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Matthew Sabia and the business of getting through
He built an audience teaching people how to sell online. With Railbed, Matthew Sabia is turning to what happens after a customer decides to buy.
Jaibir Nihal Singh and the art of being believed
He studied film in Malibu, built TraqCheck from Delhi, and found an audience by making fun of the world he knew. Across software and satire, Jaibir Nihal Singh keeps returning to the same problem: getting people to pay attention.
A Failed Startup Became Suhail Khan's Operating System
QBox did not survive. Its lessons did - through a 100,000-reader media business, years of product work, a Carnegie Mellon degree and a new chapter building enterprise AI at Distyl.
Justin Fineberg
Justin Fineberg is the co-founder and CEO of Cassidy, a New York-based platform that lets non-technical teams build AI agents and automations powered by their own company data. He got early beta access to OpenAI's GPT-3 in 2020, left a product role at Blade in 2022, and teamed up with engineer Ian Woodfill to launch Cassidy. Alongside building the company, he grew an audience of more than 400,000 followers across TikTok, Instagram, X and YouTube by explaining how AI reshapes business. Cassidy raised a $10M Series A led by HOF Capital in 2025, bringing total funding to roughly $13.7M.
Hamza Alsamraee
Hamza Alsamraee is the co-founder and CEO of NewForm, a New York based performance marketing company built around short-form content and AI. Before startups, he was a teenage math phenomenon: he self-published the #1 Amazon bestseller Advanced Calculus Explored at 16, followed by Paradoxes at 18, and built Daily Math into one of the largest math communities on Instagram with hundreds of millions of views. A 2020 Strogatz Prize winner and a Stanford dropout in math and management science, he is originally from Baghdad, Iraq, where a TV documentary once dubbed him 'Iraq's Einstein.'
Ariadna Bogolepova
Ariadna Bogolepova went from a curious Suno user finishing her economics degree in Russia to a UX Research Ops team member at the AI music company in Cambridge. A self-taught content creator whose Suno videos racked up millions of views, she parlayed obsessive product knowledge and a project-management background into a role studying how people actually make music with AI. She holds a Master of Science in Management Studies from Boston University's Questrom School of Business.
Nuseir Yassin
Nuseir Yassin, better known as Nas Daily, turned a self-imposed dare - a one-minute video every day for 1,000 days - into a media company that now reaches hundreds of millions of people each month. The Harvard economics graduate and former Venmo developer left a comfortable salary to chase a simpler question: how do you make a stranger care about a place, a person, or an idea in sixty seconds? The answer became Nas Company, an ecosystem spanning Nas Daily, Nas Academy, Nas Studios, the creator platform Nas.io, and the AI-driven agency 1000 Media.
Justin Welsh
Justin Welsh is a writer and solopreneur who turned a 2019 burnout into one of the internet's most-studied one-person businesses. After scaling SaaS sales teams to nine figures, he walked away, moved to the Catskills, and started writing online daily. His business - powered by The Saturday Solopreneur newsletter, the LinkedIn Operating System, and a stack of self-serve digital products - has crossed roughly $10M+ in cumulative revenue at an ~89% margin with zero employees and zero ads.
Sharath Kuruganty
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
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
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.
Arun Maini
Arun Maini, known online as Mrwhosetheboss, is the UK's largest tech YouTuber with over 22 million subscribers and 8+ billion views. Born in Nottingham to Indian-origin parents, he turned down a PricewaterhouseCoopers offer after earning a First Class Economics degree from the University of Warwick to pursue YouTube full-time. He holds a Guinness World Record for the largest smartphone replica, has won two Streamy Awards for Technology, and is recognized globally for his witty, authentic reviews of smartphones and gadgets. He married Dhrisha Mehta in June 2024 and the couple are expecting their first child in August 2026.
Graham Stephan
Graham Stephan is an American personal finance YouTuber, real estate investor, and entrepreneur who turned a real estate license at age 18 into a multimillion-dollar media brand. Known for his signature 20-cent home-brewed coffee philosophy, he has amassed over 5 million YouTube subscribers by making money talk approachable, transparent, and relentlessly actionable. He also co-hosts The Iced Coffee Hour podcast, founded Bankroll Coffee, and built a rental property portfolio in the Los Angeles area before relocating to Las Vegas.
Jay Shetty
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
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.
Lewis Hilsenteger
Lewis Hilsenteger is the Canadian creator behind Unbox Therapy, one of YouTube's largest technology channels with over 25 million subscribers and nearly 5 billion total views. Known for his authentic, unscripted reactions to gadgets and consumer electronics, he rose to global fame in 2014 with the viral 'iPhone 6 Plus Bend Test' video that sparked the worldwide 'Bendgate' controversy. Beyond YouTube, he runs a second channel 'Lew Later,' founded Latercase — a minimalist smartphone case brand using aerospace-grade aramid fiber — and has collaborated with brands including Samsung, Apple, Google, and Intel.
Linus Sebastian
Linus Sebastian is the co-founder and Chief Vision Officer of Linus Media Group (LMG), the Canadian digital media company behind Linus Tech Tips - one of YouTube's most-watched technology channels with 16+ million subscribers and 9.2+ billion views. A college dropout who turned a side gig filming product videos for computer retailer NCIX into a media empire, Sebastian built LMG into a ~120-person company operating multiple YouTube channels. Known for his ADHD-fueled energy, hands-on gear reviews, and the occasional on-camera equipment drop, he stepped back from the CEO role in 2023 to focus on creative vision while his wife Yvonne Ho co-runs the business.
Logan Paul
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.
Marques Brownlee
Marques Brownlee, known as MKBHD, is the internet's most-trusted voice on consumer technology. Starting his YouTube channel at 14 while still in high school, he built a 20+ million subscriber empire on the back of obsessive production quality and a consumer-first perspective. Beyond reviewing gadgets, he co-hosts the Waveform podcast, serves as board member and chief creative partner at Ridge, is a 2022 WFDF World Champion in ultimate frisbee, and was named to TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI in 2024.
Rhett & Link
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
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
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
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.
Jarvis Johnson
Jarvis Allen Johnson is a Los Angeles based YouTuber and podcaster who left a senior engineering role at Patreon to make commentary videos about content farms, dating shows, and the strange edges of the internet. He co-hosts the Sad Boyz podcast with Jordan Adika, runs eight YouTube channels with a combined audience over four million, and was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 for social media in 2021.
Jessica Kobeissi
Jessica Kobeissi is a Lebanese-American fashion and portrait photographer from Detroit, Michigan, recognized as the #1 female photographer on YouTube with over 1.87 million subscribers and 140+ million views. Known for viral series like '4 Photographers Shoot The Same Model' and 'Taking Pictures of Strangers,' she turned a graphic design career pivot into a media empire — shooting celebrities, teaching workshops across the U.S., and becoming famous for photographing PewDiePie and Marzia's wedding.
Jimmy Donaldson
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
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
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
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.
Mark Fischbach
Mark Edward Fischbach, known worldwide as Markiplier, is an American YouTuber, filmmaker, and actor with over 38 million subscribers and 23 billion views. Starting with horror game Let's Plays in 2012, he has evolved into an independent filmmaker - his self-financed directorial debut Iron Lung (2026) grossed $51 million worldwide and earned a spot in the top 40 highest-grossing independent films of all time. He co-founded the Cloak clothing line, hosts the Distractible podcast, and has raised millions for charity, all while redefining what a content creator can be.