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) - @nvidia reportedly agreed to buy @huggingface for $12.9B - @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 - @OpenAI added 3 strong hires this week: @feitong_yang (science products), @thenanyu (ex-Linear, joining Codex), and creator/design engineer @covacut - @ElevenLabs hired OpenAI's enterprise sales lead, @ashleyekramer, as CRO - @METR_Evals picked up @derifatives (19 years at Google) and @JoeJBenton (ex-Anthropic) - @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!