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31 of 232 masters
Warren Buffett
Chairman emeritus of Berkshire Hathaway, value investor
1,408 records
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George Soros
Hedge fund investor and philanthropist
921 records
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Ray Dalio
Founder of Bridgewater Associates, author of Principles
136 records
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Marc Andreessen
Co-founder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz
941 records
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Li Ka-shing
Founder of Cheung Kong Holdings, Hong Kong businessman
23 records
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Peter Lynch
Former manager of Fidelity's Magellan Fund
21 records
AskBenjamin Graham
Author of The Intelligent Investor (1894-1976)
51 records
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Howard Marks
Co-founder of Oaktree Capital, investor
80 records
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Jim Simons
Founder of Renaissance Technologies (1938-2024)
114 records
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Li Lu
Founder of Himalaya Capital, value investor
13 records
AskBill Gurley
Venture investor at Benchmark, early backer of Uber
916 records
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Elad Gil
Investor and founder, author of High Growth Handbook
1,037 records
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Sam Zell
American real estate investor (1941-2023)
20 records
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Fred Wilson
Co-founder of Union Square Ventures
1,102 records
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Chris Dixon
Founder of a16z crypto at Andreessen Horowitz
1,416 records
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Jim O'Shaughnessy
Founder of O'Shaughnessy Ventures, quant investor
2,844 records
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Sam Altman
CEO of OpenAI, former president of Y Combinator
1,218 records
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Peter Thiel
Co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, investor
372 records
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Charlie Munger
Vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (1924-2023)
283 records
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Masayoshi Son
Founder, chairman and CEO of SoftBank
50 records
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Bernard Arnault
Chairman and CEO of LVMH
109 records
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Author of The Black Swan, risk thinker
203 records
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Naval Ravikant
Co-founder of AngelList, angel investor
785 records
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Reid Hoffman
Co-founder of LinkedIn, venture investor
3,609 records
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Morgan Housel
Author of The Psychology of Money
103 records
AskBen Horowitz
Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, business author
157 records
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John Bogle
Founder of Vanguard, index fund pioneer (1929-2019)
102 records
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Balaji Srinivasan
Former CTO of Coinbase, author of The Network State
961 records
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Andrew Chen
Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, growth writer
809 records
AskJessica Livingston
Co-founder of Y Combinator
70 records
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Andrew Wilkinson
Co-founder of Tiny, founder of MetaLab
653 records
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