Top Founders

The founders the business world watches, from the names minting the next category-defining company to the ones quietly compounding empires. 1,475 tracked, ranked by the public attention they actually command — search demand, Wikipedia readership, news coverage, and social reach, refreshed daily.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	new	Bill Gates	United States	Founders	95.0	12.7
#2	new	Elon Musk CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, X. Founder of Neuralink, xAI	South Africa	Founders	92.7	10.0
#3	new	Jimmy Wales	United States	Founders	91.5	10.0
#4	new	Mark Zuckerberg CEO of Meta	United States	Founders	83.2	5.8
#5	new	Mikhail Khodorkovsky	—	Founders	80.5	23.7
#6	new	Yusaku Maezawa	Japan	Founders	79.6	10.0
#7	new	Jawed Karim	United States	Founders	79.5	2.9
#8	new	Jeff Bezos	United States	Founders	79.2	15.3
#9	new	Dhar Mann	United States	Founders	78.7	15.0
#10	new	Pavel Durov	—	Founders	78.4	7.8
#11	new	Vivek Ramaswamy	United States	Founders	78.2	2.4
#12	new	Patrick Bet-David	United States	Founders	77.9	8.0
#13	new	Gary Vaynerchuk	United States	Founders	76.6	0.3
#14	new	Oleg Tinkov	—	Founders	76.0	25.0
#15	new	Yevgeny Chichvarkin	—	Founders	75.7	22.5
#16	new	David Rubenstein	United States	Founders	75.6	6.2
#17	new	Young M.A	United States	Founders	75.1	2.7
#18	new	Fabrizio Corona	Italy	Founders	75.1	15.0
#19	new	Melinda Gates	United States	Founders	74.9	0.3
#20	new	Mo Gawdat	Egypt	Founders	74.6	10.0
#21	new	Chad Hurley	United States	Founders	73.9	16.6
#22	new	Zbigniew Stonoga	—	Founders	73.9	7.5
#23	new	Alexis Ohanian	United States	Founders	73.6	7.5
#24	new	Mike Lindell	United States	Founders	73.5	4.3
#25	new	Ricardo Salinas Pliego	Mexico	Founders	73.5	15.3
#26	new	Andrew Yang	United States	Founders	73.4	0.0
#27	new	Peter Diamandis	United States	Founders	73.3	2.8
#28	new	Charles Hoskinson	United States	Founders	73.1	7.0
#29	new	Terry Gou	—	Founders	71.6	1.3
#30	new	Greg Brockman	United States	Founders	71.4	10.0
#31	new	Kaesang Pangarep	Indonesia	Founders	71.3	2.0
#32	new	Noh Hong-chul	South Korea	Founders	70.9	2.7
#33	new	Seth Godin	United States	Founders	70.8	10.0
#34	new	German Sterligov	—	Founders	70.3	20.9
#35	new	Natalya Kaspersky	—	Founders	70.0	15.0
#36	new	Alisher Usmanov	—	Founders	69.6	0.0
#37	new	PT Putri Tanjung	Indonesia	Founders	69.0	25.0
#38	new	Tareq Al-Suwaidan	—	Founders	68.8	0.0
#39	new	Rupert Murdoch	United States	Founders	68.8	10.0
#40	new	Igor Matovič	—	Founders	68.8	4.1
#41	new	Anders Behring Breivik	Norway	Founders	68.6	14.2
#42	new	EL Ebit Lew	—	Founders	68.5	3.3
#43	new	Dick Morris	United States	Founders	68.4	11.7
#44	new	Peter Thiel	New Zealand	Founders	67.9	0.0
#45	new	Russell Simmons	United States	Founders	67.9	15.1
#46	new	Jack Ma	China	Founders	67.8	6.0
#47	new	ET Erik Tegnér	France	Founders	67.0	15.0
#48	new	Tsai Eng-meng	—	Founders	66.8	2.6
#49	new	TM Tōru Muranishi	Japan	Founders	66.8	0.0
#50	new	Jeri Ellsworth	United States	Founders	66.7	1.6
#51	new	Moxie Marlinspike	United States	Founders	66.6	5.2
#52	new	Larry Ellison	United States	Founders	66.6	14.7
#53	new	Jensen Huang CEO of NVIDIA	United States	Founders	66.5	15.0
#54	new	Martín Varsavsky	Argentina	Founders	66.5	10.0
#55	new	Richard Branson	United Kingdom	Founders	66.3	10.0
#56	new	Isabel dos Santos	—	Founders	66.0	1.1
#57	new	Alessandro Benetton	Italy	Founders	65.9	2.9
#58	new	Daniel Vávra	—	Founders	65.9	0.0
#59	new	Michael J. Saylor	United States	Founders	65.8	0.0
#60	new	Barry Lam	China	Founders	65.6	10.0
#61	new	Keith Raniere	United States	Founders	65.3	0.8
#62	new	Eduardo Saverin	Brazil	Founders	65.0	8.5
#63	new	Vince McMahon	United States	Founders	64.8	17.7
#64	new	Steve Ballmer	United States	Founders	64.2	10.7
#65	new	James Altucher	United States	Founders	64.1	1.1
#66	new	Masayoshi Son	Japan	Founders	64.0	9.6
#67	new	Roger Ver	United States	Founders	63.9	0.8
#68	new	Hui Ka Yan	China	Founders	63.8	10.0
#69	new	Michael Avenatti	United States	Founders	63.6	10.0
#70	new	Azim Premji	India	Founders	63.4	8.0
#71	new	Mustafa Süleyman	United Kingdom	Founders	63.1	0.4
#72	new	Mukesh Ambani	India	Founders	62.7	0.5
#73	new	Dana White	United States	Founders	62.6	5.9
#74	new	DA Daniela Amodei	United States	Founders	62.5	8.3
#75	new	JM Jed McCaleb	United States	Founders	62.4	8.8
#76	new	Chris Wanstrath	United States	Founders	62.4	0.0
#77	new	John Elkann	United States	Founders	62.3	13.3
#78	new	Flavio Briatore	Italy	Founders	62.3	15.6
#79	new	Stan Kroenke	United States	Founders	62.3	1.6
#80	new	Marc Andreessen	United States	Founders	62.2	6.0
#81	new	Alice Walton	United States	Founders	62.1	7.8
#82	new	TS Titus Steel	—	Founders	61.6	13.7