Jess Ramos is a data analytics educator, LinkedIn Top Voice, and founder of Big Data Energy - a media and education brand with 500,000+ followers across platforms. With an MSBA from the University of Georgia, she turned a corporate analytics career (peaking at $153K at Crunchbase) into a thriving solo business after being laid off in 2023. She runs a Substack newsletter with 45,000+ subscribers, teaches SQL to 50,000+ students via LinkedIn Learning, and has brand partnerships with IBM, AWS, Snowflake, NFL, and Claude (Anthropic). Her origin story - doubling her salary 110% in 11 months - became a viral moment that built her community of data professionals seeking real, human-centric career guidance.
Kyla Scanlon is an economist, author, and content creator who coined the term 'vibecession' and has built a multi-platform media presence dedicated to making economics accessible. Her debut book 'In This Economy? How Money and Markets Really Work' (2024) became a New York Times bestseller. She reaches over 1 million followers across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Substack, and Twitter/X, and has been named to Barron's 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance. A triple major from Western Kentucky University, she left a career in institutional asset management at Capital Group to pursue financial education full-time.
Matt Ragland is a creator-economy builder, founder of HeyCreator, and host of The HeyCreator Show podcast. He went from camp counselor to ConvertKit employee #5, to full-time creator, building a 100,000+ audience across YouTube, newsletters, and social media. Through HeyCreator and Good People Digital, he helps creators turn their expertise into sustainable businesses via courses, communities, and newsletters. Known for radical transparency, outdoor adventures, and a systems-first approach to creative work.
Lior Abutbul is an AI practitioner and newsletter writer focused on the frontier of agentic AI systems. Through the Agentic AI Weekly newsletter, Lior breaks down how autonomous AI agents work, where they're headed, and how builders and operators can put them to use today.
Mehdi Ouazza is a Brussels-based Data Engineer and Developer Advocate at MotherDuck with 10+ years in the data space. He is the first DevRel hire at MotherDuck, a DuckDB-powered cloud analytics startup, where he grew social media by 450% and built a YouTube channel to 900K+ views. Creator of the 'Mehdio's Tech (Data) Corner' newsletter on Substack, founder of DataCreators.Club, and a prolific speaker and open-source contributor, Mehdi is known for demystifying data engineering and AI careers with humor, playfulness, and radical honesty.
Nate Benson is an AI news journalist and newsletter creator behind The AI Break, a publication dedicated to making artificial intelligence news accessible, engaging, and jargon-free for a broad audience.
Sabrina Ramonov is a Filipina-American AI educator, serial founder, and creator on a mission to teach 10 million people AI for free. A UC Berkeley CS and Physics graduate and Forbes 30 Under 30 alumna (2018), she co-founded and sold Qurious.io (AI speech analytics) to Pegasystems for $10M+ in 2021, then rebuilt from burnout to grow 2M+ followers and 500M+ views in roughly one year — solo, with zero budget, no team, and no paid ads. She runs the Sabrina Ramonov newsletter on Substack (194K+ free subscribers), creates ~250 pieces of content per week, and solo-built Blotato.com, a social media automation SaaS with 1.4M+ website visitors. In March 2026, she launched Women Build AI, a selective free community for women founders building with AI.
Dan Koe is an American solopreneur, writer, and digital philosopher who went from sharing a rundown apartment with 7 roommates in 2018 to building a $2.6M+ per-year one-person business by 2023. Known for 'The Koe Letter' newsletter, his 2-Hour Writer course, and his book 'The Art of Focus', he has amassed nearly 4 million followers across platforms. He champions the idea that a single person, equipped with writing skills and a personal brand, can build a high-margin business working just 2-4 hours a day - and he lives the proof. He is also co-founder of Eden, a knowledge management app for creators.
Harry Dry is a British solo entrepreneur and the creator of Marketing Examples, the self-proclaimed #1 marketing newsletter with 130,000+ subscribers. Built from a pre-marathon epiphany in Paris in May 2019, his newsletter distills world-class marketing and copywriting into sharp, visual, bite-sized breakdowns sent every Monday. With zero paid ads, he grew an audience of 110,000+ across platforms, earned the endorsement of writer David Perell who called him 'the best copywriter I know,' and turned a $1,000 investment into a full-time business - all while operating as a one-man show.
Harry Stebbings is the British founder of 20VC, the world's largest venture capital media brand and a $800M+ AUM fund. Starting his podcast at 18 with $50 and zero industry contacts, he built The Twenty Minute VC into a 100M+ download juggernaut spanning 190 countries, then parlayed that audience into a real VC fund backed by MIT and unicorn founders. He dropped out of King's College London after four weeks, co-founded Stride.VC, then launched 20VC Fund - closing a $400M third fund in October 2024. Equal parts podcaster, investor, and ultramarathoner, Stebbings runs companies and 100-mile races with the same compulsive energy.
Katelyn Bourgoin is a Canadian serial entrepreneur and the creator of Why We Buy, a buyer psychology newsletter with 280,000+ subscribers that generates multi-seven-figure revenue. Known as 'The Customer Whisperer,' she spent years as a 4x founder - including a VC-backed startup that ended in bankruptcy - before turning her hard-won customer insight expertise into a media and education business. She teaches marketers to decode why people buy through her newsletter, digital products, and the wildly popular Un-Ignorable Challenge, which sold 200 spots in 6 minutes and generated $116,000 in a single launch.
Nicolas Cole is a digital writer, serial entrepreneur, and one of the most-read writers on the internet - accumulating over 100 million views across platforms. He co-founded Ship 30 for 30, the largest cohort-based writing program online, alongside Dickie Bush. A former #1 most-read writer on Quora out of 200 million users, Cole built a ghostwriting agency (Digital Press) scaling to $2M+ annual revenue, co-created Category Pirates newsletter with Eddie Yoon and Christopher Lochhead, and launched the Premium Ghostwriting Academy - a 7-figure program in under 90 days. Author of 'The Art & Business of Online Writing,' he runs a portfolio of writing businesses generating over $5M annually, training thousands of writers worldwide.
Sahil Bloom is a New York Times bestselling author, investor, and creator who left a Vice President seat at a $3.5B private equity firm to build one of the internet's most-followed newsletters. His Curiosity Chronicle reaches over 800,000 subscribers weekly with ideas on wealth, time, and purpose. His 2025 book 'The 5 Types of Wealth' became an instant bestseller, and in late 2025 he co-founded Wild Roman, a 100% natural men's skincare brand named after his son. A former Division I pitcher at Stanford, he runs sub-3-hour marathons and deadlifts 525 pounds in his spare time.
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and media creator who built The Hustle from zero to 1.5 million subscribers before selling it to HubSpot for ~$27 million. He co-hosts My First Million, a top-25 business podcast with Shaan Puri that pulls over 1 million downloads a month, and co-founded Hampton, a vetted peer community for high-revenue founders now generating ~$8M ARR. Equal parts hustler and storyteller, Parr turned a Nashville hot dog stand into an eight-figure media empire and keeps reinventing what it means to build in public.
Shaan Puri is an Indian-American entrepreneur, angel investor, and podcast host best known for co-hosting My First Million with Sam Parr - one of the top business podcasts with 25M+ downloads annually. He sold Bebo to Twitch (Amazon) for up to $25M in 2019, launched and sold the Milk Road crypto newsletter in an eight-figure deal in 2023, and built Bums and Roses into a $25M/year baby products brand with his wife. A self-described contrarian on hard work ('hard work is massively overrated'), he now focuses on content creation, early-stage investing, and writing through his Good Friday newsletter and One Hour Books project.
Trung Phan is a Canadian writer, newsletter author, and co-founder who built one of the internet's most entertaining business media brands. His Saturday newsletter SatPost mixes deep-dive tech and business analysis with viral memes, earning him 725k+ Twitter followers and tens of thousands of Substack subscribers. A former equity analyst, Kensho Technologies researcher, and The Hustle writer, Phan is descended from Vietnam's most famous anti-colonial revolutionary, Phan Boi Chau - a lineage that sits somewhere between irony and destiny for a man who now runs his own media empire from a laptop.
Cassidy Williams is a Chicago-based software engineer, Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub, and one of the most recognizable voices in the frontend developer community. Known online as @cassidoo, she runs the widely-read weekly newsletter 'rendezvous with cassidoo,' builds mechanical keyboards, mentors early-career engineers, and has spoken everywhere from TED stages to the United Nations. She's a Glamour '35 Women Under 35 Changing the Tech Industry' honoree, a LinkedIn Top Professional, and a firm believer that you get a lot by giving.
Daniel Bourke is an Australian machine learning engineer, educator, and content creator who teaches over 230,000 students worldwide through the Zero to Mastery Academy. Operating under the brand 'mrdbourke', he built a self-designed AI education path from a film degree and zero coding experience, and now creates courses on PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Hugging Face. He co-founded Nutrify, an AI-powered food tracking app, with his brother Joshua, and published his debut novel 'Charlie Walks' in 2024. His newsletter 'Eat, Move, Learn, Make' blends personal philosophy with technical insight.
Delba de Oliveira is a Staff Developer Advocate and DX Engineer at Vercel who built Next.js Docs and the Next.js Learn platform, teaching millions of developers about React and Next.js. She transitioned from medicine and customer service into engineering, famously entering tech when a colleague asked her to 'open a GitHub issue.' Known for her visually rich educational content, conference keynotes at Next.js Conf, and her hobby as a videographer, she combines technical depth with storytelling instinct - bridging complex concepts and accessible learning in the React ecosystem.
Lee Robinson is a developer educator and engineering leader who spent five years at Vercel scaling Next.js to over a million monthly active developers, rising from individual contributor to VP of Developer Experience. He now serves as Head of AI Education at Cursor, teaching developers how to build software with AI-powered tools. Known for creating free courses like Mastering Next.js and React 2025, his newsletter 'Optimism (for the web)' and 234K+ Twitter following reflect his belief that great technology should be easy to understand and interesting to learn.
Nader Dabit is a developer relations leader, educator, and engineer who built a career from scratch after starting to code at 30. From React Native expert to AWS advocate to Web3 bridge-builder, he has spent the last decade making complex technology accessible to developers everywhere. A founder of DeveloperDAO, author of two O'Reilly-family books, and now working at Cognition on AI software agents, Nader is the rare person who connects technical depth with community instinct - and has the self-taught story to prove it.
Scott Tolinski is a web developer, podcaster, and educator best known as co-host of Syntax.fm - widely regarded as the most popular web development podcast in the world. He founded Level Up Tutorials in 2012 after a breakdancing injury sidelined him, building it into a library of 2,000+ video tutorials with 350,000+ subscribers before it was acquired by Sentry. Now serving as Executive Producer at Sentry, Scott co-hosts Syntax alongside Wes Bos, releasing two episodes per week covering JavaScript, SvelteKit, CSS, and modern web development. Outside the keyboard, he is a dedicated B-boy (breakdancer) and avid snowboarder based in Denver, Colorado.
Swizec Teller is a Slovenian-American software engineer, bestselling author, and educator based in San Francisco who has spent 20+ years turning hard-won startup experience into actionable career wisdom. Best known for his Senior Mindset newsletter and books like 'Scaling Fast' and 'Senior Engineer Mindset,' he teaches engineers how to stop writing code and start building leverage. Currently building web UX for gene sequencing at Plasmidsaurus, he's the rare person who codes all day and then writes about coding all evening - and makes that seem entirely reasonable.