Movers, Shakers, & Money Makers: The Fastest-Growing Startups Edition
Last week's most interesting job changes at the hottest startups
This week’s Movers, Shakers, and Money Makers is a little different…
Today we’re launching a tracker for the fastest-growing companies backed by the top VCs. The tracker will continuously surface the private companies with the highest year-over-year headcount growth, the highest engineering density, and the highest retention rates.
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So, who is driving the growth at these companies? This week’s Movers, Shakers, and Money Makers highlights some of the most interesting people to join the companies at the top of the leaderboard.
The Anthropic Hires
Thiyagu Ramasamy: Amazon Web Services (AWS) ➤ Anthropic, Head of Public Sector
Drew Roper: Stripe ➤ Anthropic, Member of Technical Staff
Ben Schwab: Airbnb ➤ Anthropic, Member of the Technical Staff
Devon Hanley: LinkedIn ➤ Anthropic, Litigation Counsel
The “We’re Building A Team” Founding Hires
Mana Anvar: LatchBio ➤ Pylon, Founding Account Executive
Arun Venkatesan: Ravenna ➤ Miter, Founding Product Designer
Duncan Logie: Amazon ➤ Passes, Head of Finance
The TikTok Poach
Su Yan: TikTok ➤ xAI, Engineer
The GTM Pros Who Scaled Their Last Company
Michael Facchinei: Zscaler ➤ Chainguard, RVP Sales
Jesse Gillette: Laetro ➤ Luma AI, Head of Business Development and Partnerships
Sam Berg: VTS ➤ Tennr, VP of Sales
Drew DiOrio: Prosimo.io ➤ Oasis Security, Vice President of Sales
Paul Almeida: WordPress VIP ➤ Poolside, Head of Public Sector
The AI/ML Hires
Gautam Machiraju: Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) ➤ SmarterDx, ML Research Scientist
Federico Bianchi: OpenEvidence ➤ Together AI, Senior ML Scientist
Tucker Darby: Vizcom ➤ Luma AI, Research Engineer
Where do these companies rank?
Of the 16 new hires highlighted above, only Su Yan joined a company in the fastest-growing startup leaderboard’s top 5. Su joined xAI which is currently sitting in second place.
Which company is growing even faster?
Who else is changing jobs?
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