Baseten hires former Figma growth lead Sheila Vashee as CMO
baseten · x · 2026-09-26
AI inference infrastructure company Baseten has appointed Sheila Vashee as Chief Marketing Officer. She brings two decades of experience leading marketing and growth at Figma, Opendoor, and Dropbox.
Vashee argues the open frontier model ecosystem is moving fast and enterprises increasingly want to own their intelligence, optimizing for performance, speed, and cost. She highlighted Baseten's flagship customers: OpenEvidence (used by over half of US doctors), legal AI firm Harvey, and coding tool Cursor.
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