AI Builders Brief — 2026-07-09

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2026.07.09

25+ builders tracked

BUILDER INSIGHTS

Thibault Sottiaux OpenAI

Thibault Sottiaux

#1 2.0k #2 2.4k

Josh Woodward VP, Google

Josh Woodward

1.2k

Thariq anthropicai

Thariq

762

Guillermo Rauch CEO, vercel

Guillermo Rauch

#1 646 #2 495 #3 196

Cat Wu anthropicai

Cat Wu

481

Boris Cherny anthropicai

Boris Cherny

#1 513 #2 242 #3 6.6k

Ryo Lu Cursor_ai

Ryo Lu

497

Peter Yang

418

Zara Zhang

#1 238 #2 231 #3 167

Garry Tan CEO, ycombinator

Garry Tan

166

Amjad Masad CEO, replit

Amjad Masad

#1 185 #2 369

Aaron Levie CEO, box

Aaron Levie

Swyx dxtipshq

Swyx

#1 #2 118

Matt Turck FirstMarkCap

Matt Turck

#1 #2 974

Nan Yu head of product, linear

Nan Yu

#1 #2

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