AI Builders Brief — 2026-07-08

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2026.07.08

25+ builders tracked

BUILDER INSIGHTS

Sam Altman

12.2k

Thibault Sottiaux OpenAI

Thibault Sottiaux

4.2k

Aaron Levie CEO, box

Aaron Levie

#1 359 #2 121

Zara Zhang

293

Swyx dxtipshq

Swyx

306

Guillermo Rauch CEO, vercel

Guillermo Rauch

#1 243 #2 1.4k #3 955

Peter Steinberger OpenClaw

Peter Steinberger

#1 200 #2 3.3k #3

Matt Turck FirstMarkCap

Matt Turck

122

Nikunj Kothari Partner, fpvventures

Nikunj Kothari

#1 #2

Peter Yang

#1 #2 #3

Thariq anthropicai

Thariq

#1 #2 #3

Aditya Agarwal CTO, SouthPkCommons

Aditya Agarwal

Madhu Guru

#1 #2 #3

Nan Yu head of product, linear

Nan Yu

Garry Tan CEO, ycombinator

Garry Tan

#1 #2 #3 467

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