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The most followed founders
The founders with the biggest social audiences — ranked by total following, not fame.
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Drake177.7M - 2
Eminem66.9M - 3
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Katy Perry47.0M - 4
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Squeezie20.1M - 5
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Casey Neistat12.7M - 6
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Will Smith10.7M - 7
Badshah8.5M - 8
Amr Diab7.4M - 9
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Joyner Lucas6.3M - 10
Jawed Karim6.2M - 11
Ilya Varlamov5.4M - 12
Gary Vaynerchuk4.8M - 13
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Donald Trump4.0M - 14
Shay Mitchell3.9M - 15
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Bill Gates3.9M - 16
Anatoly Shariy3.4M - 17
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Hank Green3.2M - 18
Kaesang Pangarep2.5M - 19
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Nas2.2M - 20
Kim Kardashian2.0M - 21
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Arnold Schwarzenegger1.6M - 22
Mikhail Khodorkovsky1.4M - 23
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Sarkodie1.3M - 24
Tareq Al-Suwaidan1.3M - 25
Josephs Quartzy1.2M
Ranked by total sourced social following — the largest audience on record per person, drawn mainly from YouTube where we source reliably.
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