AI Search Company Exa Appoints Former Robinhood CTO Jeff Pinner
garrytan · x · 2026-08-22
Exa announced that Jeff Pinner has joined the company as CTO. Pinner previously served as CTO of Robinhood and Lyft, and was a distinguished engineer at Cruise. Exa emphasized the need to quickly execute massive engineering and research tasks at a scale larger than Google, relying on Pinner's experience scaling massive ML systems.
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