founder & CEO at Salt Restaurant Group
Retail, Marketplace, Technology

David Mizrahi

Founder & CEO at Salt Restaurant Group

$1M+
4.9

High school dropout to hospitality leader: David Mizrahi turned a failing shawarma shop into a fast growing group behind Salt Steakhouse, LBK Grill, Soya, Pepe Kitchen, Salt Market, and Bubby’s Bagels. His playbook: customer first service, responsible growth, and hands on leadership.

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Sam Stoffel, Founder & CEO at Subspot
SaaS, Edu, Finance, Technology

Sam Stoffel

Founder & CEO at Subspot

$500K–$1M
4.9

Sam Stoffel built a multi million pound subscription business teaching match betting strategies, exited for £10M, and now leads Subspot Shopify for subscriptions. His playbook: ethics over easy volume, focus over distraction, and cash buffers over bravado.

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Hayes Barnard, Founder & CEO at GoodLeap
Finance, Technology

Hayes Barnard

Founder & CEO at GoodLeap

$1M+
4.9

Hayes Barnard, founder of GoodLeap, scaled his company into a multibillion-dollar platform by focusing on resilience, ethical choices, and building value in hard markets. Known for his story of overcoming adversity, Hayes inspires entrepreneurs with lessons on leadership, purpose, and perseverance.

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Alex Hormozi, Founder & CEO at Acquisition.com
SaaS, Marketing

Alex Hormozi

Founder & CEO at Acquisition.com

$1M+
4.9

Alex Hormozi, founder of Acquisition.com, scaled businesses past $100M+ in revenue by focusing on volume, consistency, and value creation. Known for his no-nonsense frameworks, Alex helps entrepreneurs avoid common traps while building long-term wealth.

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Ben Mann, Tech Lead, Product Engineering at Anthropic
AI, Technology

Ben Mann

Tech Lead, Product Engineering at Anthropic

$1M+
4.9

Ben, Tech Lead for Product Engineering at Anthropic, has played a pivotal role in scaling AI products with a deep focus on safety and alignment. From leaving OpenAI to co-founding Anthropic’s culture of mission driven growth, his journey is one of strategic leadership and foresight in a rapidly evolving industry.

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Anne Mahlum, Founder & CEO at Solid Core
Fitness, Health & Wellness, Technology

Anne Mahlum

Founder & CEO at Solid Core

$100K–$500K
4.9

Anne Mahlum turned Solid Core into a fitness empire, scaling it from one location to over 100 nationwide, with a nine figure exit. From working with the homeless to building a thriving business, Anne’s story is one of resilience, leadership, and innovation.

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Maor Shlomo, Founder & CEO at Base44
AI, SaaS, Technology

Maor Shlomo

Founder & CEO at Base44

$100K–$500K
4.9

The founder of Goyaz built a thriving jewelry brand rooted in affordability and aspiration. Starting from a single store with family support, she scaled Goya into a 19-store empire across 5 Indian states in just over two years.

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Priyanka Vemuluri, Founder & CEO at Goyaz Silver Jewelry
Retail, Production, Marketing

Priyanka Vemuluri

Founder & CEO at Goyaz Silver Jewelry

$500K–$1M
4.6

The founder of Goyaz built a thriving jewelry brand rooted in affordability and aspiration. Starting from a single store with family support, she scaled Goya into a 19-store empire across 5 Indian states in just over two years.

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Steven Rinella, Founder & CEO at MeatEater
Production, Creators, Technology, Retail, eCommerce

Steven Rinella

Founder & CEO at MeatEater

$1M+
4.8

Steven is the founder and CEO of MeatEater, a media company and outdoor lifestyle brand. Known for his honest storytelling and conservationist ethos, Steven has grown MeatEater into a multi-channel powerhouse with books, shows, and gear for outdoor enthusiasts.

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Verun Mohan, Co-Founder & CEO at Windsurf
AI, SaaS, Technology

Verun Mohan

Co-Founder & CEO at Windsurf

$1M+
4.5

Verun is the co-founder and CEO of Windsurf, an AI‑powered IDE that brings agentic capabilities to developers. Under Verun’s leadership, Windsurf has rapidly become a go‑to platform for building and iterating on code with AI.

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Michael Truell, Co-Founder & CEO at Anysphere (Cursor)
AI, SaaS, Technology

Michael Truell

Co-Founder & CEO at Anysphere (Cursor)

$1M+
4.7

Michael Truell is the co-founder and CEO of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor an AI native code editor built for professional developers. Under his leadership, Cursor became one of the fastest growing AI tools in devtech.

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Indra Nooyi, Former CEO at PepsiCo
Retail, Marketing, Production, Health & Wellness, eCommerce

Indra Nooyi

Former CEO at PepsiCo

$1M+
4.4

Indra Nooyi led PepsiCo through a period of unprecedented growth, pioneering a focus on health conscious products and sustainable development.

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Zach Yadegari, Founder at Cal AI
AI, Health & Wellness, Technology, SaaS

Zach Yadegari

Founder at Cal AI

$2 million
4.9

How I built an AI-powered calorie tracking app that disrupted the fitness industry and scaled to $24M in yearly revenue.

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Mike Cahill, Founder at Pyth Network
Cryptocurrency, Finance, Technology

Mike Cahill

Founder at Pyth Network

Not Disclosed
4.8

Building a real-time price data network for DeFi applications.

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Harry Halpin, CEO and Co-founder at Nym Technologies
Technology, Cryptocurrency, SaaS, Marketplace

Harry Halpin

CEO and Co-founder at Nym Technologies

$830K
4.8

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$1M+
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From intense hustle to strategic scaling: How I built a multi-million dollar business by turning personal expertise into digital products.

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