People
75 people and organisations. The same person appears across media: a lecture, a book, a letter. Atlas keeps one record for each, so their ideas connect wherever they said them.
Aswath Damodaran
Professor of finance at NYU Stern; teaches valuation and corporate finance in public
7 ideas
Warren Buffett
Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway from 1965 to 2025; author of its shareholder letters
5 ideas
Jeff Bezos
Founder of Amazon; its chief executive from 1994 to 2021
3 ideas
Bruce Flatt
Chief executive of Brookfield
2 ideas
Jensen Huang
Founder and chief executive of NVIDIA
2 ideas
The Finance Storyteller
Finance educator explaining accounting and corporate finance with worked examples
2 ideas
Aakash Gupta
Product leader writing and teaching on product management
1 idea
Accounting Stuff
Accounting educator covering the principles behind the statements
1 idea
Andrew Chen
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz; formerly growth at Uber
1 idea
Annie Duke
Former professional poker player writing on decision-making
1 idea
Anthropic
AI company; first-party material on how to work with its models
1 idea
Arpit Bhayani
Engineer teaching system design from production incidents
1 idea
Ben Horowitz
Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz; former chief executive of Opsware
1 idea
Benjamin Graham
Investor and Columbia professor; the author of The Intelligent Investor
1 idea
Brian Christian
Author of The Alignment Problem
1 idea
Cal Newport
Georgetown computer science professor writing on focused work
1 idea
Cathy O’Neil
Mathematician and former quant; author of Weapons of Math Destruction
1 idea
Charles P. Kindleberger
Economic historian at MIT
1 idea
Charlie Munger
Vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway from 1978 to 2023
1 idea
Chris Miller
Historian at Tufts; author of Chip War
1 idea
Daniel Kahneman
Psychologist; Nobel laureate in economics for work on judgement under uncertainty
1 idea
Dave Ebbelaar
AI engineer teaching how production systems on language models are built and tested
1 idea
David Epstein
Science writer; author of Range
1 idea
David Solomon
Chief executive of Goldman Sachs
1 idea
François Rochon
Founder of Giverny Capital
1 idea
Fred Liu
Founder of Hayden Capital
1 idea
Fred Schwed Jr.
Former stockbroker; wrote Where Are the Customers’ Yachts? in 1940
1 idea
Gregory Zuckerman
Wall Street Journal writer; author of The Man Who Solved the Market
1 idea
Hussein Nasser
Software engineer teaching databases and backend engineering
1 idea
Jack D. Schwager
Author of the Market Wizards interviews
1 idea
Jack Farchy
Bloomberg journalist; co-author of The World for Sale
1 idea
Jamie Dimon
Chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase
1 idea
Javier Blas
Bloomberg columnist on energy and commodities; co-author of The World for Sale
1 idea
Jeffrey Smith
Founder and chief investment officer of Starboard Value
1 idea
Jesse Cohn
Managing partner at Elliott Investment Management
1 idea
John Carreyrou
Wall Street Journal reporter who broke the Theranos story
1 idea
John Collison
Co-founder and president of Stripe
1 idea
John D. Turner
Economic historian at Queen’s University Belfast; co-author of Boom and Bust
1 idea
John Hussman
Founder of Hussman Funds; writes a weekly market comment
1 idea
John Ousterhout
Stanford computer science professor
1 idea
Keith Ferrazzi
Author of Never Eat Alone
1 idea
Kimberly Fessel
Data scientist teaching the metrics behind classification
1 idea
Larry Page
Co-founder of Google
1 idea
Marco Argenti
Chief information officer of Goldman Sachs
1 idea
Martin Kleppmann
University of Cambridge researcher; lectures on distributed systems
1 idea
Mason Hawkins
Founder of Southeastern Asset Management
1 idea
Matt Pocock
Software educator on TypeScript and building with AI
1 idea
Max Frumes
Financial journalist; co-author of The Caesars Palace Coup
1 idea
Melissa Perri
Product leadership consultant; author of Escaping the Build Trap
1 idea
Mohnish Pabrai
Investor; founder of Pabrai Investment Funds
1 idea
Morgan Housel
Writer on investing behaviour; partner at Collaborative Fund
1 idea
Muddy Waters Research
Activist short seller publishing research on the companies it is short
1 idea
NetworkChuck
Networking and systems educator
1 idea
Nicole Forsgren
Researcher behind the DORA metrics; lead author of Accelerate
1 idea
Patrick Collison
Co-founder and chief executive of Stripe
1 idea
Peter Lynch
Ran Fidelity Magellan from 1977 to 1990
1 idea
Peter Thiel
Co-founder of PayPal and Palantir; venture investor
1 idea
Phil Knight
Co-founder of Nike
1 idea
Prem Watsa
Founder and chairman of Fairfax Financial
1 idea
Ray Dalio
Founder of Bridgewater Associates
1 idea
Reducible
Computer science educator on algorithms and the thinking behind them
1 idea
Reed Hastings
Co-founder of Netflix; its chief executive until 2023
1 idea
Rich Fairbank
Founder and chief executive of Capital One
1 idea
Richard Koch
Former consultant and investor; author of The 80/20 Principle
1 idea
Rob Fitzpatrick
Founder and author of The Mom Test
1 idea
Scott Miller
Founder of Greenhaven Road Capital
1 idea
Sergey Brin
Co-founder of Google
1 idea
Staley Cates
Vice chairman of Southeastern Asset Management
1 idea
Sujeet Indap
Financial Times journalist; co-author of The Caesars Palace Coup
1 idea
Thomas Gayner
Chief executive of Markel Group
1 idea
Tim Steer
Former fund manager and forensic accountant
1 idea
Tobi Lütke
Founder and chief executive of Shopify
1 idea
Trian Fund Management
Activist investor founded by Nelson Peltz
1 idea
William N. Thorndike
Investor and author of The Outsiders
1 idea
William Quinn
Economic historian at Queen’s University Belfast; co-author of Boom and Bust
1 idea