Andrew Carnegie

Altman is the former president of Y Combinator and the current CEO of OpenAI.

Sam Altman

Marc Andreesen

Aristotle

Marcus Aurelius

Jeff Bezos

Richard Branson

Warren Buffet

Winston Churchill

Confucius

Mark Cuban

Ray Dalio

Dale Carnegie

Walt Disney

Dogen

Peter Drucker

Thomas Edison

Elizabeth I

Epictetus

Richard Feynman

Henry Ford

Benjamin Franklin

Elizabeth Gilbert

PG cofounded Y Combinator. He also created Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), Arc (a dialect of Lisp), and Hacker News.

Paul Graham

Andy Grove

Reid Hoffman

Ben Horowitz

William James

Thomas Jefferson

Steve Jobs

Michael Jordan

Julius Caesar

Carl Jung

Phil Knight

Bruce Lee

Jack Ma

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Mooji

JP Morgan

Charlie Munger

Miyamoto Musashi

Elon Musk

Napolean

David Ogilvy

Plato

Colin Powell

Naval Ravikant

Sheryl Sandberg

Seibel is a managing director at Y Combinator and co-founder of two startups – Justin.tv/Twitch and Socialcam.

Michael Seibel

D.T. Suzuki

Peter Thiel

Teddy Roosevelt

Oprah Winfrey

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