These are people I’m regularly influenced by (not complete, keeps evolving):

Dev, Computation, AI

• John Carmack
• Andrej Karpathy
• Lex Fridman
• Nathan Friedman
• Mitchell Hashimoto
• Dario Amodei
• Paul Graham
• Gwern
• Dwarkesh Patel
• Amjad Masad

Design

• Tony Fadell
• Jonathan Ive
• Dylan Field
• Dieter Rams
• Marc Newson
• Kepano

Company-building

• Brian Chesky
• Brad Gerstner
• Mark Pincus
• Steve Jobs
• Patrick Collison
• Eugene Wei
• Elad Gil