Company · Artificial Intelligence · Software · founded 2016

Scale AI

San Francisco AI data and infrastructure company founded by Alexandr Wang and Lucy Guo through Y Combinator. In 2025 Meta agreed to buy a non-voting 49% stake.

Of the 2 people here linked to Scale AI, 1 is a founder and 0 are still there. 1 of them also appear at Meta Platforms. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.

Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.

2 people at Scale AI

Founder

Role

Co-founder and CEO, 2016–2025

Also at

Meta Platforms Y Combinator

Source · high confidence. Stepped down as CEO in June 2025; the source gives no start date for the CEO role, so the founding year is used.

Past

Artificial Intelligence · Technology · Software 2 / 1

Alexandr Wang

Co-founder and former CEO of Scale AI; Chief AI Officer at Meta, leading Meta Superintelligence Labs

professional-class · well-connected · some college

Employee

Role

Engineer (early engineer, per Turing Post)

Also at

Cognition

Source · medium confidence. Forbes says he was an engineer at Scale AI before Cognition. Dates not established.

Past

Artificial Intelligence · Software · Technology 3 / 1

Steven Hao

Co-founder and CTO of Cognition, the company behind the Devin coding agent; IOI gold medalist and early Scale AI engineer

class not established · well-connected · college degree

Connected companies

Other companies that share profiled people with Scale AI.

Meta Platforms

1 shared: Alexandr Wang