another fun day co-hosting the
@talent_watching segment with
@sophiadew on
@MTSlive! 🎤
🚨 today we covered the biggest CEO handoff in tech in years, a wave of major frontier lab hires, and a few meaningful meta departures
some highlights:
- Pepijn Rijvers joining Airbnb as Chief Business Officer (prev booking dot com, tripadvisor / viator)
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@nvidia reportedly agreed to buy
@huggingface for $12.9B
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@air__security, an AI agent security startup, came out of stealth with $50M and landed Ryan Knisley (ex-CISO of Disney and Costco) as Chief Strategy Officer
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@OpenAI added 3 strong hires this week:
@feitong_yang (science products),
@thenanyu (ex-Linear, joining Codex), and creator/design engineer
@covacut
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@ElevenLabs hired OpenAI's enterprise sales lead,
@ashleyekramer, as CRO
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@METR_Evals picked up
@derifatives (19 years at Google) and
@JoeJBenton (ex-Anthropic)
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@Meta had 3 departures:
@vincent_jh_cho (→ Thinking Machines), Vikas Chandra (8+ years, Reality Labs AI), and Pinar Donmez (→ Apple)
watch the full episode here!