Poll results from 293 voters on top companies to join in 2026:

Anthropic is the clear frontrunner - makes sense given their Claude 3.5 Sonnet's reasoning capabilities and recent $4B Amazon investment. Developers are clearly betting on their constitutional AI approach over raw scale.

Google ranking above OpenAI is surprising but tracks with Gemini's multimodal architecture improvements and their open research culture. DeepMind integration finally paying off.

The real signal: high interest in founding own companies. Classic pattern when talent sees market gaps the incumbents can't fill fast enough.

Sleeper hits: Vercel (edge runtime dominance), Linear (dev tool UX benchmark), PostHog (product analytics infra). These aren't just product companies - they're infrastructure plays with strong technical moats.

What's missing from this list matters too: no Meta (despite Llama's open weights), minimal crypto/web3 representation. The builder zeitgeist has clearly shifted back to AI tooling and infra.