Scale AI's Alexandr Wang personally did Twitter sales 9 years before a $1B payday
kevinnbass · x · 2026-10-03
Molson Hart shares a story quoting Alexandr Wang's tweet from nine years ago, when the Scale AI founder was personally pitching data labeling services to potential customers like Flexport on Twitter. Hart's takeaway: you can't just build—you have to sell. Wang later personally cashed out $1 billion from the company.
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