Founder moves — Page 4
Who's joining, leaving, starting up.
- Andi Peng leaves humans& six months after its $480 million seed
The former Anthropic researcher was one of five founders behind the frontier AI lab's bet on collaboration-focused models.
- Scale AI appoints Francis deSouza CEO for enterprise AI push
The former Google Cloud COO takes over on August 10th as Scale AI expands its applications business across enterprises and governments.
- Anthropic backs petition for tools to pace automated AI development
CEO Dario Amodei and several co-founders joined 1,132 AI workers seeking a U.S.-supported international coordination effort.
- Rob Witoff returns to Coinbase as chief technology officer
The Bitcoin veteran who first joined Coinbase in 2014 when the platform ran on Heroku now leads its technology organization.
- Kurt Mackey steps down as Fly.io CEO in agent-compute reset
Former Docker CEO Scott Johnston takes over as Fly.io raises $25 million and makes its Sprites infrastructure the center of the business.
- ChatGPT wrote her “resignation.” She says she never meant to quit.
Run The World cofounder Xuan Jiang testified that she asked ChatGPT to reject a roughly $380,000 buyout, but the AI‑generated email said she was stepping down, which the company now cites in its summary‑judgment motion.
- Merrill Lutsky leaves Cursor after 6.5 years building Graphite
Lutsky says he's taking an extended break to travel and pursue non‑tech passions after a decade of nonstop startup work.
- Amnon Shashua plans to step down as Mobileye CEO after successor search
The founder would remain a director and has been offered the chair role as Mobileye expands into robotaxis and humanoid robotics.
- Skyfall plans to buy a small business for an AI CEO test
Maluuba founders Sam Pasupalak and Kaheer Suleman plan to spend up to $1 million and publish the experiment's wins and failures.
- Stripe and Advent bid $53 billion for PayPal during Lores turnaround
PayPal's new CEO must weigh a months-old operating reset against a $60.50-a-share bid that directors already view as inadequate.
- Toni Schneider takes Bluesky CEO job for the long haul
The former Automattic CEO says Bluesky's next phase is smaller, more private spaces across the AT Protocol network.
- Sebastian Jimenez is paying Rilla employees $18,000 to live near the office
The Rilla CEO ties the stipend to a 72-hour, in-office culture built around speed, sales coaching and physical proximity.
- VulcanForms hires Matthew Rose to take its manufacturing pitch deeper into national security
The Snowflake public-sector veteran joins weeks after a CTO hire and months after VulcanForms closed $220 million in new financing.
- Ohalo Hires Syngenta Seeds Veteran Justin Wolfe to Commercialize True Potato Seed
Wolfe will run commercialization as David Friedberg's plant-breeding company pushes Boosted Potato hybrids into farmer adoption.
- David Holz's Midjourney scanner video shows the machine, not the proof
Midjourney's new hardware tour makes the ultrasound spa feel real while leaving its regulatory and clinical claims unresolved.
- Dario Amodei's Pentagon emails show why Anthropic's military AI fight keeps escalating
Court records published by the Journal trace months of argument with Emil Michael over Claude use in autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance.
- Ryan Cohen pulls his GameStop pay plan as the eBay bid becomes an incentive test
The Chewy cofounder is trying to remove a clean objection from critics: that GameStop's takeover push could enrich him personally.
- Mark Pincus turns Zynga's product doctrine into a founder manual
The Zynga founder is using his new book and podcast circuit to push a blunt message: founders win by being right before they scale.
- Robot.com Turns Its Delivery Robot Base Toward Workplace Humanoids
Felipe Chavez is using Kiwibot's deployment muscle to sell R-noid into restaurants, logistics sites and healthcare, with early autonomy still limited.
- Ocado's board is testing a founder handoff after 26 years under Tim Steiner
Sky News says Vonage CEO Niklas Heuveldop has been sounded out for Ocado's top job, but no appointment has been confirmed.
- John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic
The AlphaFold scientist gives Dario and Daniela Amodei a rare bridge between frontier models, safety research, and AI-for-science credibility.
- Noam Shazeer's OpenAI move puts architecture back at the center of the AI race
The Transformer co-author and Character.AI co-founder is leaving Google's Gemini effort less than two years after Google brought him back.
- YC Names Christopher Golda and Grey Baker General Partners
The appointments add two YC-linked operators to Garry Tan's senior bench as YC runs more batches and competes earlier for technical founders.
- Boz tells Meta employees its AI reorg rollout was 'atrocious'
Meta is trying to repair morale inside a 6,500-person AI unit formed in March after employees pushed back on forced transfers and lower-status work.