Alexandr Wang recalls teaching HRT execs Snapchat as an intern; HRT now out-earns Snap
alexandr_wang · x · 2026-10-05
Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang shared a light industry anecdote: 10 years ago, as an intern, he taught HRT executives how to use Snapchat. Today HRT's quarterly revenue exceeds Snap's market cap. He quipped that aspiring interns should 'teach execs to use Muse' to replicate the trick, calling the HRT 2015 intern class 'the new-gen PayPal Mafia'.
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