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Y Combinator Community’s Top 300 Influencers

On the recommendation of Andrew Smith, I’ve been reading Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia Martinez. It’s a great read about startups, Silicon Valley and in particular, Facebook.

Antonio’s own startup, Adgrok, was backed by Y Combinator. For anyone who doesn’t know, Y Combinator (YC) is a seed accelerator programme, arguably THE seed accelerator programme. YC has been described as “a spawning ground for emerging tech giants”. YC has invested in over 1,000 companies with $bn successes including Airbnb, Dropbox and Stripe.

Its network of alumni and investors therefore includes a significant number of influential members of the tech community. Search in LinkedIn and you will currently find 6,632 results.

So I thought it would be interesting to see who Lissted ranks as influential in relation to this community.

Y Combinator Top Influencers

I suspect the top few results are boringly predictable to anyone who knows YC. If that’s true it also means they must be accurate, and so likely to be immediately of use to someone who doesn’t.

#1 Sam Altman has been Y Combinator’s President since 2014.

#2 Y Combinator’s own account. Obvious you might say, but then I tried searching in a competing tool and it didn’t even appear in the top 40.

#3 Paul Graham, YC’s (probably best known) co-founder.

#4 Justin Kan, founder of Twitch (another YC success story) and partner at Y Combinator.

Influencers with a range of affinity to YC

In the full list of 300 below, accounts shown in blue are rated as having a strong affinity to the Y Combinator community.

These are often YC founders, team members and partners such as Jessica Livingston, Aaron Harris, Paul Buchheit or Kat Manalac and YC alumni including Airbnb’s Brian Chesky, Stripe’s John Collison and Mattermark’s Danielle Morrill. Antonio himself appears in this group.

The other influencers within the community rated as having a lower specific affinity range from celebrities and politicians such as Barack Obama, Donald Trump and the New York Times, technology ViPs including Elon Musk, Tim Cook and Bill Gates, required startup reading like Techcrunch and high profile investors like Chris Sacca, Hunter Walk and Mark Suster.

So, without further ado, here’s the full list. You can view full details on the Google sheet here.

Rank Name Username Community Score Insider Score 1 Sam Altman sama 100 80 2 Y Combinator ycombinator 100 77 3 Paul Graham paulg 96 77 4 justin kan justinkan 96 92 5 Naval Ravikant naval 95 76 6 Chris Dixon cdixon 95 77 7 Elon Musk elonmusk 95 59 8 Garry Tan garrytan 94 95 9 Jessica Livingston jesslivingston 93 95 10 Harjeet Harjeet 93 97 11 Kat Manalac KatManalac 92 95 12 Michael Seibel mwseibel 92 93 13 Yuri Sagalov yuris 91 100 14 Brian Chesky bchesky 91 78 15 Aaron Levie levie 90 67 16 Adora Cheung nolimits 90 95 17 Alexis Ohanian 🗽 alexisohanian 90 84 18 Paul Buchheit paultoo 90 93 19 Reid Hoffman reidhoffman 89 72 20 Josh Elman joshelman 89 78 21 Benedict Evans BenedictEvans 89 68 22 Chris Sacca sacca 89 63 23 Bill Gates BillGates 89 48 24 Ryan Hoover rrhoover 88 74 25 Daniel Gross danielgross 88 95 26 Hunter Walk hunterwalk 88 71 27 Aaron Harris harris 88 96 28 Dalton Caldwell daltonc 88 92 29 TechCrunch TechCrunch 88 48 30 John Collison collision 87 92 31 Gustaf Alströmer gustaf 87 90 32 Barack Obama BarackObama 87 38 33 Alexia Tsotsis alexia 87 71 34 Danielle Morrill DanielleMorrill 87 82 35 Kim-Mai Cutler kimmaicutler 87 80 36 Ilya Sukhar ilyasu 86 91 37 David Lee davidlee 86 80 38 dustin curtis dcurtis 86 77 39 Patrick Collison patrickc 86 90 40 Keith Rabois rabois 85 75 41 Emmett Shear eshear 85 95 42 Drew Houston drewhouston 85 75 43 Tim Cook tim_cook 85 50 44 Dave McClure davemcclure 85 68 45 Edward Snowden Snowden 85 50 46 Mark Suster msuster 85 65 47 Fred Wilson fredwilson 84 76 48 Balaji S. Srinivasan balajis 84 74 49 Max Levchin mlevchin 84 80 50 Tim O'Reilly timoreilly 84 56 51 Geoff Ralston gralston 84 95 52 Whale askwhale 83 72 53 Ali Rowghani ROWGHANI 83 79 54 Anu Hariharan anuhariharan 83 85 55 Michael Arrington arrington 83 69 56 Semil semil 83 70 57 Rick Morrison morrisor 82 96 58 jack jack 82 54 59 Chamath Palihapitiya chamath 82 73 60 Bret Taylor btaylor 82 75 61 Chad Etzel 🎷🚶 jazzychad 82 85 62 Paul Stamatiou 📷 Stammy 82 74 63 megan quinn msquinn 82 75 64 Ben Horowitz bhorowitz 82 76 65 Kevin Hale ilikevests 82 94 66 Ev Williams ev 81 60 67 Parker Thompson pt 81 73 68 Steven Levy StevenLevy 81 73 69 Albert Wenger albertwenger 81 69 70 Alex MacCaw maccaw 81 74 71 Product Hunt ProductHunt 81 55 72 Kathryn Minshew kmin 81 67 73 Joe Gebbia jgebbia 81 84 74 Dropbox Dropbox 81 44 75 DAVE MORIN davemorin 81 59 76 joshua schachter joshu 81 76 77 Eric Ries ericries 81 66 78 John Lilly johnolilly 81 63 79 Hiten Shah hnshah 80 65 80 Jared Friedman snowmaker 80 95 81 Max Roser MaxCRoser 80 61 82 Ivan Kirigin ikirigin 80 84 83 Nate Silver NateSilver538 80 48 84 Dan Primack danprimack 80 71 85 Om Malik om 80 52 86 Joel Spolsky spolsky 80 66 87 Ben Thompson benthompson 80 66 88 Tracy Chou 👩🏻‍💻 triketora 80 70 89 Elad Gil eladgil 80 83 90 Sam Stokes samstokes 80 86 91 Cadran Cowansage cadran_c 80 92 92 immad immad 79 95 93 Ricky Yean rickyyean 79 85 94 The New York Times nytimes 79 27 95 Grace Garey gracegarey 79 84 96 Chase Adam ChaseAdam17 79 84 97 Jason M. Lemkin 🦄 jasonlk 79 67 98 Adam Smith asmith 79 83 99 Robert Scoble: VR/AR Scobleizer 79 57 100 Jason Kincaid jasonkincaid 79 74 101 Dan Siroker dsiroker 79 94 102 Mark Cuban mcuban 79 37 103 Jason Fried jasonfried 79 61 104 Finbarr Taylor finbarr 79 87 105 Matt Cutts mattcutts 79 59 106 ⚔ Siong siong1987 79 87 107 Ron Conway RonConway 79 78 108 Stripe stripe 79 62 109 pm pm pm pm pm 79 77 110 Tikhon Bernstam tikhon 79 84 111 Donald J. Trump realDonaldTrump 79 28 112 Jessica Mah JessicaMah 79 90 113 Eric Florenzano ericflo 78 75 114 Tim Ferriss tferriss 78 50 115 Katelyn Gleason katgleason 78 71 116 AngelList AngelList 78 57 117 John Carmack ID_AA_Carmack 78 54 118 David Rusenko drusenko 78 95 119 Andrew Chen andrewchen 78 77 120 Kara Swisher karaswisher 78 51 121 Bret Victor worrydream 78 71 122 Andrew Mason andrewmason 78 81 123 Nabeel Hyatt nabeel 78 76 124 Trevor Blackwell tlbtlbtlb 78 93 125 Matthew Ocko mattocko 78 74 126 dick costolo dickc 78 50 127 Bijan Sabet bijan 77 64 128 Matt Krisiloff mattkrisiloff 77 91 129 Aston Motes __aston__ 77 81 130 Tracy Young Tracy_Young 77 85 131 Leah  WWDC leahculver 77 67 132 David Tran dtran320 77 82 133 Bill Gurley bgurley 77 66 134 Bored Elon Musk BoredElonMusk 77 47 135 DHH dhh 77 63 136 tylercowen tylercowen 77 62 137 aileenlee aileenlee 76 73 138 Colleen Taylor loyalelectron 76 84 139 Wall Street Journal WSJ 76 29 140 steve blank sgblank 76 64 141 michael_nielsen michael_nielsen 76 67 142 Kevin Lacker lacker 76 78 143 SpaceX SpaceX 76 42 144 Stewart Butterfield stewart 76 75 145 jason Jason 76 59 146 Sequoia sequoia 76 58 147 Ashley Mayer ashleymayer 76 65 148 fred fredbenenson 76 74 149 Darshan Shankar DShankar 76 71 150 a16z a16z 76 65 151 Bryce Roberts bryce 76 66 152 Roelof Botha roelofbotha 76 78 153 Tony Fadell tfadell 76 59 154 Christopher Mims mims 76 58 155 🍪Steven Sinofsky ॐ stevesi 76 66 156 Zach Holman holman 76 66 157 Avi Bryant avibryant 76 75 158 Pierre Omidyar pierre 76 53 159 Josh Constine JoshConstine 76 61 160 Vinod Khosla vkhosla 75 63 161 Roy Bahat roybahat 75 68 162 Siqi Chen blader 75 75 163 ಠ_ಠ MikeIsaac 75 56 164 Michael Dearing mcgd 75 70 165 Charlie Cheever ccheever 75 82 166 Kyle Russell kylebrussell 75 66 167 Parker Conrad parkerconrad 75 79 168 Adam D'Angelo adamdangelo 75 76 169 Patrick McKenzie patio11 75 72 170 John Freddy Vega freddier 75 52 171 travis kalanick travisk 75 67 172 Brian Armstrong brian_armstrong 75 67 173 Josh Kopelman joshk 75 70 174 David Sacks DavidSacks 75 74 175 Kevin Rose ⛩ kevinrose 75 55 176 Solomon Hykes solomonstre 75 70 177 Jennifer 8. Lee jenny8lee 75 68 178 M.G. Siegler mgsiegler 75 67 179 Seth Bannon sethbannon 75 65 180 The Economist TheEconomist 75 29 181 Farhad Manjoo 💰 fmanjoo 75 53 182 🚀 Saku 🚀 sknthla 75 70 183 500 Startups 500Startups 75 48 184 Startup L. Jackson StartupLJackson 74 71 185 Apoorva Mehta apoorva_mehta 74 75 186 John Gruber gruber 74 52 187 Mathilde Collin collinmathilde 74 78 188 Ryan Lawler ryanlawler 74 67 189 Jessica Verrilli jess 74 52 190 Tina Roth Eisenberg swissmiss 74 45 191 marissamayer marissamayer 74 54 192 David Petersen typesfaster 74 82 193 Nick Bilton nickbilton 74 54 194 Werner Vogels Werner 74 56 195 brian pokorny brianp 74 79 196 Hacker News newsycombinator 74 67 197 Sean Parker sparker 74 61 198 Eric Schmidt ericschmidt 74 52 199 tristan walker tristanwalker 74 51 200 John Resig jeresig 74 64 201 Airbnb Airbnb 74 45 202 luke iseman liseman 74 94 203 Marco Arment marcoarment 74 56 204 David Hornik davidhornik 74 66 205 Kulveer Taggar kul 74 84 206 Rahul Vohra rahulvohra 74 81 207 Antonio García Mtez. antoniogm 74 70 208 Anthony Ha anthonyha 74 61 209 Casey Newton CaseyNewton 74 62 210 Dustin Moskovitz moskov 74 67 211 Jonathan Abrams abrams 74 72 212 Ryan Petersen typesfast 74 86 213 Ellen K. Pao ekp 74 65 214 Sriram Krishnan sriramk 74 62 215 Vitalik Buterin VitalikButerin 74 56 216 Nick Szabo NickSzabo4 73 60 217 Ezra Klein ezraklein 73 41 218 How Things Work ThingsWork 73 46 219 Mitch Kapor mkapor 73 67 220 Wade Foster wadefoster 73 73 221 Elizabeth Iorns elizabethiorns 73 84 222 Susan J. Fowler susanthesquark 73 60 223 austin chang angryaustin 73 92 224 Sarah Tavel sarahtavel 73 65 225 Brad Feld bfeld 73 62 226 ACLU National ACLU 73 43 227 Nir Eyal nireyal 73 58 228 Matt Mullenweg photomatt 73 67 229 Ian Hogarth soundboy 73 81 230 Medium Medium 73 50 231 Kyle Vogt kvogt 73 86 232 Ethan Herdrick herdrick 73 92 233 Thomas H. Ptáček tqbf 73 60 234 tom robinson tlrobinson 73 85 235 Bill Clerico billclerico 73 83 236 Craig Cannon CraigCannon 73 73 237 Cyan Banister cyantist 73 61 238 Blake Scholl bscholl 73 78 239 OpenAI OpenAI 73 66 240 zach sims zsims 73 78 241 Sahil Lavingia shl 73 64 242 Mark Linsey mlinsey 72 91 243 Erik Torenberg eriktorenberg 72 63 244 Tomasz Tunguz ttunguz 72 69 245 Richard Branson richardbranson 72 41 246 Danny Dumas dannydoom 72 72 247 Anil Dash anildash 72 45 248 Kevin Carter carterkev 72 84 249 dj patil dpatil 72 58 250 Mike Maples m2jr 72 71 251 💃🏽Arianna Simpson AriannaSimpson 72 69 252 Chris Anderson chr1sa 72 53 253 Ryan Lackey octal 72 81 254 Peter Fenton peterfenton 72 70 255 Chris Messina 🦅 chrismessina 72 57 256 Euwyn euwyn 72 89 257 Susan Hobbs slh 72 81 258 Gabor Cselle gabor 72 79 259 Andrew Levy AndrewMLevy 72 89 260 Tom Preston-Werner mojombo 72 71 261 Caterina Fake Caterina 72 64 262 Ryan Junee ryanjunee 72 83 263 BrendanEich BrendanEich 72 50 264 Savraj Singh savraj 72 85 265 Techmeme Techmeme 71 46 266 Simon Lu simonlu 71 85 267 Jeff Bezos JeffBezos 71 60 268 John Battelle johnbattelle 71 46 269 Gary Vaynerchuk garyvee 71 40 270 The New Yorker NewYorker 71 30 271 SwiftOnSecurity SwiftOnSecurity 71 44 272 Joshua Wilson makanikai 71 88 273 Suhail Suhail 71 75 274 mark pincus markpinc 71 66 275 Niko Bonatsos bonatsos 71 68 276 Guillermo Rauch rauchg 71 59 277 Ray Grieselhuber raygrieselhuber 71 84 278 Arthur Chang art_chang 71 79 279 Aydin Senkut asenkut 71 68 280 Watsi watsi 71 69 281 President Trump POTUS 71 29 282 Bill Clinton billclinton 71 41 283 Laurene Powell laurenepowell 71 63 284 Eric Rosser Eldon eldon 71 73 285 Slava Akhmechet spakhm 71 77 286 Mike Butcher mikebutcher 71 48 287 Des Traynor destraynor 71 58 288 Nick nicholasbs 71 82 289 Mattermark Mattermark 71 59 290 Tim Urban waitbutwhy 71 51 291 Jamie Quint jamiequint 71 83 292 Dan Di Spaltro dispalt 71 87 293 Jeff Jordan jeff_jordan 71 72 294 Arianna Huffington ariannahuff 71 32 295 Neil deGrasse Tyson neiltyson 71 40 296 Liz Wessel lizwessel 70 68 297 Palmer Luckey PalmerLuckey 70 53 298 Jeff Weiner jeffweiner 70 54 299 Greylock Partners GreylockVC 70 49 300 Evan Stites-Clayton the_esc 70 86

Methodology

Lissted selected around 500 Twitter accounts assessed as relevant to Y Combinator from its database of 4.1 million potential influencers. It then analysed their network relationships and recent interactions, applying its own community algorithm, to establish the individuals and organisations that appear to matter most to this group.

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years 2004-2008

2004

· Janet Jackson’s breast is briefly exposed by Justin Timberlake during the Super Bowl halftime show · Ken Jennings wins over 2.5 million dollars on Jeopardy! · Remains of a previously unknown species of human is discovered in Indonesia. Named Homo floresiensis · The strongest earthquake in 40 years originates from the Indian Ocean close to Indonesia, measuring 9.3 on the Richter Scale. Creating tsunami waves that sweep across much of the coastlines of Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. At least 290,000 people are confirmed to have died from South Asia to as far as South Africa. · Martha Stewart is convicted of a felony and sentenced to five months in prison · After increases in Fuel Prices the Major Oil Companies make the highest profits in History Exxon Mobile --- $242,365 Billion, Royal Dutch Shell $235,598 Billion, British Petroleum $232,571 Billion, · Facebook is launched as a social networking site only open to students from Harvard in February by Mark Zuckerberg with his college  roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. It is expanded first to other colleges in the Boston area and other Ivy League Colleges · The EU undergoes it’s largest expansion so far by accepting 10 new states into the EU Poland, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Malta, and Cyprus.

2005

· Hurricane Katrina: The most devastating storm in modern American history, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in 2005. More than 1,800 people were killed and the Gulf Coast was absolutely decimated. · YouTube: The popular video sharing website “YouTube” was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. The three creators were all former Paypal employees and came up with the concept to create a platform on which it would be easier to share videos with others. · Xbox 360: Microsoft releases the Xbox 360 gaming console. · [Former] Tenth Planet Eris was found by Brown and colleagues using the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego. It is currently about 97 times farther from the sun than Earth. · Madonna: The song Hung Up by Madonna is released and made it to top ten on Billboard’s Hot 100.

2006

· Pluto is downgraded from a Planet to a dwarf planet by The International Astronomical Union more than 70 years after its discovery. · NASA launches the first space mission to Pluto as a rocket hurls the New Horizons spacecraft on a nine-year journey. · The 2006 FIFA World Cup begins in Germany; which is won by Italy. · The one billionth song is purchased from Apple iTunes. · Nintendo releases the Wii in North America with an MSRP of US$249.99 · Google purchases YouTube for US$1.65 billion in stock. Google bought the website for $1.65 billion through a stock purchase which was approved during the following month. At the time of the deal YouTube had about 65 employees and had become one of the fastest growing and most popular websites on the internet despite having only been established in the Spring of 2005. · Two major E-Coli breakouts affect 500 people in the US caused by fresh spinach and fresh lettuce · The US Energy department has released a report that there are about a trillion barrels worth of oil in the form of Oil shale reserves in the Green River basin.

2007

· Apple Inc.’s CEO and founder, Steve Jobs, announces the first generation iPhone (it goes on sale in the United States on June 29). ·  Apple Introduces The new Itouch with built in WiFi and touch screen. The Apple Computer Company announces the release of the very first iPhone during January of 2007. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs revealed the product during one of his famous keynote addresses. The touch-screen mobile phone had been in development since 2005 and reportedly cost over $150 million to create. Apple’s first iPhone was exclusively available through AT&T at first and thousands of people lined up outside of stores in anticipation of its release later that year. It was originally sold for $599.00 and within less than 3 months of its release, more than 1 million units were sold. · Virginia Tech Massacre: Senior Seung-Hui Cho conducted the deadliest shooting spree by a single person in U.S. history, killing 32 people and injuring 17 in two separate attacks during that morning before taking his own life. · The world’s largest ship the “Liberty of the Seas” a passenger cruise ship goes into service · The worlds most efficient electric car the Tesla Roadster shown at car shows prior to full production 2008 · One of the largest and deadliest fires in US history rages in Southern California fanned by the Santa Ana winds destroying 400,000 acres and 2,000 homes · The Final Harry Potter book is published Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows · Fisher Price recalls over 1 million Chinese Made Toys · Following it’s introduction in late 2006 Nintendo Wii with it’s motion sensitive controllers is the game system in demand.

2008

· Barack Obama elected 44th U.S. President, making him the country’s first African-American president. As “Time” magazine said in awarding Obama its “Person of the Year” honors, “He has come to dominate the public sphere so completely that it beggars belief to recall that half the people in America had never heard of him two years ago.” · Apple launched the App Store in July for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and the race was on as everyone tried to port their sites and services onto the popular gadgets. Just five months later and they have served millions of applications and have surpassed over 10,000 available applications. · Android was unveiled as its first product, a mobile device platform built on the Linux kernel. The first commercially available smartphone running Android was the HTC Dream, released on October 22, 2008. · Google Chrome Launched · Online video is all well and good, but users no longer want to be tied to watching their favorite videos on just the computer itself. Netflix brought their streaming video to devices like the Roku box and the Xbox 360. · U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps won a record eight gold medals, while Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt set world records in the 100 meters, 200 meters, and 4-by-100-meter relay -- the first man to do so in one Olympics. The Games marked the first time that China had hosted an Olympics. Michael Phelps surpasses Mark Spitz in Gold Medals won at a single Olympics, winning eight. · Global Financial Crisis - It’s being called the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And like the Great Depression, the 2008 version began in the United States, but soon spread around the world. · The price of petroleum hits $100 per barrel for the first time on January 2. · The longest serving ocean liner in history, QE2, is retired from service. Nov 27 · An exploding star halfway across the visible universe becomes the farthest known object ever visible to the naked eye on March 19.

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