Movers, Shakers, & Money Makers: The Fastest-Growing Startups Edition #2
Last week's most interesting job changes at the hottest startups
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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 Members of the Technical Staff Hires
Holden Karnofsky: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ➤ Anthropic, Member of Technical Staff
Vineeth Kada: Dataolgy AI ➤ Anthropic, Member of Technical Staff
Cyprien de Masson d'Autume: Reka AI ➤ Anthropic, Member of Technical Staff
Brett Lempereur: Palantir ➤ Anthropic, Member of Technical Staff
Duo Ding: Stealth ➤ Perplexity, Member of Technical Staff
Sahil Srivastava: Strava ➤ Perplexity, Member of Technical Staff
Diego Pasini: Bronco AI ➤ xAI, Member of the Technical Staff
The “We Raised $40M” Hires
Evan Purcell: Airtable ➤ Clay, Product
Abbie Kouzmanoff: Amplitude ➤ Clay, Product
The AI Research Hires
Sanchit Gandhi: PyTorch ➤ Mistral AI, Research Scientist
Ayaan Haque: Google DeepMind ➤ Luma AI, Research Scientist
Ali Hindy: Palantir Technologies ➤ Contextual AI, Applied Research
Omri Avrahami: None ➤ Pika, Research Scientist
The We’re Hiring Hires
Valentin Mesnil: Doctolib ➤ Mistral AI, Talent Acquisition
Tarun Diwan: Snowflake ➤ Luma AI, Recruiter
Marissa Recchio: Syelo Ventures ➤ Nourish, GTM Talent Acquisition
Mary Gibson: Connery Consulting ➤ Sierra, Recruiting
Krishna Kiran: Profile.fyi ➤ Mercor, Head of Talent Experience
Jon Marquez: Datadog ➤ Harvey, Business Recruiter
Michelle Sheehan: Unlikely AI ➤ Moonvalley, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner
The GTM Hires
Liz Burton: Redpanda Data ➤ Hebbia AI, Revenue Operations Lead
Ken Vella: Okta ➤ Cyera, Head of Sales - North America, Commercial Market
Corey Webster: LaunchDarkly ➤ Codeium, Enterprise Account Executive
Sreyas Ravi: Snowflake ➤ Harvey, GTM
John M Horn Jr: Kratos Defense and Security Solutions ➤ Capella Space, Vice President of Customer Engagement
The CFO Hire
Patrick DePriest: Merlin ➤ Saronic Technologies, Chief Financial Officer
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?
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