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Emmett Shear: From Twitch to OpenAI's Interim CEO to Softmax
Emmett Shear co-founded Justin.tv, which became Twitch — one of the defining consumer products of the 2010s. He ran OpenAI for four days in November 2023 during the board crisis. In 2024 he founded…
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Mira Murati served as OpenAI's Chief Technology Officer through the launch of ChatGPT, GPT-4, and the model families that defined 2023–24. In February 2025 she announced Thinking Machines Lab, the AI…
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Palmer Luckey founded Oculus at 19 and sold it to Facebook for $2 billion. He was fired in 2017. He founded Anduril the same year. By 2026 Anduril is one of the most valuable private defence…
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Emmett Shear co-founded Justin.tv, which became Twitch — one of the defining consumer products of the 2010s. He ran OpenAI for four days in November 2023 during the board crisis. In 2024 he founded…
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Thinking Machines Lab
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Anduril Industries
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Aidan Gomez was 20 years old and interning at Google Brain when he became one of the eight authors of the transformer paper that reshaped modern AI. Six years later he co-founded Cohere with a…
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Perplexity
Aravind Srinivas co-founded Perplexity AI in 2022 with a specific thesis: the answer engine, not the link engine, was the next default. Three years later Perplexity is one of the most-cited AI…
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