An account of working at Cursor for 60 days: a largely in-person culture, few scheduled meetings, aggressive recruiting, heavy internal product testing, more
On recruiting and culture — Nivi: You're listening to the Naval Podcast. X: Jim O'Shaughnessy / @jposhaughnessy : “When I asked co-founder Sualeh Asif what he's most concerned about when it comes to...
An account of working at Cursor for 60 days: a largely in-person culture, few scheduled meetings, aggressive recruiting, heavy internal product testing, more
Sixty days with the AI coding decacorn — Editor's note: This is the first installment in a series of Company Dispatches …
A profile of AI contractor marketplace Mercor, which is valued at $10B and whose three 22-year-old founders are Thiel Fellows, each holding a roughly 22% stake
“Mercor, a recruiting startup that helps Silicon Valley's biggest AI labs … Bluesky: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : The founders of Mercor are the world's youngest self made billionaires at 22 as the...
Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Superintelligence Labs returned to OpenAI after less than one-month stints; a third researcher also left Meta
CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on a recruiting blitz to lure top AI researchers to Meta. WIRED has confirmed that three recent hires have now resigned.
A look at Big Tech's AI talent wars with massive compensation packages; sources: Meta told potential hires they would be allotted 30K GPUs for their AI research
Talked about my Windsurf scoop & Meta feature, plus tales from AI industry folks watching it all unfold on the inside. www.theverge.com/decoder-podc... @om.co : Zuck's new “Super intelligence” memo is...
AI agent Manus' team relocated its HQ to Singapore in June and started recruiting there, while parent company Butterfly Effect reportedly remains based in China
Hannah Wang / South China Morning Post :
In a memo to OpenAI researchers, Sam Altman said “missionaries will beat mercenaries” and “there is much, much more upside to OpenAI stock than Meta stock”
neither will Meta's $100 million raid on the firm's top AI talent Rocket Drew / The Information : Sam Altman Calls Meta Recruiting Efforts ‘Distasteful’ Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly / Observer : Here A...
CareerBuilder + Monster, which once dominated online recruitment, files for Chapter 11 and agrees to sell its job board to JobGet and sell its other businesses
Two of the most prominent legacy job application sites file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Jordan Valinsky / CNN : Monster and CareerBuilder, once popular with job seekers, file for bankruptcy Margot Amou...
London-based Metaview, which builds AI tools to automate hiring, like via interview notetaking and job description generation, raised a $35M Series B led by GV
Recruiting, which is heavy on admin, is ripe for disruption when it comes to developing AI tools.
Behind Mark Zuckerberg's sweeping recruitment effort for Meta's new Superintelligence lab, including hundreds of reach outs and $100M+ offers and counter offers
In a bid to address an AI crisis at his company, the Meta CEO has gotten personally involved in recruiting top talent