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SubscribeErik Reppel
ex-Coinbase
Created x402 → new company
Founder; x402 Foundation Technical Steering CommitteeNew company (unannounced)
Created x402; left Coinbase to start a company, May 2026.
Emil Ahlbäck
Energy
Lovable → Energy
Founding EngineerEnergy
Lovable's first engineer → founding engineer at Energy.
Sid Bidasaria
Anthropic
Claude Code subagents
Founding Engineer and Tech Lead, Claude CodeAnthropic
Engineer #2 on Claude Code; created subagents.
Fouad Matin
OpenAI
Codex CLI → native Rust rewrite
Engineer, CodexOpenAI
Security founder → led the first Codex CLI.
Steve Klein
OpenAI
Promptfoo → OpenAI
Member of Technical StaffOpenAI
Promptfoo's first engineer → OpenAI via acquisition.
Barrett White
Pinterest
Amazon Rufus → Pinterest
Senior Product DesignerPinterest
First designer on Amazon Rufus; now at Pinterest.
Amara Hulslander
Humana
Amazon Alexa+ → Humana
Principal Product Designer, Emerging ProductsHumana
Founding UX on Just Walk Out and Alexa+ dev tools.
Oscar Dumlao
OpenAI
Reve → OpenAI
Member of Design StaffOpenAI
Figma AI → founding designer at Reve → OpenAI.
Chanpory Rith
Perplexity
Designed Comet's agents
Principal DesignerPerplexity
Designed the agent experiences in Perplexity Comet.
Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool
Isomorphic Labs
DeepMind AlphaFold → Isomorphic Labs
Principal Research ScientistIsomorphic Labs
Joined Isomorphic Labs, Oct 2026; ex-DeepMind AlphaFold.
Da Huang
Discovery Loop
DeepMind → Discovery Loop
Member of Technical StaffDiscovery Loop
Left DeepMind for Discovery Loop, Oct 2026.
Konstantin Mishchenko
Mistral AI
Meta → Mistral pretraining
AI Researcher, pretrainingMistral AI
Prodigy and Schedule-Free optimizers → Mistral, Oct 2026.
Isa Fulford
OpenAI
Deep Research → ChatGPT agent
Member of Technical StaffOpenAI
Research lead behind OpenAI Deep Research.
Angela Jiang
Worktrace AI
OpenAI → Worktrace AI
Co-founder and CEOWorktrace AI
Launched GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 at OpenAI → founded Worktrace.
Rohan Varma
OpenAI
Cursor → OpenAI Codex
Product, CodexOpenAI
Cursor's first PM → OpenAI Codex, Feb 2026.
Leonid Persiantsev
Perplexity
Yandex → Perplexity Comet
Product Lead, CometPerplexity
Product lead for Perplexity's Comet browser.
Michelle Fradin
OpenAI
Built Instant Checkout + ACP
Product lead, ChatGPT commerceOpenAI
Leads ChatGPT commerce product at OpenAI.
Sailaja Shri
Mastercard
Tokenization → Agent Pay
Director of Product Management, Agent PayMastercard
Helped launch Mastercard Agent Pay; now runs its product.
Elena Verna
Lovable
Dropbox → Lovable growth
Head of GrowthLovable
Leads growth at Lovable since May 2025.
Austin Lau
Anthropic
First growth hire, Anthropic
Growth MarketingAnthropic
Anthropic's first growth hire, since 2024.
Jonathan McKay
Xbox
OpenAI → Microsoft → Xbox
Head of GrowthXbox (Microsoft)
Built ChatGPT's growth team → Xbox, May 2026.
Sreekar Kuchibhatla
Perplexity
First growth marketer, Perplexity
Growth MarketingPerplexity
Perplexity's first growth marketer; runs ads on Computer.
Krithika Muthukumar
Thrive Capital
OpenAI → Thrive Capital
Marketing PartnerThrive Capital
First marketing hire at Stripe and OpenAI → Thrive.