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Never miss what tech leaders actually say

Stop chasing noise. Get the actual quotes from the people who shape technology. When Elon tweets, Sam speaks, or Zuck testifies—you'll know immediately.

Why You Need This

Signal over Noise

Skip the Twitter drama and Reddit speculation. Get verified quotes from actual public appearances—podcasts, conferences, congressional hearings.

Stay Ahead of Shifts

When tech leaders change their tune on AI safety, crypto regulation, or market direction—you hear it first, with full context.

Your Time is Valuable

Instead of following 50 people across 10 platforms, get curated updates from the voices that actually matter to your work.

Real Quotes, Real Context

Not clickbait headlines or out-of-context clips. Full statements with source links to verify everything yourself.

Your Based People

Follow the People Who Matter

Elon Musk

CEO/Founder

CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, owner of X (formerly Twitter), frequently appears on podcasts like Joe Rogan and interviews

Sam Altman

CEO/Founder

CEO of OpenAI, frequent podcast guest and conference speaker on AI topics

Jensen Huang

CEO/Founder

CEO of NVIDIA, frequently speaks at AI conferences and tech events about GPUs and AI

Satya Nadella

CEO/Founder

CEO of Microsoft, regular conference speaker and media interview participant

Sundar Pichai

CEO/Founder

CEO of Alphabet (Google), regular at tech conferences and congressional testimonies

Tim Cook

CEO/Founder

CEO of Apple, frequent keynote speaker and interview guest on major media outlets

Mark Zuckerberg

CEO/Founder

CEO of Meta (Facebook), often appears in congressional hearings, tech conferences, and interviews

Andy Jassy

CEO/Founder

Amazon CEO, frequent cloud computing and enterprise conference speaker

Patrick Collison

CEO/Founder

CEO of Stripe, often appears on tech podcasts and startup conferences

John Collison

CEO/Founder

Stripe co-founder and president, frequent fintech conference speaker

Brian Chesky

CEO/Founder

CEO of Airbnb, regular conference speaker and interview participant

Dara Khosrowshahi

CEO/Founder

Uber CEO, frequent transportation and gig economy conference speaker

Daniel Ek

CEO/Founder

CEO of Spotify, regularly appears in European tech media and conferences

Eric Yuan

CEO/Founder

Zoom CEO, frequent video communications and remote work conference speaker

Tobias Lütke

CEO/Founder

CEO of Shopify, appears on e-commerce and tech podcasts

Aaron Levie

CEO/Founder

Box CEO, frequent enterprise cloud storage conference speaker and Twitter commentator

Marc Benioff

CEO/Founder

Salesforce CEO, frequent business software and philanthropy conference speaker

Frank Slootman

CEO/Founder

Snowflake CEO, frequent enterprise software and data conference speaker

Jack Dorsey

CEO/Founder

Twitter co-founder, Block (Square) founder, frequent fintech and social media speaker

Brian Armstrong

CEO/Founder

Coinbase CEO, frequent cryptocurrency and blockchain conference speaker

Reid Hoffman

CEO/Founder

Co-founder of LinkedIn, frequent podcast host and guest, venture capitalist

Kevin Systrom

CEO/Founder

Instagram co-founder, frequent speaker on social media and photography

Jan Koum

CEO/Founder

WhatsApp co-founder, occasional conference speaker on messaging and privacy

Drew Houston

CEO/Founder

CEO of Dropbox, appears on startup and tech podcasts

Stewart Butterfield

CEO/Founder

Slack co-founder, frequent workplace collaboration conference speaker

Melanie Perkins

CEO/Founder

Canva CEO and co-founder, frequent startup and design conference speaker

Logan Green

CEO/Founder

Lyft co-founder and former CEO, transportation and mobility conference speaker

Anthony Levandowski

CEO/Founder

Former Google/Uber autonomous vehicle engineer, controversial figure in self-driving space

Palmer Luckey

CEO/Founder

Oculus founder, Anduril founder, frequent VR and defense tech conference speaker

Josh Wolfe

CEO/Founder

Lux Capital co-founder, frequent deep tech and hard tech conference speaker

Nat Friedman

CEO/Founder

Former GitHub CEO, AI researcher, frequent developer tools conference speaker

Thomas Dohmke

CEO/Founder

Current GitHub CEO, frequent developer conference and AI coding tools speaker

Scott Farquhar

CEO/Founder

Atlassian co-founder, frequent enterprise software and remote work conference speaker

Mike Cannon-Brookes

CEO/Founder

Atlassian co-founder, climate tech investor, Australian tech conference speaker

Vlad Tenev

CEO/Founder

Robinhood CEO, frequent fintech and democratizing finance conference speaker

Aparna Chennapragada

CEO/Founder

Former Google executive, Robinhood CPO, frequent product management conference speaker

John Carmack

Programmer/Engineer

Legendary game programmer (id Software, Oculus), frequent conference keynote speaker

Linus Torvalds

Programmer/Engineer

Creator of Linux and Git, occasional conference speaker and interview participant

Guido van Rossum

Programmer/Engineer

Creator of Python programming language, appears at Python conferences and tech talks

Brendan Eich

Programmer/Engineer

Creator of JavaScript, founder of Brave Browser, tech conference speaker

Anders Hejlsberg

Programmer/Engineer

Creator of TypeScript and C#, Microsoft technical fellow, conference speaker

DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson)

Programmer/Engineer

Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of Basecamp, frequent podcast guest and blogger

Rich Hickey

Programmer/Engineer

Creator of Clojure programming language, conference speaker on functional programming

Werner Vogels

Programmer/Engineer

Amazon CTO, frequent AWS and distributed systems conference speaker

Vitalik Buterin

Programmer/Engineer

Ethereum co-founder, frequent blockchain and cryptocurrency conference speaker

Ryan Dahl

Programmer/Engineer

Creator of Node.js and Deno, frequent JavaScript and runtime conference speaker

Graydon Hoare

Programmer/Engineer

Creator of Rust programming language, systems programming conference speaker

Rob Pike

Programmer/Engineer

Go programming language co-creator, former Google engineer, systems programming speaker

Ken Thompson

Programmer/Engineer

Unix co-creator, Go co-creator, legendary systems programmer, occasional speaker

Dennis Ritchie

Programmer/Engineer

Creator of C programming language, Unix co-creator (historical figure)

Bjarne Stroustrup

Programmer/Engineer

Creator of C++ programming language, frequent programming language conference speaker

James Gosling

Programmer/Engineer

Creator of Java programming language, frequent programming conference speaker

Larry Wall

Programmer/Engineer

Creator of Perl programming language, occasional programming conference speaker

Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz)

Programmer/Engineer

Creator of Ruby programming language, frequent Ruby conference keynote speaker

Brad Fitzpatrick

Programmer/Engineer

Creator of LiveJournal, memcached, Go contributor, systems programming speaker

Evan You

Programmer/Engineer

Creator of Vue.js, frequent frontend development conference speaker

Dan Abramov

Programmer/Engineer

React core team member, Redux creator, frequent React conference speaker

Sebastian McKenzie

Programmer/Engineer

Creator of Babel and Yarn, Rome tools founder, JavaScript tooling conference speaker

TJ Holowaychuk

Programmer/Engineer

Creator of Express.js and many Node.js libraries, occasional conference speaker

Fabrice Bellard

Programmer/Engineer

Creator of QEMU, FFmpeg, and QuickJS, legendary systems programmer, rare speaker

Daniel Stenberg

Programmer/Engineer

Creator of curl, frequent open source and HTTP conference speaker

Havoc Pennington

Programmer/Engineer

GNOME contributor, former Red Hat engineer, Linux desktop conference speaker

Miguel de Icaza

Programmer/Engineer

GNOME co-founder, Mono creator, Xamarin founder, .NET and open source speaker

Matthias Ettrich

Programmer/Engineer

KDE founder, Qt contributor, Linux desktop conference speaker

Jordan Walke

Programmer/Engineer

Creator of React at Facebook, frontend development conference speaker

Sophie Alpert

Programmer/Engineer

Former React team lead, frequent React and frontend conference speaker

Marc Andreessen

Investor/VC

Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, frequent Twitter commentator and podcast guest

Ben Horowitz

Investor/VC

Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, author, podcast guest on business topics

Peter Thiel

Investor/VC

Co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, investor, author, frequent interview participant

Naval Ravikant

Investor/VC

AngelList founder, philosopher-investor, popular podcast guest

Chamath Palihapitiya

Investor/VC

Former Facebook executive, SPAC investor, frequent podcast guest

Keith Rabois

Investor/VC

PayPal Mafia member, Founders Fund partner, active on Twitter and podcasts

Chris Dixon

Investor/VC

a16z crypto partner, frequent Web3 and blockchain conference speaker

Mary Meeker

Investor/VC

Venture capitalist, famous for annual Internet Trends report, conference speaker

Max Levchin

Investor/VC

PayPal co-founder, Affirm CEO, frequent fintech conference speaker

Paul Graham

Investor/VC

Y Combinator co-founder, essayist, occasional conference speaker and interview participant

Jessica Livingston

Investor/VC

Y Combinator co-founder, author of 'Founders at Work', startup conference speaker

Garry Tan

Investor/VC

Y Combinator president, former Posterous founder, frequent startup conference speaker

Elad Gil

Investor/VC

Serial entrepreneur and investor, author of 'High Growth Handbook', podcast guest

Balaji Srinivasan

Investor/VC

Former a16z partner, crypto advocate, frequent podcast guest and conference speaker

Cathie Wood

Investor/VC

ARK Invest CEO, disruptive innovation investor, frequent financial media guest

Bill Gurley

Investor/VC

Benchmark partner, former Uber board member, frequent conference speaker

Fred Wilson

Investor/VC

Union Square Ventures partner, prolific blogger (AVC), frequent conference speaker

Brad Feld

Investor/VC

Foundry Group partner, author, frequent entrepreneurship conference speaker

David Sacks

Investor/VC

Craft Ventures founder, former PayPal COO, frequent podcast guest

Jason Lemkin

Investor/VC

SaaStr founder, SaaS investor, frequent SaaS conference speaker

Kara Swisher

Writer/Journalist

Tech journalist, podcast host (Pivot, Sway), frequent interview show guest

Ben Thompson

Writer/Journalist

Stratechery newsletter author, Sharp Tech podcast, business strategy analyst

Casey Newton

Writer/Journalist

Tech journalist, Platformer newsletter, frequent podcast guest

Steven Levy

Writer/Journalist

Senior writer at Wired, author of multiple tech books, frequent interview participant

Walt Mossberg

Writer/Journalist

Veteran tech journalist, co-founder of Recode, frequent media appearances

Benedict Evans

Writer/Journalist

Independent tech analyst, newsletter author, frequent conference speaker

John Gruber

Writer/Journalist

Daring Fireball author, The Talk Show podcast host, Apple industry commentator

Om Malik

Writer/Journalist

Tech journalist, former GigaOm founder, frequent conference speaker

Dan Luu

Writer/Journalist

Systems engineer, technical blogger, occasional conference speaker on performance

Julia Evans

Writer/Journalist

Technical blogger (Julia Evans), frequent systems programming conference speaker

Jessie Frazelle

Writer/Journalist

Former Docker/Google engineer, technical blogger, containers conference speaker

Yuval Noah Harari

Philosopher/Academic

Historian and philosopher, author of 'Sapiens', frequent speaker on AI and humanity

Nick Bostrom

Philosopher/Academic

Oxford philosopher, expert on existential risks and AI safety, author of 'Superintelligence'

Stuart Russell

Philosopher/Academic

UC Berkeley AI professor, author of 'Human Compatible', expert on AI safety

Jaron Lanier

Philosopher/Academic

Computer scientist, author of 'Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts'

Sherry Turkle

Philosopher/Academic

MIT professor, expert on human-computer interaction, author, frequent media appearances

Cynthia Dwork

Philosopher/Academic

Harvard professor, pioneer in differential privacy, frequent academic conference speaker

Lina Khan

Philosopher/Academic

FTC Chair, antitrust expert focused on tech companies

Zeynep Tufekci

Philosopher/Academic

UNC professor, tech critic, frequent media commentator on social media effects

Cathy O'Neil

Philosopher/Academic

Author of 'Weapons of Math Destruction', algorithmic accountability expert

Safiya Noble

Philosopher/Academic

UCLA professor, author of 'Algorithms of Oppression', frequent AI bias conference speaker

Lex Fridman

Podcaster/Media

AI researcher and podcast host, interviews tech leaders and scientists

Jason Calacanis

Podcaster/Media

Angel investor and podcast host (This Week in Startups), frequent conference speaker

Tim Ferriss

Podcaster/Media

Author and podcast host (The Tim Ferriss Show), frequent productivity conference speaker

Joe Rogan

Podcaster/Media

Podcast host (Joe Rogan Experience), frequent long-form tech leader interviews

Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Podcaster/Media

Invest Like the Best podcast host, frequent tech investor interviews

Shane Parrish

Podcaster/Media

The Knowledge Project podcast host, decision-making and mental models expert

Cal Newport

Podcaster/Media

Computer science professor, author of 'Deep Work', productivity conference speaker

Tony Fadell

Product Leader

iPod creator, Nest founder, frequent product design and innovation speaker

Susan Wojcicki

Product Leader

Former YouTube CEO, frequent speaker on digital media and platform governance

Marissa Mayer

Product Leader

Former Yahoo CEO and Google VP, frequent conference speaker on product development

Julie Zhuo

Product Leader

Former Facebook VP of Product Design, author of 'The Making of a Manager'

April Dunford

Product Leader

Positioning expert, author of 'Obviously Awesome', frequent product marketing speaker

Des Traynor

Product Leader

Intercom co-founder, frequent product management and customer experience speaker

Jason Fried

Product Leader

Basecamp co-founder, author of 'ReWork', frequent remote work conference speaker

Bruce Schneier

Security Expert

Cryptographer and security technologist, author, frequent media commentator on cybersecurity

Edward Snowden

Security Expert

NSA whistleblower, privacy advocate, frequent remote conference speaker

Matthew Green

Security Expert

Johns Hopkins cryptographer, frequent security conference speaker and blogger

Dan Kaminsky

Security Expert

Security researcher, DNS vulnerability discoverer, frequent conference speaker (deceased 2021)

Katie Moussouris

Security Expert

Security researcher, bug bounty pioneer, frequent security conference speaker

Geoffrey Hinton

AI Researcher

Deep learning pioneer, former Google researcher, frequent speaker on AI development

Yann LeCun

AI Researcher

Meta AI Research director, NYU professor, frequent AI conference speaker

Andrew Ng

AI Researcher

AI researcher, Coursera co-founder, frequent educator and conference speaker

Demis Hassabis

AI Researcher

DeepMind CEO and co-founder, frequent speaker on AI and neuroscience

Fei-Fei Li

AI Researcher

Stanford AI professor, former Google Cloud AI chief scientist, frequent speaker

Yoshua Bengio

AI Researcher

Montreal AI researcher, Turing Award winner, frequent academic conference speaker

Timnit Gebru

AI Researcher

AI ethics researcher, former Google researcher, frequent speaker on AI bias

Ilya Sutskever

AI Researcher

OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist, frequent deep learning conference speaker

Andrej Karpathy

AI Researcher

Former Tesla AI director, OpenAI researcher, frequent AI conference speaker

Chris Lattner

AI Researcher

Creator of Swift and LLVM, former Apple/Tesla engineer, compiler conference speaker

Ian Goodfellow

AI Researcher

GAN inventor, former Google Brain researcher, frequent machine learning speaker

Oriol Vinyals

AI Researcher

DeepMind researcher, AlphaStar lead, frequent reinforcement learning conference speaker

Chelsea Finn

AI Researcher

Stanford AI professor, robotics and meta-learning researcher, conference speaker

Masayoshi Son

International Tech

SoftBank CEO, Vision Fund creator, frequent AI and investment conference speaker

Zhang Yiming

International Tech

ByteDance founder (TikTok), occasional tech conference appearances

Lei Jun

International Tech

Xiaomi founder and CEO, frequent Chinese tech conference speaker

Pony Ma (Ma Huateng)

International Tech

Tencent founder and CEO, occasional Chinese tech conference appearances

Robin Li

International Tech

Baidu founder and CEO, frequent AI and search conference speaker in China

Niklas Zennström

International Tech

Skype co-founder, Atomico founder, European tech conference speaker

Hiroshi Mikitani

International Tech

Rakuten founder and CEO, frequent Japanese e-commerce conference speaker

Mikko Hypponen

International Tech

F-Secure security expert, frequent cybersecurity conference speaker from Finland

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

International Tech

French photographer and environmentalist, occasional tech sustainability speaker

Gavin Wood

Crypto/Web3

Ethereum co-founder, Polkadot founder, frequent blockchain conference speaker

Changpeng Zhao (CZ)

Crypto/Web3

Former Binance CEO, frequent cryptocurrency conference speaker

Do Kwon

Crypto/Web3

Terra founder (controversial), former DeFi conference speaker

Sam Bankman-Fried

Crypto/Web3

Former FTX CEO (controversial), frequent crypto conference speaker until 2022

Andre Cronje

Crypto/Web3

DeFi developer, Yearn Finance creator, occasional conference speaker

Stani Kulechov

Crypto/Web3

Aave founder, frequent DeFi conference speaker

Hayden Adams

Crypto/Web3

Uniswap founder, frequent DEX and DeFi conference speaker

Silvio Micali

Crypto/Web3

MIT professor, Algorand founder, cryptography conference speaker

Mitchell Hashimoto

Developer Tools

HashiCorp co-founder, creator of Vagrant and Terraform, DevOps conference speaker

Solomon Hykes

Developer Tools

Docker founder, frequent containers and cloud-native conference speaker

Guillermo Rauch

Developer Tools

Vercel CEO, Next.js ecosystem, frequent frontend conference speaker

Zach Holman

Developer Tools

Former GitHub engineer, developer culture and remote work conference speaker

Mitchell Baker

Developer Tools

Mozilla CEO, open web and browser privacy conference speaker

Armon Dadgar

Developer Tools

HashiCorp co-founder and CTO, infrastructure automation conference speaker