People
Everyone named in the record. Where there is no portrait, the cell carries what they actually said and where to hear it.
Aaron Samuels
Founder and Managing Partner of Collide Capital.
Ali Abdaal
Cambridge-trained doctor who left medicine to build a productivity business on top of a YouTube audience
Alicia / The Luncheon Lawyer
Criminal defense attorney who explains federal trials, RICO cases, and criminal procedure to a mass audience on Instagram under the name The Luncheon…
Amanda Sabreah
Brand strategist and creator who breaks down corporate decisions and brand moments into visually designed, analytically precise short-form content…
Bad Bunny
Puerto Rican reggaeton artist who became the most-streamed musician on Spotify three years running while maintaining creative and business…
Ben Silverman
Hollywood producer and former NBC Co-Chairman who produced The Office (US) and Ugly Betty, and co-founded Propagate Content to package creator-native…
Besidone Amoruwa
Meta Strategic Partner Manager who builds a parallel creator brand sharing platform-level insight about the creator economy, modeling the…
Bill Ackman
Hedge fund manager and founder of Pershing Square Capital Management whose high-profile activist bets
Brian Hollins
Co-founder of Collide Capital. Spent 6.5 years at Goldman Sachs across Investment Management, Investment Banking, and GS Growth Equity
Bruce Springsteen
Rock musician whose 50-year career produced some of the most enduring American songwriting of the 20th century, culminating in a ~$500M catalog sale…
Chris Fizer
Book creator known as Chris Kinda Reads who built a viral audience around authentic enthusiasm for classic literature, becoming a signal of the…
Coltrane Curtis
Founder of Team Epiphany, the Brooklyn-based brand consultancy that pioneered creator-brand integration and influencer marketing before either term…
D'Vontay Friga
Former Ball's Life employee who founded TNC (The Next Chapter), a creator-built YouTube basketball media company positioned as the digital-native…
Damon Dash
Co-founder of Rocawear and Roc-A-Fella Records who drove the brand's luxury positioning in the late 1990s and early 2000s before Jay-Z bought out his…
Dan Carlin
Independent podcaster whose Hardcore History series
Dan Le Batard
Former ESPN host who left the network to build an independent sports media company, Meadowlark Media, and signed a $50M deal with DraftKings for…
Deante Kyle
Podcast host of Grits & Eggs who delivers a wide spectrum of Black cultural commentary, humor, and serious opinion in a format Carl and Jonathan…
Donyé Taylor
Marketing strategist and writer whose To Whom It May Concern newsletter analyzes brand decisions and cultural strategy with the precision and visual…
Drake
Canadian rapper and entrepreneur who became one of the most commercially successful recording artists of his era while building a corporate structure…
Elliot Wilson
Hip-hop media veteran who co-founded Rap Radar and edited XXL Magazine before joining Tidal as Editorial Director in 2017, bringing cultural…
Evan Shapiro
Media strategist and educator who developed the affinity economy framework
Gary Vaynerchuk
Serial entrepreneur who built VaynerMedia into a major digital agency and became one of the most prolific early voices about social media's…
Gavin Bennett
New York City entrepreneur who created Gen Champs, a card game built around hyper-specific NYC cultural archetypes that spread virally among people…
Gina Obeng
UK-based fitness creator and founder of Beats and Bands, a wellness concept combining amapiano, Afrobeats, and movement in a party format
Hailey Bieber
Model and entrepreneur who founded Rhode Skin in 2022 with three products and sold the brand to e.l.f.
Imani Ellis
Founder of CultureCon, the multi-day creative festival at the intersection of Black culture and entrepreneurship that grew from her one-bedroom…
Jack Dorsey
Co-founder of Twitter and Square (now Block) who acquired a majority stake in Tidal for $297M in 2021, repositioning the platform from a music…
Jackie Aina
Beauty creator who has documented inclusive makeup and skincare on YouTube since 2009
Jacky Cho
Queens-raised food creator and founder of Righteous Eats who covers food as anthropology and culture rather than lifestyle content, and is building a…
Jamelia Donaldson
British entrepreneur and founder of Treasure Tress, a subscription box service for natural and textured haircare products focused on children of…
Jane Tate
Jason Calacanis
Angel investor, entrepreneur, and host of This Week in Startups who made early bets on companies including Uber and built a reputation as one of the…
Jay Tibbits
New York City-based fashion critic and cultural commentator specializing in menswear and men's grooming, bringing the analytical rigor of fashion…
Jay-Z (Shawn Carter)
Rapper and entrepreneur who built one of the most studied creator business portfolios in the world
Joe Budden
Rapper turned podcast entrepreneur who walked away from a Spotify deal to build one of the most successful independent media businesses in hip-hop…
Jonathan Jackson
Host of Due Dilly and the writer behind its research archive, covering the business mechanics of the creator economy
Jonathan Katz Moses
Creator and founder of KM Tools who built a mid-seven-figure woodworking business from a 120-foot shed
Juan Perez (OG Juan)
Longtime Jay-Z business associate and co-owner of the 40/40 Club who served as Director of Project Panther Bidco, the London acquisition vehicle used…
Justin Bieber
Canadian pop star who became one of the most streamed recording artists in history and sold his pre-2021 catalog to Hypnosis Songs for $200M
Kai Cenat
Twitch streamer whose subscriber records and multi-week live events turned continuous streaming into a mainstream entertainment format, and who…
Kanye West
Rapper, producer, and fashion entrepreneur whose public battles over masters, fashion industry access, and creative control became defining moments…
Katie Feeney
Content creator who built 14 million followers covering Penn State sports before ESPN hired her as the network's first-ever designated creator hire…
Kelly Augustine
Bronx-based stylist and creative who has been working in inclusive beauty and fashion since before the industry had language for it, building…
Kendrick Lamar
Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper and the first hip-hop artist to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show as a solo headliner, whose cultural weight is…
Kevin Hart
Comedian and actor who built HartBeat, a production and media company spanning film, television, stand-up touring, and branded content
Khaby Lame
Senegalese-Italian TikTok creator who became the most-followed account on the platform globally
Kyla Scanlon
Economist and writer who coined the term "Vibecession" to describe the gap between how people feel about the economy and what the data actually…
Kylie Jenner
Media personality and founder of Kylie Cosmetics who turned her existing social media audience into a billion-dollar beauty brand, selling a 51%…
Lynn Margulis
Mary Meeker
Venture capitalist and former Wall Street analyst whose annual Internet Trends report became the most widely read document in tech for over a decade…
Merck Mercuriadis
Former artist manager who founded Hipgnosis Songs Fund and made the argument that proven hit songs are a predictable, uncorrelated income stream
MrBeast
YouTube creator Jimmy Donaldson who built the most-subscribed individual channel on the platform by producing elaborate high-production challenges…
Nelly
St. Louis rapper who dominated early 2000s pop charts with crossover hits including Hot in Herre and Dilemma, and whose catalog was later acquired by…
Nicholas Craven
Canadian music producer known for his sample-heavy beatmaking style and his vocal opposition to algorithmic sample discovery tools, arguing that the…
Nick Maggiulli
Data analyst and author of The Wealth Ladder who builds financial literacy content around real research and explicit methodology, earning credibility…
Oren
Marketing and advertising educator who creates detailed instructional content on Instagram and YouTube comprehensive enough to substitute for a…
Pat McGrath
British makeup artist widely regarded as the most influential in the fashion industry who spent two decades doing editorial work for every major…
Professor Sky
Music professor and creator who is building a comprehensive course on Haiti's entire history through music, using the country's leading historians as…
Professor Tom Yeh
Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder who explains neural networks and LLMs through hand-drawn pen-and-paper…
Recho Omondi
Journalist and founder of The Cutting Room Floor, an independent fashion media outlet that covers the industry as a system of labor and capital…
Rihanna
Barbadian singer and entrepreneur whose Fenty Beauty launch with 40+ foundation shades forced the entire beauty industry to expand its shade ranges…
Russell Simmons
Hip-hop business pioneer who co-founded Def Jam Records and built Phat Farm into a major streetwear brand, and whose introduction of Jay-Z and Damon…
Selena Gomez
Recording artist and actress who founded Rare Beauty in 2020 around mental health advocacy and self-acceptance, growing it to $350M in revenue and…
Sherrese Clarke
Founder of HarbourView Equity Partners, a music IP investment firm that acquires stakes in culturally significant catalogs
Sinead Bovell
Futurist and podcast host of I've Got Questions who makes AI, geopolitics, and emerging technology legible to Gen Z through Socratic interviews with…
Sir Lucian Grainge
CEO of Universal Music Group since 2011 who led the company's 2021 IPO on Euronext Amsterdam at a $50B+ valuation, making UMG the largest publicly…
Stephan Carter
CEO of Informa, the world's largest events and academic publishing company, who architected the acquisition of Ascential
Steve Loguidice
Revenue and audience growth executive with 23+ years in media who built sales operations at BuzzFeed during its distributed content peak and joined…
Taylor Swift
Pop artist and songwriter who became the most commercially successful live touring act of her era with the $1B+ Eras Tour, and whose re-recording…
The Weeknd
Toronto R&B artist who became one of the most-streamed recording artists in the world and is pursuing a $1B credit facility backed by his streaming…
The-Dream
Songwriter and producer behind some of the most streamed songs of the 2000s and 2010s
Usher
R&B artist whose 2004 album Confessions became one of the best-selling records of its decade, and who has sustained commercial relevance across 30+…
Vanessa Rissetto
Registered dietitian who co-founded Culina Health in 2020 with Tamar Samuels, building the first digital nutrition platform backed by an insurance…
Vincent Nesi
Apparel industry veteran who founded Bugle Boy in the 1980s and then provided Rocawear with the overseas manufacturing relationships, distribution…
Wolf Taylor
New York City-based audio engineer, camera operator, and podcast host of Halfway Up, a show that gives language to what it means to be a person of…
Yancey Strickler
Former CEO of Kickstarter who developed the Artist Corporation (A-Corp) model
Zach Bia
Creator, DJ, and founder of Field Trip Records, a JV label built on the premise that a creator's cultural network and tastemaker credibility are more…