Lior Pozin · following list50 people · 5 niches

The 50 who taught me how to build.

I scaled my business to $50M ARR with no background in business. Every teacher I had was a stranger on the internet. These are the 50 who taught me the most, sorted by what they taught. No course, no paywall. Follow them and your feed starts teaching.

Lior Pozin
Lior Pozin 13.4K followers
CEO & Co-Founder of AutoDS, acquired by Fiverr. Bootstrapped to 1.8M users, no investors. Posts about building companies with AI.
Founders & Investors · Business · AI
01

Mindset

8 people

For the days you want to quit.

  1. 01
    Arianna Huffington 9.6M followers
    Founder of Thrive Global and The Huffington Post. Performance without burnout.
  2. 02
    Tony Robbins 7.5M followers
    Peak performance coach for 40 years. The psychology of taking action.
  3. 03
    Sahil Bloom 723K followers
    Author of The 5 Types of Wealth. Frameworks for decisions, money and time.
  4. 04
    Dan Ariely 452K followers
    Behavioral economist. Why people, including you, decide the way they do.
  5. 05
    Vinh Giang 420K followers
    Communication coach to Fortune 500 leaders. How you sound when you speak.
  6. 06
    Simon Squibb 254K followers
    Founder and investor. Gives away business advice on the street, literally.
  7. 07
    Charles Duhigg 191K followers
    Author of The Power of Habit and Supercommunicators. How habits actually form.
  8. 08
    Hank Green 88K followers
    Educator and founder of Complexly and Crash Course. Curiosity as a business model.
02

Leadership

10 people

For when the team gets bigger than you.

  1. 01
    Satya Nadella 12.2M followers
    Chairman and CEO of Microsoft. Culture change at the largest scale there is.
  2. 02
    Simon Sinek 9.1M followers
    Author of Start With Why. One idea per post, always about people.
  3. 03
    Adam Grant 5.6M followers
    Organizational psychologist at Wharton. Research on how teams really work.
  4. 04
    Dr. Brigette Hyacinth 4.2M followers
    Founder of Leadership EQ. Managing people with empathy, in plain words.
  5. 05
    Matt Gray 924K followers
    Founder of Founder OS. Systems and scorecards for running a company.
  6. 06
    Reed Hastings 489K followers
    Co-founder of Netflix. Freedom and responsibility as an operating system.
  7. 07
    Leila Hormozi 414K followers
    CEO of Acquisition.com. Management and hiring, taught like an operator.
  8. 08
    Sridhar Ramaswamy 293K followers
    CEO of Snowflake. Leading an engineering company through the AI shift.
  9. 09
    Dan Martell 217K followers
    Author of Buy Back Your Time. Getting founders out of the weeds.
  10. 10
    Brian Halligan 64K followers
    Co-founder of HubSpot. Scaling culture from startup to public company.
03

AI

12 people

For what actually works inside a company.

  1. 01
    Lex Fridman 1.77M followers
    Podcast host and AI researcher. Long conversations with the people building it.
  2. 02
    Jensen Huang 1.74M followers
    Founder and CEO of NVIDIA. The company the whole AI wave runs on.
  3. 03
    Allie K. Miller 1.67M followers
    Former Amazon and IBM. AI for business, with the ROI attached.
  4. 04
    Pascal Bornet 1.55M followers
    Author of Agentic AI. Automation explained for executives.
  5. 05
    Zain Kahn 1.0M followers
    Founder of the Superhuman AI newsletter. What changed in AI this week.
  6. 06
    Aravind Srinivas 913K followers
    Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity. A founder taking on Google, in public.
  7. 07
    Shama Hyder 675K followers
    TIME100 creator, exited founder. Applied AI for people who run companies.
  8. 08
    Ethan Mollick 431K followers
    Wharton professor, author of Co-Intelligence. Tests every model so you don't have to.
  9. 09
    Alex Banks 202K followers
    Founder of The Signal. Visual explainers of where AI is going.
  10. 10
    Anton Osika 198K followers
    Co-founder and CEO of Lovable. Building the fastest-growing software company in Europe.
  11. 11
    Peter Yang 161K followers
    Product lead and creator. Practical AI walkthroughs for busy people.
  12. 12
    Amjad Masad 140K followers
    Founder and CEO of Replit. Anyone can build software now, and he's proving it.
04

Business

10 people

For the numbers behind the growth.

  1. 01
    Richard Branson 18.6M followers
    Founder of Virgin Group. 400 companies, one philosophy: people first.
  2. 02
    Gary Vaynerchuk 6.0M followers
    Chairman of VaynerX. Attention is the asset, patience is the strategy.
  3. 03
    Sara Blakely 2.3M followers
    Founder of Spanx. Bootstrapped from $5,000 to a billion-dollar brand.
  4. 04
    Chris Donnelly 1.26M followers
    Founder of Verb Brands, Lottie and Searchable. Builds and sells companies in public.
  5. 05
    Alex Hormozi 1.05M followers
    Founder of Acquisition.com. Offers, pricing and the basics done at scale.
  6. 06
    Justin Welsh 881K followers
    Solopreneur. Built a one-person business past $10M with no employees.
  7. 07
    Codie Sanchez 607K followers
    Founder of Contrarian Thinking. Boring businesses, real cash flow.
  8. 08
    Jason Lemkin 313K followers
    Founder of SaaStr. Every SaaS metric that matters, from someone who's seen thousands.
  9. 09
    Harley Finkelstein 150K followers
    President of Shopify. The e-commerce economy, from the platform that runs it.
  10. 10
    Tobias Lütke 58K followers
    Founder and CEO of Shopify. Rare posts, all of them about building.
05

Founders & Investors

10 people

For the people in the arena right now.

  1. 01
    Steven Bartlett 3.2M followers
    Founder of Steven.com and The Diary Of A CEO. Founder stories, told properly.
  2. 02
    Garry Tan 346K followers
    President of Y Combinator. What the best early-stage founders have in common.
  3. 03
    Harry Stebbings 281K followers
    Founder of 20VC. Over 1,000 founder and investor interviews.
  4. 04
    Greg Isenberg 256K followers
    CEO of Late Checkout. Startup ideas and AI products, one a day.
  5. 05
    Alex Lieberman 220K followers
    Co-founder of Morning Brew. Media as a business, from someone who sold one.
  6. 06
    Bret Taylor 168K followers
    Co-founder of Sierra, chairman of OpenAI. Built Google Maps, ran Salesforce.
  7. 07
    Max Levchin 140K followers
    Co-founder of PayPal, founder and CEO of Affirm. Fintech from first principles.
  8. 08
    Wade Foster 76K followers
    Co-founder and CEO of Zapier. Bootstrapped, remote, profitable, since 2011.
  9. 09
    Shaan Puri 71K followers
    Co-host of My First Million. Business ideas, told like stories.
  10. 10
    Jeremy Allaire 53K followers
    Co-founder and CEO of Circle. Took a company public in the hardest market there is.