Movers, Shakers, & Money Makers: The Fastest-Growing Startups Edition #3
Last week's most interesting job changes at the hottest startups
It was a busy week for the startups in our fastest-growing companies backed by the top VCs tracker. 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.
Perplexity’s Search for People
Leonid Persiantsev: Yandex ➤ Perplexity, Product Manager
Janneta Tabakov: Arima Genomics ➤ Perplexity, Enterprise Growth Lead
The Harvey GTM Hires
Joe Porter: OneTrust ➤ Harvey, Enterprise Account Executive
Meghann Picard: Diligent ➤ Harvey, Enterprise Account Executive
Tom Howes: Persado ➤ Harvey, GTM
The Anthropic Data Hires
Olivia Chen: Replit ➤ Anthropic, Data Scientist
Chris Doenlen: Clumio ➤ Anthropic, Data Science
The CS Spreadsheet Hire
John Lee: Airtable ➤ Pylon, Software Engineer
The Interoperability is a Hard Word to Read Fast Hire
Naomi Yudanin, PhD: Munich Re ➤ Tennr, VP of Product, Data Interoperability
The “We’re About to be Really Good at Influencing” Hire
Peter Pappalardo: VaynerMedia ➤ Keychain, Creative Lead
The Chip Company Poach
Andrii Skliar: Qualcomm ➤ Contextual AI, Member of Technical Staff
The “We Stole an Employee from our Lead Investor” Hire
Kabir Gill: Andreessen Horowitz ➤ ElevenLabs, GTM Partnerships
The Two, One-brief Hires
Christopher Xu: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory ➤ Onebrief, Senior Software Engineer
Michael Pauly: L3Harris Technologies ➤ Onebrief, Software Engineer
The “I Joined a Startup After ~20yrs at a Corporate” Hire
Robert Benoit: NetApp ➤ VAST Data, Vice President, Technical Strategy and Enablement
Can Contextual AI break onto the podium?
With the hiring of Andrii Skliar, Contextual AI moves into fourth place…
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