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Alexandr Wang on Scale mafia
Alexandr Wang writes that early Scale colleagues form the "Scale mafia," like Cognition's founder, now changing the world.
Key points
- Alexandr Wang lists members of what he calls the 'Scale mafia,' including Cognition founder @stevenkplus1 and president @russelljkaplan, Modal founder @akshat_b, Bun founder @jarredsumner, and Center for AI Safety president @devindkim.
- Wang says Scale AI was one of the first companies to IOI and IMO-maxx.
- The photo is credited to the wedding of @thenateherman, whom Wang describes as in many ways a cofounder of Scale, and @ChristinaG325.
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THE SCALE MAFIA
one of the most special parts of starting a company is watching the people you fought and bled with in the early days go out and change the world.
the Scale crew was supernatural. @scale_ai was one of the first companies to IOI and IMO-maxx, and the magic of Scale was that all of these geniuses gave a shit and ran through walls. it's no wonder that the Scale mafia is the first true mafia of the modern tech era. just to name a few:
- cognition founder @stevenkplus1 & president @russelljkaplan
- modal founder @akshat_b
- tech & science advisor to POTUS @mkratsios47
- claude code head of product @_catwu
- kpcb partners @LM_Braswell & @nayakkayak
- bun founder @jarredsumner
- tbd head of product @lindugong
- netic founder @melisatokmak
- cobot founder @BradPorter_
- secureframe founder @shravvmehtaa
- paramount skydance cfo @DennisKCinelli
- thinking machines gc lauren lennon
- partner at greylock @sophia_luo_
- liquid ai coo jeffrey li
- gallatin ai founder @agilemofo
- tbd safety @_julianmichael_
- center for ai safety president @devindkim
[photo courtesy the beautiful wedding of @thenateherman (who in many ways was a cofounder of Scale) and @ChristinaG325]
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Reaction on X: Replies are mostly joking and additive: users ask why @lucy_guo and @chongz were omitted, while one lists other people left off the list. One reply asks whether the 'mafia' dynamic holds once a company gets big or only in the early days. There is no response from the original author in the provided replies.
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