a16z announces inaugural Talent Engineer fellows class featuring leaders from Cursor, xAI
a16z · x · 2026-08-21
a16z revealed the first class of Talent Engineer fellows, selecting 50 leaders from thousands of applicants. The cohort includes talent engineers building AI-native systems at top companies like Cursor, Zapier, Clay, xAI, and Decagon, as well as founders developing agentic headhunters and talent-matching infrastructure.
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