Next Play
High Potential Index
A collection of high-potential builders across AI and high-growth tech.
Next PlayHigh Potential Index
A collection of young builders at top AI companies. These are high agency ICs who are worth paying attention to.
| Name | Role | Links | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan Jiang | OpenAI | Engineer | ||
| Sartaj Gulati | Ramp | Forward Deployed Engineer | ||
| Will Koh | Ramp | Staff Engineer | ||
| Kevin Guo | Ramp | Software Engineer | — | |
| Anthony Li | Ramp | Software Engineer | ||
| Aaron Abraham | Ramp | Software Engineer | — | |
| Raza Habib | Anthropic | Member of Technical Staff | ||
| Garvan Doyle | Anthropic | Applied AI Lead | ||
| Andrew Ambrosino | OpenAI | Member of Technical Staff | ||
| Ziyi Liu | OpenAI | Software Engineer | ||
| Jane Yu | OpenAI | Member of Technical Staff | ||
| Hari Muthakana | Thrive Holdings | Engineer | ||
| Shayan Pardis | Anysphere / Cursor | Research Engineer | ||
| Shaoru Huang | Anysphere / Cursor | Engineer | — | |
| Sam Spinner | Notion | Software Engineer | ||
| Annie Cheng | Notion | Engineer | ||
| Stefan Li | Notion | Engineer | ||
| Edward Chou | xAI | Engineer | ||
| Qian Huang | xAI | Engineer | — | |
| Jesik Min | xAI | Supercomputing Engineer | ||
| Elliot Liu | Cognition | Human Engineer | ||
| Timothy Feng | Modal Labs | Member of Technical Staff | ||
| William Lin | Pika | Engineer |
