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Live leaderboard · 8 profiles · Updated Jul 28, 2026, 09:50 UTC

Most Followed Tech Founders & Creators on Threads

Founders, CEOs, and technology creators with the biggest Threads followings, ranked live.

As of July 2026, Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) tops this board with 5,678,969 followers — 2.2× ahead of Gary Vay-Ner-Chuk (@garyvee) at 2,593,207.

Together, the 8 accounts ranked here reach a combined 12.3M followers. Follower count isn't the whole story: the strongest engagement on the board belongs to @sama, whose recent posts draw 0.39% of followers per thread.

Unlike a static listicle, this ranking is pulled live from public Threads data and refreshed roughly every 30 minutes — the counts are exact, not the rounded figures the app shows. Tap any account for its full profile, recent posts, and engagement rate.

  1. 1
    Mark Zuckerberg
    Mark Zuckerberg
    @zuck
    5.7M
    0.08% eng
  2. 2
    Gary Vay-Ner-Chuk
    Gary Vay-Ner-Chuk
    @garyvee
    2.6M
    0.02% eng
  3. 3
    Marques Brownlee
    Marques Brownlee
    @mkbhd
    1.7M
    0.19% eng
  4. 4
    Adam Mosseri
    Adam Mosseri
    @mosseri
    1M
    0.22% eng
  5. 5
    Sundar Pichai
    Sundar Pichai
    @sundarpichai
    773.2K
    0.15% eng
  6. 6
    Lex Fridman
    Lex Fridman
    @lexfridman
    239K
    0.30% eng
  7. 7
    Sam Altman
    Sam Altman
    @sama
    213.9K
    0.39% eng
  8. 8
    Naval
    Naval
    @naval
    126.3K
    followers

Frequently asked

Which account has the most followers on the Most Followed Tech Founders & Creators on Threads leaderboard?
As of July 2026, Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) leads this board with 5,678,969 followers.
How many followers does the top account on this board have?
@zuck tops the board with 5,678,969 followers.
Which account here has the highest engagement rate?
@sama has the strongest engagement on the board — recent posts draw 0.39% of followers per thread.

Related: Most followed Threads accounts .

Cite this data

ThreadLook — "Most Followed Tech Founders & Creators on Threads," as of July 28, 2026. https://threadlook.com/top/tech

Follower counts are pulled live from public Threads profiles at the time shown above. Free to reuse with attribution and a link to ThreadLook.

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