Sharath Kuruganty is a serial entrepreneur, community builder, and angel investor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Holder of an O-1/EB-1A 'Alien of Extraordinary Ability' visa, he has founded and exited two SaaS startups, is the #1 hunter on Product Hunt with 140+ launches, hosts 'The Undefeated Underdogs' podcast, and is currently building GuestLab.ai - an AI-powered research assistant for podcast hosts. Known for his 'build in public' philosophy, he grew from 200 to 22,000+ Twitter followers and advocates that no-code tools are a superpower for aspiring founders.
Adriene Mishler is the Austin, Texas-based yoga instructor, actress, and entrepreneur behind Yoga With Adriene, the largest yoga channel on YouTube with over 13.4 million subscribers and 1.7 billion views. Since launching the channel in 2012 with business partner Chris Sharpe, she has democratized yoga through her philosophy of 'Find What Feels Good,' building a global community around accessible, authentic practice. In 2015 she co-founded the FWFG subscription platform, and in 2026 launched Veta, her own yoga gear brand.
Alex Hormozi is an Iranian-American entrepreneur, investor, and author who built and exited seven companies without outside capital before founding Acquisition.com, a holding company with 16+ portfolio businesses generating $200M+ in annual revenue. His $100M book series has sold over 5 million copies, including $100M Money Models which broke the Guinness World Record for fastest-selling non-fiction book in August 2025. He co-runs Acquisition.com with his wife and CEO Leila Hormozi and is a co-owner of Skool.com.
Jay Shetty is a British-Indian author, podcast host, and former monk who turned three years of monastic life in India into the world's #1 health and wellness podcast, 'On Purpose,' which has surpassed 1 billion listens. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and TIME100 Creator, he is the author of two bestsellers, Chief Purpose Officer at Calm, and co-founder of multiple ventures including a production company and a talent agency. In May 2026, Netflix and Spotify signed a deal worth up to $100 million to exclusively carry video versions of his podcast.
Jeff Delaney is the creator of Fireship, a YouTube channel with over 4 million subscribers known for delivering fast-paced, entertaining programming tutorials - most famously the '100 Seconds of Code' series. Based in Phoenix, Arizona, he turned a side project teaching Firebase and Angular into one of the most influential developer education platforms on the internet, complemented by his course platform fireship.io and an 8,000-member developer Slack community.
Logan Alexander Paul is an American content creator, professional wrestler, boxer, entrepreneur, and podcaster who built one of the internet's most recognizable brands from a YouTube channel in Ohio. Co-founder of the billion-dollar PRIME Hydration beverage brand alongside KSI, current WWE World Tag Team Champion (with Austin Theory), and General Partner at Anti Fund — a $30M+ AI and robotics-focused venture capital firm — Paul has methodically transformed viral fame into durable enterprise. His Impaulsive podcast has surpassed 4 million YouTube subscribers, and his total social media following exceeds 96 million across platforms.
Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal are an American comedy duo and lifelong best friends who have built one of YouTube's most enduring empires — Good Mythical Morning — into a daily talk show with over 19.5 million subscribers and 10.8 billion views. Operating out of Burbank as Mythical Entertainment, they create shows, podcasts, merchandise, books, and live experiences, ranking #4 on Forbes' 2025 highest-earning creator list with $36M in annual earnings.
Tom Bilyeu is a serial entrepreneur, media founder, and podcast host who co-founded Quest Nutrition - achieving 57,000% growth in three years before selling for $1 billion - then pivoted to build Impact Theory, a media company generating over 1 billion views through content centered on entrepreneurship, mindset, AI, and geopolitics. A USC-trained filmmaker turned business builder, Bilyeu channels his obsession with human potential into daily content, courses, live events, and a graphic novel series, positioning himself as one of the most prolific voices in the creator-entrepreneur space.
Amet Alvirde is a founder and software engineer based in Mexico City, associated with Render - the cloud deployment platform that hit a $1.5 billion valuation after its $100 million Series C extension in February 2026. A long-time Linux advocate, TypeScript developer, and Fullscreen content creator since 2012, he maintains a public digital garden of philosophical writing in Spanish, shoots street photography on a Sony a7iv, and plays guitar. His GitHub projects span fitness data tooling, trading system analysis, and personal infrastructure - a practitioner who builds for himself as readily as for the platform serving 4.5 million developers.
Hamza Ahmed is a British YouTuber and online community operator who built a 2.2M+ subscriber audience by selling discipline, lifting, and self-respect to young men. He runs the Adonis School community on Skool and lives in Dubai.
Jimmy Donaldson, known globally as MrBeast, is the most-subscribed individual on YouTube with 487+ million subscribers. At 27, he runs Beast Industries, a $5 billion media and consumer goods conglomerate, produces Amazon Prime Video's most-watched unscripted series Beast Games, and has donated tens of millions through initiatives like Team Trees and Team Seas. He reinvests virtually all revenue back into his productions, calling YouTube his true obsession.
Joshua Weissman is a Los Angeles-born, Austin-based YouTube chef and cookbook author who turned a teenage weight-loss journey into one of the largest cooking channels on the internet. With over 10.6 million YouTube subscribers, 2.2 billion views, and two New York Times bestselling cookbooks, Weissman blends fine-dining technique with everyday accessibility, making professional-grade cooking feel thrillingly achievable. He launched his first food blog at 16, published his first cookbook at 18, trained in Austin's fine-dining scene at Uchiko, and eventually left restaurant kitchens to go full-time on YouTube in 2019.
Laura Kampf is a German maker, craftsperson, and YouTube creator known for transforming raw materials - wood, metal, reclaimed objects - into functional art and furniture. Based in Los Angeles since 2024, she has built a global following of 845,000+ subscribers with weekly builds that blend engineering precision with an upcycler's sensibility. Her workshop motto, 'Every defect gets respect,' doubles as a life philosophy.
Luke Davidson is a Canadian comedy content creator from Dauphin, Manitoba who turned TikTok sketches into a multi-platform empire. Known for his relatable family-dynamics humor and the signature move of pulling a shirt over his head to play multiple characters, he amassed 15+ million TikTok followers and 17+ million YouTube subscribers before turning 23 - earning YouTube's Diamond Creator Award in 2022. His observational comedy about awkward school moments and everyday family chaos resonates with teenagers and young adults worldwide.
Matt D'Avella is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, YouTuber, and podcaster who turned a $97,000 debt crisis into a Netflix documentary career. Best known for directing Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things and The Minimalists: Less Is Now on Netflix, he now runs one of YouTube's most visually distinct self-improvement channels with over 4 million subscribers, combining cinematic production quality with sharp, skeptical takes on hustle culture, habits, and modern life.
Mike Boyd is a Scottish YouTube creator behind the channel 'Learn Quick', where he documents learning new skills - from kickflips to lockpicking - in remarkably compressed timeframes. With 2.7+ million subscribers and a philosophy of learning in public, he turned a bored thesis-writer's side project into a sustainable media business, all while making the messy, fumbling process of skill acquisition oddly compelling to watch.
Mike Majlak is a YouTube vlogger, podcaster, and USA Today bestselling author best known as co-host of the Impaulsive podcast alongside Logan Paul. After overcoming severe addiction in 2010, he rebuilt his life from scratch - going from homelessness to building a social media presence of over 6 million followers. A veteran of digital marketing and content creation, he is now Chief Creator in Residence at AI podcast startup Rebel Audio and an investor in RTHMS, a behavioral compatibility platform. His memoir 'The Fifth Vital' documents his harrowing journey through addiction and recovery.
Nathaniel Drew is an American content creator, polyglot, and filmmaker based in Paris, France, with over 1.79 million YouTube subscribers. Born in Los Angeles to Argentine-immigrant parents and raised in Portland, Oregon, he skipped college to teach himself filmmaking and launched his YouTube channel in 2015. Known for his cinematic vlogs exploring travel, language learning, identity, and existential questions, he speaks five or more languages and went viral with 'Speaking 5+ Languages with my Polyglot Grandma.' He also hosts the 'No Backup Plan' podcast, runs a Substack newsletter, creates music, and teaches filmmaking through his 'Frame by Frame' masterclass course.
Nicholas DeOrio is an American YouTuber and self-described 'Influencer Drama Tour Guide' who has built a dedicated audience around meticulously researched video essays on internet controversies. Since joining YouTube in 2016, he has investigated, exposed, and occasionally cleared the names of some of the web's most talked-about personalities, co-hosts the Half Baked Podcast alongside Turkey Tom and Lord Vega, and maintains an active presence on Twitter/X with over 81,000 followers.
Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins is the world's most recognized gaming streamer, having transformed competitive gaming into mainstream entertainment. Starting as a Halo pro in 2009, he became the face of Fortnite's cultural takeover - playing live with Drake to a record 628,000 concurrent viewers in 2018 - and parlayed that moment into a media empire spanning Twitch, YouTube, brand deals with Red Bull and Adidas, a Chief Innovation Officer role at GameSquare Holdings, and a co-founded cashew milk brand. With 19+ million Twitch followers and 23+ million YouTube subscribers, he continues to define what a professional streamer can become.
Noel Miller is a Canadian-American comedian, YouTuber, podcaster, rapper, and studio founder who built a media empire from a web development day job. Best known as co-founder of the Tiny Meat Gang (TMG) comedy-rap duo with Cody Ko, Miller now runs TMG Studios solo as its sole owner — a podcast network boasting 300M+ YouTube views and 175M+ audio downloads. With 3.8 million combined YouTube subscribers, a sold-out stand-up career, and a debut comedy special on YouTube, Miller has carved out a lane where internet culture commentary meets genuine artistic ambition.
Peter McKinnon is a Toronto-based photographer, cinematographer, and YouTube creator with nearly 6 million subscribers, known for his cinematic visual style and fast-paced, coffee-fueled tutorials. A former magician and Ellusionist Production Manager turned self-taught filmmaker, he built one of YouTube's most distinctive photography channels from a spare bedroom, won the 2019 Shorty Award for Breakout YouTuber of the Year and the 2020 Streamy Award for Cinematography, and had his landscape photography minted on official Canadian currency by the Royal Canadian Mint. Beyond tutorials, he has launched his own multi-tool for photographers, multiple Lightroom preset packs, a signature coffee blend with James Coffee Co., and the 'Pete's Pirate Life' EDC brand.
Imane Anys, known globally as Pokimane, is a Moroccan-Canadian content creator who turned a $250 secondhand PC and a Platinum-rank League of Legends account into one of the largest streaming presences on the internet. With over 9.4 million Twitch followers, 6.6 million YouTube subscribers, and a growing portfolio spanning snack brands, talent management, and podcasting, she has spent more than a decade redefining what it means to be a professional gamer - on her own terms.
Ryan Trahan is an American YouTuber, entrepreneur, and philanthropist from Sugar Land, Texas, best known for his creative challenge series — most famously traveling across the country starting with just a single penny while raising millions for charity. With over 23 million subscribers, he has turned audacious social experiments into a force for good, raising more than $11.65 million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in 2025. Beyond YouTube, he co-owns candy brand Joyride Sweets (sold at Target and Walmart), founded Neptune Bottle, launched the Howdy clothing line, and continues to push the boundaries of branded storytelling on the internet.
Shane Dawson (born Shane Lee Yaw) is one of YouTube's original superstar creators, a Long Beach kid who turned a camera and a knack for characters into 4.8 billion combined channel views. Over nearly two decades he pivoted from sketch comedy to celebrity documentary deep-dives, co-authored two New York Times bestselling memoirs, won multiple Streamy Awards, and launched a record-setting makeup collaboration with Jeffree Star. After a high-profile controversy and YouTube demonetization in 2020, he returned in 2021, relocated to a Colorado farm with his husband Ryland Adams, and in 2023 welcomed twin sons. By 2025 he was back with another Jeffree Star docuseries, rebuilding quietly but unmistakably.
Tips Out (known online as TipsOutBaby) is a gaming entrepreneur and Creator Scout at Andreessen Horowitz's a16z Games division, operating at the intersection of creator culture and venture capital. Best known as co-founder and COO/CEO of One True King (OTK) - the Austin-based creator collective he helped launch in October 2020 alongside Asmongold, Mizkif, Esfand, and Rich Campbell - he has quietly built one of gaming's most ambitious creator-led business empires. Beyond OTK, he co-founded Starforge Systems (a PC hardware company), Mythic Talent (a talent management agency), and Mad Mushroom (a creator-led game publishing label). In October 2023, a16z tapped him as a Games Creator Scout, formalizing his role as a bridge between gaming culture and the startup investment world.
Chris Do is a Vietnamese-American designer, Emmy-winning creative director, and founder of The Futur - an educational platform on a mission to teach 1 billion people how to make a living doing what they love. He fled Vietnam as a toddler on April 30, 1975, built Blind into a $7M+ annual motion design studio serving Nike, Xbox, and Sony, then pivoted at 42 to education - amassing 2.7 million YouTube subscribers, 500K community members across 190 countries, and a $5,000/hour consulting rate. His philosophy: hard truths, gently told.
David Siteman Garland (DSG) is a St. Louis-based entrepreneur, author, and online course pioneer who turned a Bar Mitzvah savings account into a multi-million dollar media and education empire. Founder of The Rise To The Top — self-branded as 'The #1 Non-Boring Resource For Building Your Business Smarter, Faster, Cheaper' — he has generated $10M+ in online course sales, built an email list of 85,000+ subscribers, and taught 5,000+ students in 100+ countries through his flagship program Create Awesome Online Courses. A Wiley-published author, Inc. 500 honoree (#938, 2017), and co-founder of software companies Course Cats and Nrdly, DSG is also the founder of STL Maccabi Basketball and grandson of cancer research philanthropist Alvin J. Siteman.
Leila Hormozi is a first-generation Iranian-American entrepreneur, executive, and business builder who co-founded Acquisition.com alongside her husband Alex Hormozi. After a turbulent childhood marked by a mother's addiction and six alcohol-related arrests in college, she transformed her life — lost 85 lbs, got certified as a personal trainer, then co-built Gym Launch from $0 to $50M in two years. She helped sell Gym Launch and Prestige Labs for $46.2M in 2021, then co-founded Acquisition.com, which now manages a $250M+ annual revenue portfolio. By 28, she reached a $100M combined net worth with Alex. In 2025, she transitioned from CEO to Executive Chairwoman to focus on long-term strategy, while hosting the 'Build with Leila Hormozi' podcast and publishing unfiltered leadership memos at leilahormozi.com.
Matt Gray is a Canadian-born serial entrepreneur and founder of Founder OS, a company teaching founders to build personal brands and scalable businesses through organic content and repeatable systems. He previously co-founded Bitmaker (Canada's first major coding bootcamp, acquired in an 8-figure deal) and Herb (world's largest cannabis community, 14M users, $14M revenue). Today he runs a $13M+/year portfolio working ~4 hours a day, has 2.5M+ followers across platforms, and is known as 'The Systems Guy' in the creator economy.