Pigment CEO says Bay Area AI firms leave everyone else the scraps
mattturck · x · 2026-07-23
A podcast clip shared on X highlights Pigment co-CEO Eléonore Crespo talking about talent competition in the AI era.
Crespo says Bay Area AI startups get the best of the talent market, while companies elsewhere are left with the scraps. Despite that, she argues Pigment has built an unusually loyal engineering team in Paris, with zero regrettable attrition since the company’s founding in 2019.
The post frames the issue as a talent-buffet problem: even with 60% of Pigment’s business coming from the U.S., the company has chosen to stay in Paris rather than relocate to the Bay Area.
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